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1 posted on 01/25/2016 8:27:32 AM PST by thetallguy24
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“13 Hours” is how long Hillary and 0bama did nothing while people were under repeated assault.

The movie is pretty good. The title is absolutely damning.


2 posted on 01/25/2016 8:30:24 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bob Dole: A Ted Cruz nomination would be 'cataclysmic' for the GOP)
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Plan to see it, but I’ll wait a while.
Read the book. It was great! Real heroes!

The book alone should have hurt Hillary’s campaign.


3 posted on 01/25/2016 8:33:14 AM PST by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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Saw it with my wife yesterday... very intense.

The film made it clear the NCA had no intention of sending military assets to help break up the attacks.

We the people will never be made privy, but I can’t help wondering if Hillary’s unsecured server allowed the bad guys to learn where the Ambassador and the staff would be that night.

It just made me despise this abhorrent administration even more.


5 posted on 01/25/2016 8:34:51 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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Excellent, gripping movie. It provided a more concrete illustration of what occurred there. It is also heart breaking.


7 posted on 01/25/2016 8:38:51 AM PST by GeaugaRepublican (Angry yes, mad, no. Finished with Conservatism Incorporated.)
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Besides the continuous undercurrent of HELP IS NOT GOING TO COME that runs throughout out the movie the main effect it had on me was of it's display of hidden valor. These brave men who fought and had to have their incredible deeds of heroism remain anonymous because they were fighters in a secret organization.

To be to not to be. They choose to exist and until I saw this movie I had no idea of what lengths of action they did in order to do so.

8 posted on 01/25/2016 8:40:08 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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9 posted on 01/25/2016 8:40:28 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (The Huckster for Prez!)
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Remember this Hillary 2008 campaign ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_z9Tpdl9A


10 posted on 01/25/2016 8:41:19 AM PST by boycott (--)
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Infuriating. Obama and Hilary should hang. Seriously.


12 posted on 01/25/2016 8:42:35 AM PST by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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I thought it was a good movie. I hesitate to say I enjoyed it or liked it as seeing a dramatization of what those guys endured, enjoyment is an inappropriate term, just like no one enjoys Schindler’s List unless you are unbalanced.

The complaints that it was not in depth enough and that it did not delve into politics is off base in that the movie is simply about what these guys endured. When you are fighting, it is not about yesterday or politics, it is about the here and now and, or then and there, so in that sense, I thought that was good. The movie is exhausting, if you follow it closely.

At about the halfway point, when they started requesting help and none came, and when you see our country’s defenders dying, I started hearing Clinton’s voice, the echo became louder as the film progressed; “At this point, Senator, what does it matter.” What an arrogant, evil, bitch.

I was so incensed, that at the end of the movie I repeated the Clinton quote loudly in the theater and said “Think of these men before you vote.” Having that at the end of the movie would have made it perfect.


13 posted on 01/25/2016 8:44:05 AM PST by rey
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I saw it. It was like watching an action movie except it was real. I kept reminding myself of that fact. Extremely brave men, and the CIA guy who kept saying “stand down” actually got an award. Something is wrong with this, it’s upside down.


14 posted on 01/25/2016 8:44:50 AM PST by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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I’ve read the book and may wait for pay-for-view.


15 posted on 01/25/2016 8:47:50 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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Last Saturday I saw the movie.

I talked to my liberal friend and teacher who taught 11th grade English to the ambassador himself, Chris Stevens. While watching the movie, she was struck by the thought that his life could have been saved, as the movie clearly showed there were forces at the ready that were told to “stand down.”

The theater was packed, and most of the audience were young people in their 20s and 30s. Every time I looked around, people were riveted in their seats.
There was not a sound from within the audience to be heard for the entire movie, and I had the same thoughts as one journalist who wrote,

“as the screen illuminated in flashes from massive explosions the breath-taking heroism of the former Marines and Navy Seals defending the U.S. Benghazi assets. Their names are Tanto (Kris Paronto), Oz (Mark Geist), Tig (John Tiegen), Rone (Tyrone Woods) and Glen Doherty.

“The film illuminates with night vision goggle precision the treachery of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who did nothing to save them. Never are the secretary of state Hillary Clinton or the commander in chief (Obama) even mentioned, which in itself screams volumes. Just as they were absent from duty the night of the attacks, they are AWOL in the movie itself.”

“We now know that Hillary Clinton spent a little time in the Situation Room that night, presumably watching the live feed from the drone that captured the life-and-death siege of first the ambassador’s residence and a few hours later, the second attack on the CIA annex a mile or so away. We know that the president wasn’t there, likely busy picking out the suit he would wear for his campaign fund-raiser in Nevada next day.”

“It confirms that Benghazi was not a spontaneous demonstration gone bad due a video, despite Susan Rice repeating that lie on five Sunday talk shows, and President Obama repeating it six times before the United Nations (two weeks later, mind you). Hillary Clinton knew it was a lie, telling the truth to daughter Chelsea and an Egyptian diplomat before she lied to the parents of the Benghazi dead. It confirms that rescuers were told to stand down.”

Back to my thoughts...

I highly recommend this movie. It tells of the history (and politics) we live in now, and if you are interested in politics or history, not seeing this movie is in itself, for you, not seeing history.


16 posted on 01/25/2016 8:48:24 AM PST by detch (")
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Excellent movie. You’ll be on the edge of your seat - partly because you know how tragically it’s going to turn out and partly because the battle and attack scenes are so incredibly well done.

The Dems say it’s “political” but it’s not. It only mentions what they knew on the ground (and the survivors described in testimony), with one brief moment when a soldier says “they (the media and/or State Dept) are talking about some kind of video and protests, but there haven’t been any protests.”

And of course the fact that the military two hours away is ready to go and rescue the guys - but is never given permission to carry out the mission.

Methinks the Dems have a guilty conscience. I’d say Hillary has a guilty conscience, but I don’t think she has any conscience at all.


18 posted on 01/25/2016 8:58:26 AM PST by livius
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I am having a birthday this week and a few friends asked me this morning, what would you like to do for your birthday? I said I want to go see 13 Hours! A few think I’m nuts, and asked why I would want to see something so depressing for my birthday? I stated it’s important we all see and understand the truth — and so for now, our plan is to go on Sunday! I expect a few will decide not to go, but not me... I’m going!


19 posted on 01/25/2016 9:03:31 AM PST by GizzyGirl
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Later


21 posted on 01/25/2016 9:04:52 AM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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I saw it on Saturday. Good number of people in the theater.

It was a war movie, and seemed good in that respect, conveying the confusion, etc. Didn’t touch at all on who was responsible for ignoring them, or why.

I understand why they didn’t touch on that, but in the end, I didn’t regard it as a “brave” movie by a director.

Personally, I found myself steaming in that movie, when they show the F-16s on the runway at Aviano, idle, canopies up. I was pretty angry leading up to that, so I found myself steaming when they did that scene.

And then the idiotic cover-up, and blame on a anti-video protest gone bad...

The whole incident was shameful, front to back.


23 posted on 01/25/2016 9:11:21 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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I highly recommend it! It was a fantastic and very well done movie that does a great job at remaining apolitical, while telling a story that EVERYONE needs to hear. These men are/were hero’s that deserve to be celebrated. Hillary should burn for her incompetence and inaction on that night and during this even.


24 posted on 01/25/2016 9:32:40 AM PST by TheGunny
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I recommend the film.


25 posted on 01/25/2016 9:36:16 AM PST by Jane Austen (Marco Rubio is the White Obama and beholden to special interests.)
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Good movie, all should see.

Could have been MUCH more political but wasn’t, didn’t dwell on WHO gave the stand-down order.

What if they made a Watergate movie that focused exclusively on the blow-by-blow of the burglars breaking in and getting arrested...?

That wouldn’t happen in a million years —the break-in would take up about 10 minutes of a full 2 hour movie. Overwhelmingly the focus would be on the treacherous, high-level players not on-scene who were responsible.

Michael Bay didn’t do that, here, and should have.

The reason he didn’t was because Hollywood would make sure HIS CAREER WOULD BE OVER —FINITO.

You should still see it, yeah.


26 posted on 01/25/2016 9:46:58 AM PST by gaijin
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I also recommend the movie, and I wouldn’t say that it was depressing overall. The valor of our men is the subject and their courage is outstanding, despite the odds. However, it is heart-breaking to be introduced to the four characters whom we know will die. Sean Smith has only a small role, but “Rone” (Tyrone Woods) has a large role.

What I remember is one of our men (Jack Silva perhaps) seeing an entourage of cars leaving all at once and wondering “Does anyone else get the sense that everyone knows what’s happening except for us?” The abandonment of the Libyan guards and the non-closure of the back gate makes us wonder if they were corrupt or incompetant (the same questions I ask of Hillary and Obama). The absence of the latter, in being mentioned and in their non-action, is telling.

I also wonder at the one line about those in the CIA annex....”Bob” (the “delaying” CIA “chief”) says that there are personnel from Harvard who need protection, and thus the delay sending the men to rescue Stevens. But what were those CIA people doing? The intelligence needed sounded like more than just gun running (although the allusion to guns is also in the film). And WHY haven’t we heard from those 26 people who were rescued by our men?

I read the book too and think the movie extremely well made. I was struck by the contrasts, of incipient violence with the young boys seen playing around as well as the beauty of 2-3 shots of Islamic architecture. The ripped cloth in “Zombieland” was also effective, as were the the views of the Benghazi women mourning their losses.

I recommend the film highly. It is violent but not as gory as it might have been.


27 posted on 01/25/2016 10:02:04 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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