By Ann Coulter
Thursday, June 19, 2014
While the Obama administration tortures the Benghazi raid
suspect into a false confession that a YouTube video made him attack our
embassy, let's review what his "capture" is meant to distract us
from:
(1) The IRS' Lois Lerner claims her computer crashed,
destroying all her emails to the White House, congressional Democrats and the
Department of Justice, at the very height of the IRS' targeting of tea party
groups. Six other IRS officials now claim their emails are also missing. (Have
they tried shutting down their computers and restarting?)
Rosemary Woods erased part of a White House tape nearly
half a century ago, and Chris Matthews is still talking about it.
(2) Soon after he became president, Obama pulled every
last troop out of Iraq, despite the fact that the war was over and we had won.
Now Iraq is on fire, torn apart by terrorist invaders. We still have more than
100,000 troops in defeated Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan. But Obama
couldn't leave a few troops in Iraq simply to preserve our victory. Now it's
gone.
(3) In the worse deal in history, Obama traded five
hardened terrorists -- specifically chosen by the Taliban -- for an American
who is a probable deserter.
Don't whine about not "knowing" if Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl was a deserter. It's not a big secret. The Pentagon investigated
Bergdahl's disappearance back in 2010 and concluded that he had walked away
from his unit of his own free will. This guy did everything but fill out one of
those "change of address" postcards redirecting his mail to the local
Taliban post office.
The left has reacted to the embarrassing truth about
Bergdahl by:
(a) Denouncing Republican congressmen who initially
posted happy tweets about Bergdahl's release, and then deleted those tweets --
probably on orders from Fox News!
(b) Accusing Bergdahl's displeased Army comrades of
"swiftboating."
Yes, exactly. This is precisely what
"swiftboating" is: The truth about a serviceman from the people who
actually served with him. Similarly, the attacks on John Kerry came from the
men he served with, not the Republican Party.
To the contrary, John McCain, who never served with
Kerry, called the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth "dishonest and
dishonorable." (You nominated him!) President Bush requested that they
take their ads off TV.
The only prominent Republican to defend the Swifties was
former Sen. Bob Dole -- a genuine World War II hero -- who told CNN:
"One day (Kerry's) saying that we were shooting
civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his
medals or his ribbons. The next day he's standing there, 'I want to be
president because I'm a Vietnam veteran.' Maybe he should apologize to all the
other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasn't the only one in Vietnam."
It is precisely because the truth about Bergdahl didn't
come out until after he had been released that Republican members of Congress
initially sent out those "Welcome back!" tweets. They didn't know the
truth about Bergdahl, and neither did most people, until his fellow soldiers
spoke up. Even people in his own hometown ended up canceling a Bergdahl
homecoming celebration in response to the accusations of his platoon.
Bergdahl's comeuppance didn't come from some right-wing
Wizard of Oz in the fevered brains of MSNBC hosts: It came from members of
Bergdahl's own unit in Afghanistan.
The reason these soldiers hadn't said anything until
Bergdahl's release was that, as a condition of leaving Afghanistan, they were
required to sign gag orders prohibiting them from discussing Bergdahl. (It's
strange; liberals usually don't like gag orders, but they don't seem to mind
this one.)
After Bergdahl's release -- heralded by a ceremony in the
Rose Garden that included a shout-out to the Taliban -- the soldiers decided
those agreements were moot.
It apparently never occurred to Obama that the troops
Bergdahl abandoned would not be popping champagne corks at the news of his
release. (Nor did it occur to Rolling Stone. The 2012 article about Bergdahl
spoke of the "hope" of Bowe's old unit that "a deal could get
done" with the Taliban for his safe return. Remember the good old days
when you could get reliable military intel from a left-wing music magazine
written by half-brights?)
Democrats should just stop talking about the military.
Whenever they do, they sound like Republican men talking about rape.
Democrat adventures with the military have included that
ridiculous photo of little Mike Dukakis in the tank. There was Bill Clinton's
letter explaining that he needed a nuanced way to dodge the draft during
Vietnam in order to "maintain my political viability." We had John
Kerry, who thought it would be a great idea to remind Americans that he was the
guy who came back and crapped on his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. John Kerry,
reporting for duty.
And now we have Obama, who gazes upon deserter Bowe Bergdahl
and thinks his return will be a feel-good American story.
So maybe the guy deserted. Hasn't Obama pushed girls,
gays and transgenders on the military? Why the pushback this time?
The Democrats' only concept of how to support the troops
is to treat them like their other constituent groups -- single women, blacks
and the poor -- and offer them more government benefits.
I'm fairly certain what the troops would really prefer is
to be left alone by liberals.
How about no free college tuition -- and not forcing the
military to accept open homosexuality? How about fewer increases in military
pensions -- and no Defense Department-funded transgender operation for gay
traitor Bradley Manning? How about skimping on PTSD therapists -- and no girl
generals?
The military doesn't ask for a lot. Soldiers just want to
do their job, which is to kill people and break things, not to be nurturing to
women, gays and traitors.
The troops don't complain much, but when they do, there
is nothing more devastating than a real "swiftboating."
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