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Petraeus Throws Obama Under the Bus
Weekly Standard ^ | 6:05 PM, OCT 26, 2012 | WILLIAM KRISTOL

Posted on 10/26/2012 3:20:35 PM PDT by Snuph

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”

So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why—and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations—did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need?

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicia; benghazigate; benghazirescue; benghazistanddown; chrisstevens; cia; elections; justabumpintheroad; libya; obama; obamasfault; petraeus; waronterror
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To: Catsrus
then hold hearings and indict them for treason.

And we all know how that'll go: "Blah, blah, blah...blah, blah, blah..." [slap on wrist] "Now don't do it again."
21 posted on 10/26/2012 3:33:42 PM PDT by Thorliveshere
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To: Snuph; O6ret

Not quite what O6ret called for in the below thread but it’s a step in the right direction.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2947789/posts


22 posted on 10/26/2012 3:33:53 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: hflynn

We need Buckhead or a Buckhead post!


23 posted on 10/26/2012 3:34:28 PM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: Ann Archy

Ann, if Petreas didn’t get the call, then he didn’t get the call.

Check out this thread concerning a call in to the Rush Limbaugh show. Perhaps you’ve seen it. If it’s true Petreas is merely explaining who made the command decision.

That doesn’t seem to be out of line to me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2950692/posts


24 posted on 10/26/2012 3:34:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, gone...)
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To: GeronL

Go/no go maybe. But he said it was the video. And he knew men were in a desperate fight for their lives and “assented” to simply let them die.

Petraeus could have walked out the next day and told the world what happened. He is more loyal to secrecy and the administration, than he is to the constitution and the people of this republic.


25 posted on 10/26/2012 3:35:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Snuph

WTF????

ONLY NOW they put out a limp statement like this?

WHY wait till WH telling us BOGUS STORY version #452?


26 posted on 10/26/2012 3:35:15 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: hflynn
Now we know why Romney steered clear of Libya during the last debate.

It would have been completely pointless to engage in a debate with Barack Obama over this issue when all of this additional damning information is now coming out about it.

27 posted on 10/26/2012 3:35:34 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Snuph

Art imitating life, or history repeating itself?

If you’ve seen “Argo”, this sounds remarkably like the White House reaction to the final escape plan for the 6 Americans holed up at the Canadian Embassy.

If you HAVEN’T seen “Argo”, please do so before voting, as a reminder of what happened to us the last time we had such an ineffective man inhabiting the Oval Office! Admittedly somewhat overdramatized, and we all know where Ben Affleck’s politics lie, but he didn’t muck with the basics of the story, thank goodness!


28 posted on 10/26/2012 3:35:35 PM PDT by ssaftler (Romney: "Attacking me is not an agenda")
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To: Snuph

The Marxist needed his sleep for the fund raiser the next day.
Throw him out!


29 posted on 10/26/2012 3:35:53 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=om93destr)
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To: DoughtyOne

OBAMABOTS.... GET OUT AND VOTE TODAY LIKE OBAMA did yesterday as we need to get as many votes as we can. When the crap hits the fan nobody will vote for me....Cries Obama.


30 posted on 10/26/2012 3:36:05 PM PDT by ncfool (OMG 2012)
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To: DesertRhino

In other words, a polical hack, like Colin Powell.


31 posted on 10/26/2012 3:36:39 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Snuph

If the “video” lie cover story would have worked, Petraeus would have never said a word.


32 posted on 10/26/2012 3:36:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

Yep.


33 posted on 10/26/2012 3:37:16 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: skeeter
A freeper Buckhead brought down the Dan Rather October surprise.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227210/posts

Paging Buckhead!

34 posted on 10/26/2012 3:37:30 PM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: Snuph

So, Betrayus sat there and let his own people get murdered? I don’t think so. He’s guilty and everyone up the line is guilty. The GOP is guilty because they handed the presidency to a lying islamic four years ago. The SCOTUS is guilty because, as Thomas admits, they are “evading” the issue. All of D.C. is quilty of murder.


35 posted on 10/26/2012 3:39:07 PM PDT by bgill (Evil doers are in every corner of our government. Have we passed the time of no return?)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Because the CIA is being blamed for not giving the okay to send in support. The CIA is merely directing people to the guy who was making the decisions.


36 posted on 10/26/2012 3:39:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, gone...)
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To: JPG

People who are and have stepped forward are at risk of their lives.


37 posted on 10/26/2012 3:39:48 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Snuph

The whole dem leadership is currupt and some are flatout souless. Probably most of them deserve nothing less than a public hanging?


38 posted on 10/26/2012 3:40:06 PM PDT by Leep (Are you smarter than a 7th grade math student and or Barack 0bama?)
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To: hflynn

“Or maybe he was waiting for an opportunity which has suddenly presented itself.”

Bullcrap. He was party to those men being abandoned. He had an opportunity right then and the next day. That pussy would have never said a word if the “video riot” cover story would have flown.


39 posted on 10/26/2012 3:40:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Snuph

It looks like even once-conservative leaders like Petraeus are going to be required collateral damage in this unnecessary, treasonous disaster.

So be it if the life of our Country requires it.


40 posted on 10/26/2012 3:40:33 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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