Obama lied about Benghazi

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HomerJS

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Because if they went out on day one a said terrorist act the embassy occupants would be more dead.

We can't even get Bush admin officials admit over 10 years later they were wrong about Iraq yet Republicans insist 100% accuracy day 1 of an attack.

We already had an admission by NSA head James Clapper his office gave Susan Rice the talking points.
 
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It is shameful that obama and the MSM will try to coverup what happened in Benghazi for political reasons.
 

BoberFett

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While I can't really bring myself to care too much in the grand scheme of things, the complete disinterest that Democrats have about this is typical political bullshit. They're just too intellectually dishonest to admit as such.

When Valerie Plame was outed, the left was OUTRAGED about it because it might, maybe, someday, possibly be dangerous and that somebody might be killed. Nobody was actually hurt, but they were OUTRAGED nonetheless.

Here we have their guy lying about actual deaths. The response from the left? Meh.

Democrats are every bit as scummy as Republicans. I can't wait for this country to fail spectacularly due to the inept "leadership" by both parties. You're all a bunch of stupid assholes.
 

FerrelGeek

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The only people who care about this are people who didn't or would never vote for Obama anyways...

And Obama supporters wouldn't care if he went to a daycare center and violated every child right on national TV. It's the nature of the political beast these days. Our country is irreparably polarized.

The upshot of all this is that the Obama admin is disengaged and incompetent. Obama continues to show that he has now 'big vision' for the country; he can only think, and act, like a low-level community organizer. He doesn't lead, he doesn't take ownership of anything. His success hinges on the fact that more Americans care more about who will win Dancing with the Stars or American Idol than how our country is run.
 

Moonbeam

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While I can't really bring myself to care too much in the grand scheme of things, the complete disinterest that Democrats have about this is typical political bullshit. They're just too intellectually dishonest to admit as such.

When Valerie Plame was outed, the left was OUTRAGED about it because it might, maybe, someday, possibly be dangerous and that somebody might be killed. Nobody was actually hurt, but they were OUTRAGED nonetheless.

Here we have their guy lying about actual deaths. The response from the left? Meh.

Democrats are every bit as scummy as Republicans. I can't wait for this country to fail spectacularly due to the inept "leadership" by both parties. You're all a bunch of stupid assholes.

You could be right, I mean about more than all of us being assholes, which goes without saying, I should think. But let me defend myself as best I can and I can do it succinctly just referring to the story of the little boy who cried wolf.

Everyday on this forum, I feel bombarded by right winged outrage at everything under the sun, so if something actually came along to get outraged about, I'm already numb. The sound of the squawking of hundreds of chickens night and day becomes so much white noise. Once folk establish their utter unreliability to deal with reality in an emotionally mature way, you tend to ignore them. We've been through the Obama is a socialist, a Kenyan, a Muslim, and a million other similar things. Who in their right mind would care what they imbeciles think.

And add to all of that the fact that science itself has proven they are brain defective, and Bob's your Uncle. And while the accuracy of your criticism of the left, which is undeniable, weighs heavily on my heart, I can't help but feel the left is somewhat superior to the right, especially since many of the criticisms you make of it, even though here you are right, do not, in my opinion, really apply to me. I do not want to force you to live your life in this or that manner. All I want is to tell you how I think you should. I want to have my voice in the market place just like you do. I find your dogmatic and radical rejection of everything left and right just as reflexive and partisan as anything you criticize. You seem to me to be hard like concrete and taken the form of your mold. Also, you seem not to recognize the futility of rage. The cure for the madness of the world is love and your responsibility for that starts and ends with yourself. The only hate and ignorance in the world you can cure is your own.
 

IGBT

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On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a "whistle-blower" witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress.

That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency’s counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell CNN will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

CNN has also learned that another official from the counterterrorism bureau -- independently of Thompson -- voiced the same complaint about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October.
 

Moonbeam

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And Obama supporters wouldn't care if he went to a daycare center and violated every child right on national TV. It's the nature of the political beast these days. Our country is irreparably polarized.

The upshot of all this is that the Obama admin is disengaged and incompetent. Obama continues to show that he has now 'big vision' for the country; he can only think, and act, like a low-level community organizer. He doesn't lead, he doesn't take ownership of anything. His success hinges on the fact that more Americans care more about who will win Dancing with the Stars or American Idol than how our country is run.

When you say the country is irreparably polarized what you really mean is that it is at your level of understanding. You assume that because you don't know nobody else can or does either. This is an unexamined and unconscious assumption you make that creates your own prison. You have unconsciously closed a book.
 

werepossum

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Shrug. This was already well known and well documented (congressional hearings and testimony).

I'm curious what info these 'whistle blowers' will have. If it's just more of the same I don't think many will care.

Fern
I strongly suspect you are correct. We all know that Team Obama lied it's collective ass off on Benghazi. However, pushing one marginally possible explanation, even when everyone but the hardest core Kool-aid drinkers knows it's a lie, isn't really a cover-up. It's just politics as usual.
 

KMFJD

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Moonbeam

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I strongly suspect you are correct. We all know that Team Obama lied it's collective ass off on Benghazi. However, pushing one marginally possible explanation, even when everyone but the hardest core Kool-aid drinkers knows it's a lie, isn't really a cover-up. It's just politics as usual.

Try not to use the 'we all know' routine. What I know is that the right is mentally defective and I see no reason to assume this isn't just another case of their pernicious insanity being expressed. The wonderful thing about the mentally ill is that if you throw enough shit on a wall they will see a picture of their obsession.
 

monovillage

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Another article about the lies told by Obama and his administration to the American people about Benghazi.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162...-told-you-cant-go-to-benghazi-during-attacks/

The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command South Africa.The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration, which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized. Hicks gave private testimony to congressional investigators last month in advance of his upcoming appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
 

michal1980

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Try not to use the 'we all know' routine. What I know is that the right is mentally defective and I see no reason to assume this isn't just another case of their pernicious insanity being expressed. The wonderful thing about the mentally ill is that if you throw enough shit on a wall they will see a picture of their obsession.


Do you think if you keep repeating this it will become more true?

The illness is inside your mind that continues to believe this nonsense.

It then allows you to dismiss anything you dont agree with.
 

IGBT

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your obama is part of the cover up. Desperation will set in among his inner wobble heads then it will be cut and run.
 

jackschmittusa

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xBiffx

And if you remember, it was a specially polished turd of a report that he gave Congress. It was far from the report and info that he and his pals had access to.

You should try again.
 

xBiffx

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xBiffx

And if you remember, it was a specially polished turd of a report that he gave Congress. It was far from the report and info that he and his pals had access to.

You should try again.

So Congress doesn't have the capability to read reports and investigate what they are voting on? Bush wasn't alone in his decision to invade Iraq. He took the proper action of asking Congress for a declaration of war. If you think that Congress was misled by Bush and this was the only way he got that declaration you are a fucking idiot.

No you try again. Comparing Benghazi to Iraq reeks of partisan desperation. One has zero to do with the other and any comparisons are pretty worthless.
 

HomerJS

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The intel community changed talking points given to Susan Rice so sayeth the office of the Director of Intelligence. That would be James Clapper

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/...ghazi-talking-points-made-by-intel-community/

The intelligence community - not the White House, State Department or Justice Department - was responsible for the substantive changes made to the talking points distributed for government officials who spoke publicly about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, the spokesman for the director of national intelligence said Monday.

The White House did not change/lie in talking points. So just what are you people bitching about again??
 
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It's not much of a lie and I really don't care how high it goes because, deep down, I know I must support my team. /s
 

werepossum

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Try not to use the 'we all know' routine. What I know is that the right is mentally defective and I see no reason to assume this isn't just another case of their pernicious insanity being expressed. The wonderful thing about the mentally ill is that if you throw enough shit on a wall they will see a picture of their obsession.
Try to keep up. The election is over, Team Obama is no longer pretending that this was a spontaneous uprising because of an obscure Internet video. Now they are pretending that there was no security because of Republican cuts. You can't really be politically useful unless you keep up with the current lie.
 
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So obama and his cronies and ass-kissing douchebag supporters show just how full of shit they are. I lost any respect I had for obama and his cronies/supporters.