Not Another Vietnam in Our Name

Back in 2004, four security agents from a private military company, Blackwater, died when Iraqi terrorists ambushed them while crossing a bridge on the Euphrates River, as they transported supplies. The tragedy of their deaths turned to shock and horror when the terrorists burned their remains and hung their bodies from the bridge.

A Navy SEAL team apprehended one of the U.S.'s most-wanted terrorist believed to be the man responsible for this inhumane treatment of the men who died on the bridge that day.

That terrorist, Ahmed H. Abed, has filed a charge against one of the Navy Seal's. This terrorist claims he "punched him". It is not enough that the terrorists mutilated and publicly displayed the remains of the Blackwater security agents. The U.S. government planned to reprimand the three Navy Seal's who arrested Abed. The Seal's refused to accept the reprimand. They did the job our government told them to do, after all. Now, the military will put the three Navy Seal's who arrested Abed, on trial on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 2009.

The President and the U.S. government refuse to give our troops what they need to win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those in power do not want to take responsibility for their inability to figure out how to go in and get the job done, because they fear the wrath of the American public.

This political propaganda orchestrated by the United States government, is their way of using the three Navy Seal's as scapegoats for their inability to make a decision on how to resolve the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. If any of this sounds familiar, it is because it happened to our US troops before. It happened during the Vietnam War.

Because a portion of the American public opposed the war in Vietnam, our government used the same tactics with Vietnam Veterans that they are currently using against the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The government does not want to look like the bad guy to Americans. Then when something like this happens, how else can we look at our president and our government, except for what they truly are?

The US government will try Petty Officer Second Class Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, and Petty Officer Julio Huertas, for Dereliction of Duty and making a false statement.

These three brave Navy Seal's arrested a terrorist on America's most-wanted list. The terrorist supposedly received a fat lip during the scuffle, and our government will charge the men who arrested him, with a crime.
Americans who support and respect our U.S. troops, and all they do to keep us safe, will not allow our government to pick at and reopen a scab on our country's history.

The lousy treatment we gave to our Vietnam Veterans left a permanent scar, a scar on the minds of Americans that allowed it to happen. The government tried to paint an image of our Vietnam Veterans, to relieve themselves of any guilt or blame in the conflict. In the same way, Americans bear the shame of that, as they should, and they should not stand by and watch it happen again.

All Americans should rally behind these three officers, and tell our president and our government, that we refuse to allow them to do to our troops currently serving, what they did to the Vietnam Veterans over three decades ago. It is time to stand up and say, "Never again! Not in my name!"