Posted on 08/25/2016 10:25:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Likely in the red sea, but they could have stopped for refueling
Your argument to me is an argument to not vote for Hillary - except I’m already not voting for her.
“Your argument to me is an argument to not vote for Hillary - except I’m already not voting for her.”
I know. I was just saying it isn’t Benghazi that will do her in. It’s her character, with Benghazi just being another example as to why she shouldn’t hold office.
Bkmrk
Of course it is, but when the time came and the call for help came the order from Obama/Clinton was stand down because they didn’t want a messy blackhawk down scenario right before the election. They already had their Mohamed video explanation lined up and the rest is history. Why has Hillary not been asked why no order was given for extraction? with the context NO ONE COULD HAVE KNOWN HOW LONG THE ATTACK WOULD LAST. It becomes a great excuse after the fact but not while it was happening.
I thought there were special forces in Sicily or Italy. 90 minutes away
I think there was an admiral who got fired because he made moves to intervene. He was relieved of his command by his XO. It happened in an army unit, also. The military was ready to go. There were positive orders from the Sultan or his foreign minister to stand down. Both were relieved of their commands for disobedience to orders.
Placemark.
A recent photo of Bibi sitting with Putin is a result of Obama’s policies.
Thank you for adding to this great thread. I just wanted to know why Stevens and his Intel guy were at that compound which was unsecure and had crowds milling around it? Why that day? Was their death caused by Hillary bungling security at a State Dept compound?
Quaddafi had enormous weapons stores. When he and his government were dispatched the weapons dumps were left unguarded. Anyone who could walk could get thier hands on anything they wanted. Hillary sent Stevens to Benghazi as a bag man. He was there to buy weapons. From what I understand he was pretty careless about waiving around money and making it known what he was doing.
The reason extra security wasn’t sent was the state Department wanted Stevens to contract security with local militias. Problem was the local militias were hostile. His request fell on deaf ears. Remember this was a covert operation. Sending a security detail would bring further attention to what they were doing and what they were doing was extremely dangerous.
Actually, the men who decided to rescue Stevens’ group weren’t assigned to his detail. They were at a CIA safe house close by. What they were doing is still a mystery.
Another thing should be noted is our folks were eventually rescued by a Quaddafi loyalist military transport. The very people we threw out of power.
In the black ops world it is not uncommon to have active military involved posing as contract civilians. The reason is, if they are caught, the State can disavow thier activities.
I must be uneducated but I do not understand why the diplomat corps was being used to deal with Dept of Defense business such as acquiring weapons of war? And I cannot understand how the President would assign the Secy of State to oversee this weapons issue? If there were 30 people working in Libya for the US Gov., were they there to get the weapons into friendly hands? All of it is the opposite of what Reagan was trying to do in arming anti-Communists. Somehow, the idea of the Obama government via inept HRC and her diplomat corps running guns a la Ollie North is utterly fantastic and unbelievable. There had to be more to it.
Stevens was a diplomatic liason and, most likely, a CIA operative. There were 30 plus people involved that we know about.
The US couldn’t use the defense department because what we were doing had no “official” backing by the UN. We were arming (to include chemical weapons) rebel terrorists for the sole purpose of overthrowing a legitimate government.
Syria, as well as Libya, Egypt and Iran, have historically been Soviet/Russian client states. Russia went to the UN numerous times to get us to stop. Russia was invited into Syria on behalf of the legitimate government. They have also been invited into Iran and Yemen. Additionally, they have requested the use of Incirlik AB Turkey. Saudi Arabia and other “friendly” gulf nations will be surrounded. Russia will soon have control of most of the crude oil and natural gas being shipped out of the region.
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