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Did President Obama Let Four Americans Die In Benghazi?
Doug Johnson @ Wizbang:
Did President Obama Let Four Americans Die In Benghazi? | Flopping Aces
New details about the assassination of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya are still coming out daily. Just the other day we learned about e-mails from the Embassy in Tripoli sent to the State Department and the White House situation room detailing the attack in progress and that terrorists claimed responsibility. Now we are finding out that the attack lasted for seven hours and that our government was watching a live feed of the attack in progress. That begs the question, why didnt we respond with military force?
Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, one of those killed in the attack is now publicly questioning who made decided to respond with force to the attack on our. From The Weekly Standard:
Apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help. My son wasnt even there. He was at a safe house about a mile away. He got the distress call; he heard them crying for help; thats why he and Glen risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation. And Im sure that wasnt the only one received that distress callyou know, come save our lives Im sure that other people in the military, in the State Department, in the White House, received that same call that he would receive. And Im sure that most military people would jump at the chance to protect that life [and] not leave anyone behind.
Woods made clear that he isnt mad, but that he wants to the truth to be told because he feels abandoned.
Woods says he was told by military officials that the military could have come above [the area] and completely carpeted area, and therefore saved the officials in Benghazi, Libya. But that someone gave the command for the American military not to save the lives of the Americans under attack.
When I heard, you know, that theres a very good chance that the White House as well as other members of the military knew what was going on and obviously someone had to say, dont go rescue them. Because every person in the militarytheir first response [would be], were going to go rescue them. We need to find out who it was that gave that commanddo not rescue them.
Picking up from there is IBD:
Scandal: More than six hours after terrorists attacked our consulate, former Navy SEALs manned a blood-soaked machine gun to defend U.S. territory. Meanwhile Apache helicopters sat on the ground in Italy.
At 4 a.m. local time on Sept. 11 six hours and 20 minutes after the initial attack began former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed at the CIA annex not far from the consulate by a mortar shell. The machine gun they were firing was encrusted with blood, an indication they continued to fight after being wounded.
During that eternity, Woods and Doherty might have wondered between gunfire and explosions where the military, with bases strewn across Europe, was. U.S. forces were indeed being moved like chess pieces as the attack unfolded, but none came to their aid because no one gave the order.
The last two casualties occurred well over six hours after the initial attack, Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham noted. It is disappointing to hear that our national command authorities failed to try to reinforce the consulate with timely air assets, and that a consulate located in one of the most dangerous regions in the world was so unsecured.
At The Washington Times gets the administrations non-answer answer today:
Read more:
Did President Obama Let Four Americans Die In Benghazi? | Wizbang
Doug Johnson @ Wizbang:
Did President Obama Let Four Americans Die In Benghazi? | Flopping Aces
New details about the assassination of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya are still coming out daily. Just the other day we learned about e-mails from the Embassy in Tripoli sent to the State Department and the White House situation room detailing the attack in progress and that terrorists claimed responsibility. Now we are finding out that the attack lasted for seven hours and that our government was watching a live feed of the attack in progress. That begs the question, why didnt we respond with military force?
Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, one of those killed in the attack is now publicly questioning who made decided to respond with force to the attack on our. From The Weekly Standard:
Apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help. My son wasnt even there. He was at a safe house about a mile away. He got the distress call; he heard them crying for help; thats why he and Glen risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation. And Im sure that wasnt the only one received that distress callyou know, come save our lives Im sure that other people in the military, in the State Department, in the White House, received that same call that he would receive. And Im sure that most military people would jump at the chance to protect that life [and] not leave anyone behind.
Woods made clear that he isnt mad, but that he wants to the truth to be told because he feels abandoned.
Woods says he was told by military officials that the military could have come above [the area] and completely carpeted area, and therefore saved the officials in Benghazi, Libya. But that someone gave the command for the American military not to save the lives of the Americans under attack.
When I heard, you know, that theres a very good chance that the White House as well as other members of the military knew what was going on and obviously someone had to say, dont go rescue them. Because every person in the militarytheir first response [would be], were going to go rescue them. We need to find out who it was that gave that commanddo not rescue them.
Picking up from there is IBD:
Scandal: More than six hours after terrorists attacked our consulate, former Navy SEALs manned a blood-soaked machine gun to defend U.S. territory. Meanwhile Apache helicopters sat on the ground in Italy.
At 4 a.m. local time on Sept. 11 six hours and 20 minutes after the initial attack began former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed at the CIA annex not far from the consulate by a mortar shell. The machine gun they were firing was encrusted with blood, an indication they continued to fight after being wounded.
During that eternity, Woods and Doherty might have wondered between gunfire and explosions where the military, with bases strewn across Europe, was. U.S. forces were indeed being moved like chess pieces as the attack unfolded, but none came to their aid because no one gave the order.
The last two casualties occurred well over six hours after the initial attack, Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham noted. It is disappointing to hear that our national command authorities failed to try to reinforce the consulate with timely air assets, and that a consulate located in one of the most dangerous regions in the world was so unsecured.
At The Washington Times gets the administrations non-answer answer today:
Read more:
Did President Obama Let Four Americans Die In Benghazi? | Wizbang
