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NEW OBAMA ADMIN CLAIM: MARINES COULDN'T HAVE STOPPED CONSULATE ASSAULT
Bretbart News ^ | 21 Sept 2012 | John Sexton

Posted on 09/23/2012 4:09:49 AM PDT by WVKayaker

First Romney, then the You Tube clip, now the Marines are to blame? The Obama administration's shifting claims on what took place in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11 became more defiant yesterday when unnamed officials suggested that no amount of security would have mattered in Libya, not even a detachment of US Marines. This came on the same day the administration also admitted the assault was a terror attack not a protest gone wrong. ...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911ii; alteredsource; benghazi; embassysecurity; libya; marines; nobama; semperfi
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To: mj1234

Disagree. They would have ‘borrowed’ from their attackers.


21 posted on 09/23/2012 4:52:22 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: WVKayaker

You can piss off a lot of people with minimal to no repercussions.

YOU DON’T F*K WITH MARINES. THEY WILL KILL YOU AND FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN YOU F’ED WITH THEM.

Semper fi.
Do or die.


22 posted on 09/23/2012 4:53:29 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Bengahzi is NOT the Embassy,that is in Tripoli where Stevens office is. No one has asked or answered why Stevens was in BenGahzi in the first place with the only security being a Muslim Group providing it and Ultimately aiding in His Murder.
The former Navy seals were working for a Different agency,what agency? I dont know,possibly CIA,Stevens could also have been a CIA Officer,he brokered the deal to get the Rebels the Guns to depose Ghadafi,Could he have been there to try and retrieve those weapons since the rebels who dumped Ghadafi were Al Queda?


23 posted on 09/23/2012 4:53:33 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: WVKayaker

Lock-n-load anyway - you may have to make a fighting retreat to His pickup zone.


24 posted on 09/23/2012 4:53:39 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sherman Logan

WHY was the AMB. at this OUTPOST and not at the EMBASSY???? Was that HIS idea or Hillary’s????


25 posted on 09/23/2012 4:56:24 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: WVKayaker

if armed Marines had been there, fortified and ready, there would have been no attack and Stevens would be alive.


26 posted on 09/23/2012 4:56:30 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: WVKayaker

What a crock. Any Marine or military person would have dealt with the threat or died trying. You can bet your a** none of them would go to sleep knowing a team member was under attack. He and his posse are not like us.


27 posted on 09/23/2012 5:00:57 AM PDT by Pat4ever
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To: WVKayaker
probably the first time the admin has actually told the truth

with the ROE imposed on them by the Obozo and the State Dept they would have been reduced to hand-to-hand only after getting permission from DC

(although I acknowledge that 1 marine is worth 200 of these fargin iceholes)

28 posted on 09/23/2012 5:01:39 AM PDT by Abundy
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To: Gaffer

-——to allow our Foreign Service delegations to be in a country that is unsecure——

In the instance in question, the dead one believed he possesses God like ability to calm and pacify to the point his striving provided the shield and protection. You completely miss the point of pacifists who believe we must coexist and can coexist. The pacifist delusion is on trial and is shown to be that delusion. It will not however disappear because some nonexistent external rationalization will be raised as cause.

What should not be allowed is a pacifist State Department populated by delusional ideologues spouting Harvard Yard pacifist drivel.


29 posted on 09/23/2012 5:06:40 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: WVKayaker

If there were 20 marines at the compound, the jihadi’s would NOT have attacked. They had inside info that the Ambassador was protected by next to nobody so they took advantage.

The marines would have been a DETERRENT, but the Obama Administration is weak, not strong, and all the Islamo terrorists know that.


30 posted on 09/23/2012 5:12:04 AM PDT by barryobi
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To: Sacajaweau

Why was he there anyway.

What would cause a grown, intelligent man to leave the safety of his protection, and go to an obscure place..pretty much on his own?

Does anyone have an answer for that? Or am I missing something?


31 posted on 09/23/2012 5:16:10 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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To: Abundy
(although I acknowledge that 1 marine is worth 200 of these fargin iceholes)


Marine Pfc. Douglas Lightheart (right) cradles his 30-cal. machine gun in his lap, while he and his buddy Pfc. Gerald Thursby Sr. take time out for a cigarette, while mopping up the enemy on Peleliu Island, September 14, 1944. Note that the surname of the second soldier was misidentified as Churchby by the photographer and for many years subsequently

... One particularly bloody battle on Bloody Nose came when the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines—under the command of Major Raymond Davis—attacked Hill 100. Over six days of fighting, the battalion suffered 71% casualties. Captain Everett Pope and his company penetrated deep into the ridges, leading his remaining 90 men to seize what he thought was Hill 100. It took a day fighting to reach what he thought was the crest of the hill, which was in fact another ridge, occupied by more Japanese defenders.

Trapped at the base of the ridge, Pope set up a small defense perimeter, which was attacked relentlessly by the Japanese throughout the night. The Marines soon ran out of ammunition, and had to fight the attackers with knives and fists, even resorting to throwing coral rock and empty ammunition boxes at the Japanese. Pope and his men managed to hold out until dawn. When they evacuated the position, only nine men remained. Pope later received the Medal of Honor for the action. -(wicked) wiki excerpt: Read more about the Battle of Peleliu

My Note: These men looked into the face of evil and made it through hell...

32 posted on 09/23/2012 5:17:36 AM PDT by WVKayaker (I'm more than happy to be Obama's "enemy of the week" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Vermont Lt

There are only two possibilities for me given the debacle of the cover up.

Intelligence
Traitor

I am going with Intelligence - CIA.

And why was his diary there and not in Tripoli????????????????

William F Buckley CIA posing as State Department was warned about danger. He ignored it. He was kidnapped and tortured and killed because of it.

Stevens knew he was in danger.So why did he ignore it.


33 posted on 09/23/2012 5:29:42 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Ann Archy

Don’t know. Presumably ambassadors travel around the host country for various reasons. I doubt he was based in Benghazi.


34 posted on 09/23/2012 5:29:49 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: elpadre

Probably true. And we would be reading about an attack somewhere else that had less security.


35 posted on 09/23/2012 5:32:06 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: WVKayaker

If there were a USMC det there, the Jihadis would not have attacked...they would have known the dogs of war would have kicked their asses.


36 posted on 09/23/2012 5:39:40 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: RummyChick

My qusetion would be, which sob outed him and revealed the location of his safe house to the muslims.The sonsof bitches that put this imposter in the White House... words fail me after this. I find that I despise them more each day that passes.


37 posted on 09/23/2012 5:40:39 AM PDT by sport
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To: Sherman Logan

Amb. are BASED at EMBASSIES...not in any outposts. He SHOULD have been at the embassy which is gurded and fortified....it was 9-11 for gosh sakes.


38 posted on 09/23/2012 5:40:39 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Or, they are smitten with Hollyweird and think that a single, unarmed person is capable of comic book superhero actions.


39 posted on 09/23/2012 5:43:17 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: ballplayer
RE post 23, BINGO we have a winner.

So, what is the "official" reason that Stevens was in Benghazi (terror central) on 9/11 with no security, no advance team, no escape plan. Are they hiding a CIA op? I think so. Why? To what end? The op is blown, or maybe they don't know that.

40 posted on 09/23/2012 5:44:35 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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