Move America Forward ([url=http://www.moveamericaforward.org]http://www.moveamericaforward.org[/url]) , the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization, has called on President Barack Obama to fire Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano for releasing a report attacking returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
he group has started a petition criticizing Janet Napolitano and calling for President Obama to fire her immediately. The petition reads,
“Your choice for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has attacked returning military heroes by suggesting that they are a terrorist threat to the United States…we demand you fire Janet Napolitano,” reads the petition.
This new effort to replace the Secretary of Homeland Security comes after Napolitano allowed a DHS threat “assessment,” entitled “Right Wing Extremism” to be sent out to about 800,000 law enforcement officers in various law enforcement agencies. The pro-troop group reports that they received several thousand signatures to the online petition in the first few hours after going live.
“This smear of our war veterans who have served so professionally, bravely, and honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan is outrageous and unacceptable. Janet Napolitano’s half-hearted apology doesn’t help reverse the damage done by her libel of our troops. Obama should fire here immediately and publicly denounce her mischaracterization of our heroic veterans,” said Move America Forward’s Executive Director Catherine Moy.
The petition goes on to criticize the Secretary for her use of the word “terrorist:” “Mr. President when you first hired Janet Napolitano to run the department that protects all of our lives here in the homeland, she REFUSED to mention terrorism in her very first speech as Secretary of DHS. She then even had the gall to refer to terrorist attacks as MAN-CAUSED DISASTERS. But, she has no hesitancy in suggesting that returning American troops could become “terrorists.”
Moy went on to say, “The United States cannot stand for outrageous attacks against our troops from Barack Obama’s cabinet. As citizens, we must stand against those who demean and libel our troops. We at Move America Forward are calling for President Obama to fire Janet Napolitano. Someone who attacks our troops has no place leading the Department of Homeland Security.
“She clearly does not understand that the real threat comes from radical Islamic terrorism, not our own troops. We urge President Obama to fire Janet Napolitano immediately!”
