[gaijin]

the question is important --was POTUS thinking rainbows and unicorns even AS SEALS WERE BEING KILLED ON LIVE TV...?!!?

>:(

[gaijin]

Watch from MINUTE TWO OF THIS FOX VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGaRToSdFEE&feature=plcp

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[mojito]

Stories came out earlier this year that 0 likes to watch the video feeds from the drones, and spends a lot of time doing it.

I would only guess that he wanted a ring-side seat on the action.

[ConservativeInPA]

[kabar]

That is the BIG QUESTION. Why wasn't it armed? The other drone had run out of gas and had to return. But by that time they knew an attack was underway. What is the downside of arming it? Perhaps they believed that the Libyan government, which had the responsibility of protecting our diplomatic personnel and facilities and didn't do it, would be upset if they found out it had been armed. Or was it not armed because the decision had already been made not to intervene militarily regardless.

There was no legitimate reason for not arming it, even as just a contingency or option. You would not have to use the weapons, but given the fact they knew an attack was underway, it only seems prudent to have that option available. So who made that decision? It had to come from the WH.

[gaijin]

Let’s assume for now there was no AC-130. And let’s assume that BOTH drones went unarmed.

OK?

Woods was painting a target. Does that mean there was ANOTHER armed platform we don’t know about..?

I’m not sure they have fielded laser-guidable excalibur rounds by anything which is light.

Maybe he was painting in faith that platforms arriving later would know the primary enemy position? To me that seems somehow dubious. If he did, it seems very unlikely he would have done so from his M2 position atop, “The Farm”.

Anyone?

He was in real-time comms with someone who could see what he was doing and felt his actions were valuable.

I don’t understand this. Theories?

[Army Air Corps]

FYI

[okie01]

If you have one spun up and fueled then putting some hellfires on the pylons takes all of..5 minutes. I cannot believe they did NOT have the time to arm it or simply forgot --it's INCONCEIVABLE.

Could it have been a fuel consideration? Sigonella is 480 miles from Benghazi and a Hellfire would have increased its time to target and its loitering time.

[GeronL]

wow

[blueunicorn6]

Why was the first drone there?

[HollyB]

There is no forgetting. This is the US military. We have contingencies and plans for about every scenario. Our men and women train for an operation just like this. A decision was made, the Administration is playing ‘stupid’ and the general population is buying it - as if we have some type of 3rd world military operation where nobody knows what is going on. Of course they know what is going on!

[dalebert]

why did they feel the need to watch and do nothing ..to make sure our guys were dead?