Article by Victoria Taft, January 10, 2020, PJMedia

 

“Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, accused his Democratic colleagues of being cowards for their weak-kneed reaction to the killing of Iranian terror-master Qasem Soleimani. Mast made his comments on the House floor Thursday during the debate over the ‘war powers act resolution.’

The Democrats passed the resolution, arguing Trump didn't have the authority to order the missile strike taking out Soleimani and another top terrorist in Iraq.

Mast served in an ordnance detail in Afghanistan and lost his legs while trying to clear a roadside bomb. Soleimani's IRGC and Quds Force orchestrated the building of many of those bombs. They were responsible for killing 603 U.S. troops and wounding hundreds, if not thousands, of others.

The congressman walked forcefully to the podium, his prosthetic legs exposed, took a second to tune his verbal flame-thrower, and then put the Democrats on blast.

‘I know most in here haven't seen or smelled or touched that kind of death, but let me tell you about it. They were burned alive inside their Humvees. Their lungs were scorched by the flames of the explosions. The vehicle fragments were blown into their skulls.

Some of them were paralyzed. Some of them had their arms blown off. Some of them had their legs blown off. Some of them will never see again. Some of them will never be recognized again by those who knew them previously.

Each and every one of them – they are the credible explanation for deleting this terrorist target from our world. And, no doubt, it is dangerous to take out a terrorist target, but a coward is somebody who lacks the courage to endure danger. [Emphasis added]’

He wasn't done yet.

‘And this is the fundamental difference in voting yes or no here. If you vote no you understand that we would be justified to kill 100 Soleimanis for just one of our heroes, that have been killed by him. And the danger would be worth it. For those who vote yes, they see that he has killed hundreds of our service members but still can no find the justification to kill him because, unlike our fallen heroes, they lack the courage to endure danger. [Emphasis added]’

Democrats upset with President Trump for killing Soleimani were called out by Mast for lacking ‘the courage to endure danger,’ which he'd just defined as cowardice.

The war powers resolution was a rebuke to President Trump for what Democrats and a couple of Republicans claimed was overstepping his role of commander in chief.

They claim Soleimani isn't under the previously approved AUMF, the authorization for the use of military force. But not only was the Iranian terror leader an enemy combatant, he was a leader of enemy combatants on the fields of battle in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He had just overseen the assault of the American Embassy in Baghdad. Baghdad, IRAQ.

President Trump said at his rally in Ohio Thursday night that the Iranian Quds Force leader not only wanted to bomb the American Embassy in Baghdad but other embassies as well.

American embassies are favorite targets of terrorist bad guys. Terrorists targeted the U.S. Mission in Benghazi in 2012. In 1998 two American embassies were destroyed by Al Qaeda in Tanzania and Kenya.”  - PJMedia

 

Above article by Victoria Taft, January 10, 2020, PJMedia

 

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In 2019, Florida VA Office Eviction Of Republican Congressional Mast Shows Nothing Is Safe From Political Warfare. - Orlando Sentinel

Photo Sources: OrlandoSentinel / WFTL850

 

Article by WFTL 850 Talk Radio, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2019

 

"Congressman Brian Mast joins Jen and Bill on the South Florida Morning Show to talk about being evicted from his office at the West Palm Beach VA hospital.

He told Jen and Bill that he was being evicted from the West Palm hospital by the undersecretary of the VA. He intends to take his case to the VA Secretary and the President.

He says his staff has met with and helped more than 500 veterans in his office, which is the size of a closet, in the West Palm Beach, VA Hospital.

Read his press release below.

To Avoid Accountability, VA Evicts Veteran Congressman From Their Facility Office Has Met With More Than 500 Veterans At The West Palm Beach VA | Mast Opened First-Ever Congressional Office Inside VA Facility

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Brian Mast (FL-18) today slammed the Department of Veterans Affairs for evicting him and five other Members of Congress from offices they opened inside Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.

Rep. Mast opened the first-ever Congressional office inside a VA facility in 2017, and the office has met with more than 500 veterans at the West Palm Beach VA since then. The office provides services to veterans, such as helping them with disability claims and benefits appeals.

Unless the Department of Veterans Affairs reverses their decision, the office will be forced to close by the end of the year.

'No other federal agency has been so plagued by crisis after crisis as the VA has, and apparently they will go to no end to avoid accountability,' Rep. Mast said. 'Our space in the West Palm Beach VA is the size of a storage closet, but that hasn’t stopped us from meeting with and helping hundreds of veterans. The bottom line is that shutting down this office hurts veterans, who often don’t have the mobility to get to another Congressional office. Today the Department of Veterans Affairs chose to prioritize avoiding transparency and accountability over the veterans they are tasked with caring for.'

Rep. Mast is urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to reverse their decision, which will impact the Congressional office at the West Palm Beach VA (staffed by Rep. Mast, along with Representatives Hastings [FL-20], Deutch [FL-22] and Frankel [FL-21]) and the Congressional office at the Orlando VA Medical Center (staffed by Representatives Soto [FL-9] and Murphy [FL-7]).

Rep. Mast has also authored a bill, called the Improving Veterans Access To Congressional Services Act, to mandate the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide this space to Members of Congress so that they can assist veterans when and where they need the help.

Rep. Mast testified about his bill earlier this week before the Veterans Affairs Committee, and he has also been a fierce advocate for greater accountability following several avoidable tragedies this year at the West Palm Beach VA.

About Brian Mast

Congressman Brian Mast is in his second term representing the 18th Congressional District of Florida. Prior to his election to Congress, Brian followed in his father’s footsteps by serving in the U.S. Army for more than 12 years, earning medals including The Bronze Star Medal, The Army Commendation Medal for Valor, The Purple Heart Medal, and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

While deployed in Afghanistan, he worked as a bomb disposal expert under the elite Joint Special Operations Command. The last improvised explosive device that he found resulted in catastrophic injuries, which included the loss of both of his legs.

While lying in bed recovering at Walter Reed Medical Center, Brian’s father gave him advice that has stuck with him to this day—to ensure the greatest service he gave to our country and the best example he set for his children was still ahead of him. Brian took this advice to heart and dedicated himself to finding new ways to serve our country and his community.

As a Member of Congress, he opened the first-ever Congressional office inside a VA facility at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center so that he could help serve his fellow veterans when and where they need help." - WFTL Talk Radio

 

Article by WFTL 850 Talk Radio, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2019

 

 

 

Addendum

Isn't it interesting that the socialist media, such as NBC News, CNN and other nasty progressive national news outlets, want to suddenly focus on the ones who took out the Iranian terrorist, General Qassem Soleimani?

You would think they might want to instead put a bright spotlight on THOSE HUNDREDS of Americans that Soleimani had murdered or disfigured over decades. But this is a media who no longer lives with American citizens, only chooses to live among them as if they were deplorable aliens from another planet.

But why should the media care when not a single Washington D.C. official, be they in the U.S. House or Senate or office of the president before Trump was elected, ever took the effort to stop Soleimani from killings our treasures overseas? Not one would take out Soleimani over the years, saying they were worried about a war with Iran. That's actually a lie, an excuse, since a war with Iran had already been underway during the presidency of Democrat Jimmy "rubber bullets" Carter.

However the objective of the Obama media hasn't changed since Czars were appointed to run our government in Washington D.C. in early 2009. Ten years later they now push to impeach Trump for beating their idol Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, not caring if he protects the nation or its citizens who serve overseas.

With some journalists in our media actually hoping Trump will be assassinated, we now have a much clearer picture of the objective of those fascists on the left, from members of the Democrat National Committee (DNC) to those journalists and their managing editors in the American Society Of Newspaper Editors (ASNE.)

Maybe we can finally understand why America’s progressive media never challenged the billions of dollars in hard cash that Obama, Kerry and Biden flew over to the Iranians, so much cash it had to be put on pallets like stacks of appliances from China.

Did the reporters or even the CEO’s of our progressive media not know those untraceable funds would then be given to terrorists such as Soleimani so he could continue to kill American GIs? 

Of course they knew, which takes us back to why they are now going after Trump for sending a drone to remove Soleimani once and for all from killing more Americans.

Graphic Image: MichaelRamirez

You should never forget it was CNN that transmitted a terrorist video around the world in 2006 that showed the shooting of an American GI, the translated audio heard to say, “wait for the women and children to get out of the way.”  What? And then don't forget it was CBS 60 Minutes that then hired the same CNN host as a guest reporter a year later and still on its payroll today.

Families who lost loved ones in the military to IEDs and bombs overseas may want to take a hard look at the involvement of the Democrat Party and their socialist partners in the national media as to who really put their heroes into harm's way.

And what about "we the people?" 

To the media and the DNC, they're the ones who smelled up the Capital building when visiting, which was noted by former Democrat Harry Reid in 2008 and then ten years later by the FBI.  Hillary even called them "deplorables" in 2016 for even wanting to vote for Trump as president.

It's called the deep state and it wants your president dead. The socialist are not trying to take over your government. They have already arrived and now living off your taxpayer dime in Washington D.C. and northeast Virginia.

What, you didn't notice? - Webmaster

 

 

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Note: This same congressional district in Florida had been held earlier by Lt. Col. Allen West, until the Democrats pushed West out in the next election. At the time I remember the West Palm Beach Post writing to defend the Democrats that West was a "hot head" over his saving the lives of our treasures in Iraq in circa 2002, revealing an ambush from a terrorist West had fired his weapon next to.

The Huffington Post had also supported the Democrats in getting rid of West, accusing West on AOL News of writing porn to his wife in personal letters. - Webmaster