Obama Abandons USS Cole and 911 Families

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“This isn’t goodbye,” said the president, signing autographs and posing for pictures before leaving for his next appointment, “this is hello.” His national security staff would have an open-door policy.

Believe . . . feel . . . hope.

We’d been had.

Binyam Mohamed — the al Qaeda operative selected by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) for a catastrophic post-9/11 attack with co-conspirator Jose Padilla — was released 17 days later.
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Given all the developments since our meeting with the president, it is now evident that his words to us bore no relation to his intended actions on national security policy and detainee issues. But the narrative about Mr. Obama’s successful meeting with 9/11 and Cole families has been written, and the press has moved on.

The Obama team has established a pattern that should be plain for all to see. When controversy erupts or legitimate policy differences are presented by well-meaning people, send out the celebrity president to flatter and charm.

Burlingame nailed it! Obama’s all about P.R. and the photo op to cover up and mute criticism of what is really going on. And it works. He gets away with doing things that are totally opposite the assurances he offered the 9/11- USS Cole families. They were used like pawns in his game.

>>HE IS SYSTEMATICALLY DISMANTLING OUR MILITARY’S OVERWHELMING EFECTIVENESS VERSUS ANY OTHER NATION<<

I would like to consider this and possibly respond, but I have no idea to what you are referring. Can you elaborate, please?

To my understanding, the defense budget isn’t being cut, it’s actually increasing. What is happening is spending more money on some areas of defense (e.g. against the sorts of threats which were responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole, e.g. more money for special ops forces and sea, land, and air transport of special ops forces) and less money for other areas of defense (e.g. dogfights with the Russians over the airspace of the Czech Republic). But this is no different than the actions of the Bush administration, who redirected financing of other unnecessary weapons systems (e.g. Crusader mobile artillery) to more relevant military operations.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

Burlingame and the 9/11 families should never have gone to meet with Obama in the first place. It was only with gross negligence that they could not have known that they were mere pawns, covers for Obama’s reckless national security proposals and that he would not listen to their just concerns.
So having willingly been used as pawns, and for table dressing, she and the others are ‘upset’ at being used? Well, I don’t give them any sympathy, especially those who voted for Mr. Obama and against McCain. You deserve what you got and now you have to live with the consequences, as will our country for the next two or more years.