Posted on 05/25/2013 4:26:22 AM PDT by Moseley
Elite U.S. troops were completely capable of saving Ambassador Chris Stevens during the Benghazi Consulate attacks on September 11, 2012. Elements of the highly specialized Combatant Commanders In-Extremis (CIF) units are always on alert, on forward deployment, ready to respond. Their job description is to hit the ground in 3 to 5 hours. CIF elements are ready to engage in active combat anywhere in their region, 3 to 5 hours after the call.
Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense at the time, either misled the U.S. Congress or was incompetent. Panetta testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 7, 2013 that the U.S. military could not have responded in less than 9 to 12 hours.
Obama's first secretary of defense, Robert Gates, told CBS's Face the Nation on May 12, 2013 that "[w]e don't have a ready force standing by" in that region.
But we absolutely do "have a ready force standing by" to reach any trouble spot in a few hours. Insider reports previously revealed that CIF elements were training in Croatia and could have been in Benghazi in three and a half hours.
Although rotating out of the United States, some CIF elements are always forward-deployed within each military command region, always on stand-by. Their training includes expertise within each local region. Some of each region's unit is always ready. They don't need to pack. Being ready to go -- immediately -- is their job description. It's the reason they exist.
The U.S. military has a range of capabilities, from CIF teams to the Navy SEALs, to Rangers, to Green Berets. But now many in the special forces/special operators community feel betrayed. Commanders in Extremis units are so highly trained and expert that even elite Green Berets wash out of highly demanding CIF training in large numbers.
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I heard Cheney say the same thing. They know the score with this traitorous regime. We need that great pic of Cheney staring down Obama on inaugural day....lol. Love that pic!
I am still praying that Petraeus comes out very soon to spill the beans...or General Ham...or both!
All these forces not just available, but in the process of responding at the time, and all ordered to stand down. It’s not that we couldn’t respond or were asleep at the switch. Someone chose not to respond. It looks to me like Stevens was intentionally left to die, or as was surmised by others it was a setup for a hostage rescue scenario to boost O’s polls.
[Cheney] went on to say “ I don’t know if this admin has that same capability.
We absolutely do have the same capability now. I can’t say how I know.
Stop with the “incompetent” nonsense. THEY DO THESE THINGS ON PURPOSE. While it may have been gun running, I still think it was to be a “fake” kidnapping of the ambassador gone wrong. (you just can't trust those terrorists). Then Obama would save the day by trading the blind sheik for ambassador Stevens. The American people could care less about some old blind guy, ready to kick the bucket anyway.
Oh, and by the way, it could have been both. The guns being the payment (bribe) to get them to go along with this scheme.
You don't want U.S. security around when you are committing treasonous acts. You certainly don't want Special Forces to swoop in and disrupt your plans.
So STOP with making excuses for the Obama regime. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. EVERYTHING they do is on purpose.
Is Obama the genius behind this grand scheme? Absolutely not. While he is a believer, he's just a puppet. Someone else is pulling all the strings.
ping
It’s going to take the IRS a long time to audit the U.S. Military. They’ll have to hire a lot more armed thugs to do it. Headquarters should be Chicago since there are a lot of armed thugs available.
Was General Ham relieved of command? I remember that he was. If so, why? I think the answer will tell us a lot about the treasonous Obama regime.
Appoligies for not searching for this info.
On a mobile device.
“It may reach them, but they are too stupid to heed the message sent. In their case, they have lived their lives as fools,and when they die, they will die as fools. Still worshiping the ground obama pisses on.”
40% of American blacks have an IQ of 80 or below. Once they refused to learn in school(ask any teacher about this) and rejected religion and its restrictive Ten Commandments, their fate was sealed.
They have condemned themselves.
The latest rumor making the rounds is that Barack Obama replaced General Carter Ham at AFRICOM after the general made a move to help the US security officials at the Benghazi consulate and annex. Ham was replaced by Gen. David Rodriquez on October 18.
Tiger Droppings reported:
The information I heard today was that General [Carter] Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africom.
except General Ham was in the States on 9/11.
Thank you.
Yes and Cheney also knew , hell he was sec def, he wanted to make sure he was not releasing anything that could blow back. He pointed Issa to the right place and I am assured that he got the message.
Where does it say that Ham was in Africa or the Mediterranean? It just says that he received the email and wanted to respond
I read it in multiple stories around the time of the attack.
I wonder how many missiles were stock-piled at the annex waiting for shipment to who-knows-where that are now in the hands of the Ansar al-Shariah?
BUMP
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