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politics and politicians Title: Benghazigate: The Disaster That Should Have Sunk Obama — and Still Could President Barack Obama has survived Benghazigate thus far. In the weeks and days leading up to the November 6 elections, President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their advisors, no doubt, had containment of this Libyan fiasco foremost in their minds. Would toxic details of the deadly debacle leak out and spell doom for the struggling administration in the closing hours of the campaign? Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador murdered in Libya, played a central role in recruiting jihadists to fight Bashar al-Assads regime in Syria, according to Egyptian security officials speaking to WND. This reporter interviewed Aaron Klein in Appleton, Wisconsin, on October 23, where he appeared at a joint speaking engagement with New Zealand author/researcher Trevor Loudon, author of Barack Obama and the Enemies Within. Recent political developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the prevalence of Libyan fighters in Iraq, and evidence of a well-established smuggling route for Libyans through Egypt, suggests that Libyan factions (primarily the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group) are increasingly important in al-Qaida. The West Point study by Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman is based on an extensive cache of documents captured by U.S. forces in the Sinjar District of Iraq, including profiles of hundreds of foreign fighters who were engaged in killing U.S. and NATO personnel. You know what (is) most frustrating about this assignment? Its not the hardships, its not the gunfire, its not the threats. Its dealing and fighting against the people, programs and personnel who are supposed to be supporting me.... For me, the Taliban is on the inside of the building. On October 19, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sent President Obama a letter and 166 pages of documents related to security threats and the process of normalization in Libya. The letter requested that the White House respond to questions about its role in the decision to have the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya pursue a course of normalization that was intended to help create the perception of success in Libya and contrast it to U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Information supplied to the committee by senior officials demonstrates that not only did the administration repeatedly reject requests for increased security despite escalating violence, but it also systematically decreased existing security to dangerous and ineffective levels. We have been told repeatedly that the administration did this to effectuate a policy of normalization in Libya after the conclusion of its civil war. These actions not only resulted in extreme vulnerability, but also undermined Ambassador Stevens and the diplomatic mission. Multiple warnings about security threats were contained in Ambassador Stevens own words in multiple cables sent to Washington, D.C., and were manifested by two prior bombings of the Benghazi compound and an assassination attempt on the British ambassador, the Issa-Chaffetz letter continued. The American people deserve nothing less than a full explanation from this administration about these events, including why the repeated warnings about a worsening security situation appear to have been ignored by this administration. Americans also deserve a complete explanation about your administrations decision to accelerate a normalized presence in Libya at what now appears to be at the cost of endangering American lives. These critical foreign policy decisions are not made by low or mid-level career officials they are typically made through a structured and well-reasoned process that includes the National Security Council at the White House. We now know why Ambassador Christopher Stevens had to be in Benghazi the night of 9/11 to meet a Turkish representative, even though he feared for his safety. According to various reports, one of Stevens main missions in Libya was to facilitate the transfer of much of Gadhafis military equipment, including the deadly SA-7 portable SAMs to Islamists and other al Qaeda-affiliated groups fighting the Assad Regime in Syria.... Our Benghazi mission personnel, including our two former Navy SEALs, fought for seven hours without any assistance other than help from our embassy in Tripoli, which launched within 30 minutes an aircraft carrying six Americans and 16 Libyan security guards, Adm. Lyons noted. It is understood they were instrumental in helping 22 of our Benghazi mission personnel escape the attack. I know those Special Forces personnel were ready to leap at the opportunity. There is no doubt in my mind they would have wiped out the terrorists attackers.... Having been in a number of similar situations, I know you have to have the courage to do whats right and take immediate action, says Adm. Lyons. Obviously, that courage was lacking for Benghazi. The safety of your personnel always remains paramount. With all the technology and military capability we had in theater, for our leadership to have deliberately ignored the pleas for assistance is not only incomprehensible, it is un-American. Somebody high up in the administration made the decision that no assistance (outside our Tripoli embassy) would be provided, and let our people be killed. The person who made that callous decision needs to be brought to light and held accountable. 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The bay of pigs - vietnam ... took kennedy down --- big time !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
They did not. Plus Benghazi is directly due to the GOP/Tea Party gutting embassies's defense budgets.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Documentation? Benghazi wasn't an embassy.
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Is that you Susan Rice? Please wipe the Obama sauce off your chin.
Oh that's right, it was a DIPLOMATIC COMPOUND.It still fell under that perview as far as congress was concerned.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Please wipe the Obama sauce off your chin. Talk about sauce, your Isreal firster bud Petraeus admitted he gave Rice her talking points.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Got any documentation to that effect? You left-wingers are great in throwing around accusations but notoriously skimpy on backing any of it up. Where is it listed as a 'diplomatic compound'?
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
With Fox the only cable/tv outlet covering the scandal and a handful of conservative blogs, no way was the the MSM going to let their prince fall.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths.(Proverbs 3:5-6)
How about in the Congressional testimony?
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Still can't link or cite specific examples. Typical left-winger.
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Just read the testimony. It was part of the budget cuts brought to you courtesy of the Tea Party congress.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
On 9/11/2012 Marines were guarding our Embassies in low risk areas like Barbados and Paris but none assigned to protect US Ambassabor Stevens in Benghazi. Only a simpleton or an Obama pole smoker would equate Congressional action to reduce the overall budget for worldwide embassy operations with the specific cuts to security at an outpost in the midst of a jihadist run city in the middle of a revolution. Ming, please tell us you're not really that fucking stupid..
When party defense trumps truth, stupidity follows . . .
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Blue Mountain Group.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Nonresponsive. Now kindly go fuck yourself.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
You didn't provide any answers dipshit..just more liberal pole slobbering and lies.
I'm always amused by you throwing down red herrings and non sequiturs to change the subject when you make an ass of yourself. Which is any time you post. Say 'hi' to Lucy for me . . .
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
The only red herrings here are your own posts as you just demonstrated. When are you ever going to add something to the conversation here besides your ability to whine?
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Take it up with them.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh.
war has to do something for entertainment; the voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
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