While the Troops were Away

American troops, who will be home for the holidays, face a bleak homecoming similar to that of their courageous brothers and sisters who served in Viet Nam. For the sad truth is that while more than 1 million Americans were serving in Iraq, their commander-in-chief threw in his lot with their enemies like Code Pink, and fights not for but against the America 4,481 of them died serving.

Incredibly, President Barack Obama sets more store in the Army he called a “national security force” back in July 2008 “that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the military”; the army now recognized as OWS (Occupy Wall Street). The Army in the Park preferred by Obama never has to dodge the bullets of a barbaric enemy. The closest they ever come to “sleeping outside” is when it’s their shift to brave staying overnight in a municipal park. They don’t have to get by on military MRE meals, but dine on gourmet organic food delivered on site. This Army which is populated by Code Pink, GreenPeace, anarchists and all-round America haters, uses the front stoops of Manhattans as their latrine but still gets regular ‘buck-ups’ from the likes of Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon.

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While courageous American troops were losing lives and limbs in Iraq, Obama’s special army worked and is still working on taking down the same capitalist system that got them to where they are today. Last week, James Kvaal, new policy director for President Obama’s 2012 campaign, dug down deep in the Election Opportunities Bag and did a little boasting for his boss: “Yesterday, we accomplished on major change when President Obama announced that all American troops in Iraq will be home before the holidays.” This could be the one thing that is truly George W’s fault. Obama may have announced the Iraq troop withdrawal, but it was former President George W. Bush who arranged the Status of Forces agreement signed November 17, 2008. “That agreement plainly stated that the plan was for all US troops to be out by December 31, 2011, so for Obama to take credit for this is just an absolute lie.” (Danny Gonzalez, Move America Forward, Oct. 21, 2011). Only someone who never wore a uniform, someone who never had to stare down the enemy’s bullet, or risk life and limb to save the lives of brothers and sisters in arms would treat American troops, to whom so many owe their own peace and liberty, so shabbily. One thing we can thank Obama for with the return of the troops is that the absentee ballots of the last election can now be replaced by boots on the ground voting right on home turf. When we look back in the fullness of time, it will be easy to see how Barack Obama gave the troops the same bum’s rush he accorded to America’s glorious space shuttle, ending the race in space for the same America who put the first men on the moon. Obama, whose administration leans heavily on the Marxist strategy of demoralization, wants to file Operation Iraqi Freedom under ‘f’ for failure. He seeks to remove from America the admirable status of a country that can be counted on to come to the rescue of all those whose democracy is threatened. When the troops come home they will see with their own eyes what a single administration did to a once-thriving country in three short years. The Obama administration strives to make a Grade B movie out of the dignified American life so many others aspire to. The Hope and Change that brought a community organizer to the President’s Office goose-steps a Marxist plan to dispirit the people of America while forcing on them the fundamental Transformation of America. But all is not lost for returning troops who will see that the same courageous spirit that led them to stand guard for freedom and liberty is not only alive and well, but flourishing in the people of America, who against all odds, are holding on for better days.