Hillary: "What difference does it make?"

[BullKurtz]

The left wants to believe Hillary's role in the slaughter of Americans in Benghazi will blow over and she'll follow Barry into the WH and another 8 years of stalinist tactics to destroy the basic American freedoms we still have. The problem we have is to get the low-information voter to understand what happened in Benghazi and why. And to know they are no less a disposable pawn in this game than those she sent to Libya and abandoned.

In a Fox News Exclusive by Catherine Herridge, U.S. security officials were briefed on the location of “approximately ten Islamist militias and A.Q. training camps within Benghazi.”

Considering the June attack on the consulate, the August emergency meeting, and over 200 terror-related incidents in Libya since strongman Muammar Qaddafi was ousted, the U.S. embassy in Tripoli repeatedly requested additional security from State Dept. headquarters in Washington.First reported

So what did then-Secretary Hillary Clinton and staff do?

While staff turned down multiple media requests, she got out of town. Literally.

She packed her backs and traveled the world, visiting 112 countries, the most ever by any Secretary of State, and according to State Dept. records, logged nearly 1 million miles.

When she returned to work in early January 2013 after a month-long series of illnesses, including a reported concussion, her staff proudly presented her with a football helmet and blue jersey with 112 emblazoned on the back.

Yet perhaps Ms. Clinton’s penchant for globetrotting contributed to disaster in Benghazi?

After all, in the three months between terrorist attacks on the Benghazi consulate, Ms. Clinton visited 31 countries on 7 different trips. These trips included destinations like diplomatic, economic and military heavyweights Mongolia, South Sudan, Benin, Laos, Vietnam, Latvia, Timor Leste, Senegal, Cambodia, Ghana, Uganda… and 20 other countries.

On August 30, just 12 days before the U.S. Consulate was overrun in a coordinated terrorist attack and four Americans were murdered, Clinton was in Rarotonga, a South Pacific island between New Zealand and Hawaii, population 13,000. Judging by the festive, tropical welcome party pics, it looks like it was a fun time.

No wonder the secretary didn’t have time to read all those pesky diplomatic cables she whined about during Congressional testimony on Benghazi in January 2013.

Perhaps in Ms. Clinton’s boundless ambition to be America’s best Secretary of State ever, maybe she was actually the worst. It’s not rocket science.

Instead of doing her basic job, including “must dos” like responding to imminent security threats to U.S. diplomatic posts in dangerous places like Benghazi, she was doing the “nice to dos” like visiting Rarotonga.

But to quote Ms. Clinton, “what difference does it make?” Americans ought to remind her -- and never forget.

Did Hillary Clinton?s globetrotting ways as Secretary of State contribute to Benghazi disaster? | Fox News

 

[rightwinger]

You mean Hillary didn't care about Americans being killed?

America needs to know this. You should start more threads

 

[Freewill]

I am quite sure Hillary cares about the deaths of those men, it dealt her political career a stomach punch. I think if she had it to do over she would have actually did her job and avoided the deaths.

 

[Claudette]

Yup. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Her State Department dropped the ball big time on Benghazi. No one was punished. No heads rolled.

I'm sure if she had it to do over again she would have upped security, closed the embassy like the Brits and Red Cross did. Or mayby not. She certainly doesn't appear to give shit one about four dead men any more than Barry did.

"What difference does it make."

Four good men died because of the incompetence of her State Department.

As Truman said, "The buck stops here."

 

[rightwinger]

What is wrong with Hillary?

How can she not care that Americans were killed?

Republicans need to make Benghazi their number one issue in 2016. We also need more Congressional inquiries....ten is not enough

 

[PoliticalChic]

Yup. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Her State Department dropped the ball big time on Benghazi. No one was punished. No heads rolled.

I'm sure if she had it to do over again she would have upped security, closed the embassy like the Brits and Red Cross did. Or mayby not. She certainly doesn't appear to give shit one about four dead men any more than Barry did.

"What difference does it make."

Four good men died because of the incompetence of her State Department.

As Truman said, "The buck stops here."

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy makes the following informed observation that might explain Hillary's motivations....


"This seems to me as meaningful a distinction as whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a notorious Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, had some formal understanding with the group or was “merely” a champion of Islamic supremacists who happened to be in charge of shaping American foreign policy."
Red herrings by Andrew C. McCarthy - The New Criterion

 

[Sarah G]

I am quite sure Hillary cares about the deaths of those men, it dealt her political career a stomach punch. I think if she had it to do over she would have actually did her job and avoided the deaths.

Doesn't seem that way to me. You all really liked her more than Obama but now that it's getting closer to her running for president, you seem to be grasping for talking points once again.

Try concentrating on finding at least one smart Republican who might be able to win back the WH over her.

 

[TheOldSchool]

What is wrong with Hillary?

How can she not care that Americans were killed?

Republicans need to make Benghazi their number one issue in 2016. We also need more Congressional inquiries....ten is not enough

Yes. And make sure Americans remember that she was in cahoots with a muslim President that was born in Madagascar who tried to destroy America by throwing gays at the south.

 

[rightwinger]

What is wrong with Hillary?

How can she not care that Americans were killed?

Republicans need to make Benghazi their number one issue in 2016. We also need more Congressional inquiries....ten is not enough

Yes. And make sure Americans remember that she was in cahoots with a muslim President that was born in Madagascar who tried to destroy America by throwing gays at the south.

This is serious

Benghazi was the worst terrorist attack ever inflicted on the US.....and Hillary says what difference does it make?

I'm thinking prison here

 

[TheOldSchool]

What is wrong with Hillary?

How can she not care that Americans were killed?

Republicans need to make Benghazi their number one issue in 2016. We also need more Congressional inquiries....ten is not enough

Yes. And make sure Americans remember that she was in cahoots with a muslim President that was born in Madagascar who tried to destroy America by throwing gays at the south.

This is serious

Benghazi was the worst terrorist attack ever inflicted on the US.....and Hillary says what difference does it make?

I'm thinking prison here

Guantanimo

 

[bendog]

Good news for Hill.

Ryan won?t run for White House in 2016, his GOP colleagues say | TheHill

 

[BullKurtz]

What is wrong with Hillary?

How can she not care that Americans were killed?

Republicans need to make Benghazi their number one issue in 2016. We also need more Congressional inquiries....ten is not enough

Yes. And make sure Americans remember that she was in cahoots with a muslim President that was born in Madagascar who tried to destroy America by throwing gays at the south.

This is serious

Benghazi was the worst terrorist attack ever inflicted on the US.....and Hillary says what difference does it make?

I'm thinking prison here

You're quite the comedian.....sitting there in the safety of your hovel safe and sound from the jackals who'd sodomize you and then cut your throat like they did to our Ambassador and his security team. Yep, real funny stuff....maybe Letterman should have you on....he thinks this is all a joke too. Throw in a couple jokes about raping Sarah Palin's little daughter and shitting in Sarah's mouth....go for it, make us laugh some more.

 

[TheOldSchool]

You're quite the comedian.....sitting there in the safety of your hovel safe and sound from the jackals who'd sodomize you and then cut your throat like they did to our Ambassador and his security team. Yep, real funny stuff....maybe Letterman have you on....he thinks this is all a joke too....go for it, make us laugh some more.

Why are you mad at those people??? Don't waste this opportunity on them! Get Hillary!!!

 

[BullKurtz]

You're quite the comedian.....sitting there in the safety of your hovel safe and sound from the jackals who'd sodomize you and then cut your throat like they did to our Ambassador and his security team. Yep, real funny stuff....maybe Letterman should have you on....he thinks this is all a joke too. Throw in a couple jokes about raping Sarah Palin's little daughter and shitting in Sarah's mouth....go for it, make us laugh some more..

Why are you mad at those people??? Don't waste this opportunity on them! Get Hillary!!!

Weaker than usual....long night, short on Vaseline, ass tore up?

 

[TheOldSchool]

You're quite the comedian.....sitting there in the safety of your hovel safe and sound from the jackals who'd sodomize you and then cut your throat like they did to our Ambassador and his security team. Yep, real funny stuff....maybe Letterman should have you on....he thinks this is all a joke too. Throw in a couple jokes about raping Sarah Palin's little daughter and shitting in Sarah's mouth....go for it, make us laugh some more..

Why are you mad at those people??? Don't waste this opportunity on them! Get Hillary!!!

Weaker than usual....long night, short on Vaseline, ass tore up?

I thought my other two were alright

 

[Little-Acorn]

Did worst part of our Benghazi failures come, not after the attacks, but BEFORE them?


People seem to be keying on the lies told by U.S. officials (up to and including the President) after the Benghazi attacks: They weren't real attacks, they were just protests that went wrong, they were due to a video etc.

That was a coverup, it is now clear. But a far worse coverup by the Obama administration was in place and running, long before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2012.

BACKGROUND

Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2010, by U.S. forces authorized by President Obama. He immediately added it to his campaign theme for reelection: "Bin Laden is dead, and GM is still alive!" And he began reducing security at various American installations, apparently to appease Middle Eastern people and emphasize how benign and cooperative the U.S. now was.

Al Qaeda turned out to be less dead than he had hoped, though, and began testing our defenses, protesting at embassies and Cairo and elsewhere, firing over the walls of various U.S. and British installations etc., and generally undermining Obama's hoped-for image as a peacemaker and diplomat.

Attacks against U.S. buildings in Egypt and Libya picked up in 2012. The embassy and consulate personnel requested more guards and reinforcements from Washington, but the requests were denied, to maintain the image of peaceful relations. Some barbed wire and concrete barriers were added to the Benghazi consulate. Night-vision security cameras were sent, but never installed.

ATTACKS BEFORE SEPT. 11, 2012

Several bombings took place in Benghazi as intelligence reports indicated a deteriorating security situation.

On April 6, two former security guards for the Benghazi consulate threw explosives over the consulate fence. There were no casualties.

A week later, a bomb targeted a convoy carrying the head of the UN mission to Libya. No one was killed.

The Red Cross was attacked in May, causing them to withdraw from Benghazi altogether.

In early June, a bomb was thrown at the front gate of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. No one was injured.

A bomb was placed against the wall of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in June, blowing a 12-foot hole in it. Further pleas for security improvements were denied by Washington.

A British convoy carrying the UK Ambassador was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades on June 11, injuring two.

REACTION

The Obama administration kept up their efforts at mollifying the militants. State Dept. security forces were replaced with Libyan personnel at Tripoli and Benghazi, and the number of American troops was reduced to a minimum. The administration was apparently concerned that sending American troops overseas while they were assuring the American people that our relations with those countries were improving, would raise the eyebrows of voters for the coming election.

The Obama administration arranged with the Libyan government for a Libyan quick-reaction force to help out in case of attack. Guards at the gates and perimeter of the Benghazi consulate compound, were replaced with Libyan personnel... and those guards were kept unarmed, equipped with only whistles and batons, to present a less offensive image to observers.

WHY WAS IT DONE?

Some people believe that the actions by the Obama administration were an attempt to make American voters (who had heard little about the spring and summer attacks) believe the situation was well in hand, with an election coming in November. Others speculate that the people in the Obama administration honestly and sincerely believed that negotiations, appeasement, and gestures of good will would defuse the situation and produce improved relations between the U.S. and various Muslim groups.

This belief in good will producing good results, is said to be a fundamental part of the Obama faction's ideology. And any attacks or protests are examined only with an eye toward figuring out how we need to approach the people involved and bring them over to our side. The idea that they can never be brought over to our side, is summarily rejected - further negotiations and appeals are the ONLY viable tools to be employed, since they will unquestionably result in eventual success.

RESULTS

By Sept. 2012, the number of American security personnel at the Benghazi consulate had been reduced to three. When Ambassador Stevens came on Sept. 9 for a five-day visit, two bodyguards accompanied him, bringing the total to five. Stevens had previously emailed his superiors in Washington, alerting them to a "security vacuum" in Benghazi. And just before Stevens' visit, the American Embassy warned that Libyan Officials had declared a "state of maximum alert" in Benghazi.

Today, Americans are still looking the wrong way when examining the attacks and the murders of Stevens and three other Americans. They are concentrating on the stories of "protests gone wrong", anger over a video, and other things that happened during and after the attacks themselves.

But the real, most tragic failures came long before the attacks.

Did the Obama administration and State Department deliberately pretend security could be safely reduced in our embassies and consulates, to craft an image of peace and success for the upcoming Nov. 2012 elections? Even as attacks against our facilities kept increasing over that spring and summer, and our personnel on the spot kept pleading for more reinforcements and security?

Did Obama basically trade four American lives in the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, for a bigger electoral margin in the Nov. elections?

 

[Sunni Man]

My fellow Republicans,

Face it, Benghazi is yesterdays news; and low on the list of things American voters are concerned about.

So give it up.......

We need to focus on finding an strong candidate to run against Hillary in 2016.

Otherwise, republicans can look forward to 8 more years of sucking hind tit. .....

 

[Little-Acorn]

Face it, Benghazi is yesterdays news;

The Democrats are absolutely relying on people believing that.

A short attention span is vital to keeping their voter base.

 

[BullKurtz]

My fellow Republicans,

Face it, Benghazi is yesterdays news; and low on the list of things American voters are concerned about.

So give it up.......

We need to focus on finding an strong candidate to run against Hillary in 2016.

Otherwise, republicans can look forward to 8 more years of sucking hind tit. .....

All the "phony scandals" aside, this one is TREASON.....pure and simple. Our people in Benghazi were cashed in for political expediency. If there was ever a more clear lesson to the leftist trash that their commisars care only for their themselves, this one is it. What makes it clear what serious danger we're in, is the media covering this up and telling us to "move on" "old news", yada yada. NO, this needs to stay on a front burner until even the leftist trash can't abide what's being done in their names.

 

[Sunni Man]

Face it, Benghazi is yesterdays news;

The Democrats are absolutely relying on people believing that.

A short attention span is vital to keeping their voter base.

An therein lies the problem.

We republican's need to quit worrying about what the democratic base thinks and does.

And concentrate on the Republican base with new idea's and solutions to our nations problems. .....