Operation Helmet Founder Humiliates Supporters By Campaigning For A Leftist

The Al Franken campaign for Senate in Minnesota is running advertisements that feature Dr. Bob Meaders who is the founder of "Operation Helmet." I'm not going to get into the great work that Operation Helmet has done, you can read that all you want at their website, here. What I want to focus on here is how this organization has defied its own creed and mission statement, how it has caved to the Left in this country by Dr. Meaders appearing in an ad where he claims to be a Republican but attests to Al Franken's patriotism.

First off, I want to show you exactly how Operation Helmet views itself in the realm of community service:

We are a 100% volunteer, non-partisan, charitable organization headquartered in Montgomery, Texas (near Houston) with volunteer operations around the country. 99.96% of all contributions are used to send upgrade kits to our troops! [*] We have less than one-half of one percent overhead which is used to for very limited expenses related to sending thanks to donors - it is a labor of love. We have no salaries or payroll.

Get that? When you say "non-partisan" does that mean you allow your leader to appear in an advertisement supporting a Leftist candidate for Senate? Do all of the people that have contributed their hard-earned dollars to support the efforts of Operation Helmet to help U.S. troops in Iraq have no say as to how the leader of this organization presents himself in the political arena? I say, SHAME ON YOU DR. MEADERS. You have accepted monetary contributions from conservatives and patriots across this land under the premise that your organization is "non-partisan" and yet you are actively campaigning for a Democrat candidate for Senate, Al Franken, who has worked diligently for an immediate surrender by American troops in Iraq. You, Dr. Meaders, are actively sabotaging a campaign by Senator Norm Coleman who has stood by the troops 100%.

I would be remiss if I did not detail all of the "patriotic" actions and statements by Al Franken. Remember, Al Franken is the man that Dr. Meaders and Operation Helmet by default said this about: " I know Al Franken is a patriot. I’m proud to call him my friend, and a friend of the troops, and of America."

Here's the litany of Al Franken's support of American troops in Iraq:

"And we find ourselves in a situation where many, many smart people believe that our very presence there makes things worse. I don‘t—and I think it‘s very hard to trust this administration in anything they say about the war. " http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10380455/

"I am a talk show host. And I feel like some responsibility on talking about what we should and shouldn‘t be doing in Iraq, and I literally don‘t know. I mean, I think there are—I think we may be in a no-win position, and have been put there. "
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10380455/

"I say it’s time to leave Iraq."
http://www.alfranken.com/pages/iraq

"The best way to convince the Iraqi government that we’re leaving is to actually start leaving. I support immediately beginning the process of bringing our troops home."
http://www.alfranken.com/pages/iraq

""We should also be re-deploying our troops out of the civil war that has engulfed Baghdad."
http://usliberals.about.com/od/senatecandidatesin2008/p/AlFranken.htm

At the same time, we should be convening a regional conference including Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt to come up with a long-term plan for Iraq and ensure that a regional conflict does not arise."
http://usliberals.about.com/od/senatecandidatesin2008/p/AlFranken.htm

The fact of the matter is this. Al Franken initially supported the Iraq War. When the going got tough, Al Franken did a "Harry Reid" and turned chicken. While American troops were making progress in Iraq, Franken decided to flip flop from supporting the Iraq War efforts to formulating his conspiracy plans of how we got into the war.

This "patriot" that Dr. Meaders is endorsing for U.S. Senate decided to cut and run when our soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen ran up against al Qaeda and while Franken decided he was better off trying to convict President Bush of deception, he was very quick to believe the Leftists lie that the Iraq War was a "civil war."

We don't need "patriots" like Al Franken in the Senate, Dr. Meaders and you should not have used your name, your personal appearance in this political advertisement to further the election of a surrenderist. You owe an apology to the contributors to Operation Helmet.