The answer is no and they should stand tall even as they are attacked by Obama and others for pointing out the political abuse of the military and our security by this administration. But apparently that concept has slipped the minds of some folks. WASHINGTON (AP) -- A group of retired special operations and CIA officers who claim President Barack Obama revealed secret missions and turned the killing of Osama bin Laden into a campaign centerpiece are coming under criticism from some of their own. Some special operations officers say the activist veterans are breaking a sacred military creed: respect for the commander in chief. "This is an unprofessional, shameful action on the part of the operators that appear in the video, period," U.S. Army Special Forces Maj. Fernando Lujan wrote on his Facebook page, to a chorus of approval from colleagues. A Green Beret who returned last year from Afghanistan, Lujan says that attaching the title of special operator with any political campaign is "in violation of everything we've been taught, and the opposite of what we should be doing, which is being quiet professionals." MAJ Lujan is a visiting fellow at Obama's house think tank CNAS and has also done a gig at the liberal Council on Foreign Relations, so you will pardon me if I don't take him as an unbiased source. As far as his claims, perhaps he should read the Constitution that he swore to uphold and defend, especially that First Amendment bit about free speech. MAJ Lujan is an active duty officer and as such he is forbidden by military regulations from speaking about the Commander in Chief in a negative fashion or engaging in partisan politics. I kept my mouth shut publicly while serving as well. That is as it should be. The folks at OPSEC he calls "unprofessional" and "shameful" are private citizens, not active duty military and as such have no restrictions about speaking. As a matter of fact they have the same freedom to participate in our political process as any other American. To speak their minds about a shameful and unprofessional act by the members of the Obama administration who leaked classified information is a perfectly proper thing for them to do. To say that exercising that right is "in violation of everything we've been taught, and the opposite of what we should be doing, which is being quiet professionals." is a profoundly foolish, ignorant and loudly unprofessional thing to do. There is no chorus of his colleagues standing up with MAJ Lujan who were not Obama partisans to start with. The bulk of the military is disgusted with the end zone dancing by the Osama slayer, the faux surge w/ expiration date for Afghanistan (how did that work out?) and the leaks to make the President look tough. They just say so privately, and they don't whinge on their Facebook pages that someone is being mean to Obama. maybe you should take a lesson from them MAJ Lujan.
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