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Benghazi Index
Posted on 09/22/2013 4:10:55 PM PDT by Col Vit
On 19 September, Congressional Democrats sitting on the House Oversight Reform Committee investigating the disastrous Benghazi debacle, in large unison, absented themselves by design from listening to the testimonies offered by two grieving parents of slain American patriots, Sean Smith and Navy Seal, Tyrone Woods. How disrespectful and disgraceful were the personal actions of Democrat Congressmen. Smith and Woods were two of the four valiant and patriotic Americans slain in Libya who died defending American sovereign interests. Their parents have waited in agony for answers that the government promised, but failed to provide.
It is a sad commentary in today’s decadent political climate where elected Congressional Democrats feel liberated from the normal bounds of common decency, courtesy and morality to demonstrate their utter disdain for the American servicemen and their families who sacrificed their offspring in the defense of this nation. Are we really to believe that these Democrats were just too busy on other affairs to attend their own committee assignments? No, not for a second! What would the media say if Republicans walked out on the families of the 1986 Space Shuttle, Challenger Congressional testimony?
What were these Congressional Democrats afraid of hearing? Maybe after a year of empty rhetoric, the parents would have demanded answers on why terrorists who killed their sons enjoy freedom, and why no American official is held accountable for the egregious State Department blunders, the failure to act on intelligence reports, and the urgent requests up the State Department chain for additional security personnel and funding for the Libyan consulate prior to the American Ambassador’s death.
Maybe the parents are not convinced of Obama, Clinton and Rice’s knowingly false, feeble spins that an unseen video caused the Benghazi attack, instead of an orchestrated maneuver by Al Qaeda terrorists as indicated by the real-time flow of intelligence. Although Obama voters are typically minimally informed, Americans overall are not as naïve as Obama or his liberal clones in Congress think us to be. Americans are acutely aware that the Obama administration, aided by zealot Democrats in Congress and joined at the hip by the mainstream media, is complicit in a cover-up.
After reading the recent Accountability Review Board Documents on the Benghazi affair, the parents probably perceived, like most Americans, that the report lacked credibility and was designed to "whitewash" the dirt in order to shield Hillary Clinton and President Obama from their colossal failure of leadership. The parents may continue to ask why the State Department’s internal review board failed to interview Hillary Clinton or scrutinize senior level managers instead of shifting blame to mid-level State Department bureaucrats. Why did they provide advance knowledge of the content to Hillary Clinton prior to the report’s release? Indeed, in this lackluster political internal report, no single individual is held accountable today. Yes, four mid-level employees were identified for action, but they were recently reinstated with full pay and no punishment. The entire Benghazi situation is a case study of pure liberal politics and corrupt power over our national security interests.
Obama and Hillary are betting that the passage of time and a suppressive media will fade the memories of voters, but as long as there are true patriots, the voice of the American dead of Benghazi will remain in our minds and hearts. The basic facts rest on their own weight and no spin machine can alter the Benghazi events. We know that requests for an enhanced security posture in Libya were denied. Al Qaeda terrorist groups were known to be training in the vicinity of the American consulate. Prior to the main attack by the Al Qaeda insurgents, the consulate was attacked by explosives on two separate occasions. On the second occasion, exploded ordnance blasted a large gaping hole through the consulate barrier wall, and yet, the ambassador’s urgent requests for security upgrades and personnel were repeatedly denied. The intelligence reports of explosion or attacks upon the Benghazi consulate would be instantly "flashed" communicated back to the White House Situation Room, the State Department, the CIA, FBI, and the Combatant Commander in the Region. Executives at each of these levels would or should have received an immediate briefing or notification. At the very least, the critical information would be presented in the morning daily briefings.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is solely responsible for the inadequate security posture and the devastation of the Benghazi consulate. We remember the flagged draped coffins escorted into the hanger shortly after their arrival on American soil, and hear the anguish of the families that Hillary Clinton audaciously lied to while stationed in the hanger area. Hillary looked them in the eyes and declared that a degrading video on Islam caused the riots. We now know that Hillary Clinton was briefed by the Senior State Department Official in Libya within minutes after the attack started. Why then the tall tale? Maybe the Presidential election season was well underway and a foreign policy failure would devastate Obama’s reelection bid.
Hillary attempted to absolve her reckless and irresponsible leadership during her feisty testimony at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when she feigned acceptance of personal responsibility for the Benghazi affair, but the focus quickly shifted with the statement, "What difference at this point does it make?" Her contrite, insincere gesture was never accompanied by her resignation, nor did Obama contemplate firing her for her abysmal ineptness as Secretary of State that led to four American deaths and critical, substantial losses of intelligence resources in the region. The one-two foreign policy punch of Obama and Hillary’s mediocrity has spelled disaster for American national interests on the world stage for decades to come.
Now that a year has passed, we see the usual line of liberal, in-the-tank-for-Obama reporters collude with these "brave," anti-patriot Congressional Democrats to "surround the wagon" to protect Obama and Hillary Clinton from lasting political fallout. Their acts are despicable and a disservice to the memory of the truly brave American servicemen who died in Benghazi.
The Benghazi cover-up will not be sustained indefinitely. These shameful Democrats who brazenly refused to hear testimony given by two Benghazi parents clearly demonstrate that their souls and integrity are easily sold. They are the new, progressive, aristocratic class of elites engaged in transforming America into a collective malaise of inequality, inefficiency and government supremacy. They are of the same stench that arbitrarily rules the Senate. The radicalization of Democrats in Congress has jumped leaps and bounds in recent years. They have morphed into a class of political zealots thriving in a cult of a new-age, entitlement state built on the breastworks of collectivism. These progressive Democratic Congressmen stand as a symbol of the decline of American culture, and they are an affront to human dignity.
The cover-up of Benghazi, and the failure of these Democratic Congressmen to honor their oath to the US Constitution, stands as a national disgrace. American servicemen in combat arenas feel betrayed by a government that denied assistance to the beleaguered American warriors left to their mortal fate on the field of battle. The legacy of trust and confidence between soldier and government has been shattered. The day of honor and patriotism by progressive Democrats in the halls of Congress was over years ago. Their actions on Thursday just served as a reminder to the nation.
There needs to be ads on TV showing and naming these RAT slimes, ya think?
Call them what they are, DemoCRAPS not Democrats.
I looked most of the dems up on face book who walked out, it was posted many times on the net, and on their face book page I wrote what I thought of them, along with hundreds of other ppl who had the same thoughts
One thing that has been forgotten ion the Benghazi episode.
Another sign of disrespect, a disgraceful act.
When people are killed in foreign lands and brought home they go to Dover AFB.
Not these Patriots. They were brought into Andrews Air Force Base unloaded, Obama and Hillary told their little lie then the bodies were loaded into hearses and taken to Dover.
It seems that Obama had a fund raiser that night and didn’t have time to go to Dover so he brought the bodies to Andrews. His fund raiser was more important than the proper respect to Patriots killed in Benghazi.
We know the media won’t mention much of this because they’re all Dems but the RNC, for crying out loud get some balls and run AD’s and make this an issue for the voters.
I regret to say nobody should be surprised. The rat party hates people willing to stand up to their lies.
The DNC is a party of slavers from the CW1 to the present,
and it actively helps slavers and terrorists,
even treasonously giving them MANPADs,
leaving Americans behind to be raped and murdered,
while the DNC watched LIVE in the White House,
and and then SHAMELESSLY covering it up.
Ads should be made showing these slimes and Hillery Clinton screaming “what difference does it make” included at the end of the Ads.
Here’s the list :
Carolyn Maloney
Danny Davis
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Gerald E. Connolly
Jim Cooper
John Tierney
Mark Pocan
Matt Cartwright
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Peter Welch
Stephen Lynch
Steven Horsford
Tammy Duckworth
Tony Cardenas
William Lacy
TAMMY DUCKWORTH?!
Of all people, she should have been there. She paid the price for serving her country; she, of all people, should have been there to support these families in their grief. She has sacrificed her honor to her party.
I think it’s time some of these democraps get “ up close and personal” visits by friends of the Benghazi heroes.
Yesterday, I had the fortunate opportunity to meet a Marine who is thinking of running against Duckworth This patriot has more dignity and love of this country in his little finger than Duckworth has in her whole body. He served on the front lines in Irag and Afghanistan and helped clear out Fallujah. This guy is the real deal. But he has another week of active duty, so he can’t campaign against her. For now. Myself and several attendees urged him to make this an issue with her and I think he will run with it. She better start putting together her resume, because she is a one termer.
BTW, this Marine said they did find a large storage shed of yellow cake in Irag. He hinted there’s a lot more about WMDs and Syria, but he couldn’t comment further. For now.
These were the same people who lapped up every pronouncement from Cindy Sheehan.
I am asking a small favor of those who read this. Please call your rep. and DEMAND that the House CENSURES the 15 Democrats that walked out before the parents of Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith spoke.These men heroically gave their lives in the attack on our Consulate in Benghazi. The actions of these 15 democrats is below despicable and deserves CENSURE at the least.
Best news I’ve heard in ages! If you could, let me/us know if and when this Marine makes his decision.
Getting that lying fraud duckworthLESS out of here is a priority. Thank you
Duckworth has no honor to sacrifice. MY clown is Matt Cartright. He is a Canadian disgrace whose law firm enabled riffraff to continue their standing in court in child custody cases. He is an enemy of American families. Bob
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..... you become a Democrat congressman.
Will do.
Well done.
More like DemonCrap :p
I just looked up John Tierney on Facebook about the walkout, and they claim that 14 of 22 Republicans left as well. Is that true? I don’t know how to catch them in their lies.
So I’ve been wondering lately whether a better comparison for Democratic outrage re Benghazi is not Watergate but Abu Ghraib, something I did not follow in the detail I am following Benghazi. But weren’t the Democrats outraged and vocal? They wouldn’t let the story die so long as they could tarnish Bush. (I would like to think that I would have the same Benghazi outrage if Obama was Republican and that this is not solely a partisan issue. Of course, I would also like to think that such a scandal could not possibly happen under a Republican president.)
This is what I found on Wiki, “From late 2003 to early 2004, during the War in Iraq, military police personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency[1] committed human rights violations against prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison. They physically and sexually abused, tortured,[2][3][4] raped,[2][3] sodomized,[4] and killed[5] prisoners.”
So isn’t that what the Islamists committed against our AMBASSADOR and others, murdering them as well?!!?
Come on Democrats! The hypocrisy is suffocating.
They were late for a Sandra Fluke speech.
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