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Well this is, frankly, just pissing me off. Desperate to push their anti-military agendas, so-called Human Rights groups are furiously trying to do everything they can to inject some life back into the campaign to shut down GITMO and bring the terrorists to American soil.

One group called Human Rights First has pieced together a group of about a dozen retired military officers who were willing to serve the goals of these anti-military groups, and for what reason I don’t know.

Do these select few generals and former military officers just have a more advanced moral compass than the millions of other enlisted troops, NCO’s and Officers currently fighting the War on Terror? Or are these generals somehow disgruntled? Were they stiffed by the military somehow? Did they become disillusioned with their service? Were they unable to raise in rank or dismissed due to some performance related factor?

Or is it possible that they are shamefully just willing to betray their former comrades in order to gain personal advancement or notoriety. I’m thinking of such historic examples as John Kerry…

Maybe they see it as a way to gain personal favor from a Presidential administration that is in great need of people with military credentials who will disagree with 99% of the rest of the military brass. Whenever liberals are capable of finding such people they are very quick to parade them around and put them on display and say “here look! even the military disagrees with your wars, your military budgets, your missions etc etc.”

It absolutely sickens me.

Well yesterday this group Human Rights First, got their turncoats together and held a press conference on Capitol Hill encouraging Obama to stand defiant, to close GITMO no matter what he has to do to get it done on schedule. They are of course reacting this way because Obama’s administration recently admitted that there is almost NO CHANCE they will be successful in closing GITMO by the self imposed one year deadline.

A Quote from the Human Rights First website about their media day…

Amidst the din of dissenting voices from media, lawmakers, and the public, these retired admirals and generals said loud and clear that they support President Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo, encouraging “responsible leadership” and denouncing “the politics of fear” around the issue. These meetings are part of Human Rights First’s broader campaign to ensure Guantanamo is closed.

Funny how they mention the fact that the media, lawmakers, and the public at large (not to mention a huge majority of non-retired military and national security experts!) remain VERY skeptical of Obama’s plans to close GITMO and bring the terrorists here. At least they recognize that they are the only crackpots around putting forth this dangerous idea.

For a little perspective, and to shed a little light on why these people are willing to get behind this humans rights group which is so hostile to our currently serving troops… look how the group BRAGS that the White House invited their retired generals to Obama’s GITMO closure signing ceremony last February.

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/advocacy/militaryleaders.aspx

Yes, being willing to say anything, no matter how anachronistic, will win you friends and buy you a seat at the table with those anxious to use you and your name to push their positions. Congratulations to this group of modern day Benedict Arnolds, I hope you’re happy with your new friends at the ACLU, Amnesty Int’l, CAIR, Huaman Rights Watch, and of course your pals Eric Holder and Barack Obama.