Posted on 05/08/2013 5:45:24 AM PDT by kristinn
Dick Cheney slams Obama administration's Benghazi performance as 'a failure of leadership ... I cannot understand why they weren't ready'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday for its handling of the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, calling it 'a failure of leadership.' Cheney said U.S. leaders should have been better prepared for violence on the anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
'They should have been ready before anything ever happened,' Cheney told MailOnline exclusively during a party in Georgetown celebrating the launch of a new book by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
'I mean, it's North Africa - Libya, where they've already had major problems,' Cheney said. 'You know that al-Qaeda is operating there, and you have some of the other al-Qaeda-affiliated groups there like Ansar al-Sharia and others.'
Ansar al-Sharia, a militant terror group that aims to enforce Shariah law across Libya, was fingered almost immediately by U.S. intelligence as an organization that 'claimed credit' for the Benghazi attack, according to a 43-page interim report on the Benghazi fiasco issued by Republican leaders of five House committees.
Cheney said that the George W, Bush administration made a point of ramping up security at military bases, diplomatic outposts and other American facilities worldwide each year on September 11.
'When we were there, on our watch, we were always ready on 9/11, on the anniversary,' he recalled. 'We always anticipated they were coming for us, especially in that part of the world.'
'I cannot understand why they weren't ready to go,' the former two-term vice president said of the Obama administration.
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Scooter Libby did time for a whole lot less.
I wonder what kind of trivial sh*t the MSM will report on today to avoid the Benghazi hearings.
Traitors used to get hanged for less.
The whole “O” administration is textbook ‘failure of leadership”!
Obama having dinner at a hotel tonight with all the top Dems - saw it already.
Obama is having a gala dinner at a hotel tonight with all the top Dems......
Obomba and All the top Dems? So I guess Miss Lube Rack 1955 will be there (cackle).
Mmmmmmm....the guys look mighty (ahem) satisfied.
How many of those car jockeys did Nancy personally "lube?"
She's moved on........sort of.
NANCY SUCKS-UP: DOING THE DEALS IN EXCHANGE FOR VOTES
L-R--Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ); dual citizen Salomon Melgen, VOXXI Chman; Rep Nancy Pelosi (D-CAL) (all dolled up in the latest fashion); Francisco J. Sanchez, US Under Secy of Commerce for Intl Trade, Emilio Sanchez, Pres/CEO of VOXXI at the Ntl Assoc of Latino Elected and Appt Officials Gala in DC. (Photo/ Voxxi---Melgen's ethnic solidarity web site)
Nancy recently told Chris Wallace on Fox News, "It is almost a false argument (made by Repubs) to say that we have a spending problem (WRT sequestration)." (TRANSLATION "And besides, we need trillions to subsidize all our "new citizens" who will vote---and make me Majority Leader, again---not to mention the billions in foreign aid we plan to give to all the countries on the other side of the border.")
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2008 candidate Hillary had these pics in the primary
contest against Obomba---but Teddy Kennedy warned
the Clintons not to use them
Obama's brother Malik holds up photo.
A trip to his Kenyan homeland---when Obomba was 23-24.
with any luck
. . . and snap shut just as quickly
Cheney abandoned Scooter for no damned reason.
Cheney finally comments ping!!
His credibility is ruined. While I have great respect for the man, the service to his country, and just being one of the “good guys”, “What difference does it make” since “the great unwashed” and /or “the low information voters” have believed the left’s, never ending, attacks and lies about him.
Note to all Conservatives..... DEFEND YOURSELVES, IMMEDIATELY! Thank You Ted Cruz!
George W Bush, I blame you for this. Your (Bully Pulpit)example of, being a punching bag for the left, has neutered Republican & Conservatives alike.
When I see Republicans & Conservatives kowtowing to the left, I think of that famous quote by Madeleine Albright, “This is not cojones. This is cowardice.”
(out of context to be sure, but the phrase itself fits).
So all of you kowtowing to the left, GROW A PAIR, of cojones.
Our former Vice-President is being polite.
I’m with you. “Failure of leadership” characterizes Benghazi as ineptness, which, while certainly true, really lets them off the hook. I suspect a thorough investigation would reveal nefarious activities that would not be approved by the American people, something well beyond leadership failures. Characterizing Benghazi as system failures and leadership failures before all the evidence is in will allow media and the progs to kill the whole thing. They will dismiss a few nobodies and rewrite some policy manuals and that will be the end it.
Two words you will not hear from the commies, terrorist or Al Queda.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Please put me on Benghazi ping list. Thank you.
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