Posted on 10/26/2012 11:03:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I couldn't have said it better. These men were dead to the President long before Benghazi - they were dead the moment they trusted their lives to the Executive Branch.
The mess in Benghazi is what happens when you have a military-hating administration in the WH. First action is to vote 0bama out of a job on Nov. 6. Next step is for the House Foreign Relations Committee or other appropriate group to investigate (start on Nov. 7 at the latest). Third is to charge the people at the WH or State with the crimes they committed and Fourth is to have a trial and convict them all.
If they had said that instead of pretending this was a sudden attack inspired by a YouTube video, they might have gotten away with it. There might have been some arguments about whether it was the right call, but nobody would be calling them liars or have a mental image of Obozo leaving Americans to die and then hanging with donors in Vegas.
Panetta, and the others who let those brave Americans die should go the same way Les Aspin went. For those who remember,
Les Aspin denied tanks in Mogodisu. i.e Blackhawk Down.
He later resigned.
It’s disgusting and criminal.
What a lame excuse he offers up.
Panetta and others SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY!
These three, plus the CIA supervisors in Benghazi who told the SEALs to stand down, have proven themselves to be common, everyday, garden variety bureaucrats that overpopulate the federal government, typical of so many seen in my own experience. They adhere to a single policy:
Small decisions, small problems.
Big decisions, big problems.
No decisions, no problems.
Surprised they didn’t tell the SEALs to submit a memo in triplicate asking to engage the enemy.
Precisely.
That changes the entire context of this event and raises the question "did the administration seek the elimination of the Ambassador, the SEAL's, and the center itself (including the paper trail of this operation)."
Jesus Christ don’t help them, I imagine they watch these forums.
“What Panetta means is that the decision was made not to send aid to them, and it wasn’t about risking more lives, but about the politics of intervening in Libya and offending the Libyans. It was done for the same reason that US soldiers have at times been abandoned without air support in Afghanistan. “
It’s not only air support. The rules of engagement also includes rules for the boots on the ground regarding self-defense.
This administration has been swimming in the blood of our citizens and military since the inauguration.
Ew never thought about the paper trail.
I remember Les Aspin, that hack who was forced to resign for
not sending tanks to support Blackhawk Down. He died from a heart attack not long after he resigned. Good riddance to him
and Panetta.
Are they certain of this? Aren't there still like 20 to 40,000 heavy weapons missing?
This is beginning to sound more and more like an international version of Fast & Furious!
Re: They left our Seals to die. Abandoned.
They were sacrificed to obama’s pc god.
Greta: What we have been told is that during that time is that President Obama, VP Biden and Secretary of Defense Panetta at some time that evening or that afternoon were in the Oval Office together....
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Bolton: But I tell you one thing I have not understood about the way this played out on September 11th and the day after is why the entire top levels of the administration weren't on red alert over this. I can't speak for what happens inside the Obama administration but I tell you any administration I've been in the President and his top advisors would've been on this immediately, round the clock.
“no wonder obama was pushing ... early voting!”
Post of the day!
...That changes the entire context of this event and raises the question “did the administration seek the elimination of the Ambassador, the SEAL’s, and the center itself (including the paper trail of this operation).”....
looking more and more like either that or letting the ambassador get kidnapped for a heroic negotiation for the blind sheik take place...in either case it shows Obama is unfit for command...
YES, it was!
"Joint Chiefs chairman urges pastor to withdraw support of anti-Islam film"
9/12/2012 - foxnews:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with Terry Jones by phone Wednesday morning to voice his concerns."In the brief call, Gen Dempsey expressed his concerns over the nature of the film, the tensions it will inflame and the violence it will cause. He asked Mr. Jones to consider withdrawing his support for the film," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said.
This was within hours after failing to act on the attack and murders!
I don’t understand where Petraeus was in all of this. These are his people under attack
And Dempsey knew it wasn’t about any video. He knew our Seals had just been denied support, that they were under attack.
If I’m president, he’d better be gone the day I walk through the doors or he’s going by way of visit to Kansas.
Ditto.
Yep, Obama’s campaign message was that he “ended wars.” If he ended up putting troops on the ground in Libya after claiming it wasn’t a war because he only provided air support, his entire message on Iraq and Libya would be undermined. Unluckily for the ambassador and friends, the Egypt protest had happened a few hours earlier. Obama and company probably brainstormed they could “spin” what happened in Libya as being another “protest gone out of control” and of course the media would eat it up, as they are. Only those “right-wing kook” outlets like FOX are covering what really happened.
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