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Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by seamus
reply to post by neo96
IMO it boils down to two words:
"Stand Down".
Do we really need to look further?
As seekeroftruth pointed out in the beginning, they would have to send in at least a battalion sized force to deal with the terrorists and there would have been massive cassualties. These massive cassualties is bad public relations for an election year.
If the republicans were in power the same thing would have happened. Guaranteed!
Originally posted by 2ndthought
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by seamus
reply to post by neo96
IMO it boils down to two words:
"Stand Down".
Do we really need to look further?
As seekeroftruth pointed out in the beginning, they would have to send in at least a battalion sized force to deal with the terrorists and there would have been massive cassualties. These massive cassualties is bad public relations for an election year.
If the republicans were in power the same thing would have happened. Guaranteed!
So you're saying that 4 Americans had to die because this administration was more concerned with 'public relations?' At least you got it partly right. Nothing was done because of the election year.
Why aren't there any AC-130 gunships stationed in Europe? What or who do we blame for that. Budget cuts? Bush? Just one of those would have killed or scattered those terrorists like so many cockroaches under a bright light.
Originally posted by Indigo5
reply to post by neo96
First the obvious...He didn't blame the Benghazi attack on congress.. He called the GOP hearing a political circus..and now that thier claims have been proven false and they have been outed as actually inventing evidence...mocked up emails...i think he is right.
Congress, specifically the GOP were also the ones who cut 300 M from Embassy Security...it was there way of saying eff you to Hilary Clinton and innocent folks went without proper security as a result.
Lastly...the WH appears to have been actually hunting for those to blame...and while the GOP plays politics, apparently Pres. Obama has been playing...find the effen terrorists who attacked us!! Which as his aim with OBL proved, he is pretty good at.
U.S. options to 'capture or kill' Benghazi suspects
The U.S. military has updated plans to "capture or kill" alleged perpetrators of the deadly terror attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, CNN has learned.
security.blogs.cnn.com...
I suggest folks respond with bumper sticker rhetoric, bankrupt of substance and littered with debunked falsehoods...
Gotta love the haters..edit on 17-5-2013 by Indigo5 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by NavyDoc
Originally posted by 2ndthought
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by seamus
reply to post by neo96
IMO it boils down to two words:
"Stand Down".
Do we really need to look further?
As seekeroftruth pointed out in the beginning, they would have to send in at least a battalion sized force to deal with the terrorists and there would have been massive cassualties. These massive cassualties is bad public relations for an election year.
If the republicans were in power the same thing would have happened. Guaranteed!
So you're saying that 4 Americans had to die because this administration was more concerned with 'public relations?' At least you got it partly right. Nothing was done because of the election year.
Why aren't there any AC-130 gunships stationed in Europe? What or who do we blame for that. Budget cuts? Bush? Just one of those would have killed or scattered those terrorists like so many cockroaches under a bright light.
Uh, as mentioned previously, the CBG and MEU deployments to the Med, the first time since WWII, were stopped by the Obama administration. Hundreds of millions in aid to the Muslim Brotherhood run government in Egypt, but not a dime to keep our sailors and Marines on post where they should have been.
Originally posted by 2ndthought
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by seamus
reply to post by neo96
IMO it boils down to two words:
"Stand Down".
Do we really need to look further?
As seekeroftruth pointed out in the beginning, they would have to send in at least a battalion sized force to deal with the terrorists and there would have been massive cassualties. These massive cassualties is bad public relations for an election year.
If the republicans were in power the same thing would have happened. Guaranteed!
So you're saying that 4 Americans had to die because this administration was more concerned with 'public relations?' At least you got it partly right. Nothing was done because of the election year.
Why aren't there any AC-130 gunships stationed in Europe? What or who do we blame for that. Budget cuts? Bush? Just one of those would have killed or scattered those terrorists like so many cockroaches under a bright light.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by 2ndthought
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by seamus
reply to post by neo96
IMO it boils down to two words:
"Stand Down".
Do we really need to look further?
As seekeroftruth pointed out in the beginning, they would have to send in at least a battalion sized force to deal with the terrorists and there would have been massive cassualties. These massive cassualties is bad public relations for an election year.
If the republicans were in power the same thing would have happened. Guaranteed!
So you're saying that 4 Americans had to die because this administration was more concerned with 'public relations?' At least you got it partly right. Nothing was done because of the election year.
Why aren't there any AC-130 gunships stationed in Europe? What or who do we blame for that. Budget cuts? Bush? Just one of those would have killed or scattered those terrorists like so many cockroaches under a bright light.
We really had no business in the middle east arab spring. The europeans pushed us to get involved and we paid the price. Americans don't run america and it should be common knowledge by now.
I am not sure who cut the funding, but I think the bottom line is Obama wanted to make sure he won his second term and would not risk any bad publicity such as a massive death toll of muslim "terrorists". We create the terrorists to begin with.
There is no reason to defund embassy staff, especially NOT security forces! What there is a reason to defund is military bases overseas since we have so many aircraft carriers capable of massive airpower.
What the hell is wrong with washington lately? Ron Paul and Gary Johnson are the only semi mainstream politicians with an ounce of common sense left in them.
You and many others like to think they care.But the truth is they don't.They care about how this can benefit them they don't care about the loss of lives.
Originally posted by joemomma
Originally posted by mike dangerously
I see that Obama and the rest are doing their jobs.Keeping everyone at each others throats while making sure that no one notices what's going on behind the scenes.As I have said before deep down all of you really think either side actually cares what happened?
Yes, I think they care, unfortunately Republicans can be psychotic and pathological despite all their caring, for billionaires and disembodied corporate interests.
Originally posted by Echo3Foxtrot
Honestly, there has been a lot of shady crap being pulled by this administration and people need to start answering questions truthfully and taking responsibility for their actions (or inaction).
Libyan President Mohammed Magarief said the controversial film that mocked Islam's Prophet Muhammad and ignited protests throughout the Muslim world had "nothing to do" with the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, and that he has "no doubt" it was an act of terrorism.
Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Beth Jones wrote the email on Sept. 12. “I spoke to the Libyan ambassador and emphasized the importance of Libyan leaders continuing to make strong statements,” Jones said in the email, per Gowdy. “I told him that the group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists.”
On Sept. 16, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice described the attack as a “spontaneous” event that grew out of a demonstration against an anti-Islamic YouTube video.
Originally posted by sonnny1
ACCOUNTABILITY.
Sums it up.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Look, you wont see impeachment because they will not do it to a minority President.
Originally posted by Xcathdra
To be honest this mindset really pisses me off... He is the President of the united States, not the black President of the united States. When we insert that race card we are willingly ignoring the fact that he is a bad decision maker, not because of his race, but because he had no experience coming into the job.