Posted on 10/25/2012 5:44:37 PM PDT by Mozilla
Shame.
In the final debate, I could have sworn that 0 said that they sent in a rescue team. No one has brought this point up.
Exactly. Biden seems to me to be drunk all the time. His commetns were disgusting
God Bless the hero, his parents and his family
As a compare and contrast, the following link is from an old letter written by a military commander who received a visit from President Bush during a brief stop. The commander’s son had recently be killed in action.
http://www.eielson.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123111092
An Excerpt:
....A short time later, the Secret Service opened the door and President Bush walked in. I thought we might get to shake his hand as he went through. But instead, he walked up to my wife with his arms wide, pulled her in for a hug and a kiss, and said, “I wish I could heal the hole in your heart.” He then grabbed me for a hug, as well as each of our sons. Then he turned and said, “Everybody out.”
A few seconds later, the four of us were completely alone behind closed doors with the President of the United States and not a Secret Service agent in sight....
I did not hear that, if obama said it - he lied.
They did nothing.
Bump
I’m pretty sure he said it because I was thinking, “Huh??”
Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way; number two, that we would investigate exactly what happened, and number three, most importantly, that we would go after those who killed Americans and we would bring them to justice. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57537805/transcript-of-final-2012-presidential-debate/
The biggest stench is that it is beginning to look like Obama went nighty-night to rest up for Las Vegas, instead of seeing the crisis through and (had he been awake) ordering a rescue mission.
In Behghazi, after 6-8 hours in a few “Fort Apaches” with running street battles between, like a mini Blackhawk Down, the living Americans must have been thinking, “Any minute now, here come the helicopters.”
But they didn’t. So even though Delta had forward staged to Sigonella Sicily (rumint) from base in Germany, nobody was willing or able to pull the trigger and send a rescue force. Or even a few F-18 supersonic flybys, to bust windows and warn, “Here comes American airpower, and you camel jockeys know what that means.” Just as a morale booster it would have helped the besieged staffers.
But it was never sent, not even a lousy supersonic low-level flyby.
Here is the deal. The military automatically does a lot on its own, under standing orders and SOPs. The minute they see that the consulate is under attack, and the ambassador and others are in a "safe room" hiding, it becomes TOP priority. Every other mission aborts or slaves over to support any possible rescue.
At that moment when the alarm messages come in, things happen on autopilot in real time. Everybody in the Navy and USAF chain of command swings into a crisis contingency plan mode. What ships are closest? Helicopters? Marines? Delta is in Germany? Get them moving right now. Where is closest? Sigonella, for now. It’s NATO, no permission needed, just fly. En route in C-17s, the D-boys would even be prepping for an immediate action raid, that is, the C-17s will fly directly to some desert road outside of Benghazi, and here comes “The Raid On Entebbe,” crisis mode, canned actions, but they would do it. If they were ordered to. They would coordinate with fighters out of Italy, mid-air-refueling platforms start shifting, it's a huge show that swings into action for thousands of miles around Behghazi. The ongoing consulate attack is JOB ONE, the only job. VIPs will be tossed off of planes at remote runways if they need that platform.
Or Marines on amphib ships in the central Med, if any were available, would also be put on the real-time options board. We used to have a "Amphibious Ready Group" of about 3-5 USN gator freighters, including a helo carrier like a Tarawa class. They carry an entire battalion of USMC, plus SEALs etc, with helos and Ospreys to carry them all. (But not at once.) Where was our ARG? Does our Navy have enough ships for that mission any more?
But while all of that military staging would have happened/did happen during the battle at the consulate, what they cannot do on their own say-so is cross an international border without an order from the NCA, the National Command Authority, and that means POTUS, Obama.
Only POTUS can authorize a cross-border hostile mission. That is, guns clear, no official permission from the Tripoli govt (if it really exists outside State Dept fantasies.)
Only one man can pull that trigger and say, "GO!" Obama.
(But for America to act "unilaterally" would have meant the bogus Libyan Arab Spring and so-called new govt. that we were propping up didn’t really exist. Libyan sovereignty must be held sacrosanct, even the false image of one, where in reality, Al Queda is top dog in Libya. Even when an Al Queda offshoot is your external "security," namely, "The 17th of February Martyrs Brigade." (IOW, the White House thought they had a "deal" with AQ in Behghazi, since we were helping to run weaponry from Libya to their pals in Syria. So there was an "institutional bias" at State against crossing the border on a rescue operation sin permisso.)
Anyway, be that as it may, no General or Admiral will order the Marines ashore, or a Delta raid or even an F-18 low-level supersonic flyby. They can not and will not cross a border without an order from POTUS via the NCA. Not even Hillary can make that decision. Only Obama.
But no order came, as of midnight in DC. And then none would come. Because the POTUS retired for the night with a “do not disturb” sign on his door, punted, and went to bed, to be well rested for Las Vegas.
While his ambassador was off the U.S. radar, missing, at that moment possibly being dragged down a Benghazi street or even raped. But that is when Obama went to bed. Midnight in DC is 0600 in Beghazi.
That is the greatest scandal of Benghazi. The POTUS slept through it, while all around the world, military forces were poised for the Raid on Entebbe or any other damn thing the POTUS ordered them to do. (And the were raring to go, believe me.)
But the POTUS said, “We’ll discuss it further in the morning,” and then he went to bed around midnight in DC, 0600 in Benghazi, with a missing ambassador and a crisis in full mega flap process.
He punted. He went to bed.
God help us. I think that’s the big secret they are keeping. The President went to bed, with his lost Ambassador being dragged through streets.
Obama went to bed.
Obama is petrified that Americans will figure out that this administration gave weapons to Muslim terrorists including Al Qaeda to overthrow Gadhafi.
When that happens, the scam that is Obama will collapse, everyone will see that this empty suit is really an empty chair.
The Muslim terrorists were on top of the world. Now they are exposed. But then again, the Presstitutes will never believed that they were all fooled by one of the biggest lies in history.
“I want to honor my son, Ty Woods, who responded to the cries for help..”
There are men that run to the fight, and those that run away. I’m glad that Mr. Woods was able to deeply know such a man, and only briefly had to meet with another.
The recent Marine that received the Medal of Honor drove to the sound of battle, in spite of him being denied, four times, his request to help his brothers in arms. Among the many other secrets of Benghazi, it would surprise me if these two ex SEALS also made a similar request and ignored the orders to stay put.
God bless these men, and all our brave men and women.
Mark.
People can say what they wish about Bush II but that man was the genuine article.
President George W. and Mrs. Laura Bush - A Class Act.
Barrybama and Moochelle - Also a class act, just low class.
Yes, he went to bed. He slept while Americans were literally being hunted for hours and hours.
http://asspos.blogspot.com/2012/10/politics-of-terror-attack-cover-up-no.html
“The U.S. military did not quickly intervene during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last month because military leaders did not have adequate intelligence information and felt they should not put American forces at risk, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. “
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21854181/house-speaker-presses-obama-answers-libya
The whole thing doesn’t make any sense.
I found it...
Final Debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx1mjT73xYE
@ 5:32
Obama: “Now with respect to Libya... as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that number one, we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way. Number two...”
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