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Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I have postulated that the CIA might have wanted to keep a low profile, and having armed Marines might have made their little compound a juicier target. More lives might have been lost if we had more guards stationed there.
Originally posted by elouina
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I have postulated that the CIA might have wanted to keep a low profile, and having armed Marines might have made their little compound a juicier target. More lives might have been lost if we had more guards stationed there.
Hmm... You mean an even bigger target than it was? Also, can you define the word guard?
Also, you are absolutely correct about more lives being lost if they would of had more guards. Just imagine how many of them would get shot accidentally while video recording (no guns).
Originally posted by RalagaNarHallas
bump for the op as i wanna see where this one is going .if McCain can prove this this could turn out to be a october nightmare to obama and most likely play a part in the elections
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
This will be ...what...the third time in 2 days I prove your Opinion as Fact Arguement Wrong.Its ok, I enjoy teaching, only because you Stopped before Using the Anti-Semite Card.
Originally posted by Vitruvian the real story will ever be told - except for a self-serving manipulation by the usual crop of Israel bashers.
How bout the Real Story, told by the Real Survivors?Willing to be enlightened?
Hugh Hewitt: Last question, Senator, if the majority goes back to the Republicans in the Senate, will there be an investigation that requires answers be given to all the questions that you’ve raised led by a United States Senate committee?
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ): I promise you as the person who would be the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I will not rest. And I will not rest, because the American people cannot be deceived like this. We are in a very dangerous world as you know, Hugh. You look all around the world, and you don’t have to have me describe it to you. But a far more dangerous world than we were in four years ago. And the American people deserve answers. The families of these four brave Americans deserve answers. And I promise you that we will achieve that.
Hewitt: Senator, will you put Mr. Brennan and Mr. Clapper under oath with regards to these matters?
McCain: Absolutely. I promise you that that will happen if we can get the majority. And I hope that our dear friends in Montana are listening. We need to win that race. Denny Rehberg is our candidate, right?
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by Vitruvian
Society made me this way, not medication you twit.
MILITARY INSIDER: “Do The Math…Left On Own To Die Out There”
by Ulsterman on October 29, 2012
A longtime Military Insider gives a brief and searing response regarding whether or not U.S. military could have successfully been deployed in time to save Americans under attack by terrorists on September 11th at the American consulate in Benghazi.
MILITARY INSIDER: How soon could we have gotten to Benghazi? All that was needed to send those -deleted- scattering was one single F-18. Range of app. 2k. TS of over 1000mph. Do the math. We had that capability less than 500 miles away. NASSIG would have had full armed deployment inside of 20. From time of initial report to arming, to takeoff. I’ve seen it done in less. ETA to consulate in less than hour. Would have ripped a hole in the sky to get there. This is exactly what we are trained for. Just one flyer would have lit those -deleted- up inside of 10. Coordinates known. That’s all our guys need. Would have been precision termination. Clean. In/out.
Instead, left on own to die out there.
Not the first time.
WHC coordinating with State, others to TS classify everything. EVERYTHING.
Shutting it all down.
Significant activity out of NLSO on this as well.
Have eyes. Have ears. Need mouths.
F-cking politicians.
Originally posted by cmaracing
With all this distraction on Benghazi attack, yes 4 people died and its a shame, but its been turned into a politico headline by fox and many on the right.
Don't forget :
1983 Beirut barracks bombing, "241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured"
."There was no serious retaliation for the Beirut bombing from the Americans, besides a few shelling. In December 1983, U.S. aircraft from the USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence battle groups attacked Syrian targets in Lebanon, but this was ostensibly in response to Syrian missile attacks on American warplanes"
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
If he's trying to cover it up, he's done a spectacularlly horrible job.
It's not incompetence. It was a nest of CIA activity.
We don't always get told about every covert CIA op that goes down. I'm sure that if Romney was in charge, the same CIA program would have been going on.
It was a CIA op that went bad. End of story.
I doubt Romeny would have done anything differently.
This is what happens when we decide to "Nation Build", and have to go back to clean up our own messes.
Originally posted by CALGARIAN
video:
For those who don't want to read.
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
I hear what you're saying.
I wonder though, if the 3rd parties had someone very rich behind them, would the MSN take more notice?
Most people want one side or the other, they seemed to be conditioned to that. It'll be hard for people who have voted one side or the other their entire lives to all of a sudden have a viable third choice.
Quite a few voters in America are conditioned by their families and communities to never even think for themselves or ask questions.
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
reply to post by Taiyed
Oh wow, that had me laughing!
I just can't get on board with the idea that the President has everything going on under his thumb at all times.
Imagine how many memos and emails and crap *you* get at work each day. Now imagine being the POTUS. Granted, he has staff members that are supposed to sift through it and give him the most important stuff.
What happens when the CIA is exposed and trying to cover it's own arse?
Perhaps extra securtity would have compromised the intended mission of retrieving the weapons? I have no idea what really happened, but I doubt the POTUS has every single clandestine operation on a wall of video screens in front of his evil dictator-tall-backed chair.
Oh and a cat, he has to be petting a cat with an iron claw-like hand. Also, he has to do that evil laugh that you never hear (it's a conspiracy!) it goes like this, "Mwahahahaha!"
Yes, this is exactly what went down that day.
Originally posted by Vitruvian
reply to post by macaronicaesar
Senator John McCain: American hero and class act - imagine him abandoning his men in the field of battle. Imagine John McCain refusing to assist men threatened with death at the hands of of the enemy - al Qaeda. Better yet - Imagine "Admiral McCain" refusing an order from a corrupted, cowardly administration to "stand down" while his men were being slaughtered. He would have put his career on the line and surely would have dis-obeyed such an traitorous order I can tell you that.
So your assessment of him is the kind of thing we right thinking and patriotic Americans have come to expect from those who are opposed to democracy - weak and filled with falsehoods and eminently disrespectful - in a word LIBERAL.
edit on 30-10-2012 by Vitruvian because: txt