Posted on 05/09/2013 3:02:03 PM PDT by shortstop
If we could wrap the average American's head around the idea that the Administration didn't just write off two, nor just those and the two former SEALs who came to their aid in spite of all, but a whole compound full of people who would likely have ended up dead, then perhaps the truly despicable nature of the ordered inaction on the part of the US Government would become manifest.
Recall the Reassignment/retirement of the Commanding officers of AFRICOM and the Stennis Carrier Group whose assets were well within range to help, and the CYA was operating as soon as Susan Rice started lying about the incident.
I remember Watergate, with all the networks in the DC Metro area tied up all day with live coverage of the hearings--over a second rate burglary where no one died.
This, where the US Government wrote off some 40 people, and where those who lived were saved by the valiant efforts of just a couple of men in spite of their own Government, deserves to be heard across the land, that those who acted with courage and honor get their due (if posthumous) praise, and that those who acted despicably be held to account.
Let the MSM note that they choose sides by their reporting, whether they will be praised in history or damned depends on their actions or lack thereof.
I have, Norm. See how the GOP has progressed from just throwing Conservatives under the bus? Now the help sweep the bodies under the rug.
It wouldn't help. The 'knot' has to go down on its own before you can separate them.
Which brings up the simple question of "Why?"
We can figure it was to cover something up which might have leaked and been injurious to the administration, but that asks more questions than it answers.
SO, beneath it all, the question is one of just what was going on in Benghazi that the administration wanted to eliminate the actors/witnesses?
That is the deeper layer to all this that won't be revealed if no one peels the skin off the orange. There must have been a lot more to the story than just throwing three dozen people to the wolves.
Gun running to the Muslim Brotherhood. Smoke. Fire.
Likely you are right. Virtually every recent operation in North Africa has seemingly been to the benefit of the MB there, and may well have been lending a hand elsewhere (Syria) as well.
It will not die, if we the people will not let it die.
Thank God in heaven above there are at least 2 people here who aren't listening to the trolls and suffering from battered woman's syndrome.
I do not think the 32 people were sent to Benghazi to be killed. I think the "why" is that obama/clinton found themselves in a circumstance which required, in their minds, a decision. Remember the obama narative was...'Osama had been killed'...al Quaeda is on the run...(election declarations)...Suddenly, al Quaeda assaults the embassy (al Quaeda is alive and well..this contradicts the obama political narrative)...if found out obama looks like the idiot he is 7 weeks prior to the election.
OPTIONS: 1. Do everything he can do to save the personel at the consulate. 2. Allow the 32 people at the consulate be killed by the attackers and continue with the political ruse.
Obama/Clinton chose the second choice.
IMHO, Clinton scrubbed John Does with probable islamic ties from OK City bombing and then sanitized the fate of Flight 800 for the same reason (as well as blaming OK CIty on 'Right-Winged Extremists" which took most of the heat off the ATF for Waco).
Even the WTC bombing was downplayed, and later that led to a big event which was undeniable--9/11
If Clinton, et. al. had admitted there was a 'problem', it would have necessitated a response the administration was ill equipped to deliver and damaged the kumbaya fable that all was well with the world (at least until he had to wag the dog).
Agree. Some here on FR want to give up and assume the “noble victim” persona. They seem to enjoy being in that status.
Another pitfall: refusing to adopt legal means to take back our country because “we are better than that”, meaning conservatives just don’t do that. If it works for the left, it will work for us, and we must do it. Of course, it must be legal.
Truth be told.
I trust Boehner a lot more than I do Old McConnell and his Animal Farm.
Heck Pete... I don’t trust any of them.
LLS
I guess I’m really in your camp.
LLS
Obama/Clinton made a political calculus....what is more potentially politically dangerous....
To save the Americans, making obamas past statements that "al Quaeda is on the run" an obvious lie,
or cut all 36 Americans loose to the terrorists,
then have a ceremony, calling them all dedicated servants, heroic in all ways,
placating their families with words, telling them lies, and then moving on.
ONLY ONE THING RINGS TRUE."
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OBAMA/CLINTON WANTED ALL OF THE AMERICANS TO DIE. DEAD PEOPLE DO NOT TALK. DEAD PEOPLE DO NOT BECOME WHISTLE-BLOWERS. DEAD PEOPLE CAN BE DESCRIBED ANY WAY OBAMA WANTS TO DESCRIBE THEM WITHOUT BEING CONTRADICTED. OBAMA/CLINTON WANTED ALL OF THE AMERICANS IN BENGHAZI TO DIE. + Nothing else makes sense.
The US is being systematically dismantled: philosophically, socially, economically.
would never have in my wildest dreams... ever thought that America could sink as low as it has in the last 6 years. We always talked about the fact that if something didn’t change... it would happen... but it has happened in such a way as to boggle the mind... along with a loss of the minds of more than half of this country. Some Americans are just certifiably insane.
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