Shame.
In the final debate, I could have sworn that 0 said that they sent in a rescue team. No one has brought this point up.
Exactly. Biden seems to me to be drunk all the time. His commetns were disgusting
God Bless the hero, his parents and his family
As a compare and contrast, the following link is from an old letter written by a military commander who received a visit from President Bush during a brief stop. The commander’s son had recently be killed in action.
http://www.eielson.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123111092
An Excerpt:
....A short time later, the Secret Service opened the door and President Bush walked in. I thought we might get to shake his hand as he went through. But instead, he walked up to my wife with his arms wide, pulled her in for a hug and a kiss, and said, “I wish I could heal the hole in your heart.” He then grabbed me for a hug, as well as each of our sons. Then he turned and said, “Everybody out.”
A few seconds later, the four of us were completely alone behind closed doors with the President of the United States and not a Secret Service agent in sight....
Bump
The biggest stench is that it is beginning to look like Obama went nighty-night to rest up for Las Vegas, instead of seeing the crisis through and (had he been awake) ordering a rescue mission.
In Behghazi, after 6-8 hours in a few “Fort Apaches” with running street battles between, like a mini Blackhawk Down, the living Americans must have been thinking, “Any minute now, here come the helicopters.”
But they didn’t. So even though Delta had forward staged to Sigonella Sicily (rumint) from base in Germany, nobody was willing or able to pull the trigger and send a rescue force. Or even a few F-18 supersonic flybys, to bust windows and warn, “Here comes American airpower, and you camel jockeys know what that means.” Just as a morale booster it would have helped the besieged staffers.
But it was never sent, not even a lousy supersonic low-level flyby.
Here is the deal. The military automatically does a lot on its own, under standing orders and SOPs. The minute they see that the consulate is under attack, and the ambassador and others are in a "safe room" hiding, it becomes TOP priority. Every other mission aborts or slaves over to support any possible rescue.
At that moment when the alarm messages come in, things happen on autopilot in real time. Everybody in the Navy and USAF chain of command swings into a crisis contingency plan mode. What ships are closest? Helicopters? Marines? Delta is in Germany? Get them moving right now. Where is closest? Sigonella, for now. It’s NATO, no permission needed, just fly. En route in C-17s, the D-boys would even be prepping for an immediate action raid, that is, the C-17s will fly directly to some desert road outside of Benghazi, and here comes “The Raid On Entebbe,” crisis mode, canned actions, but they would do it. If they were ordered to. They would coordinate with fighters out of Italy, mid-air-refueling platforms start shifting, it's a huge show that swings into action for thousands of miles around Behghazi. The ongoing consulate attack is JOB ONE, the only job. VIPs will be tossed off of planes at remote runways if they need that platform.
Or Marines on amphib ships in the central Med, if any were available, would also be put on the real-time options board. We used to have a "Amphibious Ready Group" of about 3-5 USN gator freighters, including a helo carrier like a Tarawa class. They carry an entire battalion of USMC, plus SEALs etc, with helos and Ospreys to carry them all. (But not at once.) Where was our ARG? Does our Navy have enough ships for that mission any more?
But while all of that military staging would have happened/did happen during the battle at the consulate, what they cannot do on their own say-so is cross an international border without an order from the NCA, the National Command Authority, and that means POTUS, Obama.
Only POTUS can authorize a cross-border hostile mission. That is, guns clear, no official permission from the Tripoli govt (if it really exists outside State Dept fantasies.)
Only one man can pull that trigger and say, "GO!" Obama.
(But for America to act "unilaterally" would have meant the bogus Libyan Arab Spring and so-called new govt. that we were propping up didn’t really exist. Libyan sovereignty must be held sacrosanct, even the false image of one, where in reality, Al Queda is top dog in Libya. Even when an Al Queda offshoot is your external "security," namely, "The 17th of February Martyrs Brigade." (IOW, the White House thought they had a "deal" with AQ in Behghazi, since we were helping to run weaponry from Libya to their pals in Syria. So there was an "institutional bias" at State against crossing the border on a rescue operation sin permisso.)
Anyway, be that as it may, no General or Admiral will order the Marines ashore, or a Delta raid or even an F-18 low-level supersonic flyby. They can not and will not cross a border without an order from POTUS via the NCA. Not even Hillary can make that decision. Only Obama.
But no order came, as of midnight in DC. And then none would come. Because the POTUS retired for the night with a “do not disturb” sign on his door, punted, and went to bed, to be well rested for Las Vegas.
While his ambassador was off the U.S. radar, missing, at that moment possibly being dragged down a Benghazi street or even raped. But that is when Obama went to bed. Midnight in DC is 0600 in Beghazi.
That is the greatest scandal of Benghazi. The POTUS slept through it, while all around the world, military forces were poised for the Raid on Entebbe or any other damn thing the POTUS ordered them to do. (And the were raring to go, believe me.)
But the POTUS said, “We’ll discuss it further in the morning,” and then he went to bed around midnight in DC, 0600 in Benghazi, with a missing ambassador and a crisis in full mega flap process.
He punted. He went to bed.
God help us. I think that’s the big secret they are keeping. The President went to bed, with his lost Ambassador being dragged through streets.
Obama went to bed.
“I want to honor my son, Ty Woods, who responded to the cries for help..”
There are men that run to the fight, and those that run away. I’m glad that Mr. Woods was able to deeply know such a man, and only briefly had to meet with another.
The recent Marine that received the Medal of Honor drove to the sound of battle, in spite of him being denied, four times, his request to help his brothers in arms. Among the many other secrets of Benghazi, it would surprise me if these two ex SEALS also made a similar request and ignored the orders to stay put.
God bless these men, and all our brave men and women.
Mark.
“The U.S. military did not quickly intervene during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last month because military leaders did not have adequate intelligence information and felt they should not put American forces at risk, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. “
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21854181/house-speaker-presses-obama-answers-libya
The whole thing doesn’t make any sense.
“The Vice President was also there,” Woods explained. “He said ‘I’m Joe Biden’. He said he had received one of these ‘damn phone calls’ when he had lost a family member. And then about a half hour later he approached me and said – and these are the exact words he said I don’t speak like this – quote and in an extremely loud and boisterous voice he said: ‘Did your sons always have balls the size of cueballs?’”
What did Biden mean by that cue ball remark and why did he say “sons”?
Biden’s comments to the father are bizarre, inappropriate and just weird. How on Earth did the father reply to that?
Praying that many eyes are opened in the next week and a half.
Death was not instant in this case....they fought hard...fought long enough to be rescued...and it NEVER EFFIN' CAME....
FUX YOU BARAK OBAMA....JUST FUX YOU.
At some point before they died for their country, their mission, regardless of whther they were former military and contract personel or not, they had to realize their country was not coming to save them.
Shame on you, you purple lipped bastard and you freakin' Arkansas redneck bitch...just shame on you. God is going to have his will with you.
And for the love of God, any of my so so called fellow conservitives out there right now who won't vote for Romeny because of your ideals...well FUX you too. A Johnson vote...and especially a "NO" vote after this obvious muslim in the white hut bull$sit is obviously a terroristic vote in my eyes. If this SOB remains in office, how will you sleep at night??? How the eff' will you sleep?
Fixed.
This is heartbreaking....I am ashamed of my country for him.
“She?s more intelligent than I am,”
I doubt that.
My heart goes out to these families. My father died a few months ago - he was 79 and didn’t suffer after living a full and good life...and it still hurts. Much worse must be the loss of a child who was young and vibrant, who (most parents believe) is supposed to bury you. Compounding this is the apathy and the sheer incompetence that turned this horrible loss into a complete waste - i.e. no comfort can be obtained from a “good” death. Worst of all is the outright lying, and the fact that the lying was AND IS being done to save a worthless politician’s career.
I would be livid, and make it my life’s mission to defeat this POS, and to then hound him for the rest of his miserable life.
Why won’t networks give this man the time of day?
Horrible man. Got to vote him out now!
This whole thing needs to be quickly turned into a swift boating operation, and fast. Who, preferably Military or ex Military people, can organize and put ads out quickly so that the American people can know what really went on? If they can be shown and made to understand, they will be appalled.