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I took it for granted we could have helped them. Eventually the story will come out. It will look much worse in the end too.
Yeah, they were 450 miles away at the Naval Air Station on Sicily at Sigonella. And it would have taken 20min for an F-18 to rush there and induce baddy-scattering sonic booms.
It’s a very, very well-known and easy tactic.
Sigonella is closer to Bengazi than Tripoli.
And General Ham? head of AFRICOM was relieved of command based on his actions that night - right?
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I also think that we had “assets” available from Incirlik AB, Turkey.
And having once been a part of it for a few months, I keep wondering where the forces of the Sixth Fleet were. If we still have a Sixth Fleet, they would definitely have had some capabiity to help unless they were at some of the most distant points from Libya in the Med.
This is not news and you are right. It’s wnd repeating what we already know and embellishing it to make it seem like news. Can’t do it.
It was a grand bargain:
MorroccoBomber’s first act after election was going to Egypt and giving his speech, “A New Beginning”. That’s why the Foreign Minister later said point-blank that Obama told them that he is STILL a Muslim. The famously progressive and anti-Imperial Obama wants to help “populists” all over the Middle East throw off vestiges of they days when they were colonies.
Libya, Algeria, Syria, Jordan —many more.
This means giving them weapons and money, and the bargain is that He And His will retain influence with the new enlightened fundamentalists who come to power —they’ll be Obama’s peeps, see?
Friends.
That’s what overthrowing Khadaffi was all about —cash and weapons for his friends. It was literally a War For Oil —nice huh? Remember all that, “No War for Oil” screaming? Yeah.
And this, instigated by PROGRESSIVES...? It’s pretty incongruous, and the prospect that it will all come out is justifiably terrifying to progressives everywhere.
The nice thing about cash and weapons from Libya is that it would COMPLETELY get around Congress, which is MorroccoBombers Modus Operandi, as I’m sure you have noticed.
No troublesome debates and VOTES, and stuff. No begging.
Libya was just one domino in the intended line, and it has the fingerprints of Obama and Hitlery alllll over them.
Special Forces? F-16’s could have been there in 20 minutes, from wheels up to arrival. At the very least they could have provided air support until boots on the ground could arrive.
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You stuff that drone into the site illuminated by the Special Forces guys on the ground and it's a game changer.
We had an asset on site and it was a drone.
If wouldn’t have taken much to scatter the attack. They were intentionally left to die.
For my opinion, I figure all/most of the recent revalations were to obscure the 0 administrations criminal failings in Benghazi.
For at least thirty years, we havechad a rapid deployment force at Fort Bragg. It can be anywhere in the world in eighteen hours....making the contention that ‘nobody could get there in time’ laughable.