Petraeus destroys Republicans fake Benghazi Scandal
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Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:
obama is going to be raked over the coals by History on this one.
He's gonna make cater look like a statesman.
who is cater?
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. .Spare me, I'm guessing at the number of embassies in your list where the Ambassador was left defenseless is .... zero.
Any embassy can come under attack at any time, the question to answer, was the embassy defended adequately given known threats. I don't remember any of those attacks being blamed on spontaneous outbursts resulting from a video.. they were called for what they were, terrorists attacks.
You criticize Bush for not preventing the 9/11 plane attacks since in your words he had the intelligence, well take your medicine, The State Dept had ample warning and left the embassy and Ambassador Stevens defenseless leaving him to be captured and tortured to death.
The only answer that can be concluded from Ambassador Stevens tragic death is the State Department failed miserably. And instead of condemning the attack from the onset and calling it what it was, we were somehow held partially to blame as the event was branded as a result to some stupid video that had absolutely nothing to do with the event.
Instead of the President coming out, denouncing the action, making known those involved will be brought to justice....... we were and are being shamed.
And you wonder why people ask questions, it stinks.
Any embassy can come under attack at any time, the question to answer, was the embassy defended adequately given known threats. I don't remember any of those attacks being blamed on spontaneous outbursts resulting from a video.. they were called for what they were, terrorists attacks.
You criticize Bush for not preventing the 9/11 plane attacks since in your words he had the intelligence, well take your medicine, The State Dept had ample warning and left the embassy and Ambassador Stevens defenseless leaving him to be captured and tortured to death.
The only answer that can be concluded from Ambassador Stevens tragic death is the State Department failed miserably. And instead of condemning the attack from the onset and calling it what it was, we were somehow held partially to blame as the event was branded as a result to some stupid video that had absolutely nothing to do with the event.
Instead of the President coming out, denouncing the action, making known those involved will be brought to justice....... we were and are being shamed.
And you wonder why people ask questions, it stinks.
hello, earth to wallet. people were killed at every one of those. it should be obvious that security was lacking. think much?
Also, for the ten thousandth time (this is for the conspiracy loons) Benghazi was a consulate, not an embassy. Consulates don't get the security embassies get.
In NYC there are consulates of foreign gov'ts all over the place. Very few have much in the way of security. They're there to service nationals who need updates on their passports, issue visas to folks who want to visit the country that's represented, that sort of thing. Kind of like a bank branch rather than a bank hq.
At least they had security and were not left to die alone after asking for help.
Starting from the top of your list I quit at #3
Like in 2002 when the US Consulate in the Karachi, Pakistan, was attacked and 10 were killed?
The only people that were killed were Pakistanis
The Telegraph By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
12:01AM BST 15 Jun 2002
America closed all its diplomatic offices in Pakistan yesterday after a suicide car bomb exploded outside its consulate in Karachi, killing 11 people.
The blast, the third in Karachi this year, killed the suspected bomber and Pakistani passers-by
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Western diplomats and some police sources immediately linked the attack to the al-Qa'eda network, with its connections to Pakistani and Kashmiri militants.
A previously unknown group calling itself al-Qanoon, "The Law", claimed responsibility in a statement written in Urdu and delivered to media offices in Karachi
The blast destroyed part of the consulate's perimeter wall. Two hired guards, a US Marine and five Pakistani staff members were injured.
America ordered the closure of its embassy in Islamabad and consulates around the country, at least until next week. The American Centre in Islamabad was also shut down.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...i-car-bomb-kills-11-outside-US-consulate.html
Or in 2004 when the US embassy in Uzbekistan was attacked and two were killed and another nine injured?
The two killed were not US
Washington post
By Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 31, 2004; Page A14
MOSCOW, July 30 Three nearly simultaneous explosions ripped through the capital of Uzbekistan late Friday afternoon in apparent suicide attacks outside the heavily guarded U.S. and Israeli embassies and the headquarters of the Uzbek chief prosecutor. The bombings killed at least two Uzbek security guards employed at the Israeli Embassy in the capital, Tashkent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26869-2004Jul30.html
How about in 2004, when the US Consulate in Saudi Arabia was stormed and 8 lost their lives?
Again no Amercians
Bbc news Monday, 6 December, 2004
At least eight people are reported to have been killed in an attack on the US consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
Militants used explosives to break through the fortified entrance and shot their way into the compound.
The dead were said to be five non-US staff, and three attackers. It was unclear whether any Saudi guards died.
A Saudi security source told Reuters news agency that heavy security had prevented the attackers from getting into the Jeddah consulate by car.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4071387.stm
There are the facts, and then there are leftist talking points.
Facts: The embassy suffered from a terrible lack of a properly sized security force. The administration was made aware of this numerous times previous to the attack. There were several attacks in the area prior to this one. The attack was not a protest gone bad over the video. The administration had real time intel while the attack was occuring. A decision was made to let those on site fight it out on their own. Four Americans died as a result. The admistration knew the attack was a well coordinated terrorist action. A week later they sent Rice out to tell a story which would lead people to believe the attack was directly related to the video while knowing that it wasn't.
Those are the facts. Everything else is leftist spin attempting to cloud the facts.
Facts: The embassy suffered from a terrible lack of a properly sized security force. The administration was made aware of this numerous times previous to the attack. There were several attacks in the area prior to this one. The attack was not a protest gone bad over the video. The administration had real time intel while the attack was occuring. A decision was made to let those on site fight it out on their own. Four Americans died as a result. The admistration knew the attack was a well coordinated terrorist action. A week later they sent Rice out to tell a story which would lead people to believe the attack was directly related to the video while knowing that it wasn't.
Those are the facts. Everything else is leftist spin attempting to cloud the facts.
It's not good that they were murdered, but you do know they were in a dangerous part of the world and Americans have been killed there for decades. It's part of what happens in dangerous places. We can't stop people from murdering here in our own country. Why do you think the president has the power to personally control every detail through out the world?
yea and lets not forget that the republican congress cut 300 million out of the embassy security budget:
GOP Rep: I âAbsolutelyâ Voted To Cut Funding For Embassy Security
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said today that he voted to cut funding for U.S. embassy security amid political attacks from Republicans that the Obama administration did not do enough to secure the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya that was attacked last month.
Republicans and their allies have been trying to politicize the attack â which killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya â suggesting, without evidence, the Obama administration may have ignored intelligence that the attack was imminent, didnât properly secure the Benghazi compound and is now trying to cover it up.
But hidden beneath the GOP campaign is the fact that House Republicans voted to cut nearly $300 million from the U.S. embassy security budget. When asked if he voted to cut the funds this morning on CNN, Chaffetz said, âAbsolutelyâ:
OâBRIEN: Is it true that you voted to cut the funding for embassy security?
CHAFFETZ: Absolutely. Look, we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have â think about this â 15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, private army there for President Obama in Baghdad.