GOP pounces after news of CIA cable on Libya raid

[whitehall]

Incoherent foreign policy that relies on the threat of drones and NATO bombing while the wife of a former president and a world class enabler for his infidelity runs the state department. A political puppet is director of the CIA and the A.G. authorizes 3,000 illegal weapons shipped to Mexico. Meanwhile the freaking Military can't get a jihad terrorist who killed 13 of his own men to shave off his beard for his freaking trial. We really , really need to fire president Hussein.

 

[Dante]

yawn, you can only cry 'wolf' so many times before you put the rest of America to sleep


zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Wiseacre]

The State Dept knew in real time that the Benghazi attack was not a mob that got out of hand protesting a stupid video. A senior State Dept official testified to that last week before Congress. And the CIA station chief knew it too and forwarded that information to Washington. And yet the Obama adminstration sends out Susan Rice 5 days after the attack and sells the video story, as does Jay Carney and others in or associated with the administration. The president himself goes before the UN and sells the same crap, and does it again on the Letterman show.

Which means:

We were deliberately lied to for political reasons. Obama has been trying campaign on the idea that he has Al Qaida on the decline and this flies in the face of that narrative. So they lied and hoped the story would die because the MSM wasn't covering that aspect.

The feeble attempt to deflect criticism by saying we didn't know is bullshit. The State Dept knew, the Intel community knew, Fox News knew, how the **** does Obama not know? A US Amabassador is murdered, and he doesn't know what really happened? Bullshit, he knew and tried to deceive us.

So, we have at least 2 scandals here, the first is that the Benghazi embassy was woefully understaffed for security even though the ambassador and the security chief both repeated asked for additional help. This in light of the facts of earlier incidents there and also the attack on the British ambassador; it was a truly shameful event, that should have been prevented and managed far better than it was.

The 2nd scandal is of course the lies and deception. Past administrations have been guilty of such, it's not unprecedented. But that doesn't excuse it in the slightest, bad decisions were made for political reasons and as a result an American ambasador and 3 others are dead. We shall see how this plays out in monday night's debate. I'm hoping Romney nails Obama's ass to the wall on this one.

 

[Misty]

there were demonstrations at the time and the attack has been attributed to the video.

Bull ******* shit. No one knew about that video until the Obama admins. spoke of it. Think outside the trap. How would this look so close to the election. A terrorist attack on our embassy resulting in the brutal death of our ambassador. One who begged for more security.

Not cuz of a video but the rise of al Qaida. They knew Obama is weak proven by his apology and throwing under the bus of Hillary Clinton.

Open your mind.

 

[ScienceRocks]

You leftist don't care about the truth or about the future of this country. Anyone that could be for the shit you're for is nuts.

-You don't give a damn what happen in libya
-You don't give a damn what the president does
-You don't give a damn if our country does a greece
-You don't give a damn about anything

You people are jokes...WTF is happening to people these days is simply above logic.

 

[emptystep]

No, that would be Obama...he told us he was on hand to receive the caskets of the ambassador and the diplomatic personnel killed in Benghazi. The four Americans he let die rather than beef up their security after repeated requests...all the way back to June.

But Obama told all of us how he received the caskets off the plane before he told host Jon Stewart ON THE COMEDY CHANNEL that the killing of our Libyan ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans was "not optimal." Which seemed to piss-off the mother of one of the victims when she said..."My son is not very optimal - he is also very dead."

Should you have further interest here is a link...

Mother of Benghazi victim speaks out

And that is playing politics with tragedy?

Just that big hearted gesture of meeting the plane carrying the NOT OPTIMAL bodies of the dead diplomatic crew. I don't guess there's EVER BEEN a thoughtful gesture like that from a president. It must be a first. WOW...meeting the plane carrying his dead ambassador and the OPTIMALLY DEAD STAFF...

I just don't know how that sumbitch Obama found the time to do that. Wow!

Obama cares deeply for everyone of his staff. That he would intentionally put them in unnecessarily dangerous situations is a very misplaced accusation. That a 47%er, chickenhawk, or anyone else seeking to advance their own agenda, would play politics with those who served and payed the ultimate price for our freedom makes me slightly upset.

 

[Oddball]

Obama cares deeply for everyone of his staff.

He doesn't give a flying **** about anybody but himself.

If you didn't have your head stuffed up his ass, you might be able to recognize that.

 

[francoHFW]

there were demonstrations at the time and the attack has been attributed to the video.

Bull ******* shit. No one knew about that video until the Obama admins. spoke of it. Think outside the trap. How would this look so close to the election. A terrorist attack on our embassy resulting in the brutal death of our ambassador. One who begged for more security.

Not cuz of a video but the rise of al Qaida. They knew Obama is weak proven by his apology and throwing under the bus of Hillary Clinton.

Open your mind.

Change the channel, dupe- The Rush Limbaugh/fundie of Egypt had the whole Arab world protesting the video on 9/11/12. 50 people+ were killed. The CIA didn't CONCLUDE there was no protest in Bengazi until a week later. Many eyewitnesses were wrong.

Nobody lied but bomb throwing RW pundits. Best guess now is the attack in Bengazi was CLOSE to spontaneous, started after they heard the news of the protests in Cairo. But carry on with the blind RW hate/idiocy.

 

[MikeK]

Usama bin Laden was interviewed by PBS Frontline's John Miller in Afghanistan in 1998. During that interview bin Laden bitterly complained about the presence of a U.S. airbase in Mecca that was placed there to facilitate Operation Desert Storm and should have been removed but wasn't. He also complained about Israeli settlements expanding more deeply into Gaza. He told Miller that if the airbase was not removed, and if the Jewish settlements in Gaza were not withdrawn, the U.S. would have cause to regret it.

Early in the Bush presidency a series of reports of extremely suspicious activity, namely a group of Muslims enrolled in flight training who wished only to learn how to fly a passenger airline but not take off or land, reached his desk but were ignored.* A Presidential Daily Briefing in late 2000 warned that Usama bin Laden was planning an attack on the U.S. homeland. That warning was also ignored.** Shortly after that warning the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center took place.

But I've never heard any of this drum-pounding and blame-laying after that very clear example of gross and possibly criminal malfeasance on the part of the Bush Administration. And while it's possible the Obama Administration dropped the ball on the Benghazi assault (yet to be positively determined) the event comes nowhere near the level of negligence clearly demonstrated in the 9/11 example, nor do its consequences in any way compare in terms of magnitude.

* Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller

** http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=0

 

[Oddball]

BOOOOOOOOOSH!

And Oboingo hasn't lifted a finger to change a one of those policies.

Stuff it up your ass.

 

[SniperFire]

Usama bin Laden was interviewed by PBS Frontline's John Miller in Afghanistan in 1998. During that interview bin Laden bitterly complained about the presence of a U.S. airbase in Mecca that was placed there to facilitate Operation Desert Storm and should have been removed but wasn't. He also complained about Israeli settlements expanding more deeply into Gaza. He told Miller that if the airbase was not removed, and if the Jewish settlements in Gaza were not withdrawn, the U.S. would have cause to regret it.

Early in the Bush presidency a series of reports of extremely suspicious activity, namely a group of Muslims enrolled in flight training who wished only to learn how to fly a passenger airline but not take off or land, reached his desk but were ignored.* A Presidential Daily Briefing in late 2000 warned that Usama bin Laden was planning an attack on the U.S. homeland. That warning was also ignored.** Shortly after that warning the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center took place.

But I've never heard any of this drum-pounding and blame-laying after that very clear example of gross and possibly criminal malfeasance on the part of the Bush Administration. And while it's possible the Obama Administration dropped the ball on the Benghazi assault (yet to be positively determined) the event comes nowhere near the level of negligence clearly demonstrated in the 9/11 example, nor do its consequences in any way compare in terms of magnitude.

* Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller

** http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=0

You are talking about the military bases Clinton used for his useless 8 years of no-fly zones, aren't you? 9/11 was planned during this time.

 

[francoHFW]

That Bush I put there. To fix Raygun's mess.

 

[MikeK]

Usama bin Laden was interviewed by PBS Frontline's John Miller in Afghanistan in 1998. During that interview bin Laden bitterly complained about the presence of a U.S. airbase in Mecca that was placed there to facilitate Operation Desert Storm and should have been removed but wasn't. He also complained about Israeli settlements expanding more deeply into Gaza. He told Miller that if the airbase was not removed, and if the Jewish settlements in Gaza were not withdrawn, the U.S. would have cause to regret it.

Early in the Bush presidency a series of reports of extremely suspicious activity, namely a group of Muslims enrolled in flight training who wished only to learn how to fly a passenger airline but not take off or land, reached his desk but were ignored.* A Presidential Daily Briefing in late 2000 warned that Usama bin Laden was planning an attack on the U.S. homeland. That warning was also ignored.** Shortly after that warning the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center took place.

But I've never heard any of this drum-pounding and blame-laying after that very clear example of gross and possibly criminal malfeasance on the part of the Bush Administration. And while it's possible the Obama Administration dropped the ball on the Benghazi assault (yet to be positively determined) the event comes nowhere near the level of negligence clearly demonstrated in the 9/11 example, nor do its consequences in any way compare in terms of magnitude.

* Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller

** http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=0

You are talking about the military bases Clinton used for his useless 8 years of no-fly zones, aren't you? 9/11 was planned during this time.

I'm talking about the bin Sultan airbase which was positioned in Mecca for the express purpose of facilitating the so-called "Gulf War" by H.W. Bush in 1990. When that base was proposed it caused a furor among Saudi radicals who eventually tolerated it because Bush promised to remove it immediately after Iraq was evicted from Kuwait.

G.W. Bush quietly removed the base shortly after the 9/11 attack. He also pressured Sharon to evict the settlers from Gaza. Those are the reasons why there were no further attacks during his presidency. If he had done those things when the warnings of imminent terrorist activity commenced the 9/11 attack would not have happened.

Clinton's "no-fly" activities served to extend radical Moslem tolerance of the airbase subsequent to the "Gulf War," but when that activity ceased at the end of the Clinton Presidency the terrorist warnings began. And Bush ignored them.

 

[Oddball]

I'm talking about the bin Sultan airbase which was positioned in Mecca for the express purpose of facilitating the so-called "Gulf War" by H.W. Bush in 1990. When that base was proposed it caused a furor among Saudi radicals who eventually tolerated it because Bush promised to remove it immediately after Iraq was evicted from Kuwait.

G.W. Bush quietly removed the base shortly after the 9/11 attack. He also pressured Sharon to evict the settlers from Gaza. Those are the reasons why there were no further attacks during his presidency. If he had done those things when the warnings of imminent terrorist activity commenced the 9/11 attack would not have happened.

Clinton's "no-fly" activities served to extend radical Moslem tolerance of the airbase subsequent to the "Gulf War," but when that activity ceased at the end of the Clinton Presidency the terrorist warnings began. And Bush ignored them.

Dude, lay off the brown acid.

 

[Nova78]

Obama is covering up shit like a cat in a litter box.....

 

[SniperFire]

Usama bin Laden was interviewed by PBS Frontline's John Miller in Afghanistan in 1998. During that interview bin Laden bitterly complained about the presence of a U.S. airbase in Mecca that was placed there to facilitate Operation Desert Storm and should have been removed but wasn't. He also complained about Israeli settlements expanding more deeply into Gaza. He told Miller that if the airbase was not removed, and if the Jewish settlements in Gaza were not withdrawn, the U.S. would have cause to regret it.

Early in the Bush presidency a series of reports of extremely suspicious activity, namely a group of Muslims enrolled in flight training who wished only to learn how to fly a passenger airline but not take off or land, reached his desk but were ignored.* A Presidential Daily Briefing in late 2000 warned that Usama bin Laden was planning an attack on the U.S. homeland. That warning was also ignored.** Shortly after that warning the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center took place.

But I've never heard any of this drum-pounding and blame-laying after that very clear example of gross and possibly criminal malfeasance on the part of the Bush Administration. And while it's possible the Obama Administration dropped the ball on the Benghazi assault (yet to be positively determined) the event comes nowhere near the level of negligence clearly demonstrated in the 9/11 example, nor do its consequences in any way compare in terms of magnitude.

* Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller

** http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=0

You are talking about the military bases Clinton used for his useless 8 years of no-fly zones, aren't you? 9/11 was planned during this time.

I'm talking about the bin Sultan airbase which was positioned in Mecca for the express purpose of facilitating the so-called "Gulf War" by H.W. Bush in 1990. When that base was proposed it caused a furor among Saudi radicals who eventually tolerated it because Bush promised to remove it immediately after Iraq was evicted from Kuwait.

G.W. Bush quietly removed the base shortly after the 9/11 attack. He also pressured Sharon to evict the settlers from Gaza. Those are the reasons why there were no further attacks during his presidency. If he had done those things when the warnings of imminent terrorist activity commenced the 9/11 attack would not have happened.

Clinton's "no-fly" activities served to extend radical Moslem tolerance of the airbase subsequent to the "Gulf War," but when that activity ceased at the end of the Clinton Presidency the terrorist warnings began. And Bush ignored them.

Why didn't Clinton remove it during his 8 years if you knew it was such a problem?

 

[freedombecki]

Did someone sequester your brain?

Oh, it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

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[MikeK]

I'm talking about the bin Sultan airbase which was positioned in Mecca for the express purpose of facilitating the so-called "Gulf War" by H.W. Bush in 1990. When that base was proposed it caused a furor among Saudi radicals who eventually tolerated it because Bush promised to remove it immediately after Iraq was evicted from Kuwait.

G.W. Bush quietly removed the base shortly after the 9/11 attack. He also pressured Sharon to evict the settlers from Gaza. Those are the reasons why there were no further attacks during his presidency. If he had done those things when the warnings of imminent terrorist activity commenced the 9/11 attack would not have happened.

Clinton's "no-fly" activities served to extend radical Moslem tolerance of the airbase subsequent to the "Gulf War," but when that activity ceased at the end of the Clinton Presidency the terrorist warnings began. And Bush ignored them.

Dude, lay off the brown acid.

If these opaquely sarcastic one-liners are your best effort at participating in a serious discussion it would serve your image better to say nothing at all.

Presuming you are capable of intelligible expression, what is "Dude, lay off the brown acid" supposed to mean? If you disagree with what I wrote, why not at least try to frame an adult response? But if you can't do that, then why embarrass yourself in the eyes of anyone with an IQ above 75?

To approximately paraphrase Nancy Reagan, Just say nothing!

 

[Dante]

yawn, you can only cry 'wolf' so many times before you put the rest of America to sleep


zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

some things deserve repeating...


this is one of them.

 

[MikeK]

You are talking about the military bases Clinton used for his useless 8 years of no-fly zones, aren't you? 9/11 was planned during this time.

I'm talking about the bin Sultan airbase which was positioned in Mecca for the express purpose of facilitating the so-called "Gulf War" by H.W. Bush in 1990. When that base was proposed it caused a furor among Saudi radicals who eventually tolerated it because Bush promised to remove it immediately after Iraq was evicted from Kuwait.

G.W. Bush quietly removed the base shortly after the 9/11 attack. He also pressured Sharon to evict the settlers from Gaza. Those are the reasons why there were no further attacks during his presidency. If he had done those things when the warnings of imminent terrorist activity commenced the 9/11 attack would not have happened.

Clinton's "no-fly" activities served to extend radical Moslem tolerance of the airbase subsequent to the "Gulf War," but when that activity ceased at the end of the Clinton Presidency the terrorist warnings began. And Bush ignored them.

Why didn't Clinton remove it during his 8 years if you knew it was such a problem?

I can only guess at his reason for not doing so. But there is no question that the airbase, combined with our support of Israel, provoked the 9/11 attack. But if you doubt that I'll be happy to post the transcript of bin Laden's condemnations and the warning he issued in the 1998 interview.