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A study in failure: Benghazi
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It's actually a pretty huge complement to Obama's foreign policy successes that this pathetic crap is the best you guys have to try and attack him with. This was a ****up by a low level official responsible for embassy security, the idea that this stuff is handled at (or anywhere near) presidential level is laughable.
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Originally posted by DinoDoc View PostKeeping the consulate open at all given the Admin's refusal to improve security in spite of the deteriorating situation on the ground there definitely was not smart.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by DinoDoc View PostWhere do you imagine hindsight comes into play here? We were the last western flag flying in Benghazi due to everyone else leaving because of the security situation. The ambassador had been pleading for more security at the consulate (even on the day he died). Given the adamant refusal to do so from the Admin, what rationale do you see for them to keep the place open?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by Dinner View PostThe ONLY request for Benghazi came THE day of the attack so once again you are full of it. The prior ones, which you kept talking about, were for Tripoli not Benghazi.
Meanwhile, a scale-down in security personnel was taking place in spite of requests from the embassy that numbers remain constant. Eric Nordstrom, a former Regional Security Officer serving in Tripoli earlier this year, testified that cables to the U.S. state department requesting a steady state of five temporary duty (TDY) Diplomatic Security personnel in Benghazi and at least 13 security personnel total had been ignored. At the time of the attacks, only three DS personnel were present that had been assigned to the site. Nordstrom sent the requests even though Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb had asked him by phone not to do so, citing, he testified, political reasons.
Benghazi security officials were denied needed security, told not to request more
Documents Back Up Claims of Requests for Greater Security in BenghaziI make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio
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Originally posted by Dinner View PostA request for more security guards in Tripoli wouldn't have effected a damn thing 400 miles away in Benghazi and even you know that so stop pretending like it would have.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio
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What is mildly amusing here is that the same people that let Bush off the hook for the original 9-11 as "noone could have known", and the Iraq war run up based on pure fabrications as "the intelligence service failed", are pounding on Obama here for Behghazi. Mildly amusing.Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
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