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NEW OBAMA ADMIN CLAIM: MARINES COULDN'T HAVE STOPPED CONSULATE ASSAULT
Bretbart News ^ | 21 Sept 2012 | John Sexton

Posted on 09/23/2012 4:09:49 AM PDT by WVKayaker

First Romney, then the You Tube clip, now the Marines are to blame? The Obama administration's shifting claims on what took place in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11 became more defiant yesterday when unnamed officials suggested that no amount of security would have mattered in Libya, not even a detachment of US Marines. This came on the same day the administration also admitted the assault was a terror attack not a protest gone wrong. ...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911ii; alteredsource; benghazi; embassysecurity; libya; marines; nobama; semperfi
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To: RummyChick
WHY didn't the rebels nd the LOCALS take his diary....they took EVERY OTHER piece of paper....probably a LOT of classified info there.

WHY DIDN"T THEY TAKE HIS DIARY???? hmmmmmmmm

It was still there until Anderson Cooper took it??? Fake story??

41 posted on 09/23/2012 5:46:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RummyChick

I don’t disagree.

But is it normal for an Ambassador to travel to a consulate without a security team?

No one has explained why he was there.

Clearly, at least to me, is this trip was a normal part of his routine. And that someone who knew that tipped off the terrorists. They knew he was there. They knew he was without his security.

Why would someone travel without security?

They would if they did not want to draw attention to themselves or if they did not want the security to know what they are doing. Or both.

So, you have a man routinely traveling to a remote site with no security because he did not want to draw attention to himself or he did not want his security team seeing what was going on.

There are very few possibilities for WHY he was there that are not really embarrassing or just plain bad.


42 posted on 09/23/2012 5:48:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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To: RummyChick

I don’t disagree.

But is it normal for an Ambassador to travel to a consulate without a security team?

No one has explained why he was there.

Clearly, at least to me, is this trip was a normal part of his routine. And that someone who knew that tipped off the terrorists. They knew he was there. They knew he was without his security.

Why would someone travel without security?

They would if they did not want to draw attention to themselves or if they did not want the security to know what they are doing. Or both.

So, you have a man routinely traveling to a remote site with no security because he did not want to draw attention to himself or he did not want his security team seeing what was going on.

There are very few possibilities for WHY he was there that are not really embarrassing or just plain bad.


43 posted on 09/23/2012 5:48:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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To: NTHockey

Ooorah.

I told a Marine about this story yesterday. He got LOUD. In public, too.


44 posted on 09/23/2012 5:55:28 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: WVKayaker
HAHAHAHAHA! One Marine and a .50 could have stopped that assault. Those delicate flowers in the White House don't understand about heterosexual men.
45 posted on 09/23/2012 5:56:39 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: Vermont Lt

One wonders if this is how Obama would protect the United States...with a “no bullet” defense. Pray for the U.S.


46 posted on 09/23/2012 5:59:51 AM PDT by IM2MAD
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To: Vermont Lt

May be related to this?

“Obama backs effort to recover Arab Spring assets”
The Associated Press

September 11, 2012

Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/09/11/2205992/obama-backs-effort-to-recover.html#storylink=cpy

“U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (L) and Qatar’s Attorney General Ali Bin Mohsen bin Fetais Al-Marri (R) attend the closing session of the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery in Doha September 13, 2012”

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8pXI8ZXQLDyC3em8dP6h0A—/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD0zNTk7cT04NTt3PTUxMg—/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-09-13T153259Z_2115286851_GM1E89D1TBH01_RTRMADP_3_QATAR.JPG


47 posted on 09/23/2012 6:03:54 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

The story changes every time an unexpected consequence arises. The goal seems to be avoiding consequence rather than establishing a cover.

The meanderings reveal a lack of discipline in an arena that requires complete dedication and to an extent, the willingness to give no answer even when it may project a political image that is unpleasant. The evolution of the story is not consistent with revealed facts but seems to be the approach of a the average school age child who has not yet recognized that the world does not conform to imagined scenarios.

If this is a cover for an op, that is being handled very poorly.


48 posted on 09/23/2012 6:07:15 AM PDT by Shanty Shaker
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To: sneakers

You might want to consider the possibility that he doesn’t underestimate the Marines ability which is why they weren’t there to begin with.

When it comes to politics assume nothing.


49 posted on 09/23/2012 6:09:19 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: NTHockey
YOU DON’T F*K WITH MARINES. THEY WILL KILL YOU AND FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN YOU F’ED WITH THEM. Semper fi. Do or die.

I routinely bed their wives and daughters, have done so for 25 years. Are you saying I am now in jeopardy?

50 posted on 09/23/2012 6:11:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Vermont Lt

Someone in Libya said he was a Muslim.

So you have at least 3 possibilities

A gay tryst (doubtful)
Traitor
CIA

Someone wanted that diary to get out. The question is who. For all we know, it wasn’t even in Stevens handwriting.

The diary sounds like a plant.

If he was a traitor he might write about being a target of the terrorists to give him cover.

If he was following a mission he might write about being a target to give him cover.

This whole thing is bizarre.

It is so bizarre I am wondering if the CIA is out to get Obama voted out.


51 posted on 09/23/2012 6:16:49 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: WVKayaker
On the other hand, if there had been an armed contingent of Marines on-hand, there would have been a lot of dead muzzies littering the streets.

Just because Zero is an official "No I Can't" doesn't mean that Marines are such wussies. I guess that Zero is doubling down on how nobody could have done anything to address any of the thousands of failures he has embraced as "Forward".

52 posted on 09/23/2012 6:16:49 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: ballplayer

The ex seals were private security contractors or worked for a private security company, they were not for the personal protection of Stevenson!


53 posted on 09/23/2012 6:17:55 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: bigheadfred

Chesty would have held that building.The locals would have had trouble finding enough dumptrucks to haul away their dead.


54 posted on 09/23/2012 6:18:28 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Lets put this into prospective. Twelve Marines would have held out for hours against 250 invaders. The twelve might have all died in the end with the ambassador...but as daylight would have come...there would have been at least 200 hundred of the invaders laying out dead in various positions.


55 posted on 09/23/2012 6:19:19 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Lazamataz; NTHockey
THEY WILL KILL YOU AND FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN YOU F’ED WITH THEM. ...

I routinely bed their wives and daughters, have done so for 25 years. Are you saying I am now in jeopardy? -laz

Probably thankful...


56 posted on 09/23/2012 6:22:08 AM PDT by WVKayaker (I'm more than happy to be Obama's "enemy of the week" - Sarah Palin)
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To: pepsionice

There were 40 to 50 attackers from the accounts I have read. The attackers did have back up using mortars.


57 posted on 09/23/2012 6:23:10 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: WVKayaker

He may be right if they would have had to follow the rules of engagement they are forced to use in Afghanistan. If there were any civilians around...they are all civilians...WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION TO FIRE????


58 posted on 09/23/2012 6:25:06 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: combat_boots

Yeah...he recovered some bullets and rocket propelled grenades the other day. When do you think we might want to collect the rest of the arms we left there?


59 posted on 09/23/2012 6:25:51 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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To: MagUSNRET

Ping.


60 posted on 09/23/2012 6:32:10 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
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