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Benghazi Consulate Could Have Used Marines With Bayonets
IBD EDITORIALS ^ | October 26, 2012

Posted on 10/26/2012 6:38:02 AM PDT by raptor22

Scandal: More than six hours after terrorists attacked our consulate, former Navy SEALs manned a blood-soaked machine gun to defend U.S. territory. Meanwhile Apache helicopters sat on the ground in Italy.

At 4 a.m. local time on Sept. 11 — six hours and 20 minutes after the initial attack began — former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed at the CIA annex not far from the consulate by a mortar shell. The machine gun they were firing was encrusted with blood, an indication they continued to fight after being wounded.

During that eternity, Woods and Doherty might have wondered between gunfire and explosions where the military, with bases strewn across Europe, was. U.S. forces were indeed being moved like chess pieces as the attack unfolded, but none came to their aid because no one gave the order.

President Obama, perhaps preoccupied with his upcoming Las Vegas fundraiser, met with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at 5 p.m. ET, a little more than an hour after the onset of the attack.

He could have given the order but did not, even after an email, in which the al-Qaida-tied group Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility, arrived at 6:07 p.m. ET to a distribution list that included the White House Situation Room.

A Special Operations force went from central Europe to Naval Air Station Sigonella in southern Italy, just 480 miles from Benghazi. F-16s and Apache helicopters remained parked and unused at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; ansaralsharia; bayonets; benghazi; benghazigate; consulate; glendoherty; ibd; islamist; islamofascism; jihad; libya; navyseals; obama4alqaeda; shadowwars; specialops; terrorism; terrorists; tyronewoods; waronterror; wot

1 posted on 10/26/2012 6:38:05 AM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22
If we didn't go into Libya in the first place, this would have never happened.

France and England surely could have gotten their oil elsewhere. Where are they getting it from now??

2 posted on 10/26/2012 6:49:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: raptor22

So at 5PM Obama is getting Biden’s and Panetta’s best advice.....slots or roulette?


3 posted on 10/26/2012 6:50:27 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: raptor22

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/obama_attacks_libya_and_wheres.html


4 posted on 10/26/2012 6:54:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: rod1

By then, BO was probably getting ready for the party with JZ and Beyonce.

(gosh, remember the furor when GWB didn’t jump up and destroy Islam right after the first plane hit the tower?!?!?)


5 posted on 10/26/2012 6:55:14 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: raptor22

US Marines Playing With Bayonets
(click for video)

U.S. Marines' Silent Drill Platoon


6 posted on 10/26/2012 6:55:57 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few, and let another take his office.")
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Never forget": A U.S. ambassador is missing and his diplomatic team is desperately fighting off terrorist attacks. Our commander-in-chief and his national-security team in Washington are listening to the phone calls from the Americans under attack and watching real-time video from a drone circling overhead. Yet the U.S. military sends no aid. Why?

....then Obama went to bed...flew to Las Vegas the next day to further his Snake Oil career...........

7 posted on 10/26/2012 6:58:40 AM PDT by yoe (Vote for the Real American whose love for his country was NEVER in question.)
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Beck interviewed Woods father yesterday. Mr. Woods reported that at the reception of his sons body at Andrews HILLARY came up to him and assured him that (paraphrase) “they would do everything possible to get to the FILMMAKER who was responsible for his sons death.” This not only was a continuation of a deliberate lie but about as cruel a remark that this ‘witch of Endor’ could have concocted.


8 posted on 10/26/2012 6:58:40 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Sacajaweau
Exactly. I liked Ryan's comment that the U.S. military should only be employed where we have vital national interests. I think he was referring to “boots on the ground”, but I think the concept should be more expansive. This episode reminds me of Somalia. Bush Sr. started it with some naive good intentions that eventually led to an underarmed force fighting for it's life.
9 posted on 10/26/2012 6:59:20 AM PDT by throwback (The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: raptor22

What are the odds that the Obama administration wanted the ambassador to be captured and then he could order a rescue from the Delta force and other special ops teams that were on standby? Maybe, a wicked plan gone terribly wrong?


10 posted on 10/26/2012 8:52:48 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
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To: raptor22

an hour is a long time when you’re under fire, let alone six.
I tear up to think our boys struggled without a hope for relief or backup.

what treachery!


11 posted on 10/26/2012 9:22:35 AM PDT by kimtom
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To: raptor22; All
October 26, 2012 - Glenn Beck: New Explosive Benghazi Allegations: CIA Operators Told to ‘Stand Down’ During Attack & 3 Urgent Requests for Military Back-Up Were Denied
12 posted on 10/26/2012 10:20:04 AM PDT by Larousse2 (The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

They stood, they watched, and our people died.


13 posted on 10/26/2012 4:05:05 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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14 posted on 10/26/2012 5:35:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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