Posted on 10/17/2012 11:19:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The dispute over how the Obama administration has characterized the lethal attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last month boiled over once again in the debate on Tuesday night between President Obama and Mitt Romney. But questions about what happened in the attack, and disputes over who said what about it, have left many people confused. Here are some of the facts as they are now known:
Mr. Obama applied the “terror” label to the attack in his first public statement on the events in Benghazi, delivered in the Rose Garden at the White House at 10:43 a.m. on Sept. 12, though the reference was indirect.
The next day, Sept. 13, in a campaign appearance in Las Vegas, he used similar language.
The “act of terror” references attracted relatively little notice at the time, and later they appeared to have been forgotten even by some administration officials.
Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said on Sept. 14 about the Benghazi attack, “We have no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack.”
On Sept. 19, Matthew G. Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said about the killings in Benghazi during a Senate hearing, “Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy.” The next day, asked about Mr. Olsen’s testimony, Mr. Carney declared, “It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.”
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And by the way, new York times, the story you’re ignoring is the coverup over the missiles missing in Libya and how the Democrats helped this happen.
Shameless. I can only hope with Romney is president he recalls the Crowleys,The NY Times and the Crissy Matthews of the world and grants them access accordingly. They need to be frozen out and marginalized for their behavior.
This is a blatant lie. The two paragraphs prior to the terror reference clearly show the president was referrencing the original 9/11 as a terror attack. There was no reference at that point, direct, indirect or imagined to the Benghazi attack.
Interesting - Somehow the NY Times forgot to mention that Obama mentioned and blamed the attack on a protest boiled over, when there was NO PROTEST at all in Benghazi.
They also left out the most memorable statement, for me, from his rose garden address, “the future does not belong to those who insult the prophet mohammad.”
OOOOPs - I think “the future does not belong to those who insult the prophet mohammad” was stated by Obama at the UN. - when was the date of that address?
IOWs 0bunghole lacks any conviction whatsoever to actually lead when the enemy is at the gates.
From the Rose Garden speech...
"Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others."
In that very speech he bragged about last night he tells the lie about the "video."
Though the reference is indirect.
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lol, good one!
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