Special operators to anti-Obama group: Zip it

[maddezmom]

Source: Pilotonline.com

A group of retired special operations and CIA officers who claim President Barack Obama revealed secret missions and turned the killing of Osama bin Laden into a campaign centerpiece are coming under criticism from some of their own.

Some special operations officers say the activist veterans are breaking a sacred military creed: respect for the commander in chief.

"This is an unprofessional, shameful action on the part of the operators that appear in the video, period," U.S. Army Special Forces Maj. Fernando Lujan wrote on his Facebook page, to a chorus of approval from colleagues.

A Green Beret who returned last year from Afghanistan, Lujan says that attaching the title of special operator with any political campaign is "in violation of everything we've been taught, and the opposite of what we should be doing, which is being quiet professionals."

Read more: http://hamptonroads.com/2012/08/special-operators-antiobama-group-zip-it

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[sakabatou]

1. Only thing is, I doubt the group will listen.

[Skittles]

3. of course they won't

but it means something to be called out by your peers

[a geek named Bob]

4. Then perhaps the chickenhawks

and the shooters should meet to discuss their differences...

[progressivebydesign]

6. Yes, but maybe if we're lucky, the MSM will actually pick up on this..

instead of giving air time to the hacks that created that film, the way they did with the Swiftboaters.

[GoCubsGo]

33. I saw it on Yahoo!

And, they got it via the AP. So, it's out there. Let's hope that ABC/CBC/NBC/CNN/FOX/RT also pick it up, although I don't expect FOX will.

http://news.yahoo.com/special-operators-anti-obama-groups-zip-211804942.html?_esi=1

[tridim]

26. I bet they're listening to the money they're getting for doing this.

And their racism.

[nanabugg]

39. Some things just are not worth mere money. But that's just me. nt

[Skittles]

2. thank you Major Lujan

[Cha]

5. Yeah, baby! Thank you, Major

Fernando Lujan!

Thx maddeszomom for posting this~

[wordpix]

11. +100

[SunSeeker]

7. K&R

[Amonester]

8. At last. As I was thinking lately "so now that bu$h is gone, it's not un-Patriotic...

to 'criticize' the President in a time of war" for the Republicans???

Including the Republics who work in the M$M???

(Of course we know it's alright now since Obama took office.)

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. I'm sorry; but ...

I'm willing to bet that if one was to drill down into these "special operators", one would find that they were/are niether "special" or "operators."

How many rw war heroes have been discovered to have either never served or didn't do what they claim to have done? ... Yeah, Jesse Kelly (rw nut job contender for AZ-CDO2) ... I'm talking about you.

[freshwest]

13. +1

[SoapBox]

17. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto...

You said it perfectly...I've been thinking the exact same thing.

"Some special operations officers say the activist veterans..."

We would need names, faces and history to really know how many actual "veterans" are involved.

I wonder how many were actually discharged dishonorably vs. honorably.

[1StrongBlackMan]

24. I recall ...

The movie Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood.

The gung-ho Major was all excited to see action on that small island (I suppose it was Granada). His previous duty assignment ... he was the boss of a supply unit.

[Posteritatis]

31. Yeah, people who are loud about their spec-ops careers are usually lying about it. (nt)

[LibertyLover]

40. Agreed

Back in the 1990s, one of my cousins graduated from Annapolis and was accepted into the SEALS. He was stationed down in Virginia Beach. I think he might have been attached to Team 6, but I no longer remember. Anyway, he never spoke, or speaks, about any of his assignments. At a family gathering he might mention that he had just gotten back from Malaysia or expected to go to Indonesia in a few weeks. That was about it. Oh, he might tell a funny story or two but that was about it.

[1StrongBlackMan]

41. Yep ...

And I have know plenty of military folks wax hour upon hour on the dangerous, special, super-secret missions that they were directly involved in ... where the mission and their actions sound far more like the screen-play of an action movie.

I have concluded that in most areas of life, those that do special (dangerous/heroic/extraordinary) things; do it and move on ... Those that wish they had, talk about what they wish they had done.

[Ian David]

10. Well, that sacred military creed is from before we had a President who is BLACK.

I'm not saying they're racists...


But they're racists.

[GoCubsGo]

34. It's only a matter of time before they realize that....

Major Lujan is an Hispanic, and they go after him next.

[WestSeattle2]

12. What the handful of sellouts are doing is degrading to everyone

in uniform. Rove or the Koch brothers tied a couple of dollar bills to a string and dropped it into a sewer. Guess who went for the bait. Pitiful.

[freshwest]

14. +1

[rockingirl]

15. I think that

as he says, "Shameful action. In violation of everything that we've been taught", says it all.

I would love to see more statements or actions taken against these hero wannabes/traitors. How inappropriate and disgraceful can they get? It's just very disturbing to me.

[Bill USA]

16. thank you Maj. Lujan, very well stated!

[GallopingGhost]

18. Maj. Lujan~ thank you.

[Zoeisright]

19. That's what I thought too.

I was surprised at the initial lies. Those special ops should be ashamed.

[Curmudgeoness]

20. I am grateful to Maj. Lujan and all the others who are speaking out.

And I have to say that if it was a Republican who was president at the time bin Laden was killed, they would be rubbing it in our faces. And I have not seen this from Obama---no Mission Accomplished banners. He has always credited the military and the men who were on that mission.

[maddezmom]

21. agreed. He made the decision to go and they skillfully completed the mission.

[jaysunb]

22. And, where is the MSM ?

Why is this not being "breathlessly" reported like the ad was ?

We MUST take control of the media. They are the main tools that are destroying this country.

[jody]

23. "sacred military creed: respect for the commander in chief" in no way applies to veterans whether

the president is Democrat or Republican. That's pure bull shit.

[Scootaloo]

25. "in violation of everything we've been taught, and the opposite of what we should be doing"

That pretty much sums up everything that Republicans do

[rtracey]

27. Well

The funny thing about this whole "swiftboat" aspect of the "special operations and CIA officers" ad is I never once have heard President Obama say "I" did this or "I" did that. He has giving ALL the credit to the Spec Ops members and his military staff. He has never take the credit for it, He has given American the news everyone wanted to hear. Now to turn the tables, if and (thankfully it didn't) this operation had failed, then everyone would have jumped on him.... so Damned if he does and Damned if he doesn't......

[JBoy]

28. A "Quiet Professional" vs the Loud Hacks.

[ozsea1]

29. readin the comments on the linked webpage

gives me a major headache.....

[Dont call me Shirley]

30. Ya think?

[The Stranger]

32. The article is so poorly written, I have read it three times and can't figure out which group is

which.

[Bandit]

35. The supposed Navy seal that began all this was called a LIAR on National TV

by a spokesperson for a National Veterans association and he did not deny it..They actually had a copy of the speech Obama gave and compared it to the ad those gutter rats put out and it was obvious to everyone there, that what they said was a complete LIE...

[Jeneral2885]

36. They are violoating OPSEC

While I'mnot privy to US SEALS OPSEC or US Military OPSEC, Special Forcesshuld not even expose the knowledge that they sered at all.

[Peaceful Protester]

37. Obama's Navy SEAL Critics Are Failing Miserably - The Atlantic Wire

...probably just jealous they weren't on the team that got Bin Laden

[malthaussen]

38. It is unprofessional to wash dirty linen in public.

Which is why we see so little criticism of this. The swiftboaters are completely out of line... but to criticise them publicly would also be out of line. It's a tough dilemma.

-- Mal

[Uncle Joe]

42. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, maddezmom.

[maddezmom]

43. & now this? Fox News Claims To Reveal Identity and hometown Of Navy SEAL Writing Bin Laden Tell-All

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/fox-news-navy-seal-bin-laden_n_1825146.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003