Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Why Benghazi Matters

The President and VP do not make security decisions for the embassies, they have bigger fish to fry.  Hillary is taking responsibility for the security of the Benghazi compound as she should.  Ambassador Stephens and others others in Libya requested improved security measures from the State Dept and they were denied.  I think Hillary's State Dept was attempting to conduct itself within the framework of Obama's overall foreign policy.  I think Obama's foreign policy certainly influenced how the State Dept conducted its security measures.  But I agree the Secretary of State is responsible for protecting her people and should be held accountable.  

But President Obama is responsible for how he responded and how his team responded after the attack.  Pres Obama's first response was to the attack on Sept 11 and the murder of one of his Ambassadors was: He flew to Las Vegas for a fund raiser.  Then before all the facts were in the Obama Administration started blaming somebody for the attacks. Who?  Terrorists?  Muslim extremists?  Nope, a Coptic Christian living in America.  Obama and his team blamed a You Tube video that few people had even seen.  It wasn't in the news, almost nobody knew it existed until Obama et al starting blaming the video for the causing the 9/11 attacks.  In the this claim the Obama Administration attempted to pretend the 9/11 protests had nothing to do with Obama’s foreign policy and they attempted paint the Benghazi attack with the same brush as the other protests. So where did the You Tube video story come from?  Protesters in Cairo and at other US embassies must have been chanting about the video, right?  Actually it was reported they were chanting  "Obama, Obama there are still a billion Osamas!"  

Obama and his team had access to Benghazi surveillance video within a day of the attack but they kept talking about a spontaneous protest for two weeks.  Obama’s team was telling a coordinated, prepared lie to cover up the true nature of the attack in Benghazi and the protests in Cairo and other cites across North Africa and the Middle East.  Why?  Because Democrats just got through bragging about killing Osama Bin Laden 21 times at the Democratic National Convention and they really wanted to shift the blame for the protests elsewhere.  Obama had a big advantage over Romney with foreign policy the events of 9/11 shows that all is not lollipops and rainbows with Obama's foreign policy.  Obama does not deserve to be impeached or voted out because of the 9/11 protests or because of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi.  Obama should be impeached or voted out for attempting to cover up what really happened.  

Tom Martin
October 16, 2012

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Absoluely correct. The agent in the command center was on the phone to the State Department during the attack. I am certain he said that the attack came out of nowhere. He certainly would have alerted everyone if he had seen a mob forming outside. Also we have the amazing fact that the State Department is on record that they never accepted the protestors story. Of course they did not accept it, because they knew in the first minutes that this was an organized military attack by terrorists. But we have the absurduty the the official State Department finding is that the protestors or video played no role in the event, yet Clinton was telling the public a complete fabrication that she must have known was false. The lack of outrage over these events is mind boggling. Our mainstream press refuses to ask the administration the few simple questions which would expose all of the lies. I look forward to Romney asking these questions next Tuesday.

Unknown said...

Absolutely correct. The agent in the command center was on the phone to the State Department during the attack. I am certain he said that the attack came out of nowhere. He certainly would have alerted everyone if he had seen a mob forming outside. Also we have the amazing fact that the State Department is on record that they never accepted the protestors story. Of course they did not accept it, because they knew in the first minutes that this was an organized military attack by terrorists. But we have the absurdity that the official State Department finding is that the protestors or video played no role in the event, yet Clinton was telling the public a complete fabrication that she must have known was false. The lack of outrage over these events is mind boggling. Our mainstream press refuses to ask the administration the few simple questions which would expose all of the lies. I look forward to Romney asking these questions next Tuesday.