Sipsey Street Irregulars: Uncovering the Camp Bastion Cover-Up

Friday, June 21, 2013

Uncovering the Camp Bastion Cover-Up

Along with the most devastating loss of U.S. airpower since Vietnam, two heroic U.S. Marines -- Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell -- were killed in the battle, and nearly a dozen others were injured. Military officials refused to release details of the fateful budget and strategy decisions that led to the attack. But Deborah Hatheway, aunt of Sgt. Atwell and the family's spokesperson, and other Camp Bastion families learned on their own that their loved ones were left vulnerable to attack by military leaders who outsourced watchtower security on the base to soldiers from Tonga.

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Anonymous said...: No wonder the administration is slandering and libeling our returning veterans. They have been the ultimate patsies and chumps in the bogus wars on terror. Now, Toto has pulled the curtain aside and the Great OZ and his minions have been and are continuing to be exposed. I pray that the sleeping giant awakes soon and those who have served take back this country from the corporate manipulators who have, with the complicity of corrupt politicians, pushed us into war after war.; June 21, 2013 at 6:34 PM
Anonymous said...: The brits were in charge of security - it was their base.

Unfortunate, but true.; June 21, 2013 at 6:50 PM
Anonymous said...: It is inevitable when you have Droopy Dog running the Dept of Defense and Daffy Duck running CENTCOM. There are no George S Patton Jr,'s left nor even an Omar Bradly. God we could sure use a Reagan again. But those only come around once in a lifetime. This bunch of morons couldn't plan and execute a three man circle jerk.; June 21, 2013 at 9:52 PM
CowboyDan said...: Patton & Bradley, et al, wouldn't finish their first hitch these days, if they were allowed to become officers at all.

Leaders are not wanted. Yes men are what they want and get.

Why have so many flag rank officers been "allowed" to retire recently? Can it be they dared say no to the PTB, or were they blackmailed by people we'll never know?; June 22, 2013 at 5:10 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

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Uncovering the Camp Bastion Cover-Up

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