Recently a group calling itself "OPSEC," hijacking a standard military acronym for
their political purposes, has attacked President
Barack Obama in a political ad using heavily edited video from the briefing the
President gave following the successful assassination of Osama Bin Laden (may
he rot in hell). This group,
characterizing themselves as a "social action group" is stealing a
page from the playbook of the equally heinous "swiftboaters" who attacked John Kerry's war record in Vietnam.
Although later proved to be a political hatchet job and nothing more, the Swiftboat
charges were virtually unanswerable,
since proving something didn't happen is
much more difficult that alleging that it did.
Like the "Swiftboaters" - Republican hardcore well funded
right wingers with no compunction about
lying, OPSEC has no obligation to identify the deep pockets of their funding either,
but the source is obviously similar to the Swiftboaters, as is the method. Character assassination by innuendo seems to
be more and more the exclusive purview of the radical right.
The
following is a quote regarding the reality of the Bin Laden episode ." The head of U.S. Special Operations
Command sees it differently. "Make no mistake about it, it was the President
of the United States that shouldered the burden for this operation, that made
the hard decisions," the leader of the raid, Adm. Bill McRaven, said at
this summer's Aspen Security Forum." Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in an unsolicited
comment, called it the "gutsiest
call he'd ever seen a President make"
It is worthy of note that Gates served as SecDef to former President Bush, Director of the CIA,
member of the NSA and as an Air Force Officer. So who ya gonna believe?
I don't take these folks too seriously,"
President Barack Obama told the newspaper The Virginian-Pilot on Monday.
"One of their members is a birther who denies I was born here, despite
evidence to the contrary." Special Ops OPSEC member ret. Maj. Gen. Paul
Vallely, who appears in the group's film, has publicly questioned Obama's birth
in Hawaii. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., compared the group's campaign to the
"Swift Boat" attacks that questioned his service during the Vietnam
War. Though later discredited, the claims were partially blamed for unseating
his 2004 presidential campaign.
What is truly troubling is that apparently
these people were fine with the actual liar, George W. Bush who staged his
landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln even though it was just off San Diego, stood
in front of the "Mission Accomplished" banner and made a self congratulatory
speech in a flight suit. Why is that a lie? As it turns out, 97% of US deaths
in Iraq occurred after the speech, and the war should never have never been
fought, (in this writer's humble opinion, supported by many far better informed
than I) even Bush SecState Powell later admitting he'd been conned.
Of course it must be remembered that
all the sham reasons thrown at the President are just flak, obscuring the real
problem many have with him. I have become truly disgusted at how willing many
white Americans are to believe any scurrilous rumor or lie about the President, no matter how
ludicrous or outrageous. Examples ("He took the oath of office on the Koran
" - lie, "He doesn't have the US Flag on Air Force One" - lie, "He
wasn't born in the US" -lie, "He and Michelle's law licenses were
suspended for cause" - lie. Yet many rush to believe because any excuse is
good enough for bigots to hate. It would almost be refreshing to hear one of
these chromosomally challenged inbreds actually say something like, "Yeah,
I know Congress passes all laws, Yeah I know his original birth certificate
says he was born in Hawaya, yeah, I know all this, I just hate the fact that
he's Black.
One could just puke!
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