Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:

[tinydancer]

Let's face it. Most people have no idea how the chain of command works and how decisions are made. Many times as in this case, the generals decide wheter to intercede and it never reaches the level of the president. If anyone erred, it was the generals who said it was too unknown and dangerous on the ground to send them in. If they had been massacred, the right would be bitching about that. The fault of this horrendous act falls upon the perpetrators and no one else!

First, you say most people have no idea how the chain of command works.



Then you proceed to tell us how the chain of command works



Then you tell us that generals knew it was too dangerous for the most advanced military force on the planet to save their own ambassador.




Finally you expect us to believe that the President Who Killed Osama Bin Laden could not protect his own ambassador.

Perhaps you like being surrounded by bullshit.

I'd love to know who thought it was a swell idea to protect 2 compounds with Libyan militias.


Oh I so want that persons name.

 

[Plasmaball]

The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th.

"Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News by email.

President Clinton says, "It depends on how you define 'denied.'"

thats not very witty

 

[freedombecki]

Nobody from our government lifted a finger
to save those people.The one who did disregarded
an order to stand down and he gave his life.

This will haunt Obama's legacy...

He saved GM
He killed Bin Laden
And he let our people die in Benghazi...
Because he didn't want to upset anybody over there.

Well, they will be helping themselves to more American blood on account of craven cowardice at the White House.

Obama didn't mind showing Romney his middle finger 3 times in a debate in New Hampshire, though, and paid idiots cheered.

 

[freedombecki]

The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th.

"Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News by email.

President Clinton says, "It depends on how you define 'denied.'"

thats not very witty

Neither are big birds in the white house who go "pock, pock, pock, p' dock!" when an American's life is endangered by Muslin terrorists.

 

[Charles_Main]

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:
Aide

Fox News Channel reported Friday that American officials in the compound repeatedly asked for military help during the assault but were rebuffed by CIA higher-ups. At a press briefing one day earlier, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asked why there had not been a quicker, more forceful response to the assault, complained of "Monday-morning quarterbacking." Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground.

But Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, in a post published Friday, doubted Panetta's explanation and said the fault must lie with Obama himself. "Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No," Kristol wrote. "It would have been a presidential decision."

"He's wrong," said Vietor.

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi: Aide | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Foxnews right wing propaganda.and Conservative rag Weekly Standard.

So an over head real time feed from a Drone, and Intel from Human sources on the ground, were not enough intelligence to act?

You realize of course then someone needs to be Court Marshaled because Obama has claimed he order people to do what ever it took to get them help.

So either Obama is a liar, or his Military Commanders defied a Direct order from the CIC.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

He didn't make the decision not to send help, yet help was not sent. I guess he was to busy running for president to make the decision to send help.

 

[daveman]

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:
Aide

Fox News Channel reported Friday that American officials in the compound repeatedly asked for military help during the assault but were rebuffed by CIA higher-ups. At a press briefing one day earlier, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asked why there had not been a quicker, more forceful response to the assault, complained of "Monday-morning quarterbacking." Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground.

But Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, in a post published Friday, doubted Panetta's explanation and said the fault must lie with Obama himself. "Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No," Kristol wrote. "It would have been a presidential decision."

"He's wrong," said Vietor.

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi: Aide | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Foxnews right wing propaganda.and Conservative rag Weekly Standard.

Earth-shattering. An Obama lackey defending his boss.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

After watching the feed from the drone of our Consulate being wiped out and Ambassador killed, Obama went to Vegas

 

[Plasmaball]

President Clinton says, "It depends on how you define 'denied.'"

thats not very witty

Neither are big birds in the white house who go "pock, pock, pock, p' dock!" when an American's life is endangered by Muslin terrorists.

abort yourself please

 

[daveman]

Ok, if the white house didn't deny it, who did?

Logistics. Firstly, there was no way of knowing exactly what was going on and secondly, if they did, no way to get forces there in time.

Alas, reality says leftist horseshit is just that -- horseshit.

The PJ Tatler » AC-130U Gunship was On-Scene in Benghazi, Obama Admin Refused to Let It Fire (Updated)

The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.​

There were two AC-130Us deployed to Libya in March as part of Operation Unified Protector.

The AC-130U is a very effective third-generation fire-support aircraft, capable of continuous and extremely accurate fire onto multiple targets. It has been used numerous times in Iraq and Afghanistan to save pinned-down allied forces, and has even been credited with the surrender of the Taliban city of Kunduz

It was purpose-built for a select number of specific mission types, including point-defense against enemy attack. It was literally built for the kind of mission it could have engaged in over Benghazi, if the administration had let it fire. As the excerpt above clearly shows, we had assets on the ground “painting” the targets with the laser.​

 

[daveman]

Let's face it. Most people have no idea how the chain of command works and how decisions are made. Many times as in this case, the generals decide wheter to intercede and it never reaches the level of the president. If anyone erred, it was the generals who said it was too unknown and dangerous on the ground to send them in. If they had been massacred, the right would be bitching about that. The fault of this horrendous act falls upon the perpetrators and no one else!

A Spectre was in the neighborhood, and could have eliminated everything moving outside the building.

Kinda shoots your silly little argument out of the saddle, don't it?

 

[Wiseacre]

We shoulda been on alert and ready to respond, given the recent history in Benghazi and the attack on the Cairo embassy a couple of days before. We left our guys to die. Not a total loss though, I'm sure Obama got some more money in his campaign coffers at the campaign fundraiser in Nevada that he went to the next day.

 

[daveman]

thats not very witty

Neither are big birds in the white house who go "pock, pock, pock, p' dock!" when an American's life is endangered by Muslin terrorists.

abort yourself please

What's that? Your voice is muffled with all of Obama's shit in your mouth.

 

[mex]

thats not very witty

Neither are big birds in the white house who go "pock, pock, pock, p' dock!" when an American's life is endangered by Muslin terrorists.

abort yourself please

Yes Freedombecki... abort yourself. But do a thorough job... lest you end up like plasmaballs

 

[MisterBeale]

For those who aren't partisan and who are curious.
http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/257685-woods-father-calls-wh-murderers-liars-cowards-8.html#post6235057

 

[Vel]

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:
Aide

Fox News Channel reported Friday that American officials in the compound repeatedly asked for military help during the assault but were rebuffed by CIA higher-ups. At a press briefing one day earlier, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asked why there had not been a quicker, more forceful response to the assault, complained of "Monday-morning quarterbacking." Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground.

But Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, in a post published Friday, doubted Panetta's explanation and said the fault must lie with Obama himself. "Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No," Kristol wrote. "It would have been a presidential decision."

"He's wrong," said Vietor.

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi: Aide | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Foxnews right wing propaganda.and Conservative rag Weekly Standard.

So an over head real time feed from a Drone, and Intel from Human sources on the ground, were not enough intelligence to act?

You realize of course then someone needs to be Court Marshaled because Obama has claimed he order people to do what ever it took to get them help.

So either Obama is a liar, or his Military Commanders defied a Direct order from the CIC.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...-efforts-to-save-benghazi-security-officials/

It's a damned shame that we don't have a media willing to find out the truth.

 

[Oldstyle]

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:
Aide

Fox News Channel reported Friday that American officials in the compound repeatedly asked for military help during the assault but were rebuffed by CIA higher-ups. At a press briefing one day earlier, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asked why there had not been a quicker, more forceful response to the assault, complained of "Monday-morning quarterbacking." Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground.

But Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, in a post published Friday, doubted Panetta's explanation and said the fault must lie with Obama himself. "Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No," Kristol wrote. "It would have been a presidential decision."

"He's wrong," said Vietor.

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi: Aide | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Foxnews right wing propaganda.and Conservative rag Weekly Standard.

You REALLY buy Panetta's excuse that they didn't act because they didn't have enough information about what was happening on the ground in Libya? Gee, they only had reports coming in from the embassy, reports coming in from the Annex, live video feeds from both places and live video feeds from two different drones circling overhead. The only event that got more coverage than this one is the Super Bowl. It's hard to imagine how the Obama Administration could have had MORE information than what they did.

That excuse by Panetta is one of the more pathetic ones I've ever heard.

 

[theHawk]

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:
Aide

Fox News Channel reported Friday that American officials in the compound repeatedly asked for military help during the assault but were rebuffed by CIA higher-ups. At a press briefing one day earlier, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asked why there had not been a quicker, more forceful response to the assault, complained of "Monday-morning quarterbacking." Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground.

But Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, in a post published Friday, doubted Panetta's explanation and said the fault must lie with Obama himself. "Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No," Kristol wrote. "It would have been a presidential decision."

"He's wrong," said Vietor.

Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi: Aide | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Foxnews right wing propaganda.and Conservative rag Weekly Standard.

"He and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground."

Gee, isn't the Hussein THE top military commander?

The CIA was watching the incident happen live, you can damn well bet that the President knew what was going on. But like all spineless liberals, he choked in a time of crisis.



It was this administration's fault for not properly protecting the Embassy in the first place.

It was this administration that knew about attacks before 9/11, yet still denied requests for increased security.

It was this administration that watched the attack unfold but chose to ignore it and not send in response teams that were on standby, resulting in four Americans dying.

It was this administration that lied about the whole incident to the American public and the world by claiming it was just a mob gone out of control over a youtube video.

It is this administration that continues to lie about its own knowledge of events, and is playing dumb, stonewalling until after the election.

 

[Erand7899]

Ok, if the white house didn't deny it, who did?

Logistics. Firstly, there was no way of knowing exactly what was going on and secondly, if they did, no way to get forces there in time.

Pure nonsense. Fast reaction teams were 2 hours away in Italy, along with AC-130 gunships, and F-16 fighters.

The White House and the major command centers had real time knowledge of the situation from experienced combat personnel on the ground, and had a predator drone overhead for most of the time. They knew more about that combat arena than a commander usually knows before they move men into a combat situation.

Just another part of the garbage that the administration is throwing out instead of taking the heat they deserve for the whole cluster fuck.

 

[Politico]

It's easy to see who hasn't been in the military,