Posted on 05/11/2013 10:44:21 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Benghazi story until now has been a jumble of factoids that didn't quite cohere, didn't produce a story that people could absorb and hold in their minds. This week that changed. Three State Department officials testifying under oath to a House committee changed it, by adding information that gave form to a growing picture. Gregory Hicks, Mark Thompson and Eric Nordstrom were authoritative and credible. You knew you were hearing the truth as they saw and experienced it. Not one of them seemed political. You had no sense of how they voted. They were professionals. They'd seen a bad thing. They came forward to tell the story. They put the lie to the idea that all questioning of Obama administration actions in Benghazi are partisan and low.
What happened in Benghazi last Sept. 11 and 12 was terrible in every way. The genesis of the scandal? It looks to me like this:
The Obama White House sees every event as a political event. Really, every event, even an attack on a consulate and the killing of an ambassador.
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Oh, I dunno, Peggy - you helped put 0bama in office. Why don't you answer the question?
Noonan sure fancy-danced around the reason for not rescuing those people in Benghazi. She wouldn’t touch the fact Obama wouldn’t send rescuers.
Mrs. Noonan, I do not give a damn what you have to say about anything at all.
No. They didn't want a failed rescue attempt to turn Obama into Jimmy Carter just before the election.
Now America is learning they have a liar in chief....
She calls it right on this one.
I’m just going to skip reading another of her articles and say I can’t stand Peggy Noonan... she’s a snooty, snobby A-hole.
Yep. She never even mentioned him by name. It was all “The White House” did this, and “The White House” did that. You’d think she had it in for structures of brick and mortar.
bullcrap...I would not squirt water in her ear if her brain was on fire but her point that to do a damned thing would prove the previous lies is EXCELLENT
if every single person died Obama and Hillary could give a good....%&#$
This is old now, but makes more sense now than in 2012.
Benghazi Attack Was Botched Kidnapping To Trade Blind Sheik
http://www.westernjournalism.com/benghazi-attack-was-botched-kidnapping-to-trade-blind-sheik/ … … 10/17/12
Troubling & piece fit
Actually she did:
If what happened in Benghazi was not a planned and prolonged terrorist assault, if it was merely a street demonstration gone bad, the administration could not take military action to protect Americans there. You take military action in response to a planned and coordinated attack by armed combatants. You don't if it's an essentially meaningless street demonstration that came and went.
If I read this correctly, she is telling us that the Obama team was planning how this would play politically and not considering what was actually happening as events unfolded in Benghazi. These bastards were considering how this could hurt his re election as they watched the attack.
Peggy, Peggy, Peggy.
Scared you’re becoming irrelevant?
You are.
Jumping on the bandwagon after the fact is...kinda sad.
You voted for the MASCOT of the White House.
Sit back and contemplate what you’ve subjected the rest of us to.
Their actions were calculated, self-serving, and quite possibly criminal. I don't care about the mechanics of their political thought process. I only care about their selfish, incompetent, deceitful, and un-American actions.
That is the way I read it.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut. Too little, too late Peggy. The horse has already left the barn.
There are some broadcasts that I am simply no longer receiving.
Whatever Mrs. Noonan’s points may be, I do not need to know any of them to know that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and every single person around them are filthy, stinking liars.
They are liars whose very god is the lie itself. The source of their power is lies. Everything they possess they took with lies. Everything they have done is a lie. Their dreams are lies, and in place of a soul what they have is lies.
Perhaps she will be able to convince others who are willing to listen to what she has to say.
I am not one of those people, but I also do not need convincing.
Peggy wants to blame politics, but the public doesn’t know *what* Stevens was doing 600 miles away from his Embassy.
Was he running guns? Or worse?
And why did someone he was giving guns to assassinate him? That’s a pretty big question!
...and why hasn’t the militia that murdered him (Ansar Al-Sharia) been bombed?
Is it because 0bama is using Ansar Al-Sharia to fight against Assad in Syria?
So much for “justice” for our Benghazi dead...
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