OBAMA: Reminds reader of Zippy

In 1968, I was an infantryman in Vietnam. During this time we got a new commanding officer, Zippy, yes that’s what we called him. To be honest, I have no idea what his name was.

Now some facts about Zippy. He was a reserve supply captain, owned a bowling alley in New York City and wanted us to get him a silver star. Yes he said it himself.

Here are some of his other wonderful good points. By the way I’m trusting you the readers to notice, he didn’t want to earn it himself. One of his favorite tasks was to send four guys 10 ks on a listening post. Now I know there are a lot of readers that don’t know what an LP is, so here is what it is. These four guys would go a short distance outside the perimeter to try and detect any enemy activity. A normal distance would be 50 to 100 feet. When I objected due to danger of being cut off from any support, he was putting these men in extreme danger. His words again, “I don’t care. I want as much warning as I can get.”

Another time he told us that they would have to go through half of us to get to him. The last order of his that I had to obey was Jan. 5, 1969. We were on patrol and we came up to a fork in the trail. After stopping and conferring with said CO, he looked at his watch and said he had picked out where he wanted to bivouac that night, so get going.

Result: two wounded, one dead. And by the way I had told him straight out that we were walking into an ambush.

You’re probably wondering why I’m writing this now. Because of that damned thing that’s in our White House, that’s why.

Both these make-believe leaders are the worst of the worst. They absolutely don’t care about anybody but themselves. You’re nothing, even less than nothing but something to be used and flushed down a toilet.

As Zippy got a lot of our fellow Americans killed and messed up, so has that traitor in our White House.

RODNEY M. WORTHINGTON

U.S. Army (Retired)

Post Falls