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   From: ben@laden.com   
      
   After finally choosing to view the barbaric, on-camera beheading   
   by ISIS of freelance war correspondent James Foley, I have been   
   left with a level of rage known only to those of us who have   
   sacrificed unspeakable offerings on the altar of world peace.   
      
   My offering was my only son — Aaron Carson Vaughn. Aaron was a   
   member of SEAL Team VI. He was killed in action when a CH47D   
   Chinook, carrying thirty Americans and eight Afghans was shot   
   down in the Tangi River Valley of Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011.   
      
   Many times over the past three years, I have been asked what   
   drove my son to choose his particular career. What made him want   
   to be a Navy SEAL? My answer is simple.   
      
   Aaron Vaughn was a man who possessed the courage to acknowledge   
   evil. And evil, once truly acknowledged, demands response.   
   Perhaps this is why so few are willing to look it in the eye. It   
   is much simpler — much safer — to look the other way.   
      
   That is, unless you are the leader of the Free World.   
      
   As Commander-in-Chief, your actions — or lack thereof — Mr.   
   President, cost lives. As you bumble about in your golf cart,   
   slapping on a happy face and fist-pounding your buddies, your   
   cowardly lack of leadership has left a gaping hole — not only in   
   America’s security — but the security of the entire globe. Your   
   message has come across loud and clear, sir: You are not up to   
   this job. You know it. We know it. The world knows it.   
      
   Please vacate the people’s house and allow a man or woman of   
   courage and substance to seize the reigns of this out-of-control   
   thug-fest and regain the balance we, America, have provided   
   throughout our great history.   
      
   Thanks to your “leadership” from whatever multi-million dollar   
   vacation you happen to be on at any given moment, the world is   
   in chaos. What’s been gained, you’ve lost. What’s been lost,   
   you’ve decimated. You’ve demolished our ability to hold the   
   trust of allies. You’ve made a mockery of the title “President.”   
   And you’ve betrayed the nation for which my son and over 1.3   
   million others have sacrificed their very lives.   
      
   But this should come as no surprise, since your wife uttered a   
   vile statement on Feb. 18, 2008, during the primary campaign —   
   one that speaks volumes of your true convictions. “For the first   
   time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country,” she   
   said.   
      
   I am sure my deceased son thanks you for that, Mrs. Obama. Oh,   
   and you’re welcome.   
      
   Never in my lifetime have I witnessed such despair and such   
   growing fear that the world’s last best hope, America, has   
   finally been dismantled. Perhaps the better word is transformed   
   — fundamentally transformed. Come to think of it, it’s become   
   difficult — if not impossible — to believe things haven’t gone   
   exactly as you planned, Mr. President.   
      
   Amazingly, in five short years, your administration has lurched   
   from one disaster to another. You spearheaded the ambitious rush   
   to end the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan — with no plan on   
   how to do so effectively. Also, the release of “the Taliban   
   five” in exchange for one American — without consulting Congress   
   — is also on your shoulders.   
      
   You have been at the helm during unprecedented national security   
   leaks — including, but not limited to the outing of SEAL Team VI   
   on the Bin laden raid, the outing of the Pakistani doctor who   
   provided the intelligence for that raid, the outing of   
   Afghanistan’s CIA station chief, and the outing of your personal   
   “kill list” to make you look tough. In addition, 75 percent of   
   American deaths in Afghanistan and 83 percent of Americans-   
   wounded-in-action have occurred on your watch, according to   
   icasualties.org.   
      
   And now, we have this recent, heinous event: the beheading of an   
   American citizen by a barbaric organization you foolishly   
   referred to as “the JV team” in your statements to the New   
   Yorker magazine in January.   
      
   You, sir, are the JV team. It’s time for you to step down and   
   allow a true leader to restore our honor and protect our sons   
   and daughters.   
      
   America has always been exceptional. And she will be again. You,   
   Mr. President, are a bump in our road.   
      
      
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