.....Fewer people might have been aware until now that his Secretary of State, and his top foreign policy aides, Susan Rice (U.S. Ambassador to the UN)and Samantha Powers (Special Assistant to the President) are every bit as feckless and ill-informed on these matters as he is.
I read with initial suspicion the report from the UK Independent that we had received 48 hours notice that an attack on our interests in the Middle East preceded the Egyptian and Benghazi assaults. After all the Independent's reporting during the Iraq war was laughably false on every count that I recall. Then I saw the weasel words of Shawn Turner spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence : "This is absolutely wrong. We are not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent."
I read this as utterly consistent with the claim that we had received an advance general warning of trouble to our interests in the Middle East on September 11. (Certainly, one would suppose as a matter of prudence we'd harden security there on this anniversary of the worst attack on US soil.) There is no indication that our embassies received this news. If they did there's more than negligence involved, for our Ambassador to Egypt was in the U.S. and had forbidden the guards there to use live ammunition, and there were no Marine guards at our Consulate in Benghazi, our Ambassador [Christopher Stevens] being a man who like Obama had a deluded concept of his influence on the Moslem terrorists there......."
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Fact: The Internet penetration in Yemen is among the lowest in the Arab World region. By September 2005, Yemen’s Internet subscribers’ penetration stood at a very small 0.5%, The Internet users penetration was however 2.4% by end of September 2005. The Arab Advisors Group projects the Internet subscribers’ penetration to reach nearly 1.36% and the users’ penetration to reach nearly 6.81% by end of 2010. Ms. Hadeel Sakkijha, Arab Advisors Research Analyst wrote in the report.
So is Government Motors. Rigor hasn't set in yet on GM. The Union is alive; however the bond holders were pushed under the bus.
His, "I got bin laden" (not capped on purpose) is wearing a little thin. He got nobody. Our brave military did the work. The seals pulled the trigger. It took a whole lot of people to pull it off.
bin was a tired old man by the time we got him. Holed up in some house watching porn, chocking the chicken.
We need to get the politicians out of out intelligence gathering so that we can face the real world instead of some politically corrected delusion.
September 11th 2012 Proved Mitt Romney to be right and Obama to be wrong:
Good read. I have been dumbfounded to watch the media craft the fairy tale version of what transpired. The smartest people in America (just ask them) continue to tell us this was about a youtube video of a crappy movie that appears to have been altered after the original production.
This administration is full of idiots. I pray a majority of our fellow citizens who vote are not idiots in November.
>> negligence
That word is not being mentioned. It’s the “film” don’t ya’ know which raises the other issue of abject disregard for the 1st Amendment.
There's one more big spike of the ball to come.
A film by Kathryn Bigelow w/assistance from the 0bama administration.
It'll be a blast!!!
BTTT
Excellent.
Canada was evacuating personnel from sensitive embassies in the Muslim world just before the attacks.
The national news sources are still repeating the lie that the crazies are upset about some stupid film. My local rag put the story on page three and repeated the meme that they (the Islamists) are doing all this over a film. My wife told me to calm down as I was reading the story to her.
NPR news on Friday had a story on the riots. Within the space of one minute they mentioned the video at least three times.
Like “it was because of the video, it was because of the video, you are getting sleeeeepy, blame the video......”
Well, at least "half wrong."
I predicted that we would see no Islamofascist Terrorist acts (oops, sorry Big Sis) "Man made disasters," on US soil until after the election.
I also suggested that any serious disruptions or Jihadist strikes throughout the World would be tempered as well until after Nov 6th.
This I predicated on the fact that the Islamic Supremacist know full well, they have a "bud" or simpatico ally in the White Hut and would do nothing to diminish his chances at reelection, whereby, they could then go nuts for the foreseeable future without concern of any serious repercussions.
Well, there has been no attacks here in the US, but the "dustup" in the ME and elsewhere really surprised me, but then again, who can figure out what makes those evil, zombie, true believers tick.
I don't care how much the MSM spins this, all of the Sheeple are not stupid and most will see this (and lay the blame where it belongs) as a weakness and will not abide by our embassies being attacked (absent any response) and our Ambassadors murdered.
The Terror Touchdown Dance!!! What a PERFECT ananlogy....both are CHILDISH and stir up resentment by people on the other team.
When Bush once said “Bring it On”, the media was non-stop in claiming he invited attacks for YEARS.
But when this administration brags about killing Osama Bin Laden, not ONE newspaper even WONDERS if there could be a connection between that bragging and attacks by Al Qaeda against our embassies.
Instead, they all assume that it is perfectly natural that some obscure you-tube video, that received no press, caused an intricate armed assault on multiple targets. And that Obama couldn’t have had any idea it was coming.
Isn’t that odd — we are supposed to believe two contradictory things at the same time: first, that it is obvious that the you-tube video would cause our ambassador to be killed, but second that the Administration couldn’t possibly have been expected to know that and take actions to protect our embassies.
Which is it? Obvious provocation that we should have known about and protected against, or a well-planned and concealed attack which shows this administration is clueless about the state of the world?
Oh wait, the media chooses option 3: It’s all Romney’s fault.
Actually, the media is so in the tank for Obama, that I expect to see a headline news story that this is all Romney’s fault, for running against Obama.
After all, if Obama didn’t have a challenger for re-election, he wouldn’t have to spend all this time raising money and campaigning, and he’d be able to take the time necessary to run the country. SO it’s all Romney’s fault for making Obama campaign.
——Though no one in Washington is allowed to say the phrase war on terror anymore, it appears that Islamists have no trouble in continuing their war on America.-——
This administration is so disconnected from reality it’s frightening....
They actually thought that using semantics they could change the hearts and minds of jihadists....