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Something I didn't know about the Benghazi fiasco.

Whitewing

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331125/first-aid-living-bing-west

A U.S. ambassador is missing and his diplomatic team is desperately fighting off terrorist attacks. Our commander-in-chief and his national-security team in Washington are listening to the phone calls from the Americans under attack and watching real-time video from a drone circling overhead. Yet the U.S. military sends no aid. Why?

On September 11, at about 10 p.m. Libyan time (4 p.m. in Washington), Ambassador Chris Stevens and a small staff were inside our consulate in Benghazi when terrorists attacked. The consulate staff immediately contacted Washington and our embassy in Tripoli. The White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and numerous military headquarters monitored the entire battle in real time via the phone calls from Benghazi and video from a drone overhead.

Our diplomats fought for seven hours without any aid from outside the country. Four Americans died while the Obama national-security team and our military passively watched and listened. The administration is being criticized for ignoring security needs before the attack and for falsely attributing the assault to a mob. But the most severe failure has gone unnoticed: namely, a failure to aid the living.

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Worth a read. We could have done much more, but Obama fiddled while our consulate burned.
 

Mike

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Planes and/or helicopters sitting idle in Italy could have made it to Benghazi within a couple of hours.

Would you want that Coon in D.C. watching your back? Hell NO!!!!

He is directly responsible and should be tried for a "High Crime". :roll:
 

Faster horses

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Good work, Whitewing!

I had started another thread with the following:
The more revelations that are uncovered in the Benghazi, Libya terrorist attacks, the worse things appear for the Obama Administration.

According to Front Page Magazine, there was a Predator drone in the area that day. While drones are not full scale military aircraft or boots on the ground, they are stocked with weapons packages to include at least one Hellfire missile, which might have deterred a few bad guys from continuing their strike.

According to Front Page Magazine:


US forces in Afghanistan have been denied air support anywhere near a village. The same Rules of Engagement that left American soldiers obscenely exposed would never have allowed using a hellfire missile inside the city of an "ally."

The Predator drone was there for surveillance, but the only thing that its operator was authorized to do was stand there and watch while the people died.

The calendar and the patterns of the terrorists told the story. One would not need a degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard to know what was coming next. Anyone with half a semester in a history department at a community college would be able to surmise that the next time these jokers show up it isn't the Welcome Wagon with a fruit basket. Chances are pretty good, looking at the date on the calendar, that they were there to do some serious damage and make a statement, and they knew they could. Who was going to stop them given their previous tests of the swiss cheese of embassy security?

Certainly not this president.

Where is that "force of personality" now? The one that was going to solve all of our foreign policy embarrassments the world over caused by those mean old Republicans?

Oh yes, now I remember. Las Vegas. Or was it Letterman? Maybe Beyonce? Jay-Z?

Our cool, party president. How proud we all must be.

http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2012/10/21/they-stood-they-watched-and-our-people-died/?subscriber=1
 

Whitewing

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Mike said:
Planes and/or helicopters sitting idle in Italy could have made it to Benghazi within a couple of hours.

Would you want that Coon in D.C. watching your back? Hell NO!!!!

He is directly responsible and should be tried for a "High Crime". :roll:

In the past, presidents had taken immediate actions to protect Americans. In 1984, President Reagan had ordered U.S. pilots to force an airliner carrying terrorists to land at Sigonella. Reagan had acted inside a 90-minute window while the aircraft with the terrorists was in the air. The Obama national-security team had several hours in which to move forces from Sigonella to Benghazi.

Fighter jets could have been at Benghazi in an hour; the commandos inside three hours. If the attackers were a mob, as intelligence reported, then an F18 in afterburner, roaring like a lion, would unnerve them. This procedure was applied often in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Conversely, if the attackers were terrorists, then the U.S. commandos would eliminate them. But no forces were dispatched from Sigonella.

It is bewildering that no U.S. aircraft ever came to the aid of the defenders. If even one F18 had been on station, it would have detected the location of hostiles firing at night and deterred and attacked the mortar sites. For our top leadership, with all the technological and military tools at their disposal, to have done nothing for seven hours was a joint civilian and military failure of initiative and nerve.
 

Steve

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ighter jets could have been at Benghazi in an hour; the commandos inside three hours. If the attackers were a mob, as intelligence reported, then an F18 in afterburner, roaring like a lion, would unnerve them.

if you really want to un-nerve them,.. as it climbs away have a second hit the sound barrier.. at low altitude..
 

Larrry

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He can make a decision to send a plane over NY for a photo op but can't get the balls to defend an American citizen.
 

Tam

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Breaking News : US Government Emails from the night of the attack proved the Administration knew it was a Terrorist attack as it was unfolding and there was no mention in the emails of a response to any video. OBAMA LIED about the Intel. But the Leftwing media is not going to allow that info to get out before Nov. 6th. you can bet on it.
 

Whitewing

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Tam said:
Breaking News : US Government Emails from the night of the attack proved the Administration knew it was a Terrorist attack as it was unfolding and there was no mention in the emails of a response to any video. OBAMA LIED about the Intel. But the Leftwing media is not going to allow that info to get out before Nov. 6th. you can bet on it.

Linky por favor.
 

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