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Did Obama Watch While They Fought for their Lives?
American Thinker ^
| October 26, 2012
| Karin McQuillan
Posted on 10/26/2012 6:19:16 AM PDT by Snuph
They fought for their lives for seven hours. 9/11/ 2012. Benghazi. The White House watched. No help was sent and they died.
Four Americans died in the jihadi attack on our consulate in Benghazi. Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, two retired SEALS who were working as civilian security specialists in Benghazi, learned that Ambassador Stevens and nine other people at the consulate were under attack and rushed to their defense. The fourth man was Sean Smith, father of three, an Air Force veteran, working for the State Department in Libya.
The White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and our military monitored the battle in real time starting with the first phone calls directly from Benghazi. A small military force from Tripoli was dispatched and was able to rescue some personnel hiding in other buildings. Ambassador Stevens remained missing, as did these three men. The fire-fight raged on.
The shocking news of October 22 was that a drone ordered in from Tripoli sent back images of the attack in real time. The battle was sent on streaming video direct to the Situation Room in the White House. Within two hours, emails from Benghazi reported that Al Qaeda in Libya was claiming responsibility.
President Obama, our Commander-in-Chief, had military options available to try and save our men. He could have had the drone armed with Hellfire missiles. He could have scrambled fighter jets from Sicily to drive off the attackers. He could have dropped in Special Forces. He had seven hours to take action.
He did nothing. Doherty and Woods died in the last hour of the attack.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: absentpresident; benghazi; benghazigate; derelictionofduty; emptychair; obamaasnero; obamafail; obamafiddles; obamainsane; scandal; shameful; stevens
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posted on
10/26/2012 6:19:20 AM PDT
by
Snuph
To: Snuph
Bill Clinton left our men in Mogadishu.
Barrack HUSSEIN Obama left our men in Benghazi.
Anyone see a pattern here with Democrat Presidents?
Cowardice is not a trait most Americans respect.
2
posted on
10/26/2012 6:22:45 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Snuph
This vile administration consists of so many immoral or amoral persons without compassion or good sense or real pride and feeling of any need to defend our Freedom fighters, that we might as well give up the ghost if they succeed in stealing this election.
3
posted on
10/26/2012 6:23:47 AM PDT
by
AKA Elena
(St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle! Please PRAY daily for the USA!)
To: Snuph
It's pretty obvious to me.
They didn't want to admit that a terrorist attack happened while they were in charge.
4
posted on
10/26/2012 6:23:48 AM PDT
by
Doofer
(Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
To: Snuph
0bama couldn't be bothered. He had to get ready for his big fund raiser in Vegas, so he needed his beauty rest, and possibly he needed to relax with a little "blow".
He's a disgusting excuse for a human being!
5
posted on
10/26/2012 6:24:22 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
( For AMERICA's sake: Vote for the Mormon, NOT the muslim; The Capitalist, NOT the Communist! FUBO!)
To: Snuph
Did Obama Watch While They Fought for their Lives? No, he didn't care enough to watch, so the POS went to bed.
6
posted on
10/26/2012 6:25:15 AM PDT
by
Common Sense 101
(Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
To: Snuph
If the government-media complex propagandists are going to do some last minute Hollywood editing, to increase in scope the role of POTUS in SEAL TEAM 6 just a few nights before Election Day, why then they had better amplify Soetero's role for BenghaziGate while we had eyes in the sky and watched our men being taken down one by one by jihadist attackers and not irate crowds supposedly over a two-bit video movie. We know the EOP White House Situation Room knew of the attack by State Cable, Obama went to bed that night with this knowledge know doubt, and bright and early he heads on taxpayer expense by air to Vegas for a POLITICAL FUNDRAISER and if I recall correctly they had not yet located the body of Ambassador Stevens? How low can you get. Even BILL CLINTON and JIMMY CARTER would not be that low.
7
posted on
10/26/2012 6:25:43 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Donate, & walk precincts, not for "Parties", but for individual, principled "Candidates" (& for FR)
To: Venturer
Hey don’t forget: the “saint” of the dims, JFK, left men on the beaches at The Bay of Pigs.
8
posted on
10/26/2012 6:26:11 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
( For AMERICA's sake: Vote for the Mormon, NOT the muslim; The Capitalist, NOT the Communist! FUBO!)
To: Snuph
He really sat and watched them die just as if it was cock fights, dog fights or gladiators in the coliseum. his soul is dead. he has nothing good at heart for any American.
9
posted on
10/26/2012 6:26:31 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Snuph
“For the United States military to say that they were 480 miles away and they couldn’t do anything, and they couldn’t move one aircraft in 8 hours?”
Really?
Bush deployed a quarter of a million guys (or just about) and materiel to Iraq tout suite and “O” stumbled with a rescue force for 5 people in a country which was ENJOYING US diplomatic and political favor????????
10
posted on
10/26/2012 6:26:31 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: Venturer
Bill Clinton left our men in Mogadishu. Barrack HUSSEIN Obama left our men in Benghazi.
And, lest we forget, Jimmy Carter left 52 Embassy personnel in Iran for 444 days.
11
posted on
10/26/2012 6:27:36 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
To: SMARTY
For the United States military to say that they were 480 miles away and they couldnt do anything, and they couldnt move one aircraft in 8 hours? Really? With this feckless gaggle, that wouldn't surprise me at all. What do they EVER do right? GWB would've had aircraft in the area in minimal time.
12
posted on
10/26/2012 6:29:20 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
To: SMARTY
What should anyone expect from the MOST un-American president we have ever elected? He was bored, and went to bed that night. He had a date with Hollywood the next day—which was much more important. He must be defeated . . . and soundly.
13
posted on
10/26/2012 6:29:47 AM PDT
by
Galtoid
( .)
To: Snuph
14
posted on
10/26/2012 6:30:09 AM PDT
by
Snuph
("give me Liberty...")
To: Snuph
Did Obama and the DNC tape it for Islamic videos or just Pay-per-View?
Mission Accomplished!
15
posted on
10/26/2012 6:30:16 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
To: Doofer
FLASH: North Korea may go for (another) serious underground nuclear test very soon in the run up to the US Presidential election, further embarrassing POTUS and showing that no, not all is OK. So they have DOD's Panetta working double time spin on that, trying to downplay it, deny they have any indications Kim Jong Un is planning it, etc. Their whole shitty house-of-cards narrative has to be the World has been Kumbaya-ed successfully over 48 months of Messiah Barry. Everyone knows, it just does not square with reality. And now we have dead men on account of it.
16
posted on
10/26/2012 6:30:34 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Donate, & walk precincts, not for "Parties", but for individual, principled "Candidates" (& for FR)
To: Snuph
Obama probably sat there with a bag of popcorn and a mirror with a couple lines of coke, watching and cheering on the invaders.
He’s got to go, America. Please... he’s got to go.
17
posted on
10/26/2012 6:31:15 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
To: ScottinVA
“GWB would’ve had aircraft in the area in minimal time.”
WHILE “O” is still waiting for the EPA reports on whether or not we should condider it!
18
posted on
10/26/2012 6:34:33 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: Diogenesis
19
posted on
10/26/2012 6:34:39 AM PDT
by
Snuph
("give me Liberty...")
To: Snuph
It is well known he likes snuff films and gets excited watching drone attacks on people he designates.
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