A Hero's Letter to Obama

Often times, I run across a rant from some American, who has come to realize what a serious mistake Americans made in electing a socialist community organizer to the highest elected office in the land.

But the following "open letter" to Barack Obama comes not from a disgruntled tax paying American, but from an American Patriot and War Hero, who gave three of his limbs to fight a war in Iraq, only to have over a decade of struggle be for naught.

I present to the Esteemed Readers of Fix America, the following letter from Senior Airman (Retired) Brian Kolfage.

"Senior Airman Brian Kolfage is a United States hero.  He is a triple-amputee veteran of the War in Iraq who has surpassed all odds and made the most incredible recovery of any veteran to ever survive his injuries.  He is a patriot – the kind of man you want your son to grow up to be.  This is his letter to Obama on Presidents Day.

My Open Letter to Obama on Presidents day.

I nearly died in a war that you and most of your colleagues supported overwhelmingly, including the two presidents who came before you. Many citizens may not agree with waging war in Iraq to free the oppressed Iraqi citizens, but it’s something that warriors like myself have zero control over. I joined to serve my country and to better my life. I’ve seen things that you could never imagine, and they have made me the person I am today.

Mr. Obama, even though we share extreme opposite views, we have one thing in common, we both attended school in Hawaii. However, that’s where the similarities end. You see, as you attended your exclusive, private school, I would ride my bike to Kaimuki High school in one of the roughest areas in Hawaii every morning and would ride past Punahou, the exclusive privateschool you attended. I would notice the Bentleys, Maserati’s, and fancy foreign cars that all the kids were dropped off in; wow it must have been extremely rough in Hawaii living that life, right? I could only imagine what it was like to have that kind of money. Fortunately for you, not many people are aware of the school and the upper class citizens who attended it. The tuition to attend your exclusive, private school was more than it cost me to obtain a Bachelor’s degree inArchitecture from the University of Arizona. You talk a big game when it comes to financialinequality, yet I’m quite sure you have no idea what it’s truly like to have sacrifice. You were one of the elitist children in Hawaii.

After High School, we each chose very different paths. You were able to attend Ivy League schools, and I sought out a military career to in hopes of earning a degree. What we have in life as children usually sets the tone for what we will face later in life that will make us successful. I worked to get where I am today, and YOU WERE HANDED IT….Mr. Inequality.

I volunteered to go to Iraq on both of my deployments, and the second time I begged to go even after I wasn’t selected, which ultimately got me placed on the team where I would lose both legs and my dominant arm. I’ve never asked myself was losing 3 limbs in a war worth it, even though many Americans were against it.

I am frequently reminded of the many young Iraqi children who would beg me for water, food, and toys while I was stationed in Iraq. Children, who in all aspects made the poorest of poor American children look rich. You have no idea what it really means to be poor. It’s laughable that you, who would have no idea what it means to be poor would so frequently play the inequality card.

While I was in Iraq, our mission was to liberate the Iraqi citizens from a tyrant and that’s what we did. Never forget, it was your people who sent us there, like the Clintons, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi & Carl Levin. However, since the day you busted onto the scene you’ve been talking about ending the war and pulling the troops out, not understanding the blood sweat and tears that so many Americans and Iraqi’s invested. And with complete disregard for every life sacrificed, every limb lost, and every broken family, you bailed on our mission to pursue an agenda that was completely centered on your re-election in 2012. If you didn’t bail on Iraq you were worried that you may not get re-elected and that’s a fact. Just before elections on Oct 11, 2012 you said “Al Qaeda is on the run and Osama bin Laden is dead.” Look at Iraq now, they are in shambles and the Al Qaeda flag is flying freely. Clearly, you’re unfit for duty as a Commander in Chief. You put your own agenda ahead of America’s agenda, and now you have single handedly ruined and destroyed nearly everything we gained in Iraq. It clearly means nothing to you, because the only thing that you’ve personally invested in that country was a promise to bail on them. However, people like me gave limbs, friends have died, and we’ve watched families destroyed by war’s aftermath.

I’m not placing blame on you for the war, I’m placing blame on you for destroying what we’ve worked so hard to build. You’re not a leader, you’re a community organizer. A leader would have stood up regardless of the situation and put America’s agenda first and that is ensuring a secure Iraq even after 10 years of war. But, you placed Barack first, just as Robert Gates confirmed in his new book. I can’t help but think of those poor kids who I gave water and toys to 11 years ago. They’re probably 15 or 16 years old now, and I can only imagine what it’s like for them to have their nation being torn apart yet again; all because of your poor leadership qualities. Regardless of why we went to Iraq, its water under the bridge. We went there, we waged war, and we not only owed it to our KIA’s but we owed it to the citizens of Iraq. We invaded their country and turned it upside down, and you bailed on them. You bailed on our soldiers and you’ve wasted every death and every limb, it’s all for nothing. And to make matters worse you blame others for your failures

You’re just another elitist rich thug who’s pretended to live the rough life growing up in the inner-city. You’re only worried about your own agenda and furthering your party instead of taking care of Americans. Your inability to be a leader at some of the most critical points has caused both of our wars to fail. You’ve been a joke to most of our veteran community and we have no faith in your ability to lead.

Senior Airman Ret Brian Kolfage USAF

- See more at: http://viralsurvival.com/2014/05/09/triple-amputee-veterans-fck-you-letter-to-obama-goes-viral/#sthash.5Z3Nbpw8.dpuf

Fear Rules America, or A Land of Cowards and Slaves

Anyone who has examined the facts surrounding various recent Incidents now realizes that groups within the US government have carried out PSYOPS and false flag operations on US soil against US Citizens. From Ruby Ridge to Waco, from the Oklahoma City bombing to the World Trade Center, these operations were carried out to cover up, misdirect public attention, and steal gold and securities. All of these operations were effected without any concern for human life and in one of the incidences the operation was meant to kill essentially everyone who could have provided the evidence against those involved in planning and carrying out the operation.



Specifically, with the election of W.J. Clinton, G.H.W. Bush, G.W. Bush, and the illegal election of B. Soetoro/B.H. Obama II, the principles this nation was founded on have been decimated and the destruction continues.

The aftermath of these incidences, in each case, increased the feelings of deep distress caused by loss; depression, despair, grief, despondency, and regret experienced by Americans. These feelings allowed the manipulation of public opinion and acceptance of allowing such un-American measures as the Patriot Act, NDAA, NDRP, TSA, DHS.

Recently, Soetoro/Obama, a wanted fugitive criminal, appointed John Kerry to replace disgraced Hillary Rodham Clinton of Benghazi debacle fame, both long time CFR members and persons of questionable character, as Secretary of State he signed, on behalf of the American people, the UN Arms Trade Treaty, a regulation to restrict inter-country arms trade;  however, the underlying damage is to National Sovereignty because it subjects US Citizens to international laws. Further, the treaty, as the NRA has pointed out, would impose an "invasive registration scheme" by requiring importing countries to give exporting countries information on "end users." 

The Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, is considered to be the most influential policy Think Tank since its inception in 1921. As one of the few intermediaries between banking interests, oil industry, corporate endeavors and the US Government, the CFR wields tremendous influence. CFR members occupy key positions in government, the mass media, financial institutions, multinational corporations, the military and intelligence communities.

Every US Presidential Administration, Over the past 70 years, be it Republican or Democratic, has filled all cabinet positions with CFR Members almost to the exclusion of anyone else since 1940. Every US Secretary of State (with one exception) has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and/or its younger brother, the Trilateral Commission. Also since 1940, every Secretary of War and every Secretary of Defense has been a CFR member. During most of its existence, the CIA has been headed by CFR members and virtually every key US national security and foreign policy adviser has been a CFR member since World War II.

CFR meeting participants are forbidden 'to publish a speaker's statement in attributed form in any newspaper;  to repeat it on television or radio, or on a speaker's platform, or in a classroom;  or to go beyond a memo of limited circulation.' See:  Red Lines in the White House, or Stirring a Pot of Lies - Part 3

If a president should surround that position with extra-governmental policies held by a group with an unknown or hidden agenda, to whom is he most likely to listen?

Secretary Kerry related, "This is about keeping weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue actors. This is about reducing the risk of international transfers of conventional arms that will be used to carry out the world's worst crimes. This is about keeping Americans safe and keeping America strong," he said. "This treaty will not diminish anyone's freedom. In fact, the treaty recognizes the freedom of both individuals and states to obtain, possess, and use arms for legitimate purposes."  As the Esteemed Readers may remember, Mr. Holder's exceptionally poorly thought out criminal operation "Fast and Furious," the illegal Projects Gunrunner and the Gunwalker scandal to supply Mexican drug cartel members (terrorists) with weapons. Could this be a clear example of Kerry's terrorists and rogue actors?  A radio broadcast which covers the salient point follows.

The fear that Americans hold, allowed the passage of laws which reduced the liberties of American citizens and shifted more powers to the executive branch of the US government. Is America a land of cowards and Slaves?

Red Lines In The White House, or Selecting The Truth - Part 2

There is a cause for John Kerry's and John McCain's brain dead position on just how moderate the rebel force is in Syria, which is made up of more than seventy factions. 

"The woman whose opinion lawmakers are relying on to go to war in Syria is also a paid advocate for the war-torn country’s rebels.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry encouraged members of the House of Representatives to read a Wall Street Journal op-ed by 26-year-old Elizabeth O’Bagy, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, who asserted that concerns about extremists dominating among the Syrian rebels are unfounded.

“Contrary to many media accounts, the war in Syria is not being waged entirely, or even predominantly, by dangerous Islamists and Al Qaeda die-hards,” O’Bagy wrote for the Journal on Aug. 30. “Moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces,” she wrote.

But in addition to her work for the Institute for the Study of War, O’Bagy is also the political director for the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a group that advocates within the United States for Syria’s rebels, a fact that the Journal did not disclose in O’Bagy’s piece.

In an interview with The Daily Caller, O’Bagy said that despite her title as the group’s political director, she is paid as a contractor.

She insisted that she is not involved in the political lobbying that SETF does. “They kind of have two departments within the Task Force — one focused on working with the government on the Hill on advocacy and then the other working inside Syria and directly implementing government contracts,” she said.

O’Bagy’s relationship with SETF is a serious conflict of interest, according to David Reaboi, vice president for strategic communications at the Center for Security Policy.

“While there’s been a lot of worthwhile effort to expose activists considered pro-Assad or pro-Hezbollah — or, at least, to consider their analysis as coming from an interested party — O’Bagy seems to pass herself off as an impartial observer of the situation. Her access to Congress, intelligence services and to think tanks should be regarded as what it really is, which is a reflection of the Syrian rebels’ cause and aspirations,” Reaboi said.

In speaking with The DC, O’Bagy regularly insisted that she was not a salaried employee of SETF, but a paid contractor acting in an advisory role.

“I’m the political director and aid coordinator, and that’s my official title at the organization, but that’s mostly because it provides me an opportunity to engage on humanitarian issues and to be a part of some of these larger government contracts going to humanitarian aid,” O’Bagy said.

The Foreign Policy news site reported in June that SETF “boasts extensive contacts with rebel commanders” and “spent months lobbying Congress, the State Department and the White House for everything from small arms to anti-tank and and anti-aircraft weapons to body armor to advanced communications equipment for the rebels.”

O’Bagy is quoted in the Foreign Policy piece saying that the Obama administration’s June decision to openly arm Syrian rebels didn't go far enough. ”Small arms and ammunition really only get you so far against airplanes,” she said then.

Kerry and other lawmakers (including Sen. John McCain) have relied on O’Bagy’s assessments while calling for an American military intervention in Syria. McCain even traveled with O’Bagy to Syria in May.

“A woman by the name of Elizabeth Bagly, B-A-G-L-Y, just wrote an article,” Kerry said in congressional testimony Wednesday (spelling O’Bagy’s name wrong)“she works with the Institute of War. She’s fluent in Arabic and spent an enormous amount of time studying the opposition and studying Syria. She just published this the other day. Very interesting [Wall Street Journal] article, which I commend to you.”

“I just don’t agree that a majority are Al Qaeda and the bad guys,” Kerry concluded.

Kerry made the same argument before the Senate on Tuesday.

“The opposition has increasingly become more defined by its moderation,” Kerry told Sen. Ron Johnson, “more defined by the breadth of its membership and more defined by its adherence to … an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution, which will be broad-based and secular.”

But on Thursday morning, Reuters called out Kerry’s — and by extension, O’Bagy’s — assessment as “at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.”

In December, O’Bagy opposed the Obama administration’s attempts to designate Al Nusra — a powerful Syrian rebel group — as a terror organization because of its ties to Al Qaeda.

“I’m not saying they aren't a terrorist group. But given the circumstances and given their cooperation with the opposition as a whole, designating them now would be disastrous,” O’Bagy said to McClatchy newspapers in December 2012.

In April 2013, Al Nusra pledged loyalty to Al Qaeda.

O’Bagy told The DC that she had opposed the terrorist designation because she feared it would damage the rebellion against Bashar al Assad’s dictatorship.

“The point that I was trying to make in terms of Al Nusra being designated a terrorist organization was that at the time they had been embraced to a large degree by certain aspects of the population and they were very much seen as fighting for the cause,” she said. “I knew that designating them as a terrorist organization would have a very radicalizing impact on the ground. I wasn't sure if that trend could be reversed. I was terrified that this could be an irreversible process of radicalization.”

O’Bagy told The DC that she was wrong to consider Al Nusra anything but a terror group.

“I can admit when I’m wrong. In many ways Al Nusra has revealed its true face and many see it as a foreign influence and an outside group… Designating them a terrorist group has helped empower more moderate groups,” she said.

But O’Bagy blames the United States’ lack of support for the increased role of such Al Qaeda affiliated groups.

The “failure of America to help the Syrian people” is what is “pushing” Syrian rebels “into the arms” of extremists, she said.

“If the moderate forces are going to be successful, if they are going to maintain their ability to leverage any sort of influence, then they need to be supported and they need to be empowered. If they are not able to respond to these attacks, the rebels [will join the extremists who] are better resourced, better equipped, actually willing to respond directly to these chemical weapons attacks,” O’Bagy said."
by Charles C. Johnson

Considering the source, to whom these and other government officials are relying on for sound information, a paid lobbyist for planes, tanks, weapons, and body armor for extremist Al Qaeda off shoot groups, is the last person, if at all, to who anyone should be listening. This is but one example of the type of mental ineptitude displayed by Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain.   

However, according to others who actually have been on the ground in Syria and have talked with the people still living there and people in refugee camps, The Free Syrian Army, which is made up of jihadi radical extremists from other countries, raped, murdered, and burned homes to the ground until the majority of the decent people fled the country.




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Reference Links:

Woman informing Kerry, McCain’s opinions on Syria also an advocate for Syrian rebels
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/woman-informing-kerry-mccains-opinions-on-syria-also-an-advocate-for-syrian-rebels/#ixzz2e9F2tvvW

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/woman-informing-kerry-mccains-opinions-on-syria-also-an-advocate-for-syrian-rebels/#ixzz2e9FcptGF

Syria: Nobel Peace Laureate Tells Her Account of What She Witnessed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msA35ATXol8

This, That, and Another Thing

Having recently moved into a new place, I haven't really had time to even thing about what to write. So I thought I would simply catch up on what has been happening in current events since I also purchased a new TV to go with the high speed internet service and the HD cable package.

First, Secretary of Defense nominee Charles Hagel's confirmation is not going well. And with just cause as I explained in my recent post Chuck Chuck: No Defensive Senator for Defense Secretary and with his past remarks regarding Israel, he certainly needs to be withdrawn of the nomination.

Chris Dorner certainly had his fifteen minutes of fame. Now, is he dead or alive in Mexico somewhere? Nobody's talking. A recent post that I came across on Facebook indicates that it is a fish smelling story about how his identification managed to survive the inferno that leveled the mountain cabin he allegedly was holed up in. Seems like a Hollywood screenwriter was paid handsomely for that yarn. Just another media spin at the behest of the government to make the glazed-eyed masses believe the Second Article of Amendment to the Constitution for the united States of America somehow needs to be exclusive of certain types of arms.

Obama's State of the Union was more a campaign thump than an indication that he is serious about getting this nation back on the right track. Global warming is not our most pressing crisis. And being upstaged by Dr. Benjamin Carson did nothing to bruise the ego of the man occupying the Oval Office. Obama seems totally detached from what needs to be done and yet his personal agenda remains against every principle of a representative republic, and a strong reflection of his blatant narcissism.

John Kerry as Secretary of State is a step to the side if not a slide backwards from Hillary Clinton. With the Benghazi attacks still unaccounted for by the State Department and the President's seeming lack of interest when the murders were taking place, does nothing to instill any sense of confidence or safety in most Americans abroad.

Oh, and fuel prices are as high as there were last summer and it's not even March!