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Benghazi victim's mother calls on Trump to stop invoking son's death
The Hill ^ | July 23, 2016

Posted on 07/23/2016 5:42:06 PM PDT by SMGFan

The mother of the U.S. ambassador killed in the 2012 Benghazi attacks called on Republicans to stop invoking her son on Friday, blasting their references to his death as “opportunistic and cynical.”

“As Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s mother, I am writing to object to any mention of his name and death in Benghazi, Libya, by Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party,” Mary F. Commanday wrote in a letter to the editor published in the New York Times Friday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; stevens
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To: SMGFan

She is one of those die hard liberals that can’t have the other side use her loss for what she thinks is their gain, regardless of truth.

Her son requested more security and he was not important enough to receive it. Obviously Hillary did not think he was worth saving either.


141 posted on 07/23/2016 10:17:34 PM PDT by mom.mom
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To: SMGFan

Sorry for your loss...but he was a public figure and the event involves massive deception by a Presidential candidate. It WILL be discussed.


142 posted on 07/23/2016 11:45:57 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Qiviut

He was an important public figure murdered by terrorists. She doesn’t get to control the political discourse about the event. She is just shilling for the Democrats.


143 posted on 07/23/2016 11:51:50 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Ancesthntr

It’s so sad that she is more concerned to help Hillary’s campaign than to find out why her son really died. Also, it’s about far more than her son. It’s about the other 3 Americans who died there that night, the dozens more who nearly died, the brave men who risked their lives trying to save her son and everyone present, etc.

Then ofc there are the broader issues of US foreign policy, war on terror, involvement in Libya and the Middle East, etc.

She ought to be a lot more concerned about how to prevent more catastrophes than about protecting Hillary’s campaign from criticism.


144 posted on 07/24/2016 12:01:42 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: SMGFan

Yep , she’s a Dem....
Dougherty’s folks too


145 posted on 07/24/2016 12:41:59 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: SMGFan

I wonder if she received a large sum of money from a certain foundation like that canadian did?


146 posted on 07/24/2016 12:45:22 AM PDT by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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To: SMGFan

Too bad sweetie, he was our American brother. You want to silence opposition to his murderers? That’s not going to happen.


147 posted on 07/24/2016 1:13:54 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: SMGFan

By accepting the ambassadorship all actions taken by Mr. Stevens in his official capacity, including the events surrounding his death, are part of the public record and subject to scrutiny - political and otherwise.

I morn her loss, but she’s way out of line.


148 posted on 07/24/2016 4:27:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: onyx
That's right and the fact that his body was dragged through the streets for all to see on TV makes him the number one most notable so his name will forever be invoked whenever Benghazi is mentioned.

IIRC - the Bathhouse administration's immediate lie was that those nice men were "rushing the ambassador to the nearest emergency room"

HAHAHAHAHIAHAHAHAHAHA

149 posted on 07/24/2016 5:58:47 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: SMGFan
Hillary sent the openly homosexual Steven into a culture that murders homosexuals as religious practice...

I'm guessing Loving Mother has gotten a big payout from one of the billionaires...

150 posted on 07/24/2016 6:36:55 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Diogenesis

The latter. The Clinton Crime Syndicate will silence her!


151 posted on 07/24/2016 7:03:22 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Remember...after the primaries, we better still be on the same team!)
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To: MuttTheHoople; originalbuckeye
<>For the Dems, party “trumps” country every time.<>

It wasn't supposed to be this way.

Donald Trump: The Echo of our Framers' Uncorrupted President.

152 posted on 07/24/2016 7:22:41 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: SisterK

“And did hitlary’s server get Seal Team 6 killed?”

Not directly, but what are the odds emails or documents proving Seal Team 6 was also marked for slaughter were on there?

How many of us knew instinctively that that was a hit job as soon as we heard? As unthinkable as it is she and Barry have made their actions 100% obvious.

From Savage:

“After Vice President Joe Biden revealed that SEAL Team 6 carried out the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011, Strange said the members of his son’s team gave startling indications to their families they were about to meet their demise.

Charles Strange, the father of slain SEAL Michael Strange, told Savage that in June 2011, on at least three separate occasions his son grabbed him by the bicep and announced that he had prepared his will.

The bewildered father finally was able to find out what it all meant.

Michael Strange, his father recalled, said: “Something’s going on with the team. Somebody’s leaking things out. Something’s going on.”

Savage, reacting with emotion, asked: “Your son knew he was being sent to his death?”

“They knew,” Strange replied. “They knew something was up. Every one of them.”

Other families of the victims have reported similar experiences with their sons the last time they saw them, Strange said.

Strange said documents related to the crash that he obtained show that, among other anomalies, the rescue team was held back.

“This was all planned,” he said. “I have it in the paperwork.”

Strange affirmed that there was no chase helicopter or any other kind of support for the team.

“So, you’re saying they planned to execute your son and the others on purpose?” Savage asked.

“One hundred percent, sir,” Strange replied.


153 posted on 07/24/2016 10:10:10 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (islam is the worship of Satan)
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To: Mamzelle
Hillary sent the openly homosexual Steven into a culture that murders homosexuals as religious practice... I'm guessing Loving Mother has gotten a big payout from one of the billionaires...

There was a recent thread posted that claimed Steven's had a 'female' fiancée . I think the homo claim was planted by the liberals, as to why he was murdered. There are so many lies about the Clinton weapons depot in Benghazi by the sea.

154 posted on 07/24/2016 10:28:24 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Mamzelle

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3429820/posts


155 posted on 07/24/2016 10:29:55 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

I think the obfuscation is from the other direction. Stevens was part of the Chicago millieu— strange that four years have passed, and now the story of Stevens’ sexuality is debated? The sources I read in 2012 were rightward, and said that he was an advocate for gay men. Did Stevens’ family ever address the claims about his sexuality? More likely, those around Stevens are being paid to muddy the issue, and to distract from the devastating testimony of those losing sons in Benghazi-/


156 posted on 07/24/2016 11:24:21 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: CaptainPhilFan

we are being played
even unto death


157 posted on 07/24/2016 1:29:27 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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