I wasn't specifically referring to her statement about the drone being in the air from the moment the first shot was fired....it wasn't.....but it was there DAMNED fast; a hell of a lot faster than you try to make it sound. And to suggest that there wasn't a live stream to the situation room is fucking laughable....that's one of the primary purposes of the fucking thing, jack ass
The drone was there 2 1/2 hours after the attack started, according to Panetta.
"according to Panetta" is very significant. Look at the timeline, Ravi. Obama was in a meeting with Biden and Panetta at 5:00 PM Washington time. That would be one hour after the attack started. Let's put this in perspctive...just follow me for a second here....
1) Do you really think Ambassador Stevens tried to fight off this attack for two hours against 150-200 terrorists with AK-47s and RPGs before he made his first call for help? Would you wait that long? Don't you think a US Ambassador in a nation like Libya would have direct line to the White House, Department of Defense, State Department, etc on speed dial?
2) If Obama was in a meeting with Panetta and Biden one hour after the attack began you hav to assume they were talking about this situation. I mean....unless you want to suggest that they just
happened to be there. Come on. They were called in. Now trace it back...give 15 minutes for everyone to get there, give another 10 minutes for the information that we were under attack to get to everyone and coordinate....that means Obama knew what was going on within 35 minutes of the attack commencing.
3) If I am president I say the following: get me some information on what the hell is going on and get it NOW, get our special forces on alert and get them into position if it becomes necessary to strike, I want planes in the air awaiting my orders and get the C150s heading that direction, I want to know what assets we have, their strength, their proximity and the time it will take to mobilize them. Everything I have posted above means that only one hour has passed since the attack started.....
yet the first drone was not diverted to gain intel for another 90 minutes?!?!?!? What the hell were they doing? Our military technology is the most advanced in the world and it took us 90 minutes to realize we had a recon drone in the area in the sky? Bullshit.
4) So they divert the drone to gather intel. Let's say it takes an hour to get there as it's already in the sky. It should be arriving after 2 hours of fighting if it was deployed expediently, but it's actually arriving after 3 1/2 because of the unexplained delay. Now despite what Ed and the other jack ass say, the drone is designed to provide live streaming video...we have had it in combat situations doing that job for 17 years.
It's absolutely unconceivable to suggest that Obama didn't have access to the video feed. I mean come on Ravi...I have enough respect for you that I
know you realize that. Now we have experience with this technology...we have been using it in Iraq and Afghanistan....30 minutes max to appraise the situation. Yet they didn't deploy the second drone for another four hours?!?!?!?!? They should have an idea of what was going on after 2 1/2 hours, yet after 6 1/2 hours all they have done is deploy a second drone?
Now think about this for a second. Fighters could have been there strafing and delivering ordinance in under an hour with deadly precision from Italy. The C150s only a few minutes later...according to the timeline they
could have been delivering air support in less than three hours, yet 6 1/2 hours later all they had was another drone in the air? Good God!!!! The "we don't want to violate their airspace" argument is a joke. Benghazi is a coastal city...our forces could have circled over the sea in international waters while waiting for the order to engage and struck inside of two minutes. The "we didn't know the situation" argument is a joke....you have a $38 million aircraft that was designed for the specific purpose of providing that intel flying overhead.
Ravi.........love ya though I do........BULLSHIT! I mean come on!!!!
The timeline on intel gathering was 2 1/2 hours, air support in three, special forces on the gound mounting a rescue operation in 3 1/2....but by three and a half real time all they had done was get the first drone there....and this all comes back to Obama because he is the only one as Commander in Chief who can give these orders.
He failed and Americans are dead as a result....and he followed it all up by lying over and over to the American people about a fucking video on youtube.
Was it "evil"...I mean foul intent by Obama with some evil deed and scheme in mind? No I don't think that at all. But was it incompetent? Oh hell yes. Did he fumble the ball? Fuck yes he did. Is he involved in a cover up to hide that incompetence? I don't see how anyone can come to any other conclusion. Is the President of the United States of America responsible for this failure...
you're God damned right he is and he should be held accountable.