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CBS News: Why didn’t we send the military to rescue Benghazi personnel?
Hotair ^ | OCTOBER 22, 2012 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 10/22/2012 6:46:25 AM PDT by Snuph

video at link...y now we’ve gotten the basic details of the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi — no thanks to the White House, which tried to pass it off as a “spontaneous demonstration” that “spun out of contro” for more than a week after the attack. Not too many people may have understood that the attack lasted for seven hours, however — and that American military assets were in easy reach. The last two Americans who died had managed to survive six hours into the attack.

CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson asked the obvious question yesterday: If we could fly an unarmed drone over the consulate while it was under attack, why didn’t we send the military in to rescue our people?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazigate; benghazirescue; cbsnews; christopherstevens; dsj; libya; shadowwars; sharylattkisson; threatmatrix
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To: Snuph
Three guys who say we could have.

Judge Jeanine Investigates Benghazi Gate Part 4 - 10/20/2012 video 6:53
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (U.S. Army ret.), former CIA Station Chief Gary Burtson and former CIA operative Mike Baker

21 posted on 10/22/2012 8:03:59 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: SC_Pete

agreed


22 posted on 10/22/2012 8:03:59 AM PDT by Snuph ("give me Liberty...")
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The last two Americans who died had managed to survive six hours into the attack.

How long any of them lasted is irrelevant. No one could have known who died when or in which compound at the time. The only question is "why was nothing done to try to help them?" Only ONE MAN had the authority to send a rescue team onto foreign soil. We know what his choice was.

23 posted on 10/22/2012 8:11:51 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: TigersEye

Thank you everyone!

Great comments!


24 posted on 10/22/2012 8:38:49 AM PDT by Snuph ("give me Liberty...")
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To: Snuph

There is no such thing as journalism.


25 posted on 10/22/2012 8:48:42 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: Snuph

Has there been any reports as to how many of the attackers were killed?


26 posted on 10/22/2012 10:01:14 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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