Posted on 10/17/2012 11:37:10 AM PDT by Chris in VA
During the debate last night, Obama claimed that he called the Benghazi attack an act of terror the day after in a statement he made from the Rose Garden. Here is the claim Obama made during the debate
The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people in the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, Obama said. That this was an act of terror and I also said that were going to hunt down those who committed this crime.
Obviously, this caught me by surprise as I recalled no such labeling of the attack as an act of terror. So I went searching for the Rose Garden statement
(Excerpt) Read more at americanlivewire.com ...
LMAO! Now, that’s just funny!!
And not once did FDR ever say it was anything else. Not once did FDR blame the attacks by the Japanese on anything else. He called it for what it was.
Also, FDR called for a delcaration of war against the Japanese the next day. FDR did not spend weeks “investigating” whether or not it was an “attack.”
Big difference.
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