Posted on 05/06/2013 11:40:39 AM PDT by Nachum
The U.S. military could have prevented one wave of the deadly attack on American personnel in Benghazi if fighter jets had been promptly deployed, a top diplomatic official who was in Benghazi during the Sept. 11 assault told congressional investigators. The account, contained in a transcript obtained by Fox News, was given by Gregory Hicks during an interview last month with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Hicks, a whistle-blower who is preparing to testify Wednesday before that committee, was deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya -- after Ambassador Chris Stevens
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Snipe and grenade would have worked too!
The al-que were already fully committed. They also knew, no US defensive response was coming. Burners or not, I’d like to know their intell source.
Yep. I love that part of the story. There is such a thing as over-engineered and the Germans were/are great at it. Ask any BMW owner!
But it points out. You never know unless you try.
The order/authorization to try was never given.
There would be no Desert 1 before this election. No US hardware shot down. No rescuer casualties. It was politically expedient to let American’s die in a battle that raged for hours and hours instead of doing anything at all.
This was cold, calculated murder. And it has Valerie Jarrett’s Iranian born finger prints all over it.
Picture helicopter gunships with loudspeakers playing some inspirational opera music to scare the hell out of the goobs on the ground...
Ohhhh, wait...That’s been done before...No need to re-invent the wheel...hehe, muh bad...
A strafing run would have been a nice party gift...
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