Saturday, March 17, 2012

MARINES IN AFGHANISTAN TOLD TO DISARM OUT OF RESPECT FOR AFGHAN TROOPS

NOTE:  As a member of the "American Conservative2Conservative group, I received the following E-mail last night and am posting today ... American Patriots find the reasons for disarming our military in a war zone unacceptable and outrageous!  
U.S. Troops Disarm at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan for Leon Panetta 
U.S. TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN ASKED TO DISARM IN PANETTA’S PRESENCE AFTER TRUCK INCIDENT

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Posted by Stingray SFO (3% Oath Keeper)

DID I READ THAT RIGHT? Our troops, our Marines, are told to disarm, leave their weapons outside of a meeting, on a US base, by our own military, OUT OF RESPECT FOR AFGHANISTAN TROOPS that are not allowed to take their guns into meetings.
WHAT THE HELL KIND OF INSANITY IS THAT???????
Sounds more like our Marines are being set up for another Fort Hood like massacre!
IMO, in a war zone, ordering your troops to disarm, FOR ANY REASON, is to surrender to the enemy!
That is one order that I would NEVER obey, no doubts about it. I think every Marine there should have unanimously shouted out 'NO SIR, I WILL NOT SURRENDER MY WEAPON'!
Read more: fox news.

Let Stingray how you feel about this insane order given to our Marines.  Make a comment here.
I posted The Blood Price of Afghanistan, a few days before Panetta went to Aghanistan, but this hits the nail on the head.  It is from canadafreepress:
The alleged attack on Afghans by an American soldier in Kandahar, where 91 soldiers have been murdered last year alone, is already receiving the full outrage treatment. Any outrage over the deaths of those 91 soldiers in the province will be completely absent.
There will be no mention of how many of them died because the Obama Administration decided that the lives of Afghan civilians counted for more than the lives of soldiers. No talk of what it is like to walk past houses with gunmen dressed in civilian clothing inside and if you are fired at from those houses, your orders are to retreat.
Air strikes are for days gone by. The American soldier in the ISAF is expected to patrol and retreat, to smile and reach out to Afghans while they shoot him in the back. After risking his life to hold back the Taliban, he is expected to take it calmly when his government announces that it is trying to cut a deal with the Taliban.
As he waits out the final months until withdrawal, seeing his friends lose their limbs and their lives, knowing that the enemy has won, that he has been betrayed and is being kept senselessly on the front line for no objective except the diplomatic position of a government that hates him, that is taking away his health care, his equipment and his job; how does he feel?
To read the entire post or to make a comment, go here.  It's an excellent post.
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