American Minute for November 13th:

    American Minute with Bill Federer
How "Landslide Lyndon" stole Senate race in 1948? - And U.S. entered Vietnam War.
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In 1941, Lyndon Baines Johnson ran for U.S. Senate.

Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech on the eve of the election criticizing LBJ’s opponent, Wilbert Lee O’Daniel, nevertheless, LBJ lost by 1,311 votes.

LBJ alleged voter fraud.

In 1948, LBJ ran for Senate again.

On election night, September 2, 1948, in the Democrat Primary runoff against former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, it appeared LBJ lost.

Then, mysteriously, a box of uncounted ballots was “discovered� in the south Texas town of Alice in Jim Wells County, Precinct 13.

Confusion reigned in Texas and by the end of the week, LBJ won by 87 votes. Both sides accused the other of voter fraud.

The FBI, Postal Department and other agencies were investigated .

Piecing together the details, the story emerged that during the tabulation period, LBJ’s campaign manager, John B. Connally, traveled to Alice, Texas, in Jim Wells County.

George Parr-The Duke of Duval, the wealthy “political boss� of Jim Wells County and neighboring Duval County, gave John Connally access to be present when the ballots were "counted" and the returns amended.

George Parr later committed suicide.

When the dust settled, the newly recounted ballots showed 202 additional voters, some of whom were deceased and buried in the local cemetery or were absent from the county on election day.

These voters “lined up� in alphabetical order at the last minute, signed in the same blue ink in the same handwriting and all cast their ballots for LBJ.

The New York Times published an article July 30, 1977, titled "Ex-Official Says He Stole 1948 Election for Johnson":

"The disclosure was made by Luis Salas, who was the election judge for Jim Well's County's Box 13, which produced just enough votes in the 1948 Texas Democratic primary runoff to give Mr. Johnson the party's nomination for the United States Senate ...

'Johnson did not win that election - it was stolen for him and I know exactly how it was done,' said Mr. Salas, now a lean, white-haired 76 year old ...

George B. Parr, the South Texas political leader whom Mr. Salas served for a decade, shot and killed himself in April of 1975. Mr. Johnson is dead and so is his opponent ... Mr. Salas said he decided to break his silence in quest for 'peace of mind' ... 'I was just going along with my party' ...

He said Mr. Parr ordered that 200-odd votes be added to Mr. Johnson's total from Box 13.

Mr. Salas said he had seen the fraudulent votes added in alphabetical order and had them certified then as authentic on order from Mr. Parr ...

Parr was the Godfather ... He ... could tell any election judge: 'give us 80 percent of the vote, and the other guy 20 percent.' We had it made in every election ..."

The New York Times article continued:

"The Associated Press interviewed ... a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, T. Keilis Dibrell ... He confirmed Mr. Salas' statement that the last 200 votes had been in alphabetical order' ...

Mr. Dibrell said 'Also, the last 202 names were made with the same colored ink, and in the same handwriting, whereas the earlier names in the poll list were written by different individuals and in different color inks.'

The final statewide count, including the Box 13 votes, gave Mr. Johnson an 87 vote margin ... earning him the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'Landslide Lyndon.'"

The Democrat Central Committee was deadlocked 28 to 28 on whether or not to certify the questionable election results.

John Connally persuaded Frank W. Mayborn, publisher of the Temple Daily Telegram, to cut short a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee, and return to cast the deciding Committee vote to certify the election results.

Coke Stevenson took LBJ to court and on September, 24, 1948, and won. Judge T. Whitfield Davidson ordered LBJ’s name to be removed from the general election ballot.

LBJ turned for help to Washington attorney and former FDR appointee Abe Fortas.

Abe Fortas persuaded Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who was also appointed by FDR, to intervene.

On September 28, 1948, Justice Black overturned the lower court ruling, letting the decision in the Johnson-Stevenson race rest with the Texas Democrat Central Committee.

In return for his favor, Abe Fortas was nominated in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson to be a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

During LBJ’s term as President, many of the records of his contested 1948 race disappeared.

In 1966, Abe Fortas accepted money from a Wall Street financier investigated for securities violations. Abe Fortas resigned in 1969.

In the Washington Post article, "HOW 'LANDSLIDE LYNDON' EARNED HIS NAME," March 4, 1990, David S. Broder reviewed Robert Caro's book "The Years of Lyndon Johnson":

"The slimy creature who stole the 1948 Texas Senate election ... Lyndon Johnson ... driven by 'a boundless ambition ... his career had been a story of manipulation, deceit and ruthlessness ... the morality of the ballot box ... in which nothing matters but victory and any maneuver that leads to victory is justified ...

Johnson ... stole the victory in the 1948 Senate race ... That campaign was an American classic ... Johnson battled ... a strongly favored opponent to win by the narrowest of margins -- the 87-vote victory that earned him the derisive nickname of 'Landslide Lyndon' ...

Johnson went through an equally breathless battle in the state convention and the courts to make his clearly tainted victory stand up."

In March of 2006, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott posted a column on the Texas State Attorney General’s website, stating:

"Voter fraud is no newcomer to the Lone Star State. Six decades ago, the votes ‘found’ in Jim Wells County’s infamous Ballot Box 13 helped Lyndon Johnson squeak into the U.S. Senate in that 1948 primary."

After two terms as a Senator from Texas, LBJ became John F. Kennedy's Vice-President.

Life Magazine reportedly was planning to publish an edition November 24, 1963, with information damaging to LBJ, potentially causing him to be dropped as Kennedy's running-mate on the Democrat reelection ticket, but Kennedy's assassination in Texas, November 22, preempted it.

James Wagenvoord, assistant to Life Magazine's executive editor, accused the Department of Justice of leaking information to the press:

"Beginning in later summer 1963 the magazine, based upon information fed from Bobby Kennedy and the Justice Department, had been developing a major news break piece concerning Johnson and Bobby Baker (adviser to Johnson accused of bribery and arranging call-girls).

On publication Johnson would have been finished and off the 1964 ticket (reason the material was fed to us) and would probably have been facing prison time. At the time LIFE magazine was arguably the most important general news source in the US.

The top management of Time, Inc. was closely allied with the USA's various intelligence agencies and we were used ... by the Kennedy Justice Department as a conduit to the public ... The LBJ/Baker piece was in the final editing stages and was scheduled to break in the issue of the magazine due out the week of November 24."

John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.

Johnson insisted Jacqueline Kennedy, still in her blood-stained dress, stand next to him to add legitimacy as he swore in aboard Air Force One.

As no Bible could be found on Air Force One, Johnson put his hand upon a Catholic missal that had been upon Kennedy's desk.

Shortly after, Johnson established the Warren Commission to "investigate" Kennedy's assassination.

The dailymail.co.uk published (August 8, 2011):

"Jackie Onasis tapes reveal how she believed Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy."

During Johnson's term, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, April 4, 1968; Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated, June 5, 1968; and the U.S. entered the Vietnam War.

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After World War II, the Cold War began.

Through infiltration and military conquest, dozens of countries became or aligned as satellites of totalitarian communist dictatorships:

- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- China
- Cuba
- Congo-Brazzaville
- Czechoslovakia
- East Germany
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Hungary
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- North Korea
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Somalia
- South Yemen
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tibet
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yugoslavia

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident took place August 2, 1964, after which the U.S. directly engaged in stopping the spread of communism by entering the Vietnam War.

U.S. forces inflicted over a million enemy fatalities, yet involvement by politicians thwarted victory.

North Vietnamese colonel, Bui Tin, received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975.

Bui Tin explained how the protests by "anti-war peace demonstrators" was key to the Communist victory:

"Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement ...

Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses ...

We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us."

After the war, Bui Tin became vice chief editor of the Communist Party's official newspaper in Vietnam, People's Daily, but he grew disillusioned with Communist corruption and, in 1990, fled to Paris.

In an interview, Bui Tin stated:

"The roots of the Vietnam War - its all-encompassing and underlying nature - lie in a confrontation between two ideological worlds: socialism versus capitalism ... totalitarianism versus democracy ...

The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win."

Commenting on this dangerous trend is retired Major General Patrick Brady, considered the most decorated living veteran.

A Medal of Honor recipient, Major General Patrick Brady flew over 2,500 combat missions in Vietnam, rescuing over 5,000 wounded.

As told in his book, Dead Men Flying, Brady once rescued 51 wounded in one day, flying 3 different helicopters which were shot up with over 400 holes from enemy fire and explosions.

Major General Patrick Brady wrote, June 4, 2013 (WND.com):

"The greatest danger ... the feminization, emasculation and dismantling of our military.

The two most important elements of national survival are the media and the military ...

We know the media are failing - God help us if the military does also ...

Let's begin with Benghazi. It is incomprehensible that any commander, let alone the commander in chief, would go AWOL during a crisis such as Benghazi, but he was ...

Unprecedented rates of suicide ... Cut benefits to veterans ... Quad-sexual military with all the health, readiness and moral issues that come with exalting sodomy ... Sexual assault ...

Women will be tasked to lead bayonet charges ... Billions of defense dollars are unaccounted for ... Christianity is under military attack, and Bibles have been burned to appease Muslims ...

Just as the way forward for America is a return to the morality and values of the past, so too must the military return to the readiness standards and common sense of the past."

A first-hand account of the Vietnam War is from Marine Sergeant George Hutchings in his book, Combat Survival-Life Stories from a Purple Heart.

George Hutchings wrote that on October 12, 1967, during Operation Medina, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Division, was ambushed by North Vietnamese in the Hai Lang jungle:

"Thirteen men were killed in front of me and countless more behind me. I was in shock; never had I heard such noise or saw so many dead.

Nevertheless, I returned fire and my M-16 jammed...We had walked into an ambush of an enemy four times our size ..."

Pinned down in the jungle on top of a hill, George Hutchings continued:

"We slowly crawled ... to see who was alive ...

The next morning ... the captain ordered me to water detail ... I cursed about the order and Corporal Bice said, 'George, I'll go for you' ...

Just after he left, a sniper battle erupted ...

By the time our perimeter was cleared, several hours passed, and I went to check on Corporal Bice. I found him - head and boots.

We knew his boots because they bore his signature. He had been hit in the chest with a light anti-tank weapon. My inner voice said, 'He died for you; Christ died for you ...'"

In 1968, George Hutchings was shot three times, bayoneted and left for dead, as he wrote:

"On March 14th I stepped on a pungie stick.

Luckily ... it went through the bottom of my boot and out the side ...

March 18th ... shot rang from the right rear. I hit the dirt. Was I shot? ...

Remembering my training, I didn't look at the wound, If you look ... you might go into shock.

I felt my hip with my hand and it came back bloody ... I was better off than the two men who had been directly in front of me. They lay dead ...

Corporal Ed Grant ... crawled over to me ... with a shotgun ... 'If you get overrun, you'll need this,' he said ...

Laying there with no cover, a machine gun battle raged just over my helmet ... 'Oh God, get me out of here and I'll live for you the rest of my life.'"

More than 58,000 American troops who died in the war.

The Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated NOVEMBER 13, 1982, to honor them.

George Hutchings said:

"On that wall is the name of Corporal Quinton Bice, who was hit in the chest with a rocket while running a patrol in my place.

A Christian, Corporal Bice had shared the Gospel with me, but I didn't understand it till he gave his life in my place."
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Taken from The Wall Street Journal, Thursday August 3, 1995: What did the North Vietnamese leadership think of the American antiwar movement? What was the purpose of the Tet Offensive? How could the U.S. have been more successful in fighting the Vietnam War? Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese army, answers these questions in the following excerpts from an interview conducted by Stephen Young, a Minnesota attorney and human-rights activist. Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of North Vietnam's army, received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. He later became editor of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of Vietnam. He now lives in Paris, where he immigrated after becoming disillusioned with the fruits of Vietnamese communism. Question: How did Hanoi intend to defeat the Americans? Answer: By fighting a long war which would break their will to help South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh said, "We don't need to win military victories, we only need to hit them until they give up and get out." Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory? A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us. Sgt Grit, 7100 SW 44th St., OKC, OK 73179, Email: contact@grunt.com http://www.grunt.com/scuttlebutt/corps-stories/vietnam/north.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tin Sergeant George Hutchings of the First Battalion Fifth Marine Division, Charlie Company, recipient of the Purple Heart. George Hutchings, 400 Tumulty, Ballwin, MO 63021, (636) 394-0310, georgeeaglewings@aol.com.

>> Must Read! "A Helpless Military: Just What Obama Ordered"
>>
>> Of all of Barack Obama's crimes against the American people this is the worst.
Americans should be storming the Capital and the WH demanding ANSWERS!
Do your best to let Congress know you DEMAND An Answer!
>>
>> What Obama is doing to the U.S. military puts hundreds of millions of lives
>> and the survival of the entire West at stake.
>>
>>
>> by Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady
>>
>> As incompetence, deception, duplicity and dishonesty become the hall marks
>> of the Obama administration, it is important that we not lose sight of the
>> greatest danger posed beyond these serial scandals: the feminization,
>> emasculation and dismantling of our military !! The two most important
>> elements of national survival are the media and the military; one keeps us
>> free and the other keeps us secure. We know the media are failing - God help
>> us if the military does also. We may be able to fix the government in 2014.
>> Fixing the military is more problematic.
>>
>> Let's begin with Benghazi. It is incomprehensible that any commander, let
>> alone the commander in chief, would go AWOL during a crisis such as
>> Benghazi, but he was. In the midst of the massacre of our ambassador and
>> three heroic Americans, President Obama was nowhere to be found. He did
>> manage to surface, too late for the massacre, to meet a campaign commitment
>> the next day. But, before retiring, we are told he turned the crisis over to
>> his underlings, including the military. What we learned about our military
>> leadership during that crisis should alarm all Americans.
>>
>> The demise of our military of course begins with the commander in chief, but
>> he can't do it alone. He has to have willing sycophants and he has had them
>> in the civilian and military leadership at the Department of Defense. The
>> indifference of the people and military inexperience in Congress are contributing
>> factors. The military disasters are a form of gradualism. Look at the
>> changes under Mr. Obama. We cannot focus on these changes enough.
>>
>> Our military is suffering unprecedented rates of suicide and PTSD. Obama's
>> sequestration will cut benefits to veterans as well as damage readiness.
>> (There has been a 2000 percent increase in backlog for veteran assistance in
>> four years!) We now have a quad-sexual military with all the health,
>> readiness and moral issues that come with exalting sodomy. Sexual assault is
>> at an all-time high. Women will be tasked to lead bayonet charges. As a
>> result of the sex scandals, Congress is now looking to curtail the
>> military's ability to discipline, another tribute to the lack of leadership
>> in the military and lack of military understanding in Congress.
>>
>> Billions of defense dollars are unaccounted for. Christianity is under
>> military attack, and Bibles have been burned to appease Muslims. (References
>> to God and Jesus are forbidden at Arlington, chaplains will be forced to
>> perform homosexual "marriages," and Bibles and religious item are forbidden
>> to the wounded at Walter Reed, etc.)
>>
>> We have a new doctrine for crisis: "Don't deploy forces into harm's way
>> without knowing what's going on." Therefore, no Normandy or Inchon. In other
>> words, don't go until the crisis/massacre is over. Their default position is
>> don't go, period. The military leadership, after the terrorist massacre at
>> Fort Hood, outrageously lamented the effect it would have on diversity - and
>> equally outrageously labeled it workplace violence denying the victims and
>> their families the benefits they deserve.
>>
>> There have been unprecedented security leaks, and China is electronically in
>> bed with us. They even lost the graves of our warriors at Arlington. I could
>> go on, but it should be clear that all of the above is the result of a
>> leader who knows not the difference between a corps and a corpse and is both
>> indifferent to and unknowledgeable of military readiness. And as bad, the
>> military leadership is complicit in these disasters. (As a further tribute
>> to their ineptitude, they have actually considered combat-level medals for
>> warriors not shooting and desk-bound computer operators, medals that were
>> the laughingstock of veterans.)
>>
>> But given that the president tasked the military to act in the Benghazi
>> crisis, what did they do? Indefensibly, they did nothing, they did not even
>> try! No obstacle, no doctrine, nothing can defend not trying, never mind the
>> risk, to save fellow Americans. Were they under orders to sit on their a-
>> and let their fellow Americans die? In my 34 years of military service
>> involving many crises, I never knew of one without an after action report
>> (AAR), in which each and every action was put under a microscope to identify
>> those responsible for the results be they good or bad. Congress, the media,
>> someone should demand the AAR on Benghazi. It must exist. Who ordered the
>> stand down? Who said sit on your a-? Why no hearing on this?
>>
>> Just as the way forward for America is a return to the morality and values
>> of the past, so too must the military return to the readiness standards and
>> common sense of the past. We can survive in a relatively valueless society -
>> but only with a strong and ready military. Sadly the military is mirroring
>> society - the goal of Mr. Obama and progressives - and will soon be
>> impotent. Once the progressives have a helpless military they no longer need
>> to explain why they didn't go; they can say we are unable to go. Progress is
>> not the path we are on; true progress is the path to our past. The other
>> scandals may be more glamorous and outrageous (such as lying about Benghazi
>> before the coffins of those massacred by terrorists, enemies' lists and
>> assaults on the First Amendment) but what Mr. Obama is doing to our military
>> is more grave.
>>
>> Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, retired from the U.S. Army, is a recipient of the
>> United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He is the
>> author of "
>> Dead
>> Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam The Legend of Dust Off: America's
>> Battlefield Angels."




Tuesday, November 5, 2013
‘Purge surge’: Obama fires another commander

WASHINGTON – After multiple top generals described to WND what they regard as a full-scale “purge� of the U.S. military by the Obama administration, the commander of U.S. Army Garrison Japan was summarily relieved of duty and his civilian deputy reassigned, pending a “misconduct� investigation.

Nine generals and flag officers have been relieved of duty under Obama just this year – widely viewed as an extraordinary number – and several sources put the total number of senior officers purged during the five years of the Obama administration as close to 200.

In response, prominent retired generals – ranging from Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, a Fox News senior military analyst, to Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, a founder of the Army’s elite Delta Force, to Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Patrick Henry Brady – have all gone on the record with WND, characterizing Obama’s actions as nothing less than an all-out attack on America’s armed forces.

According to U.S. Army Japan, Col. Eric Tilley was suspended from his job by Maj. Gen. James C. Boozer Sr., commander of U.S. Army Japan and I Corps (Forward) for a “lack of confidence� based on the results of an inquiry.

A spokesman for U.S. Army Japan, Maj. Kevin Toner, would not elaborate on what prompted a “lack of confidence,� saying it would be “inappropriate to make public the allegations because the investigation did not lead to findings of criminal misconduct.�

Tilley is to be replaced by Col. Joy Curriera.

Tilley’s dismissal is only the latest in what retired Navy Capt. Joseph John refers to as a “bigger picture� in which some “135 senior officers have been purged.�

“The ‘bigger picture,’� John told WND, “is that the U.S. Armed Forces have been under relentless attack by the occupant of the Oval Office for five years.�

A Naval Academy graduate, John had three tours of duty in Vietnam, served as an al-Qaida expert for the FBI, and was a commanding officer with SEALs embedded on special operations. He was awarded the Navy Marine Corps Commendation Medal, five Meritorious Service Medals and 22 medals and unit citations for combat operations in Vietnam, Philippines, Desert Storm and on anti-terrorist operations.

Today, John is chairman of Combat Veterans For Congress PAC (Political Action Committee), which has helped elect 20 combat veterans to Congress.

“I believe there are more than 137 officers who have been forced out or given bad evaluation reports so they will never make Flag (officer), because of their failure to comply to certain views,� John told WND.

“The truly sad story is that many of the brightest graduates of the three major service academies witnessing what the social experiment on diversity … is doing to the U.S. military, are leaving the service after five years,� he said. “We are being left with an officer corps that can be made to be more compliant, that is, exactly what Obama needs to effect his long range goals for the U.S. military.�

In an email to WND, John outlined what he termed “a very few of the most egregious� aspects of Obama’s “attack� on the military over the past five years.

He referred specifically to the Rules of Engagement in combat that were put in place after Obama took office, asserting that the changes resulted in very high casualty rates in Afghanistan, including the loss of 17 members of SEAL Team 6 in one incident.

“The Rules of Engagement precluded the use of suppression fire at a landing zone,� John said.

Echoing what other high-ranking officers have told WND, he said the Pentagon policy of repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell� resulted in the first openly “gay� “major military force in the world.� The development has brought about “massive� sexual assaults on “thousands of straight military male personnel that have been covered up,� he said.

He also cited military chaplains’ being prohibited from reading letters in the pulpit from their cardinals during Sunday services as a restriction of freedom of religion.

These and other “social experiments,� he said, have constituted “a massive assault to restructure the military mindset, destroyed unit cohesion, unit morale and is negatively affecting combat effectiveness.�

John also referred to major cuts in the military budget that resulted in, for one example, restricting as many as seven aircraft carriers to port, “leaving them open to another Pearl Harbor-type of attack.�

Physical fitness qualifications for “tip of the spear units� such as the Rangers, SEALs, Green Berets and combat infantry are being downgraded, he said, so “women can be placed into those units.� Likewise, he added, “women have been assigned to submarines and ships resulting in relationships at sea that have broken up military families.�

Some senior enlisted personnel and commanding officers in the midst of six-month deployments, he said, have been removed because they got involved with the opposite sex, which degrades the ships’ battle readiness.

John sums up this way: “The net result of the occupant of the Oval Office’s new policies set for the U.S. armed forces changed and enforced by his civilian appointees at DOD continues to degrade the most effective military organization ever created.�

If John’s comments about Obama sound dire, they are no more so than those expressed to WND in recent days by top generals.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, recipient of the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired officers, say President Obama’s agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S. ranks to the point members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the desire to win.

“There is no doubt he [Obama] is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him� over such issues as “homosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester,� Brady told WND.

“They are purging everyone, and if you want to keep your job, just keep your mouth shut,� another military source told WND.

Not only are military service members being demoralized and the ranks’ overall readiness being reduced by the Obama administration’s purge of key leaders, colonels – those lined up in rank to replace outgoing generals – are quietly taking their careers in other directions.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry� Boykin, who was a founding member of Delta Force and later deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush, says it is worrying that four-star generals are being retired at the rate that has occurred under Obama.

“Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause,� Boykin said.

“I believe there is a purging of the military,� he said. “The problem is worse than we have ever seen.�

The future of the military is becoming more and more of concern, added Boykin, since colonels who would become generals are also being relieved of duty if they show that they’re not going to support Obama’s agenda, which critics have described as socialist.

“I talk to a lot of folks who don’t support where Obama is taking the military, but in the military they can’t say anything,� Boykin said.

As a consequence, he said, the lower grades have decided to leave, having been given the signal that there is no future in the military for them.

Referring to recent reports that Obama has purged some 197 officers in the past five years, Boykin said the reports suggest these officers were suspected of disloyalty or disagreed with the Obama administration on policy or force-structure issues. As Boykin pointed out, a number of them have been relieved of duty for no given reason.

“Morale is at an unprecedented low,� Boykin added, part of which is due to sequestration.

Sequestration has seriously cut back operational readiness for the military to the point where Boykin said that often they have no ammunition and are unable to conduct training because of the planned cuts.

Brady, who was a legendary “Dust Off� air ambulance pilot in Vietnam and detailed his experiences in his book, “Dead Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam,� told WND, “The problem is military people will seldom, while on duty, go on the record over such issues, and many will not ever, no matter how true. I hear from many off the record who are upset with the current military leadership and some are leaving and have left in the past.�

Brady referred to additional problems in today’s military including “girly-men leadership [and] medals for not shooting and operating a computer. This president will never fight if there is any reason to avoid it and with a helpless military he can just point to our weakness and shrug his shoulders.�

Brady made similar references in a recent article he wrote for WND in which he said “just when you thought the leadership of this government could not get any worse, it does. Never in history has an administration spawned another scandal to cover the current one.�

The reference was to the recent firing of a number of generals to mask “Obama’s serial scandals, all prefaced by lies – Fast and Furious, Benghazi, NSA, IRS� among others.

WND reported that three of the nine firings by Obama this year alone were linked to the controversy surrounding the Sep. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the CIA special mission in Benghazi, Libya.

In one case, U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham, who commanded U.S. African Command when the consulate was attacked and four Americans were killed, was highly critical of the decision by the State Department not to send in reinforcements.

Obama has insisted there were no reinforcements available that night.

But Ham contends reinforcements could have been sent in time, and he said he never was given a stand-down order. However, others contend that he was given the order but defied it. He ultimately was relieved of his command and retired.

Now, new information in the Washington Times reveals there were Delta Force personnel in Tripoli at the time of the attack and two members volunteered to be dispatched to Benghazi to assist in protecting the Benghazi compound, contrary to stand-down orders from the State Department.

Another flag officer involved in the Benghazi matter – which remains under congressional investigation – was Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette. He commanded the Carrier Strike Group.

He contends aircraft could have been sent to Libya in time to help the Americans under fire. He later was removed from his post for alleged profanity and making “racially insensitive comments.�

Army Major Gen. Ralph Baker was the commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti, Africa. Baker contended that attack helicopters could have reached the consulate in time on the night of the attack.

“To understand the insufferable assaults on our military and veterans, who should be exempt from political squabbles but are often at the forefront of Obama threats, we need to understand the psyche of the elite in this country led by Obama,� Brady said.

“It is no accident that the president used the Obama sequester and shutdown to punish the military family,� he said. “It is part of his DNA. In fact it is in the psyche of the entire liberal/progressive establishment – the elite. President Clinton outed himself and this ilk when he declared his loathing of the military. Who could believe progressives/liberals care about veterans and military?�

Army Major Gen. Paul E. Vallely similarly has been very vocal in his opposition to the Obama administration.

Vallely said the White House won’t investigate its own officials but finds it easy to fire military commanders “who have given their lives for their country.�

“Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama’s ideology,� Vallely said. “The White House protects their own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.�

Vallely served in the Vietnam War and retired in 1993 as deputy Commanding General, Pacific Command. Today, he is chairman of the Military Committee for the Center for Security Policy and is co-author of the book “Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.�

Duty personnel seem to back up this concern, suggesting that the firings are meant to send a message to “young officers down through the ranks� not to criticize the president or White House politics.

Is Obama purging U.S. military of top officers because of politics?

No, it's called the changing of the guard and happens in every administration
No, he's just cleaning house of old, dead wood
No, he's just reminding the military that it is run by a civilian
No, he's just making sure that women, minorities and LGBT officers are well-represented

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