Abandoning
America’s honor
Three men know
the truth. Four men are dead. A nation’s honor hangs in the balance
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Doug
Hagmann
Thursday,
November 1, 2012
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“I
say this to Barack Hussein Obama: Show us that you have the honor and integrity
that you claim. ‘Own’ this situation as you did the bin Laden operation. Put
America first. Produce the order. Today.”
There is much
focus on the events following the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, as
there should be. Four Americans, including a U.S. Ambassador are dead. Real
Americans, real men do not leave other Americans to die mercilessly in
the throes of battle, at their time of greatest need. That’s not who we are,
individually as people or collectively as a nation. Yet the inquiries of late
boil down to one simple but very revealing question that no one in a position
of authority has answered: Is this what we’ve become?
This is a
question that transcends politics, political parties and agendas. It is much
bigger than all of that and all of us, and speaks to the very heart of who we are
as a people, a nation, and a brotherhood and sisterhood of soldiers who have
entrusted their lives to the men and women leading the greatest nation on
earth. It is the very essence of who we are and everything for which we stand.
It is about honor, and a man or a nation who has lost honor can lose nothing
more.*
At the heart
of the issue are four Americans whose names and faces we must never forget:
Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods and U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. They
were sons and fathers, friends and family, and fellow soldiers doing what other
Americans were not, could not or would not. At present, they are the face of
America’s integrity and honor, exhibits of courage, and members of a special
group who have died in the name of our nation.
Have
we abandoned not only our dead, but our nation’s honor? With regard to the
events in Benghazi, there is one very simple and expeditious way to put
inquiring minds to rest, and to assure every American serving their country
that they will not be left behind in their time of greatest need. Through a
simple stroke of a pen, one man has the ability to put an end to the growing
undercurrent of speculation and fear of abandonment: Barack Hussein Obama.
The accounts of
the September 11, 2012 meeting in the Oval Office are well documented and
undisputed in open source reports. Barack Hussein Obama, Joe Biden and Leon
Panetta were meeting in the Oval Office at the very moment in time when the
frantic pleas for help were made by our men who were engaged in a battle for
their lives. In Benghazi, it was their final battle, but I beseech every
American that it must not be ours.
Barack Obama has
publicly assured every American that he ordered assistance to be dispatched to
save our people.
Let there be no equivocation, no word play, and no doubt, as the stakes are too
high, the grief too real, and the consequences too dire to our country for
anything but full and honest disclosure. We have told by Barack Obama that he
issued an order, in real time, to save the lives of our men as the doors of
hell opened before them.
That is his
statement recorded in history. Three men know the truth. Four men are dead. A
nation’s honor hangs in the balance.
Accordingly, it
is a very simple matter to produce the “execute order,” or the written
documentation of that one very narrow but very specific verbal command. Lest one opines
that such disclosure would compromise our national security, I remind everyone
of the massive disclosures that were so freely and willingly offered in the
wake of the bin Laden operation.
Just as the bin
Laden operation is over, so too is the Benghazi attack. A nation given the
inside view of a celebrated successful operation now demands accountability in
another. It must be done not only for the honor of the dead, but for the sake
of our nation.
As an American,
I say this to Barack Hussein Obama: Show us that you have the honor and
integrity that you claim. “Own” this situation as you did the bin Laden operation.
Put America first. Produce the order. Today.
*A Paraphrase of
the first century Syrian writer Publius Syrus.
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