Posted on 10/27/2012 11:10:59 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Obama has a habit of dithering. Remember the delay in the decision about the surge in Afghanistan?
No, just a coward.
Did Obama Refuse To Aid Our Men In Benghazi?
“Just one hour flight time away were U.S. Air Force bases that could have been rousted in minutes to send fighter planes and attack helicopters that could have routed the attackers in minutes of fighting. As Investors Business Daily editorialized on October 24, “Within an hour’s flight time from Libya, at the large naval air station in Sigonella, Italy, and at bases in nearby Aviano and Souda Bay, were fighters and AC 130 gunships that can be extremely effective in dispersing crowds or responding to a terrorist assault.” But the order for the rescue never came. Maybe because Barack Obama did not want to offend Muslim sensibilities by such a show of force.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/10/25/benghazi-obamas-actions-amount-to-a-shameful-dereliction-of-duty/
Since we had 2 available, at one time or another, flying over Benghazi before and during the 7+ hour assault on Americans, why didn't Panetta order a strike [lasers were pointing to the enemy position on the ground]? ______________________________________________
".....On February 19, 2009, Leon Panetta was sworn in as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency by Vice President Joe Biden before an audience of CIA employees. Panetta reportedly received a "rock star welcome" from his new subordinates.
In March 2009, Panetta visited India to discuss a host of issues including common strategy on dealing with Islamic extremism and Taliban. This was his first international visit since he assumed office.
Panetta supported U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, which he identified as the "most effective weapon" against senior Al-Qaeda leadership. These attacks increased significantly under Panetta, with as many as 50 suspected Al-Qaeda militants being killed in May 2009 alone.
As Director of the CIA, Panetta presided over the operations that led to Osama bin Laden's death on May 1, 2011...." Source
maybe Panetta ought to be reminded..
my honor and my life
both grow as one
take honor from me
and my life is done....
shakespeare king richard II
No it isn't. I wouldn't be at all suprised if the Caligula-in-chief did exactly that.
That’s exactly the issue I have with the story: everyone at the WH has pulled the trigger in the past.
The UBL kill - harm’s way, no problem.
And... no one in the chain of command looks better for not pulling the trigger. If there is only the people in the chain of command - there is no upside to what they did, only downside.
That’s what leads me to speculate that there has to be an outside decision-maker.
If the “alphabet, state” media buries this, they will be seen for what they are by MANY more people than are currently aware of their collusion with Obama/global-environmental community politics.
Background on the players in new Libyan government.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2951258/posts
“........
1.) To whom did the president give the first of his “three very clear directives”—that is, “make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to?”
2.) How did he transmit this directive to the military and other agencies?
3.) During the time when Americans were under attack, did the president convene a formal or informal meeting of his national security council? Did the president go to the situation room?
4.) During this time, with which members of the national security team did the president speak directly?
5.) Did Obama speak by phone or teleconference with the combatant commanders who would have sent assistance to the men under attack?
6.) Did he speak with CIA director David Petraeus?
7.) Was the president made aware of the repeated requests for assistance from the men under attack? When and by whom?
8.) Did he issue any directives in response to these requests?
9.) Did the president refuse to authorize an armed drone strike on the attackers?
10.) Did the president refuse to authorize a AC-130 or MC-130 to enter Libyan airspace during the attack?
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has asked the White House these questions, and awaits a response.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ten-questions-white-house_657977.html
“.....The American special operators, Woods, Doherty and at least two others were part of the Global Response Staff, a CIA element, based at the CIA annex and were protecting CIA operators who were part of a mission to track and repurchase arms in Benghazi that had proliferated in the wake of Muammar Qaddafi’s fall. Part of their mission was to find the more than 20,000 missing MANPADS, or shoulder-held missiles capable of bringing down a commercial aircraft. According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.......”
http://www.israpundit.com/archives/50224
Yahoo comments are blowing up with anti-Obama comments on this, as well as anti-MSM comments for the cover up!
Obama is trying to run out the clock but he is being exposed as a liar.
He is as guilty as the rest of them, don’t be deceived by the feigned remorse.
No, it’s not that simple. The POTUS has blood on his hands and like Macbeth, may it haunt what little soul he has until his last breath and into eternity.
Hey, hey
What do you say,
How many Americans
You kill today. (Repeat ad infinitum)
0bambi lied, Americans died. (Repeat ad infinitum)
I read somewhere that Ambassador Stevens may have been overcome by the smoke from the fires that were set. If he died (or appeared to be dead when he was found), that would call for a "Plan B" if this was indeed a set up. That appears to have been to first blame it on the video and now to deny that they had any knowledge that the attack was taking place until it was too late to provide help.
He wasn't concerned about civilians, he sends drones out all the time.
He was concerned about a failed or bloody rescue mission right before the election.
This isn't about the inability to make up one's mind, it is about his own immorality.
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