Posted on 10/25/2012 1:35:35 PM PDT by RummyChick
The U.S. military did not quickly intervene during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last month because military leaders did not have adequate intelligence information and felt they should not put American forces at risk, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday.
In his most extensive comments to date on the unfolding controversy surrounding the attack in Benghazi, Panetta said U.S. forces were on heightened alert because of the anniversary of 9/11 and prepared to respond. But, he said, the attack happened over a few hours and was over before the U.S. had the chance to know what was really happening.
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They will all retire as if nothing happened.
Panetta: “ blame it on the Bossa Nova “
Wow - that live video feed from the circling drone and the live/real-time messages from the consulate compound must not have been very convincing.
Add to it - for 7 hours, the assault raged on - in 7 hours, choppers with real fighting men could have been on the scene.
7 hours...
Needs to be a Romney campaign add over the next several days.
Obama was subliminally speaking this morning when he called Romney a bullshitter. He really meant Panetta.
This crap is just great, we can't do anything because we don't want to put the lives of American military "at risk" since we don't know what's going on in Lybia, even though we're looking at it live and in color.
Pretty miserable claiming we will sacrifice four (4) lives for Islam rather than send our brave American military to kick some butt attempting to save the four (4), but gee that one's a hard call and Obama promised me that I'd not be asked to make any hard calls as he and Hillary would take care of the "heavy lifting."
Panetta was been a worthless political hack and has been a disaster as Sec. Def. - a position he had absolutely no qualifications for when Obama appointed him....other than being a worthless political hack.
Oh, my.....
Risk of what? They’d been putting assets over Libya over and over in their fever to take out Qaddafi and save the so-called Libyan freedom fighters, but it was too risky to deploy anything to save Americans?
Another Alinsky story.
Yada, yada, yada. More lies. Does he think we didn’t already know there had been attacks and buzz in recent months? When you get a frantic call saying they’re under fire, what’s lacking?
Dead men tell no tales.
Remember he and General Dempsey have testified earlier this year that the needed permission from the U.N before from CONgress, hmmm!!!
Panetta's excuse is no different than a field commander getting a call from one of his squads saying they were pinned down and being overrun and responding "We probably can't get to them. Let's forget about it."
What military leaders? Name them. Next why didnt they have adequate intelligence information, and who was responsible for that failure?
That is the question, our military does not act without orders. There was just total silence.
Oh. Ok. That’s that then.
They send the Ambassador into the terrorists den with little security, (on 9/11) no rapid response protection and then lie about the attack caused from a video for 2 weeks afterwards when they had the e-mails during the attack.
Panetta speaks like a true coward.
Panetta is New Left/commie/socialist.
All these people are on the same team.
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