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Further Reflections on Benghazi

And the president who went AWOL (Part II).

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Muslim Fundamentalists are not worried about liberal theology because there isn’t any, and they are not worried about criticism of the Koran because that is not an issue. Muslims believe in the literal divinity and inerrancy of the Koran text. But that’s not the point. The Fundamentalists are concerned about something quite different, which is what they see as the de-Islamization of Islamic countries. What they want is to restore the Holy Law of Islam (Shari’a), to remove legal codes that have been imported from abroad, and to restore the full panoply of Islamic Law. They have an encyclopedia of grievances, the most important of which is the emancipation of women. In the speeches of Khomeini and the writings of other Fundamentalists, that outranks all other grievances by far.

In his new book, Lewis goes on to say:

As a close watcher of both events and discourse in the Muslim world, I was appalled but not surprised by the events and attacks of 9/11 (2001). As the militants saw it, they had completed the first phase on the path to Muslim domination — the expulsion of the infidels and their armies from the lands of Islam. The next and final step was to carry the battle to the enemy’s homeland to inaugurate the final struggle between the true believers and the unbelievers for the mastery of the world and bring about the final universal triumph of their cause.

This brand of Muslim extremism has been on the rise for more than four decades, and it was considerably stronger on 9/11/2012 than it was on 9/11/2001 — as witness the recent installation of an Islamist state in Egypt — the largest country in the Middle East and, for many, many years, one of the most westernized and moderate.

Enter Charles Woods, father of Tyrone Woods, the slain former SEAL
Enter — we may say — and quick exit, as far as having any impact on the Nov. 6 election.

On Sept 14, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden went to Andrews Air Force Base to be there to be part of the ceremonies when the coffins of the four American victims of the assault on the consulate arrived.

Later, they would all boast of the grief they felt.

In his second debate with Mitt Romney, Obama declared that he was there “greeting the caskets and grieving with the families… and that the suggestion that [he or] anyone on his team was playing politics or misleading the American people, governor, is offensive.”

Then there was the outrage (or feigned outrage) of Hillary’s “What’s the difference” tirade in her long-delayed Congressional testimony on January 24. She too backed this up with an emotional account of going to receive the coffins of co-workers.

And then there was Biden with his usual weird and oafish behavior.

At Andrews Air Force base, all three of them managed to offend Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, the slain former SEAL.

Later, on Fox News, Charles Woods told Glenn Beck that Obama “would not look me in the eye” and seemed to have “no remorse.”

He said he was stunned when Hillary told him that she would make sure that the person who made the video “The Innocence of Muslims” would be arrested and prosecuted. “She had to know she was not telling the truth,” Woods said.

And, finally, and most embarrassingly, there were Biden’s comments — “made in an extremely loud and boisterous voice” — who said, among other things, “Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?”

Said Mr. Woods:

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Andrew B. Wilson, a frequent contributor to The American Spectator, writes from St. Louis.

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drudge ette obama| 2.18.13 @ 6:20AM

Sen. Lindsey Graham was fabulous on Fox News Sunday as he drummed in the points about the Obama administration's gross negligence before, during and after Benghazi.

Death from gross negligence is one stage less intentional than meditated murder. The results are the same, however.

Cobalt| 2.18.13 @ 8:25AM

"But Don't Rule Out Malice"

By Ryan Scott Welch

http://www.americanthinker.com.....alice.html

sickofit5| 2.18.13 @ 10:40AM

excellent piece

capatolistmom| 2.18.13 @ 11:46AM

Sen Graham has been tenaious on this subject with never ending questions. But a few more questions for the "most transparent" administration in history:
- Why can we scramble f-15 fighters in 30 seconds over Florida while you are playing golf and it takes over 7 hours to put a plan in the air when Americans are being shot?
-Where are the films from the american drone that was overhead? Freedom of information act? - Why can't we see them?
-Where are the copies of the post massacare interviews from the survivors? Why can't we see them" - Again "Freedom of information act anyone?
-Where are the reports of the autopicies - how where they killed? Heavy internet reporting suggests that they were sodomized - this goes beyond killing - why???
-Why were known arms dealers and terrorists seen at Bengazie just hours before the attack?
(In Meetings)!!!
-What was so important that Obama could demonstrate NO INTEREST in the ongoing (10) hour battle? - He couldn't even check in????? What was he doing????
ETC....- Keep the pressure on this is a Major Cover-up of more than is obvious!

Terrible Ted| 2.18.13 @ 2:36PM

The media's main goal is to cover up this story by marginalizing Graham and others who try to keep it alive, and they will likely succeed. A movie depicting the events of 9/11/2012, much like "Black Hawk Down," is needed for the general public to know anything real that happened (other than the backlash against the youtube video.).

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 4:49PM

Where are the people who were Evacuated?

JimH| 2.18.13 @ 3:38PM

The idea expressed as: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" has been attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte and others. I find it a good rule of thumb and early in the BO administration I attributed his actions to it. Over time, each additional proposal and pronouncement from this administration makes it increasingly harder to do so.

CJW| 2.18.13 @ 4:18PM

This is the opportunity for McCain and Graham to be useful in exposing the Benghazi cover-up. Maybe McCain realizes this is the issue for him to establish a good legacy instead of his idiotic "reaching across the aisle" disaster.

spike59| 2.18.13 @ 6:36AM

"In his briefing on Sept. 13 — the day after the news of the death of the American ambassador to Libya and three other staffers — White House spokesman Jay Carney made the incredible claim: “This is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy; this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims.”

UN Secretary Susan Rice broadcast the same message — blaming the video and ignoring the real threat to U.S. and other Western democracies coming from Islamism — in doing a round of Sunday talk shows on Sept. 16."
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Let's not let Clinton off the hook; she was spouting the same nonsense as Carney, ObaMao, and Rice...

At the time, the MSM performed their usual 'duck and cover' drill....duck their duty as journalists, and cover the Administration's arses...NONE of them, outside of Fox, challenged the ObaMao administration's claims

Fast forward a few months and the same Obama Administration figures who were pushing this 'the video did it' nonsense started saying..."what? me? never said such a thing...Faux Noise must have made it up, stop listening to Rush..."
And the MSM is back in another 'duck and cover' drill...and so on and so on and scooby dooby doo

Tina B| 2.19.13 @ 7:28AM

Well, hey, different strokes for different folks, and so on. . . .

Jack in Wi| 2.18.13 @ 7:20AM

Bush lied us into Iraq and 5000 American troops died and 60,000 were wounded and maimed. Obama and the Clintons lie everytime their lips move. Whats new? The big question on Bengazi is why were we there in the first place? Every war and intervention of the last dozen years has made things worse. We have made a few hundred terrorists into hundreds of thousands. War is an electoral disaster.Romney got zero votes from yelling his head off about Bengazi. The country under Obama is headed for the cliff and all the Republicans can do is follow Sheldon Adelson's sellout senators, Graham and McCain into oblivion.

jothepro| 2.18.13 @ 8:58AM

Refresh my memory Jack.. Which lie?

Mike W| 2.18.13 @ 9:04AM

WMD in Iraq. There were none except for some old stuff that we either gave them or helped them build so they could kill Iranians in the 1980's.

Saddam's connection to 9/11. There was none.

Invading Iraq would make the world safer. Obviously it didn't.

We would be greeted as liberators. (Uncontrollable laughter as I type that one).

Colin Powell's entire speech to the UN in 2003.
Too many to tell.

jothepro| 2.18.13 @ 10:03AM

Mike, those aren't lies. We were not right about some of these things, but they weren't lies. For real lies I would direct you to Clinton and Obama any time they open their mouths...

vtwin| 2.18.13 @ 1:28PM

You’ve constructed a nice world for yourself a world where Democrats are baaad and Republicans are goood.

jothepro| 2.18.13 @ 2:52PM

Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment vt...

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 4:54PM

Every Intelligence Agency in the World, including Russia's, said they had'em.

When our Troops took the Country, they removed 5 TONS of Yellow Cake Uranium.

Let me say that, again.

When our Troops took the Country, they removed 5 TONS of Yellow Cake Uranium.

Okay?

Butch| 2.18.13 @ 5:32PM

About 600 tons worse, I'm afraid: it was 550 metric tons of Yellow Cake found in 2003. We did find chemical weapons, of course, and many caravans of large trucks were filmed by spy satellites headed toward Syria while we were being stalled in the UN.

Saddam WAS trying to acquire nuclear weapons, as the intelligence agencies of numerous countries thought. He just wasn't as far along as everyone thought he was.

The information about the Yellow Cake was released in early fall, 2008, probably with hopes of influencing the election. It was buried by the media, receiving only a one column, five-or-six-inch article buried on about page 8 of even my relatively conservative home-town paper. Through a third party I asked the news editor why it didn't get more attention after four solid years of "Bush lied, people died!" His reply was that "they" "didn't consider it be news." End of story.

Joellen| 2.18.13 @ 5:47PM

Thank you Butch for your service and your testimony.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 6:50PM

Indeed.

Thank You, Butch.

Tina B| 2.19.13 @ 7:45AM

Prove it Jackinthebox. Prove the big lie: oil, daddy, wmds, prove one of those lies. Facts jackie boy, facts, not innuendo, rumors and out and out fabrications of the liberal MSMasturbating media. Set dead against Bush and eating Obama's waste with gusto and a little ketchup. Spouting leftist propaganda for the last 40 to 50 years until they can no longer even recognise Truth and Facts.

Gag me Jackio. You pretend to be reasonably anti ObaMao, but you are still a poopslinger who buys the liberal medias BS when it suits your fancy and pretends to be wiser than thou. Get off the fence and pick a side. You claim to believe in the same God that I do, and yet you are lukewarm, and Christ said He would rather you were hot or cold. With Him or against Him.

Your defence of the MSMM claims about Bush's entry into Iraq are no different than the claims of the liberal press and teachers I to work with. I no longer defend W's Presidency, especially his last term, like I used to. But no one but GWB could have united America after 9/11 and certainly not Algore or Hienz-Kerryboy.

History will tell, if it hasn't been rewritten by then.

Joellen| 2.18.13 @ 7:44AM

Mr. Wilson just three comments:

1) obama is awake, he knows exactly what he is and isnt doing. For him, the enemy isnt America's or Isreal's enemy (Islamic Terrorist); no its the Tea Party, or right wing conservatives; its anyone who wishes to follow the US Constitution and who fights him on his intent to destroy America.

2) By now everyone should agree Joe Biden is insane - really, not joking, the man is insane. We have a president who determined to destroy this country and he has surrounded himself with either insane yes men (joe biden) or opportunist sharks, i.e., hillary clinton.

3) Can someone (Mr. Wilson, Jeffrey Lord) interview Mitt Romney on why he didnt follow through and really ram the Benghazi attack in the 2nd debate? Just the facts, folks that all I am asking for, Just the Facts.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 4:56PM

You spelled "Israel's" wrong.

Joellen| 2.18.13 @ 5:14PM

I did, sorry, but Joe Biden is still insane.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 6:51PM

You spelled Joe Bite Me, wrong.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 7:53AM

One can only imagine the Garbage that White Supremacist - DickRed will have to say today about how his Halfrican Boy was "All over Benghazi like Bob Menedez on a 9 year old".

Panetta testified UNDER OATH, that "No, Black Jesus did not call to ckeck up on the Status of events in Benghazi after being told at 5pm EST of the outset of an all out Armed Attack on the Consulate".

But I thought DickRed told everyone that President Priorities had "ORDERED THE MILITARY TO LAUNCH", while he picked out a coupla Outfits to wear to Vegas, and Jay Z's Champagne Party, and that our Troops couldn't get tickets on a 747 to get to the Video Protest?

Panetta testified UNDER OATH that "No, there was no other Follow-Up" from President Death to America's White House.

Panetta Testified UNDER OATH that "No, there was no meeting that night pulling together the President, the Secretary of State and other members of the group that sat together when Our Servicemen and Women got Bin Laden.

Maybe, instead of an Empty Chair? We need a Picture of an Empty Situation Room.

President Bathhouse Boy never ordered anyone to do anything, except maybe Ordering them to "Leave me alone. I'm packing".

He couldn't have cared Less.

And, now President Shared Sacrifice, is spending a coupla days at an Exclusive Yacht/Golf Club in Florida, with Millionaires and Billionaires.

And when he comes back he'll resume his Fight for the only jobs left in His Amerika.

The Minimum Wage Jobs.

Hail Caesar!

Von Mises Jr| 2.18.13 @ 8:06AM

Either Panetta lied under Oath or the Deputy Secretary of State lied this weekend when he said Obama was awake and briefed throughout the night: http://www.breitbart.com/Breit.....azi-Attack

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” So far it was a video that sparked a riot. It was also a known terrorist attack at its inception. Obama and Hillary were not briefed and at the same time Obama was briefed throughout the night.
So they have effectively stalled and reported both sides of the story so that the stupid people like DRedful can still believe it was a video and misfeasance, while they can tell the Congress and educated that they told the truth.
History will record the former while they try to get this behind them with the latter.
It is clear that with Hillary as FLOTUS as BJ got his "Black Hawk Down" in 1993, that they knew it was better to abandon three dozen Americans than to have another military debacle when shot down with the RPG's and surface-to-air missiles they were gun running to Al Qaeda one month before the election.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 10:36AM

Either that chick from the State Department lied, when she Testified, Under Oath, that "Everyone was watching the Attack on a Vid Screen, IN REAL TIME".

Or, the Congenital Liar/Wife of the Rapist/"I don't Recall"/"I don't know where the Rose Law Firm Billing Records are"/Cattle Futures/Knowingly accused the White House Travel Office Staff with Illegal Activity so she could throw them to the Curb, and bring in her Arkansas Pals - Hillary Clinton, was Lying.

Wow.

That's a tough one.

George S| 2.18.13 @ 10:07AM

Tim: you misunderstood. The president ordered the military to lunch...

Even if the president "ordered the military to launch", General Dempsey's testimony did not square with that. He, too, never heard from the president who ordered him to do whatever was necessary. I mean, if you handed the keys to the most powerful military on earth to the equivalent of a Pentagon teenager, wouldn't you be concerned how and where they are driving it?

I suspect that maybe -- just maybe -- there are some lies being told by Obama and Clinton.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 10:42AM

Thank you, George.

Obviously, you Hate Black People and Strong Women.

Let me guess.........................................................

You're a Race Traitor, who's Married to an Asian babe with no Asss. (Is there any other kind?)

sickofit5| 2.18.13 @ 10:51AM

I guarantee that the one order he gave them was not to launch the military and other than that just handle it. Honest to god, these guys on these committees have no clue how to get to the meat of an issue. After Panetta testified that the prez told he and Dempsey to handle it did any senator ask them if the prez gave them specific instructions on what not to do?

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 4:59PM

No.

Because he DIDN'T.

JJC| 2.18.13 @ 7:55AM

Good article but I am left with the impression that the author, for some strange reason, still proceeds with the belief that the American president is on our side. He's not. He's on the other side. Now everything seems rather less inexplicable, no?

Pecos Pete| 2.18.13 @ 7:58AM

What, exactly, did the president "instruct" Panetta to do in regard to Benghazi at their meeting on 9/11/2012? Please provide source links.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 9:35AM

His Sworn Testimony.

Everything else he said, means Nothing.

He said, UNDER OATH, that Obama didn't give a Shitt. Plain and simple.

He left Panetta and General Asskisser standing in the room with their Dicks in their hands, as he sauntered off to pick out his Outfits for all of the Fun he was gonna have in Las Vegas, and at Jay Z's Party.

He never gave them a Direct Order to do anything.

He said: "You take care of it." I gotta go pick out my clothes.

He never took the 2 Minutes that it would've taken, to check in the rest of the night, to inquire how things were going with Our People in Benghazi, as the people that Obama Put In Power with his Illegal War against a guy who wasn't Bothering Us at all, fired on them for 8 Hours.

Understand?

The only applicable statements Panetta made, were the ones he made Under Oath, and Subject to Perjury and Jail Time.

Everything else is just a Talking Point.

Pecos Pete| 2.18.13 @ 10:39AM

Tim, I understand and agree with your comments; but, I've been searching for sources for the testimony that Panetta made before the Senate. I've reviewed the video recording of Panetta's testimony and Panetta said the president, "directed both myself and General Dempsey to do everything we needed to do to protect lives there."

Panetta also said that the president made no follow-up phone calls asking about the Benghazi attack.

Based on the quote above from video recorded testimony, King O's "directive" is NOT a direct order to the Defense Department to go there, go there now, do it now. King O's directive provides "wiggle" room for interpretation by the Defense Department. King O simply walked away from direct responsibility. And, Panetta and Dempsey have hidden behind their concern for the complexities of action. Both King O's "directive" and Panetta/Dempsey's reason for no action are simply bureaucratic language for avoiding action and responsibility.

Rumors claim that Gen. Ham ( former head of U.S. Africa command) wanted to send special forces units to help Americans under siege in Libya despite orders from Sec. Panetta to stand down. Ham was supposedly relieved of his command by a junior officer just before Ham was to order the rescue mission. None of this information has been confirmed.

(continued...)

Pecos Pete| 2.18.13 @ 10:40AM

(continued from above)

They didn't know how long the attack would last, they did nothing until after the attack was over. In my opinion, King O, Panetta, Dempsey and the direct chain of command, except for Gen. Ham, should be tried for murder.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 10:59AM

That's not what I heard Panetta say.

He said that the Halfrican said to them: "You handle it".

He was asked questions by a lot of people, that day, and he may have been trying to do Instant Damage Control, when he changed : "You handle it" to - "The President directed us to do everything we needed to do to protect lives".

Well.............which is it?

Remember who we're talking about, here.

The Democrats aren't just the Jackass Party. They're the Fall on your sword to cover their President's Ass Party.

We saw it with The Rapist - Bill Clinton, and every Democrat Woman. We saw it with the Serial Misogenyst - Bill Clinton, and The NOW broads. We saw it with Liberal Women Journalists, who wished it was them ON THEIR KNEES, instead of Monica, because he was so Godlike.

This is a Cult and an Organized Crime Family, at the same time.

Panetta let his guard down, and let The Truth slip out between his lips, only to Muddy the Waters, the next time he got a Similar question.

You know I'm right.

sickofit5| 2.18.13 @ 10:53AM

TLP, I do think he gave them a director order to handle it, but only after telling them what they couldn't do, like launching a military strike.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 5:02PM

Exactly.

Tina B| 2.19.13 @ 8:09AM

Ya know what I think? I think he rolled a big ol' blunt, Phillies style, called a couple of old choomies, shot the bull about the upcoming pah-tee at JayZ's crib, trimmed his nose hairs, and splashed himself with some nasty-ass cologne to attract flies at the gig, and checked himself out in all his surrounding mirrors, and bounded out the door like the mutt that he is. That's how I think the evening went.

Kwan| 2.18.13 @ 8:06AM

First of all Obama is not a normal American President. He is some kind of freak-a-zoid leftist automaton whose sole purpose is the transformation of the United States into a Communist People's Republic. Obama's main concern on 9/11/2012 was not about the welfare of the American citizens under attack in Benghazi, but how much money he was going to be able to scoop-up in Las Vegas so he could get reelected and continue his reign of incompetence and failure.

Connection Not Compromise| 2.18.13 @ 11:32AM

First of all Obama is not a normal American President....

No, he is not. He spent his formative, elementary school years living in Indonesia under the authoritarian Suharto. While technically a constitutional republic, Suharto's military regime left little room for opposition or dissent.

Barry's just playing the note he learned well at a young age.

jothepro| 2.18.13 @ 9:02AM

Later, on Fox News, Charles Woods told Glenn Beck that Obama “would not look me in the eye” and seemed to have “no remorse.” Not to nit pick here Andrew, but I believe Woods told Sean Hannity, not Glenn Beck. Beck left Fox 2 or 3 years ago...

Mike W| 2.18.13 @ 9:07AM

Keep harping on Benghazi. It has been so effective and meaningful. Meanwhile, BO runs up trillions more in give aways, confiscates guns and amnesties 20 million new Democrats. I applaud TAS for hitting the real issue - Benghazi.

Hardcard| 2.18.13 @ 9:07AM

They are all lying under oath, on TV, in our face, to our allies, at night, all day long, about everything, and 47% of the population of this country for whatever reasons, don't want to know the truth. Life goes on for the 47%; the kardasians show a little booty, the elected officials are stealing everything they can get their hands on, our right to bear arms is a mulligan ( d-obamoa terminolgy), abortion is great and free, a third term is going to happen (for our own good) ,we are all (53%) flucked.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.18.13 @ 9:54AM

"the kardasians show a ~~little~~ big booty"

I think on reflection you might agree the corrected version is more accurate.

Louis Jenkins| 2.18.13 @ 9:29AM

First off some of you writers seem to think Obama really cares. He's won his re-election bid, and now we can all go pound sand as far as he's concerned. (I agree with Hardcard, there will be a third term, for our own good no less.)

Maybe Obama went to the bathhouse, maybe he went for a pedicure, maybe he did go pick out an outfit or two for the JZ bash, it doesn't matter. Bengazhi? Obama is the president of the United Social Media, and that includes twitter, etc. The Democrats know how to control it and use it, and what's more, they've bought all their 'boys in da hood' a cell phone to keep up with him. That is how the president keeps up with current think-technology, and won the election (along with perhaps some underhanded stuff).

Obama has picked the most insane people to surround himself so he will rise to the top. A dead man and Bite Me talks about the size of his balls? The man should be drawn and quartered instead of acting VP. But he is the jester, and by his actions he makes Obama look all the better.

The entire court is awash in real and moral liability. Unfortunately, Obama is president and we have to live with it. The Color Guard in the picture should be nervous. They may be next.

Hardcard| 2.18.13 @ 9:42AM

PS: Gee! what a deal!! the newly minted jean francois kerry and his pickle magnate wife teresa heinz kerry are cashing in their dill chips and selling the 57 varieties to warren buffet and the boys from Brazil (georgi soros) for billions, I have a sauer taste in my mouth about this one, we send our $$tuff to Brazil, thanks to our boy from Brazil d-obamao dingo, you know drilling rights, billions in $$$$ gaurantees. Is anybpody watching the other hand in this flim-flam? Are we being flucked again. At this point what difference does it make? Gherkin with some catsup on the side anyone? I wondered why moochelle never banned the pickle, does bloomberg know?

George S| 2.18.13 @ 10:15AM

"Do Whatever it Takes (DWIT)"

This is the quintessential Chicago political directive. It means that I will not make a decision while an event is unfolding for I could take the blame if I guess wrong. Therefore the person on the other end of the directive will get the blame for failure while I will take the credit if it goes well. This works for all possible outcomes -- even the consequence of doing nothing.

It's like the line from the movie -- "Rule number one: Harry never holds".

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 5:03PM

Rule #1) Plausible Deniability.

Anthony| 2.18.13 @ 11:08AM

Think of what actual cold blooded, sociopathic SOBs we have as president, Sec. of State and Sec. of Defense.
In additon to their gross dereliction of duty, which warrants the criminal prosecution of Obozo, Clinton and Panetta, just think of the total and complete lack of basic decency towards these men.
What president doesn't even pick up the phone in these 6 hours to ask basic questions a normal president would ask about Americans under his control who are in peril?
"What's going on on the ground?" What actions are we taking? What assets can we deploy?" What is the status of our people?" A real president would have been engaged the full 6 hours, not Obozo. No fake photo op here.
Not a single concern by this cold blooded SOB of a president. Instead, he shows as much interest about these four Americans as he would what the chef is cooking up for dinner.
These are dangerous folks we have as leaders. Americans around the world are at risk and remain so with the likes of Obozo, Clinton and Panetta.
Clinton and Panetta may be out the door but their successors will have the same disregard.
And Obozo's supporters post here at TAS with the same degree of disregard and cold blooded indifference to the fate of these four Americans. And they claim to be the ones who care, with a sense of moral superiority that is supposed to shame us.
We are in deep, deep, peril as a nation with the Golfer-in Chief as president.

SUBVET| 2.18.13 @ 11:37AM

WOW.....31 comments here this morning....folks we keep rehashing this crap over and over while "they" gain more control.

I don't know about you but when is someone going to step-up and........do something.

vtwin| 2.18.13 @ 1:47PM

Andrew has been so absorbed with creating Benghazi narratives to win over voters I don’t think he relies the election has do come and gone.

TLP| 2.18.13 @ 5:06PM

So, according to you, nothing should have happened to Nixon, because the Election was already over.

Maybe you should take your Mom's head outta your lap, before you write your inanities?

spike59| 2.19.13 @ 5:44AM

probably first needs to take his head outta Bammy's lap...

Anthony| 2.18.13 @ 11:42AM

Will you be the one to light the fuse?

drake1456| 2.18.13 @ 1:27PM

An=mazing isnt it, that flacs like Colmes and those in the administration continue to cover for gross incompetence. And the New York Times, which printed stubbed toes during the Bush years, cant find itself commenting negatively, or doing ANY original journalism to discover the truth, and, maybe then, correcting it.

vtwin| 2.18.13 @ 1:37PM

If this Benghazi bullshit doesn’t work maybe we could try drawing tiny mustaches on pictures of Obama.

Anthony| 2.18.13 @ 2:34PM

Like I said vtwin, you are one SOB cold blooded troll, just like your god, Obozo. Four Americans slaughtered, Obozo, Hillary and Panetta, when the 3am phone call came in at 5, the line went dead.
You haven't the slightest sense of horror or human concern or decency that these men died needlessly while their leaders did nothing.
You and your fellow trolls deserve what's coming. You have no shame, no dignity, and no compassion, you are just a fool, and a dangerous one at that.
But Bush could have stopped 9/11. You are one sick bastard.

vtwin| 2.18.13 @ 3:25PM

No, Andrew is the "sick bastard," four Americans killed in Benghazi and this "sick bastard" blames the President and you lap it up like a good little dittohead.

Drunken Sailor| 2.18.13 @ 4:31PM

And I am supposed to believe that the 31st air wing in Aviano Italy could provide support for the Libyia rebellion but not make it to Benghazi to at least provide air support? Or that nothing from task force 67 in Sigonella Italy (even closer) could have been mobilized?
Before you answer that you may be interested to know that it is common procedure to keep one rapid response aircraft fueled and ready for take off at all times.

Even not knowing what was going on they had ample time for a f-16 from Aviano to do a fly over and report back.

The fact is they were to chicken shit to make a rapid decision as it went against Obama's policy of "thinking things over" before he acted.

And of course this doesn't even scratch the surface as to why security wasn't beefed up ahead of time as Ambassador Stevens requested.

Pure screwup by a group of incompetent politicians.

Try reading a non-obama kiss ass news agency story.
http://www.canada.com/news/Pan.....story.html

Pecos Pete| 2.18.13 @ 6:05PM

DS: Exactly!

CJW| 2.18.13 @ 6:35PM

DS and Pete
This is a big story that will not go away. Finally McCain and Graham seem serious and energized because it involves the death of four Americans. All it takes is a few senators to push for an investigation.

Butch| 2.18.13 @ 7:30PM

Sailor: What it really went against was Obama's narrative that Al-Qaeda had been neutralized, so he literally sacrificed American lives to keep the narrative going. It was all about the gd election. I gather those former SEALs disobeyed orders to try and defend their countrymen. This is the absolute pit of my whole large number of years as an American citizen. The bottom.

Tina B| 2.19.13 @ 9:13AM

Me too, Butch. And I am European by birth, but 100% American by heart and citizenship. I thought the blue dress was a low. This is far worse.

Anthony| 2.18.13 @ 6:40PM

Who should we blame troll? Shall we blame Madam numbnuts U.N. Sec Rice, who Obozo hid behind to take his heat? She can't even find the ladies room, let alone where Benghazi is on a map.
Or perhaps we should blame Obozo's Chief of Staff, the dolt who was trotted out on Sunday, while Obozo takes another vacation.
Maybe the White House barber.
It must be so tiring for The One to be pouring over intelligence data to insure another video doesn't cause another embassy attack, that he needs another golf outing.
Not only are you a sick bastard, vtwin, you are morally and intellectually depraved, like your cold blooded president.

cicero| 2.18.13 @ 2:23PM

The cat is out of the bag. Everyone who has followed this story even a little bit knows what happened, and who was to blame. Everyone is well aware of the fact that those 4 guys were hung out to dry, and that the rescue order was not issued. Everyone knows that when officers on the ground decided to go ahead on their own innitiative, they were told to stand down, and then sackedd.
The question now is who told them to stand down? Who gave the order to relieve them of their dury?> That is where McCain, Graham, and the others MUST go. Otherwise it is all posturing. Those military officers owe their duty to the COUNYRY, not to the president or the secr. of defense. That is the drum beat that the conservative press has to begin, and continue. If not, do not be suprised if the slide continues, and accelerates.

Marc Jeric| 2.19.13 @ 3:03AM

There is only one rational explanation for the Benghazi murder cover-up. Obama's April Spring program was expressly designed to bring jihadist governments to power all over the northern Africa and the Middle East. Then come the destruction of Israel with the accompanying holocaust, with the ensuing 2nd Nobel Peace Prize. The attack in Benghazi was effected by some unruly elements of the present jihadist government, thus delaying the arming of Siryan Sunnis; after some delay that arming will continue.

Tina B| 2.19.13 @ 9:15AM

And how sickening is that? (Rhetorical question)

Apothis| 2.19.13 @ 9:44AM

Good work Andrew. This is a subject worth fighting for. We must surface the truth so it can be told.Waiting for part 3.

CT| 2.21.13 @ 1:18AM

Now we have word of a call betwwen Hillary and Obama after about six hours of the initial attack on the compound. Any real investigative reporter worth their weight in credibility (only very short supply at present) would do us well to break this story wide open.

Desdemona| 2.23.13 @ 1:28PM

A minor point, but I've been wondering since the first photos of Benghazi--what does the Arabic grafitti written on the walls mean?

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