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The Video Didn’t Do It
The Weekly Standard ^ | September 24, 2012 | Lee Smith

Posted on 09/15/2012 1:27:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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If the reaction of U.S. officials in the face of such an assault is...... to try to silence individual citizens, there is good reason for the terrorists to believe that, with more acts of terror, they will also change American policies. The unpleasant fact is that the Obama administration has encouraged our adversaries to keep at it.

Egypt and Libya, Obama's Frankenstein "............. blaming the supposed stick that prods the monster rather than the actions of the monster......

......What is most telling about this sordid, pathetic tale is the way that some of the embassy officials chose to use their time as the monster neared the embassy. They tweeted. In their Obama-induced delusion they actually thought a tweet would stop the monster their leader had created. That is one of the scariest parts of the tale. That an adult, working for the U.S. government, could be that stupid, passive and appeasing when being threatened and then attacked. And Obama is counting on "we the people" being that stupid, passive and appeasing too."

1 posted on 09/15/2012 1:27:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Maybe because the leader of the great Satan was taunting them “Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive!”

of course the MSM and the Dems will deflect the blame to Romney or a video nobody watched to protect Obama from being tarred with that blame


2 posted on 09/15/2012 1:33:59 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Excellent article!

It is indeed embarrassing that administration officials have repeatedly commented upon the film's artistic merits (or lack thereof) - as though that had any bearing on the issue.

They are not Siskal and Ebert. It is not their business to review movies. It is first and foremost their duty to protect the Constitution of the United States, as well as maintain the safety and territorial integrity of the United States.

It is a sorry state of affairs when administration officials resort to bad-mouthing films made by private citizens in the exercise of their 1st Amendment rights in a misguided attempt to garner the approval of semi-literate, muderous rioters in foreign countries and persuade them to "pretty please" stop killing our embassy personnel.

Regards,

3 posted on 09/15/2012 2:03:05 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Muslims have been chanting “We have 1 and a half BILLION OSAMAS”.......they are telling us it’s NOT the movie, it’s the killing of Osama. But really, they see our WEAKNESS now.


4 posted on 09/15/2012 2:13:56 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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I was just watching CNN and the reporter being interviewed said the oddest thing...the WH has been warned by Libya for MONTHS that the radical elements were planning this. Libya has been telling the WH that they are not in a position to control those elements.

No, it is not the film. It never was the film. The chants tell us exactly what it was and this slip by the reporter in Libya confirms this has been planned for months. This is the violence we should have expected after Osama was killed.

5 posted on 09/15/2012 2:26:21 AM PDT by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: Ann Archy

The liberal way will be to try to bribe them out of fear they will not attack. This is like the kid that is bullied in school and he just gives the bully his lunch or lunch money and runs, hoping he can avoid an altercation. Obama and the left have probably never stood up to physical threats so they weasel out and try to get other people to do what they should do. I don’t foresee Obama or the left of ever seeing the light so to speak.


6 posted on 09/15/2012 2:28:59 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: GeronL

>> Maybe because the leader of the great Satan was taunting them “Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive!”

Not much reporting the GM bailout was a factor.


7 posted on 09/15/2012 2:44:51 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This monster has always been there in the middle east. 0bama did not create it.

What 0bama did do was create the vacuum of Power that has allowed it to come out of the pit.

I have heard the press already trying to pin this on President Bush for advocating spreading democracy to the middle east. At least Bush knew to go slow and to not leave a vacuum of power.

The progressive 0bama and the regime thought fast moving protests instigated using radical elements would give the middle east democracy. People voting in theocracies and radical islamists is not them choosing freedom and no, those choices cannot be brushed aside as...’well that's what they chose and that's how democracy works.’

We will need to retreat from the region for likely decades due to the 0bama policy. We must recreate the contain and control policy, we must go back to not doing business with terrorist countries...and that list just got very long. Some 20 nations or more long.

On the flipside...it is time to start drilling for oil here, it is time to start building refineries here. Both for our own security and for export to the rest of the ‘free world.’ America can rise from this fiasco as a major power, but 0bama must be removed from office. I am not even convinced we can wait until January, heck even until the election.

Everything we've heard so far indicates a complete and willful neglect of duty from the Commander In Chief. This is not just a collapse of 0bama’s naive foreign policy, indications are a complete neglect of duty. Due to this we are now sending Marine rapid response teams to the area(s). Egypt, Libya, the Sudan....I hope they are extraction teams. I got a four word message yesterday from my nephew, “I'm on a boat.” Pray for him and all our Marines being called to this duty.

8 posted on 09/15/2012 2:50:16 AM PDT by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I suspect Lee Smith’s persective is shared by the majority of those tuned in.

Hollywood must be sleeping.


9 posted on 09/15/2012 2:58:05 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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...........On the flipside...it is time to start drilling for oil here, it is time to start building refineries here. Both for our own security and for export to the rest of the ‘free world.’ ......

YES!!!

10 posted on 09/15/2012 3:05:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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....I got a four word message yesterday from my nephew, “I'm on a boat.” Pray for him and all our Marines being called to this duty.

Will do. God bless them all.

11 posted on 09/15/2012 3:06:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: EBH

I will pray for your nephew. But I’ll also work harder to make sure the Organizer isn’t elected again - for the sake of people like your nephew. Otherwise, we Citizens are not supporting our military.


12 posted on 09/15/2012 3:06:36 AM PDT by gotribe (WTF?)
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It is indeed embarrassing that administration officials have repeatedly commented upon the film's artistic merits (or lack thereof) - as though that had any bearing on the issue.

Don't forget --- these are the same people who defended the artistic merits of putting a crucifix in a jar of urine and throwing elephant feces on a painting of the Virgin Mary.

I am seriously considering asking the National Endowment for the Arts to give me a grant so I can make a painting of Mohammad covered in feces waiting for his 72 virgins (who are men)

13 posted on 09/15/2012 3:28:20 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

A few months ago there was talk of the ME trying to make the world currency pegged to oil.

I say ...America could do that. Forget gold etc. But also drilling creates jobs, fixes the economy ....there is nothing but an upside from becoming energy secure.


14 posted on 09/15/2012 3:30:14 AM PDT by EBH (0bama is guilty of willful neglect of duty.)
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To: Ann Archy

THIS WAS A STAGED TERROSIST ATTACK ON OUR INSTALLATIONS. Zero his propagandists and the circus are once again relying on our stupidity to believe otherwise. Another event with a new catch phrase or excuse to hide the truth.


15 posted on 09/15/2012 3:38:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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And SADLY we have a VERY STUPID population now who only cares about Honey Boo Boo and American Idol!!!!!

Hey DUMBASSES......this is ALL about killing Osama, not the stupid movie that no one saw!!!

16 posted on 09/15/2012 4:03:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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The way to make the Muslims peaceful is to trim that figure by about half.

Not a pleasant thought, but the only real answer.

As long as the Muslims are weak they learn to ignore small things like a crappy movie, when they grow strong they find everything offensive.

Trim them down, that is the only real answer.


17 posted on 09/15/2012 4:18:58 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Gene Eric

lol.

Those oil barons hate the Volt. lol.


18 posted on 09/15/2012 4:19:22 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Prayers up. I am angry about my brothers and sisters in arms being *anywhere* in the Middle East right now. These people sincerely want to die for their cause.. Achamdinanut has already promised the twelfth inmam will be here in 2012 which means he is out of time. Billions of DNA compromised, inbred muslims are thinking they have three months to pave the way for their savior. Why on God’s green earth send more of our sons and daughters into that mess. I sincerely hope it is simply an extraction mission. Those folks do not want peace. They want to die in the next three months paving the way for the Global caliphate.


19 posted on 09/15/2012 4:23:13 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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I have heard the press already trying to pin this on President Bush for advocating spreading democracy to the middle east

They do have a point

Bush has stated the Arab Spring is a good thing
20 posted on 09/15/2012 4:28:11 AM PDT by uncbob
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