Benghazi: “It’s gone, baby. It’s in your head. That’s the only place”

[dilloduck]

“It’s gone, baby. It’s in your head. That’s the only place”


During a heated discussion on Fox News Sunday, former Bush administration official Karl Rove regurgitated GOP claims that “someone constructed a lie” that the incident resulted from “a spontaneous reaction to a video no one saw” and suggested Obama refused to scramble necessary military assets to save the U.S. personnel. Conservative commentator Brit Hume agreed, adding, “the list of questions that remain unanswered to this day are what make this a legitimate topic of conversation. I’m sorry to say this is not over.”

Williams disputed these charges point by point and explained that months of Republican-led Congressional hearings had been unable to uncover any evidence of a cover up. “It’s gone, baby. It’s in your head. That’s the only place,” he added.

So the way we treat the deaths of 4 Americans, including one of our Ambassadors, is to at first pretend it was something it wasn't...then stonewall the investigation by withholding witnesses and evidence from Congress...and then declare that it's "old news"?

I know that Juan Williams and many other progressives would LIKE for Benghazi to be "gone"...it won't BE gone until those responsible for what happened that day are held accountable...something which has not happened.

but it's embarrassing-----and Syria might pop up. We can't have our little secrets exposed now can we ?

 

[MarcATL]

you and people like are a shame, to our country

you're more worried people hating on some President than care about they screwed up and cost people their lives

You mean like how you far RW radical Republicans STILL defend Bush II VOCIFEROUSLY to this day? And he was an unmitigated FAILURE of a President. Are you talking about that type of shameful uberpartisanship?

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
bush

LOLing @ your response.

I love it!


lol

 

[Oldstyle]

Not to point out the OBVIOUS, Marc...but with each passing month Barry continues to demonstrate that he is woefully unprepared for the job he currently holds.

What you're seeing right now with the debacle that is his foreign policy in the Middle East is someone who doesn't have a CLUE what they are doing...someone who has surrounded himself with equally clueless ideologues who also don't have a clue about governing.

Barack Obama's reputation abroad is rapidly becoming a "punch line" to a bad joke.

 

[S.J.]

This thread illustrates just how calloused the left is to the value of human life. The only thing important to them is holding on to power. The OP is as disgusting as our president and his power-grabbing policies.

 

[MarcATL]

Not to point out the OBVIOUS, Marc...but with each passing month Barry continues to demonstrate that he is woefully unprepared for the job he currently holds.

What you're seeing right now with the debacle that is his foreign policy in the Middle East is someone who doesn't have a CLUE what they are doing...someone who has surrounded himself with equally clueless ideologues who also don't have a clue about governing.

Barack Obama's reputation abroad is rapidly becoming a "punch line" to a bad joke.

That's your opinion.

Thanks for sharing it though.

 

[rdean]

Republicans, who cut embassy security budgets, are "outraged" over for deaths in Libya. The only American deaths by the way. But the four thousand who died in Iraq? Not so much. In fact, they don't even care. Because it's a GOP scandal. Not one they hope to blame on Obama.

By the way, you do know that Republicans raised embassy security budgets by two billion? Right? If it wasn't needed, why did they do that?

 

[American_Jihad]

Republicans, who cut embassy security budgets, are "outraged" over for deaths in Libya. The only American deaths by the way. But the four thousand who died in Iraq? Not so much. In fact, they don't even care. Because it's a GOP scandal. Not one they hope to blame on Obama.

By the way, you do know that Republicans raised embassy security budgets by two billion? Right? If it wasn't needed, why did they do that?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Republicans, who cut embassy security budgets, are "outraged" over for deaths in Libya. The only American deaths by the way. But the four thousand who died in Iraq? Not so much. In fact, they don't even care. Because it's a GOP scandal. Not one they hope to blame on Obama.

By the way, you do know that Republicans raised embassy security budgets by two billion? Right? If it wasn't needed, why did they do that?

Did Republicans cut the security budget or raise it? Make up your mind you stupid piece of shit.


Let's quash this 'Blame Benghazi on Budget Cuts' shit right now...

1. The Senate never voted on nor did Obama sign into law the Ryan Budget; thus, the Republican budget cuts never took effect.

2. Sequestration did not take effect until 6 months after the Benghazi attack and, at the time of the event, very few in Washington expected Sequestration to ever go into effect; thus, it is ludicrous to attempt to connect Benghazi to Sequestration.

3. In response to the question 'Was there any budget consideration and lack of budget which led you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?' posed during a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on 10 October 2012, Charlene Lamb, a deputy assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, answered: 'No, sir.'

Recall that Lamb is the person, who denied requests from the top diplomatic security officer in Libya to retain a 16-man team of military personnel who had been protecting diplomats. It is only logical that SHE WOULD KNOW.

4. In an email exchange between Diplomatic Security Chief Financial Officer, Robert Baldre, and Assistant Secretary of State, Eric Boswell, on 28 September 2012, Mr Baldre flatly states: 'I do not feel that we have ever been at a point where we sacrificed security due to a lack of funding...Typically, Congress has provided sufficient funding.'

5. A lack of funding could not have been at issue with regard to the rejection of the request to extend the deployment of the SST, as that team was provided via the Defence Department at no expense to the State Department.

6. The White House and the State Department easily found $70,000 to air ads in Pakistan denouncing the 'hateful video' and condemning those who purportedly used it to justify their behaviour.

7. On 11 September 2012, while the Benghazi consulate was inadequately staffed - a finding made by the State Department Accountability Review Board - the American Embassy in the Bahamas had a full contingent from the Marine Embassy Guard.. In fact, a mere 3 weeks earlier, they held a fitness drill and jamboree for the Islanders.

8. The State Department could find the money to fund Secretary Clinton's 'U.S. Celebrity Chefs World Tour' initiative and, four days after it denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the American mission in Libya to continue their use of a DC-3 airplane for security operations throughout the country, the State Department authorised the American Embassy in Vienna to purchase a $108,000 electric vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts. Also, the American Embassy in Cairo could find the money to purchase $38,000's worth of Barack Obama's autobiographies to disseminate amongst the locals.

9. While there had been 234 terrorist attacks in Libya in the 16 months preceding the attack on the American Consulate, including 48 in Benghazi alone (including 2 attacks on the American Consulate, 2 attempts on the life of the British Ambassador, and the Red Cross, and every humanitarian post located there), the State Department REFUSED TO INCREASE SECURITY per the request of the Libyan diplomatic mission, including Ambassador Chris Stevens himself, and in fact DECREASED it.

And, the idea that the attack on the Benghazi Consulate was unforeseeable, recall that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was, PERSONALLY, aware of the fact that our Ambassador had to be sneaked into the country on a cargo ship BECAUSE IT WAS SO DANGEROUS.

10. At the time of the attack, the State Department had $2.1 billion on hand and had been granted another $1.9 billion by Congress.

 

[HomeInspect]

Had this had happened under a Pubbie administration, the media would have had their nooses out, and the hangings would have happened months ago.

Hey Jackass, who got hanged for 9/11/2001? Any arrests? That was a known failure...in fact the BIGGEST failure on American soil ever. Anyone...?

Hey Shit for Brians, what does 9-11 have to do with Americans yelling for help in an embassy thats being attacked, and an adminstration ignoring it. What an idiotic deflection. Again, the MSM has done its best to bury this issue, as it makes the mistake they put in office look bad.

 

[Oldstyle]

Not to point out the OBVIOUS, Marc...but with each passing month Barry continues to demonstrate that he is woefully unprepared for the job he currently holds.

What you're seeing right now with the debacle that is his foreign policy in the Middle East is someone who doesn't have a CLUE what they are doing...someone who has surrounded himself with equally clueless ideologues who also don't have a clue about governing.

Barack Obama's reputation abroad is rapidly becoming a "punch line" to a bad joke.

That's your opinion.

Thanks for sharing it though.

That's been my opinion for quite some time, Marc...what should worry you is that is now also the opinion of many people who viewed him favorably when he took office.

 

[whitehall]

A freaking Ambassador and three others including two retired Navy Seals were murdered while Obama was eating pizza. Who told the Military to "stand down"? Does anyone but the radical left believe that the Libyan mob was influenced by an obscure You-Tube video? Juan Williams is paid to defend Obama and Fox uses him as a left wing stooge. The murders ain't in our heads Juan, they really happened. I expect the Hussein administration might want to call Benghazi another example of workplace violence so he can sweep it under the rug.

 

[Oldstyle]

Republicans, who cut embassy security budgets, are "outraged" over for deaths in Libya. The only American deaths by the way. But the four thousand who died in Iraq? Not so much. In fact, they don't even care. Because it's a GOP scandal. Not one they hope to blame on Obama.

By the way, you do know that Republicans raised embassy security budgets by two billion? Right? If it wasn't needed, why did they do that?

Still trying to get that "Republicans cut embassy security budgets" dog to hunt, Deanie? Even though it's been stated REPEATEDLY that embassy security budget cuts had no effect on what took place in Libya?

Why was there a need to raise embassy security AFTER the Benghazi debacle? Well, for starters...extremists just succeeded in killing one of our Ambassadors and nobody has been punished for doing so! Think that might embolden a few terrorists out there? Duh?

 

[Oldstyle]

What was the criminal activity conducted by Obama and/or anyone in his Administration concerning Benghazi?

This goes out to anyone.

You've had a year of focusing on this one issue on the far RW radical fringe.

What EVIDENCE have you come up thus far?

I'll give you forever.

Go for it.

Total and utter incompetence isn't a criminal offense, Marc. They fucked the pooch on Benghazi just as they fucked the pooch on Syria. You just can't bring yourself to admit that you've backed an idiot.

 

[MarcATL]

Had this had happened under a Pubbie administration, the media would have had their nooses out, and the hangings would have happened months ago.

Hey Jackass, who got hanged for 9/11/2001? Any arrests? That was a known failure...in fact the BIGGEST failure on American soil ever. Anyone...?

Hey Shit for Brians, what does 9-11 have to do with Americans yelling for help in an embassy thats being attacked, and an adminstration ignoring it. What an idiotic deflection. Again, the MSM has done its best to bury this issue, as it makes the mistake they put in office look bad.

Post a credible link proving your bogus claims Jackass.

 

[MarcATL]

What was the criminal activity conducted by Obama and/or anyone in his Administration concerning Benghazi?

This goes out to anyone.

You've had a year of focusing on this one issue on the far RW radical fringe.

What EVIDENCE have you come up thus far?

I'll give you forever.

Go for it.

Total and utter incompetence isn't a criminal offense, Marc. They fucked the pooch on Benghazi just as they fucked the pooch on Syria. You just can't bring yourself to admit that you've backed an idiot.

AKA...there's no "there" there.

You people are CLASSIC!!


lol

 

[kwc57]

What was the criminal activity conducted by Obama and/or anyone in his Administration concerning Benghazi?

This goes out to anyone.

You've had a year of focusing on this one issue on the far RW radical fringe.

What EVIDENCE have you come up thus far?

I'll give you forever.

Go for it.

Total and utter incompetence isn't a criminal offense, Marc. They fucked the pooch on Benghazi just as they fucked the pooch on Syria. You just can't bring yourself to admit that you've backed an idiot.

AKA...there's no "there" there.

You people are CLASSIC!!


lol

And you are.......

 

[MarcATL]

Face it RWers, you guys have nothing on Obama...NOTHING.

You can't even post what was incompetent about Ben-gah-zee.


lol

 

[MarcATL]

What was the criminal activity conducted by Obama and/or anyone in his Administration concerning Benghazi?

This goes out to anyone.

You've had a year of focusing on this one issue on the far RW radical fringe.

What EVIDENCE have you come up thus far?

I'll give you forever.

Go for it.

Total and utter incompetence isn't a criminal offense, Marc. They fucked the pooch on Benghazi just as they fucked the pooch on Syria. You just can't bring yourself to admit that you've backed an idiot.

Really?

Describe how.

Detail how "they EFFed the pooch" as you so intelligently put it.

 

[Wyld Kard]

Face it RWers, you guys have nothing on Obama...NOTHING.

You can't even post what was incompetent about Ben-gah-zee.


lol

you guys have nothing on Obama...NOTHING

You're either really ignorant, or in denial.

 

[Mertex]

"Let them die" -- Obama's verdict on the Benghazi Consulate calls for help

Link?

I'm sure it'll be Faux News!

or Limp Rushbah!