Barack Obama is never going to resign, but you can sure as shinola see why the Vaughns want him to:
Billy Vaughn, father of Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn, who was among 30 who died in 2011 when their Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, told J.D. Hayworth on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV Wednesday that what the families were initially told about why the helicopter was shot down later turned out to be a lie."
When the chopper was shot down, we learned many disturbing things," Vaughn explained.
"We learned that when the shots were fired, when the chopper was down, we did not take out the men who fired the [Rocket Propelled Grenades] because of the rules of engagement," he said. "That's what we were told three times in that debriefing."
However, Representative Thomas Rooney of Florida-17, who was Vaughn's congressman at the time, heard a different story when he attended "a classified, high-level military briefing."
"He was told in the debriefing that they did not take them out [not] because of the rules of engagement," but because "they didn't know where the shots came from."
Billy Vaughn said he knew at that point that "what we'd been told" was a lie.
I dunno; I wouldn't have been overly thrilled with my son and his comrades getting taken out because of our stupid-ass "rules of engagement," either. In fact, that seems like a lot less palatable explanation than "we didn't know where the shots came from." Losing your son in and due to the "fog of war" is one thing; losing your son because of self-imposed rules of engagement that didn't allow a full-fledged defensive effort that could have spared him is something else entirely.
Which leads to another of these questions that always seem to arise with this POTUS: Why did they lie to the loved ones of the lost SEAL Team 6 members with a fib that was more incendiary than what they covered up? Was it this?:
Vaughn said that the other disturbing factor about the death of his son and the other SEAL Team 6 members was that the helicopter they were in was "a 1960-some-odd helicopter, CH-47C retrofitted to D model in the 1980s," which was really "a transport chopper."
"We learned that they had begun to mix Navy SEALs, Army Rangers with general purpose forces, aviation, because we didn't have enough Special Operations to fly our Special Operators on their nighttime assaults," he added. "So we'd begun to mix them."
Did "hollow military" syndrome kill Aaron Vaughn and his comrades? If they'd had state-of-the-art helicopters and dedicated, specifically trained chopper pilots instead of this scrounged-together hodgepodge, all traceable back to the Obama Regime's crippling defense spending disembowelments, would they and countless other U.S. servicepeople still be alive today?
But here's my question: Was the supposedly "true" explanation for the downing of that Chinook CH-47C - that they didn't know from where the RPGs came - itself a lie? Did, perhaps, the Obama Regime indeed know that Talibanis would be taking out SEAL team 6 because they secretly negotiated an exchange whereby the Taliban would tip off where Osama bin Laden was hiding in exchange for sacrificing the spec ops commandos that took him out?
Sound crazy? Paranoid? Perhaps. But remember when all this took place: before the 2012 election campaign. If you're the Taliban, and you know Barack Obama in the White House is one of your top strategic assets, don't you want to maximize your chances of his staying in office? And Osama bin Laden was of no more use to them anyway. Why not throw OBL under the bus in exchange for at least four more years of Obamanist rule that will get you Afghanistan back, with the lives of SEAL team 6 as pure gravy? And it goes without saying that Barack Obama would do anything to 'get past" his final election. I imagine it was a very quick negotiation.
If I were the Vaughns, O's resignation would be my FIRST demand.
Heck, you don't even have to be the Vaughns.
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