Posted on 10/18/2012 11:30:32 PM PDT by onyx
I can understand the need for secrecy in some situations. Military intel is important during ongoing conflicts where we don’t know if there may still be an imminent threat; on 9/11, the government knew quite a few facts that they didn’t immediately disclose because they weren’t sure if the attack was over yet.
What they didn’t do on 9/11 was try to tell us a lie.
Bush was very measured in his immediate response when Andrew Card rushed up to him in front of the second graders at Emma Booker Elementary School to tell him that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center. Liberals make fun of it, but I know better. There are quite a few things that I didn’t like about George W. Bush, but the look on his face told us everything we needed to know about the man. He was not going to tolerate what was going on, and when a course of action was decided the action itself would be swift and decisive. He didn’t lie that day to protect a belief or make us feel better – he called it a premeditated attack, which is exactly what it was.
Obama didn’t do that. As Candy Crowley was so giddy to point out, Obama did use the words “act of terror” during his remarks in the Rose Garden the day after the attack on our embassy in Benghazi. He wasn’t referring to the attack itself, however, and it took a full two weeks before anyone in his cabinet agreed that it was a premeditated terrorist attack timed to coincide with a protest in Egypt. In the immediate aftermath, Obama and his entire staff tried to claim repeatedly – even vehemently on occasion – that the attack was spontaneous and split off from a protest over the video “Innocence of Muslims”. Coincidentally other riots broke out in the Middle East and the MSM began painting us as the insensitive jerks of the world for so offending another culture that they’d riot and call for our destruction (as if jihadists the world over haven’t been screaming for American blood for a couple of centuries).
There are a number of reasons why Obama wouldn’t want to admit that the attack was carefully planned and executed, and none of them should be taken lightly. First, Obama and his liberal followers want America to believe that Islam is a religion of peace and there is no jihad. Unfortunately for that narrative Americans have been victimized by jihadists since the early days of our country, during the Barbary Wars. Second, they want America to believe there’s no reason to be at war – I might believe that when the TSA stops groping people at airports. Third, Obama hopes that by profusely apologizing for everything that offends Muslims he might be able to fix his legacy and win peace.
Worst of all is the now-known security issue. A month before the attack, Ambassador Stevens and his head of security, Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, requested more security only to be told that not only would they not get the added security they were requesting, but American security was being reduced at the embassy. Violent activity in the area had all of the people at our embassy worried, and Stevens himself raised concerns that the Libyan militia security had been compromised.
What on Earth could possibly make Obama and his staff do such a thing? Why would they carry out a security drawdown when the seasoned professionals at the embassy were sending warnings that it was almost suicidal to do so? When is the press going to wake up and start asking him the tough questions about this incident that they have, so far, refused to ask? When will they stop covering for him, and how many have to die before they admit he was a poor choice for the Presidency?
We the people should be outraged that a sitting president would be so flippant as to appear on The Daily Show and say that “if four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.” We should be beside ourselves that he would characterize the attack as a “bump in the road.” We should be hearing both sides of the aisle demanding to know the truth, but liberals are protecting him. This is hardly Obama’s first scandal. Governor Palin was derided by liberals as having no executive experience, yet she had been a mayor, a commission chair and a governor. Obama had nary a day’s executive experience and not a single congressional accomplishment to his name and somehow he was the better choice. During his Presidency, he has proven just how inept he really is. How can liberals possibly still believe in this man?
It seems to me that Obama is making quite clear that he does not love America and wishes to see her destroyed. If we are so divided that we can’t agree on the fact that Obama needs to go, he may very well get his wish. The jihadists will get theirs, too. We cannot let that happen.
I’m wondering about the 10K - 20K shoulder launched missles that have gone “astray.”
Reporters there at the time said that they had not spoken with anyone who knew anything about the video.
You can make claims against anyone who makes a video or draws a cartoon that pisses-off Muslims.
That are helping the terrorists by shutting down our voice about Islam.
Have you read this?
I am not saying the terrorists had any association with the film maker or that it had anything to do with their attack. Two separate operations. There is an article which I will see IF I can find wherein some terrorists released a statement this attack was in response to an AlQaeda leader killed by an Obama drone.
Right and thank you very much for the link.
Right, he believes his own lies and he’s a pro at lying.
Notice the dates of the drone kill and these reports.
So my question is was that film maker in on the plot?If you want to switch to the motive of the film maker, then don't muddle others in that who are posting specifically about this attack.
The AQ affiliated attack and slaughter of FOUR AMERICANS was UNRELATED to the idiot film and likely was not a plot to take hostages in trade for the blind sheik. Just look at the weaponry they used!
The Marxist would have forever been labled WEAKER Jimmy Carter had he traded the blind sheik for Ambassador Stevens whom he left unprotected in the Libya he "freed" leading from behind.
Reportedly, Stevens had converted to Islam and reportedly again, he was homosexual, (albeit married with children), and those things do not compute.
The fact remains, FOUR Americans are still dead, and the evil Marxist and his regime are still lying about it.
Very late here.
Good night. God bless and keep you.
Actually my big mistake is taking for granted that everybody has read as much on this mess as I have.
IF you read everything you can find on that film maker you will discover he was NOT just about making a dollar on film making. He is not who he claimed and our president made his 'video' world famous. WHY?
Our president linked the video to the slaughter. WHY? What was our president expecting from that video? What we now know is the president knew immediately the attack was not a reaction to that video. WHY would our president continue for weeks to promote that video?
Of course, good night onyx!
You don’t just preach to the choir, you throw spit balls at it.
Is Benghazi a conspiracy theory yet?????
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