Gaubatz: US Troops Would Die for America But Not For Obama

Frontpage has an interview (or here if the link won't work) conducted by Jamie Glazov with Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian federal agent to arrive in Iraq in 2003, which sheds light on the "flip-flopping" behavior of Obama with regard to intelligence gathering, interrogation methods and releasing photos of "torture". As many of us suspected, those in our armed forces have come to question not only Obama's policies but the motives behind them, and their disapproval has been expressed to him in no uncertain terms, albeit behind closed doors. As Gaubatz states:

President Obama has made too many alleged mistakes for his actions to be anything but intentional. Americans at some point need to understand that, even by his own admissions, he went to a church for 20 years led by a leftwing extremist, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he was friends with terrorist Bill Ayers, and bowed to a Saudi Arabian leader who condones under Sharia law the marriage of 8 year old children to adult men, and still in 2009 distributes literature advocating Muslims to kill Christians, Jews, and even Muslims who do not adhere to the strict adherence of Sharia law.

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I do not believe President Obama has the best interest of our country, our citizens, or the thousands of military and intelligence officers as his primary goal. If I were taking all of Obama’s actions and putting them into an “intelligence report” the following conclusion could be made:

[1] President Obama does not have the best interest of our country, our citizens, or the thousands of military and intelligence officers as his primary goal.

[2] The release of the ‘enhanced interrogation methods’ could be seen as an intentional signal to Al Qaeda terrorists and their supporters, that if you are ever captured, you should not release any information about your fellow ‘brothers and sisters’ who are involved in ‘Jihad’ because the worst that can happen is you may have to undergo inconveniences, but nothing life threatening.

[3] President Obama and his supporters are indeed sending a message to potential enemy combatants that could be interpreted as such: stay the course, it may be long and difficult, but patience and perseverance will ultimately lead to your victory.

When asked by Glazov why President Obama reversed his position about releasing photographs of prisoners allegedly tortured by American personnel and why Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is lying about what she knew of interrogation methods prior to 2003, Gaubatz states that he believes

President Obama has been tactfully informed by U.S. military leaders that our brave troops on the ground are risking their lives everyday for America and are beginning to ask who their ‘Commander in Chief’ is and what ideology he truly supports. These troops have young sons and daughters at home, and although they are willing to give their lives for America, they are second guessing themselves about dying for a Commander in Chief who is aiding and providing comfort to our enemies.

What this indicates for the future is that Obama may now be aware that he will not be able to depend on the US military to carry out any orders of his which violate the Constitutional rights of American citizens. The Obamassiah has been put on notice. Gaubatz goes on to praise former VP Dick Cheney for speaking out:

Cheney is essentially saying Americans will not allow our country to be destroyed and there are millions of people to include our troops, LE, and our intelligence officers that will not allow it to happen. I could be wrong, but I do not believe so.

I have watched the ‘homemade’ videos made from Islamic terrorists when they beat our soldiers, had their snipers shoot them, and slowly cut their throats to enhance their suffering and subsequently beheaded them. My fellow Americans, this is torture. Don’t believe me; ask innocent Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan who have
witnessed this and worse.

Recently I put together a one hour long video of what ‘torture’ actually is. The video is from various Islamic Jihadist sites I have monitored for several years and will never be seen in the MSM. The DVD is titled, “Torture in the Name of Islam”. If readers truly want to see what torture is and what Islamic scholars operating in America advocate, then they should watch.

"But we must renounce torture to protect our own troops if they are captured" has been a catchphrase of those defending Obama's policies. As Gaubatz points out, it will do no such thing because they are already subject to torture if captured. It is difficult to recommend to anyone that they view footage of real torture and sadistic killings, but at this point it may be the only thing that will jolt some people out of their complacency.

There's lots more to this interview, and it is obvious that Teh One will have to revise his evaluation as to with whom the US military will stand should he attempt to deliver this country to the Islamists.