Oldtimer said:
Since you seem to be all bent out of shape over the State Dept deaths in Libya-- answer me a couple of questions....
How many State Dept employees died in Iraq-- and did you get as up tight about all those State Dept employees that died in Iraq as you did with those that died in Libya?
Or does "your politics" make dying different :???:
As far as I'm concerned- we as a country- and they as State Dept employees/contractors should not have been in either country-- until the governments of those countries can guarantee their safety....
I haven't kept up with BC's thoughts on this issue, but from my viewpoint, the outrage from the right seems to center around two main points 1) that the SD staff there asked for more security that wasn't forthcoming and 2) that the President, the CIA, FBI, etc all knew within hours of the attack that it was terrorist-driven and had NOTHING to do with a spontaneous riot over some silly film....yet the Obama admin and Susan Rice pushed this story for about a week. Why?
I've read numerous details of the history of the embassy staff asking for more security and in my humble opinion, this aspect of the friction between right and left is a bit more of a grey area.....that is, more subject to intrepretation.
On the topic of what the Obama administration told the American public re what happened in Libya, versus what they obviously knew, there is no grey area in my opinion. It's obvious they flat-out lied.....probably to protect the picture Obama had painted that al Queda was on its knees since HE had taken out bin Laden.
Now on another topic related to the theme of this thread, I recall numerous posts of yours OT over the Bush years where you were outraged about his "trampling of the US Constitution". How many times did you call the man King George because of this trampling? Care for me to dig up a few of those juicy quotes to prove that I know what I'm saying?
Hypo brought up a very important point.....Obama's complete failure to follow the US Constitution and consult with the US Congress and get their approval before commiting US forces to military action in Libya. When it was all taking place, it almost seemed surreal to me.....only the most principled of liberals were p****d about what Obama was doing, every one else on the left, including you OT, looked the other way, or did the contortionist routine to explain why it wasn't necessary. IT WAS NECESSARY ACCORDING TO THE US CONSTITUTION.
So I ask you, OldBagofWind, did you get as up tight about Obama trampling the US Constitution as you did when you claimed King George had done so?
Or does "your politics" make Obama's trampling of the US Constitution different :???: