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To: KoRn
One of these days, we are gonna totally pay for it too!!

It will be Old Testament in scope and nature.

The death toll in this country alone will be nine digits.

Many of the survivors will be enslaved.

14 posted on 06/05/2013 4:10:09 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

I posted this as a WND comment. There were only 11 comments, so folks might actually read this one.

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Great article, but I’d only add this point. It’s not a question of who ordered the Benghazi stand-down. It’s a question of cross-border authority. There is only one person on the planet who can authorize the U.S. military to cross an international border on an armed mission, and that man is the POTUS, in this case, Obama. For the OBL raid, he had no problem granting CBA. For Benghazi, all he had to do to scuttle any rescue attempt was to disappear for the night. Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta or GEN Martin Dempsey could not grant CBA. Only the POTUS could grant CBA, and he knew it, and that’s why he disappeared for the night, insulated and shielded by his personal assistants and advisors. This while his own ambassador was known to be missing and presumed to have been kidnapped by jihadists. (BTW, an ambassador is equal in rank to a four-star general.) Obama broke the faith, and left his warriors and diplomats to die, calculating that he could blame their deaths on the bogus video. This was the likely topic of discussion during his 10PM phone conversation with Hillary Clinton. It was after that phonecon that the video was first mentioned.

The two greatest losses of life by Navy SEALs both happened on rescue missions in Afghanistan, when jam-packed Chinook helos crashed or were shot down. American specops warriors never say, “We can’t go on this rescue mission until we have all of the information.” They just go, even if they have to adapt the plan in the air. The same type of urgent rescue planning and preparation was happening the night of the Benghazi attack all across Europe, but without CBA, the rescue forces could not launch. Obama deserted his own warriors who were fighting for their lives. He hid himself, he deserted his post, in order not to be pinned down to either grant or withhold cross-border authority. CBA is the Rosetta Stone for understanding the lack of a military rescue attempt, or even a supersonic fighter jet over flight of Benghazi.

I was a Navy SEAL officer who led a navspecwar detachment to Beirut in 1983. The fact that only the POTUS can grant CBA was drilled into our heads. No president wants to stumble into a war because a specops team wanders across a border, or a jet jockey in hot pursuit flies over a line. Sooner or later reporters will understand that CBA is the key to understanding Benghazi. I’ve been writing about it since last fall, when I wrote “Benghazi’s Smoking Gun: Only President Can Grant Cross-Border Authority” for PJ Media. Now, if only a few “famous brand name” reporters would get a damn clue and learn the right questions to ask!


16 posted on 06/05/2013 4:56:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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