Posted on 09/19/2012 1:38:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For a week various Obama administration figures, including the White House press secretary, have insisted that the attacks on U..S. embassies in the Middle East were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video. But that excuse has not held up to even superficial scrutiny.
The public certainly senses something is not right. Unlike the media, which is entirely obsessed with Mitt Romney’s remarks about the attacks, the public is troubled by President Obama’s handling or lack of handling of the crisis. The pictures of dead Americans and burned embassies strike a cord with Americans. So it is not surprising that Obama is down five points on handling of foreign policy and 12 points among independents, according to the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC poll. It may get worse as the Obama administration’s story about the embassy attacks changes dramatically.
As Michael Singh writes in Foreign Policy:
While the video in question may have catalyzed these protests, it cannot accurately be described as the cause of them. In any event, any effort to quash future provocations of this sort is bound to be futile — given the ease by which such media can now be produced and distributed — as well as profoundly contrary to the American belief in the right to free expression. The current unrest is not in fact a result of a single offensive video, but is rather a continuation and outgrowth of the Arab uprisings of 2011. Those revolutions were the result of deep-seated political and economic grievances that had been decades in the making: the absence of economic prosperity or the hope of individual advancement, paired with the inability to do anything about it as a result of the simultaneous absence of political rights...
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There is nothing that can be believed by this administration. Absolutely nothing.
They are on the same order as our Muslim enemies.
How stupid can Obama be....obviously pretty stupid.
And the attacks were on 9-11....imagine that.......
The MSM was not being lied to. They were working with the white house.
For a week various Obama administration figures, including the White House press secretary, have insisted that the attacks on U..S. embassies in the Middle East were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video. But that excuse has not held up to even superficial scrutiny.
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absolutely untrue. as one of the four victims shows,
there was no protest going on, when the shooting started.
one of the Guards said not even an ant was outside, when the shooting started. and Smith seems to confirm that.
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Smith was online at the time, and even commented about the suspicion activity of a guard.
so certainly, he would have mentioned a demonstration!
(but, he didn’t).
and, in Iraq, he sometimes typed “incoming”, and left.
so he was experienced under fire, and unlikely to panic.
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(i assume the time, is the USA game server.)
Gianturco shared a chat room message posted by Vile Rat, presumably from earlier that day.
“(12:54:09 PM) vile_rat: assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”
“We knew that Vile Rat was in Benghazi,” Gianturco added, “he told us. He commented on how they use guns to celebrate weddings and how there was a constant susurrus of weaponry in the background.
http://themittani.com/news/rip-vile-rat
He was on jabber when it happened, that’s the most fucked up thing. In Baghdad the same kind of thing happened - incoming sirens, he’d vanish, we’d freak out and he’d come back ok after a bit. This time he said ‘FUCK’ and ‘GUNFIRE’ and then disconnected and never returned.
http://www.infidelnewsnetwork.com/read-some-of-the-alleged-final-words-of-the-slain-embassy-employee-known-online-as-vile-rat/
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Mittani said Smith was chatting online at the time the attack started:
(12:54:09 PM) vile_rat: assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures
At one point, Mittani said, Smith wrote the words “fk“ and ”gunfire,” then was disconnected.
“In Baghdad the same kind of thing happened incoming sirens, he’d vanish, we’d freak out and he’d come back ok after a bit. This time he said ‘F’ and ‘GUNFIRE’ and then disconnected and never returned,” Mittani wrote.
Wait until ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ comes out ..... if a 14 minute You-tube trailer upsets the Muslims, what will the full length Hollywood version of Obama’s I-killed-Osama-bragfest inspire?
again, was clearly worried “...die tonight”.
Smith specifically mentioned the suspicious Guard...
without any mention of ANY protest, he certainly would have commented on.
nothing. ...until he typed “GUNFIRE”, and disappeared.
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this alone, should prove Obama is lying.
“It will be interesting to see how the MSM backs up on their reports of minimizing the protests, terror attacks, etc. for a week without even exploring the possibility that they were being outright lied to by 0bama and his corrupt minions.”
They’ll just studiously ignore last week’s propaganda reports, as though the manufactured tale about the spontaneous crowds reacting to a film had never been broadcasted by them for days on end. The administration won’t be challenged for lying, because the media was the complicit conduit for the fake narrative. “Forward”!
“The pictures of dead Americans and burned embassies strike a cord with Americans.”
Irritating spell-check error alert.
It’s CHORD, not cord.
When the Republicans win, Obama will set the Muslim world ablaze with his movie. And that's what Muslims are about.
The MSM will not change the narrative now
Obama might want to compare notes with Salman Rushdie.
IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO AMERICAN STUPIDITY. AMERICANS ARE STUPID AND THE REGIME KNOWS THAT. IF AMERICA WAS SMART, OBAMA WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ELECTED DESPITE NEWS MEDIA COVER UPS.
Except that today, polls show that the muslim uprisings have overtaken the election even as the most watched news story generating more interest than the economy or anything else.
Americans, for the most part, are still Americans first and whatever else after. This is going to burn hussein badly and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving pos.
Even 0bama's butt boys (not sure about little Georgie Stephanopoulos) had begun to doubt the BS story.
My guess is that 0bama's October surprise blew up early, but then again Hussein has aptly demonstrated that he is incapable of organizing anything.
Even if the new regimes in Egypt and Libya were 100% pro-American; and even if all the supporters of those regimes were 100% pro-American — that still leaves many thousands of supporters of the ousted regimes, who are most certainly not pro-American. (At least not now, a couple of years ago, they might have been.)
Given those circumstances, why wasn’t there better security at the embassy in Egypt, and even a modicum of security at the consulate in Libya? Why?
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