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First, she and her Washington minions ignored repeated direct calls for help with security in Benghazi, including from the ambassador himself, and warnings about a possible attack on the anniversary of 9/11. According to the State Department’s security chief Andrew Wood, getting “security in Benghazi was a struggle” without end.
Twice the man in charge of security for our diplomats in Libya, Greg Nordstrom, begged the State Department for more security in Benghazi after no less than 48 security “incidents” there, including two bombings.
Washington, however, said no. Hillary Clinton wanted to preserve the illusion that all was fine in Libya, especially on the eve of the November election. She had her minion Charlene Lamb, deputy assistant secretary for international programs, tell Nordstrom that State wanted “to normalize operations” in Libya and to “reduce security resources.”
In the end Ambassador Stevens had to trust his life to hired local security–who, we now know, led the killers to Stevens’s hiding place where they could torture, and murder him. Second, by blaming the Stevens murder on a video instead of Al Qaeda terrorists, she and the president deliberately deceived the American people and the world.
Obama and Hillary Clinton deceived America, to "preserve the illusion"
That force asked for heavy armor -- in the form of Abrams tanks and Bradley armored vehicles -- as well as the AC-130 gunship, but the Clinton Administration denied those requests. On October 3 on a mission to pick up Aidid, two Black Hawks were unexpectedly shot down; in the ensuing urban gun battle, 18 American soldiers were killed and another 73 injured.
Many military experts believe that if the U.S. forces had had armor, fewer would have died. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin resigned two months after Somalia, having acknowledged that his decision on the armor had been an error. A 1994 Senate Armed Services Committee investigation reached the same conclusion. But perhaps the most poignant statement came from retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Joyce, father of Sergeant Casey Joyce, a Ranger killed in Mogadishu: "Had there been armor ... I contend that my son would probably be alive today ..."
Mr. Clinton's responsibility in Somalia doesn't stop there.
This reminds me of another fiasco involving another Clinton back on October 3rd, 1993.
Originally posted by samsamm9
I don't agree she should quit just because she has red white and blue blood on her hands, but
the witch should quit because she has all kinds of blood on her hands, red blood of innocent people.
And if I might add, she should quit just because she's evil.
edit on 20-10-2012 by samsamm9 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by sonnny1
Originally posted by samsamm9
I don't agree she should quit just because she has red white and blue blood on her hands, but
the witch should quit because she has all kinds of blood on her hands, red blood of innocent people.
And if I might add, she should quit just because she's evil.
edit on 20-10-2012 by samsamm9 because: (no reason given)
She is Evil.
There is NO doubt.
But don't give Obama, or any of those who "knew', a pass.
Much more telling is the way our hyper-partisan press ignored how the administration initially attributed Benghazi to some YouTube video nobody watched. This was a fiction the press corps condoned. It took Team Obama two weeks before acknowledging that it was a well orchestrated terrorist attack.
Originally posted by newcovenant
You do understand that GWB with advance notification allowed 2 planes to hit the WTC and people understood that the advance notification was insufficient to prevent the tragedy. Same here. What's the problem?
Originally posted by liejunkie01
It seems that everyone forgot that the last time we had a decent economy where someone could afford a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk, there was a Clinton in office.
But what do I know, I am just a poor as$ out of work and trying to survive.