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Petraeus Throws Obama Under the Bus
Weekly Standard ^ | 6:05 PM, OCT 26, 2012 | WILLIAM KRISTOL

Posted on 10/26/2012 3:20:35 PM PDT by Snuph

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”

So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why—and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations—did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need?

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicia; benghazigate; benghazirescue; benghazistanddown; chrisstevens; cia; elections; justabumpintheroad; libya; obama; obamasfault; petraeus; waronterror
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To: ncfool

NO WONDER the early vote was so important this year. Evidently there won’t be an election day vote for Obie!


41 posted on 10/26/2012 3:41:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, gone...)
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To: Snuph

42 posted on 10/26/2012 3:41:55 PM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Snuph

ALL of these scumbags will have the same fate as Eric Holder; They’ll ALL keep their jobs and 0bama will skate, compliments of the 0bamamedia.


43 posted on 10/26/2012 3:42:07 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Catsrus
There isn’t time for impeachment. We need to get him and his ilk as far away from the WH as possible on Nov. 6th - then hold hearings and indict them for treason.

Amen. But the "republicans" will just play "nice," as usual.

44 posted on 10/26/2012 3:43:03 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: hflynn

And the press will continue to ignore it. Unless conservative channels bring the pressure, no one will hear this. I want to know why REPUBLICANS are not talking out loud about this???? WHY???


45 posted on 10/26/2012 3:43:58 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Scriptures clearly tell us we are in the last days, the end times. Christ is the only answer!)
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To: ssaftler

I can’t wait to see the movie that’s made about Benghazi. A conservative patriot in Hollywood needs to make it so the American people can see how Zero left those guys to die. Once they see faces behind the names and get to know them via the actors, they would be even more angry over their needless deaths and Zero’s abandonment. Whenever I think about their last moments on earth, waiting for the cavalry that never came, my blood boils even more!


46 posted on 10/26/2012 3:45:07 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby!)
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To: Snuph

Obama crashing and burning.


47 posted on 10/26/2012 3:46:08 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: combat_boots

“People who are and have stepped forward are at risk of their lives.”

They worry about their careers, not their lives. But even if their life were at risk and they remain silent, that means two obvious things;

a) our government is murderous and despotic, and will murder a citizen for telling the truth to the people.

b) the silent ones rate THEIR lives as more precious than those SEALs who ran towards the sound of battle no matter the cost.


48 posted on 10/26/2012 3:46:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: ncfool

Is the toilet starting to back up?


49 posted on 10/26/2012 3:46:40 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: DesertRhino
You are assuming that Patraeus was one of the people called in when this whole cluster f**k unfolded. I say bullcrap to that. Patraeus has been nothing but window dressing from day 1.

Why would someone who Hillary publicly called BeTrayus be in this administration in any capacity. WINDOW DRESSING AND POSSIBLY FUTURE FALL GUT!

50 posted on 10/26/2012 3:47:07 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: Snuph
If the lame stream media does not pursue it, they should be driven from their offices with torches. A simple question— who turned their back and let our people die. Ask it and demand an answer.
51 posted on 10/26/2012 3:47:42 PM PDT by Shqipo (I am AttackWatch parolee #1,237. I am breaking my parole once more.)
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To: hflynn


52 posted on 10/26/2012 3:49:57 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: DesertRhino

I hear what you are saying, but have you considered that people’s actual lives and the lives of their families and children are also at stake here?

The traitors are ‘playing’ for keeps. They want our blood and treasure.


53 posted on 10/26/2012 3:51:15 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Shqipo

They don’t seem to be. I expected it to be one of th top stories on abc or cbs but they covered several other stories before I turned them off. I didn’t even bother with nbc.


54 posted on 10/26/2012 3:52:42 PM PDT by djpg
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To: Snuph

Why were the locals who grabbed the AMBASSADOR’s phone able to dial it until they reached somebody?

At my mildly security conscious company, I’m REQUIRED to use a password on my mobile device. Aren’t AMBASSADORs supposed to have some operational security in place?

Jeez. What amateurs.


55 posted on 10/26/2012 3:53:01 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0BAMA CHOSE to watch a MUSLIM SNUFF FILM rather than a HEROIC AMERICAN RESCUE FILM)
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To: combat_boots

“People who are and have stepped forward are at risk of their lives.”

Like the first four.


56 posted on 10/26/2012 3:53:18 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: DoughtyOne; hflynn
I heard that call......look Patreaus came out and said it was the VIDEO!!! He had EVERY CHANCE to come clean THEN but he's been AWOL for WEEKS and just now came out cause his PERFUMED ASS is on the line!!!

HE took a job under OBAMA......ALL I NEED TO KNOW THAT HE":S A SKANK!!

57 posted on 10/26/2012 3:53:18 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Snuph
It.Has.Begun...

Deer w/Popcorn

58 posted on 10/26/2012 3:54:32 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe ((xDem now) - Breitbart sent me)
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To: DoughtyOne

“The CIA is merely directing people to the guy who was making the decisions.”

Then come out and say it, in plain english EXACTLY what happened. A pissed off nation isn’t slightly interested in his BS political dance that “implies” this, and “hints” at that. He knows the whole story but is giving us half truths. A half truth is a full lie.

Petraeus,, remember your oath and stop being a coward. Your career, or even your freedom for speaking of secrets, is still a FAR lower price than the one those SEALS paid.


59 posted on 10/26/2012 3:54:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Snuph

That’s throwing the president under the bus???? Pulleeze. It’s not CIA, it’s CYA. Say good night, David.


60 posted on 10/26/2012 3:55:03 PM PDT by Mach9
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