Posted on 05/08/2014 5:14:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Obama Administration’s attitude toward the 9/11/12 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya is summarized in one phrase:“Dude, this was two years ago.” This was the disgracefully glib response former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor gave to FOX News after being pressed on his role in editing talking points to help the Obama Administration save face, rather than address questions surrounding the most serious attack on an American diplomatic mission since the takeover of the U.S. embassy compound in Tehran in 1979.
Like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who bellowed, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” during a Senate committee hearing on Benghazi in 2013, Vietor revealed how little this President cares about finding the truth about the deaths of four American citizens, including a U.S. Ambassador.
Fortunately, Republicans have not relented in efforts to break down Obama’s stonewalling and downright lies. Earlier this week, House Majority Leader John Boehner appointed Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to chair a new special House panel to finally bring to light the facts before, during and after that deadly attack.
Most pundits and media have focused on the ethical and perhaps legal errors committed by the Administration in its attempts to camouflage its own incompetence. Unraveling the “Benghazi Bungle,” however, is about far more than politics or even lying; ; it is crucial to the national security of the United States.
It is easy to view terrorists in the Middle East as simple criminals who plot crude ways to harass, attack and kill innocent civilians. In fact, while their methods can sometimes appear primitive, they are extremely adaptable and adept at employing news and social media to further their goals. Nowhere is this more evident than in how terrorist groups like al-Qaeda study our government’s response -- or lack thereof -- to incidents like Benghazi.
Consider the August 20, 1998 cruise missile attack ordered by then-President Bill Clinton on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan. The Administration claimed erroneously the plant was targeted because it had links to al Qaeda, and was being used to manufacture ingredients for VX nerve gas. More than just the embarrassment and human tragedy of attacking a pharmaceutical plant that produced life-saving medicine, the mistaken operation attack revealed to the world that the Clinton Administration’s Department of Defense was either incompetent in not possessing sufficient intelligence to distinguish between a civilian pharmaceutical plant and a terrorist operation; or – just as damning – it had good intelligence but chose to ignore it. In either event, the botched operation did not go unnoticed by al-Qaeda and others.
The Obama Administration’s frequent obstruction of, and disdain for Benghazi investigations, echoed by Democrats in Congress and liberals in the mainstream media, serves to hamper our ability to take steps to avoid a repeat of such a tragedy.
Amazingly -- and sadly -- the same series of tragic mistakes made leading to, during, and after the Benghazi Bungle occurred 33 years before in Iran. What was it that George Santayana warned us – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it?”
The special House panel to investigate Benghazi has a crucial mission to obtain the truth, and set in motion steps to ensure the safety of American personnel and assets overseas. However, to do so it must eschew any political overtones that could jeopardize the integrity and efficacy of the investigation. Democrats will look for any opportunity to undermine the investigation, and spin their findings to protect Obama and Mrs. Clinton.
President Obama, and advisors like Vietor, Clinton, and Susan Rice, can continue to dismiss their roles in the Benghazi attack; but failing to hold anyone accountable -- including themselves -- and continuing to stymie investigations, sends a clear message to terrorists that our government cares more about the public image of its decision-makers than defending against and preventing future attacks. It is a message that invites future attacks.
So yes, Dude, it matters.
Need bumper sticker
Dude it matters!
Is it about more than cookies when Mom finds the child with his hands in the cookie jar?
What if the cookie jar holds weapons and the child is caught handing them to neighborhood bullies?
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
Also, I may need help from all of you as this investigation gets going. I’m not even going to pretend that I’ll be pinging every Benghazi article. I’m going to try for articles with new facts, perspectives, angles, questions, etc..
Feel free to ping me with anything you find interesting and I’ll pass it along....
There’s a whole lot more to this than meets the eye. Republicans have focused on the cover up.
What people should be focused on is why no help was sent.
It REALLY matters if there was a plot to arrange a sham kidnapping of the Ambassador to exchange for the blind sheik, not no mention garden variety trafficking of munitions and anti aircraft missiles to Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to help Obama’s coreligionists
If they get into “why the cover up” it should expose why we were there in the first place. WHY?
Why was the Turk there?
Why was the ambassador there?
Why did Hillary fail to secure the sight?
Why was there a large constigency of CIA down the road?
Why was the ambassador murdered-—he was worth $$$ or people alive?
Why?
Why?
Why?
One why leads to another ......
Not so. The _res__ent knows the truth. What was revealed was how little he wants to truth to be exposed.
Good idea.
Also need billboards with a picture of Hillary saying
I lied
Four Americans died
What difference does it make
I want to be president
Sure are trying hard to put that massacre from 2 years ago in the rear view mirror aren’t they. The dudes in the democrat party should just take a chill pill.
My Thanks to author Bob Barr and my Thanks to you Kaslin. In my humble opinion this a key phrase in the article. Now whom would be helping al-qaeda spread misinformation? Wish the author would have said where that blame lays for everyone knows there are zilch, zer0, nada liars in our lame-stream media. Sorry Mr. Barr but it needed saying.
This is a very important investigstion for all the reasons above, well written article. I believe the same is true for the IRS investigation.
It would help if we all made sure one specific keyword was added to the articles. RP you could even request in your pings that that word be added to any article found
Sometimes the comments and links below articles are as important as the one posted to the thread
Great idea. There is going to be information overload very possibly.
Suggestion ... Benghazimediagate (or is that already taken). Am not placing this as an absolute keyword. There are more intelligent people here than me. Certainly a keyword is a place we should go to find all the articles (imho). Thank You, hoosiermama. Your suggestion made me think.
Bengate. Is a lot shorter and easier to remember With. Age longer it is the worse my spelling. Lol
Not knowing how everything works. Whom is needed to be contacted to cause this word to be? Could and would you contact the appropriate person to cause this keyword to be, please?
The LIE, DENY AND DON’T COMPLY Rogue Obama Administration has unlimited control over the Legistlative Branch that refuses to hold a Rogue Administration accountable, as we witnessed during cave-in Republican response during the Autumn, 2013 Reid-Obama partial Federal shutdown.
Does Representative Trey Gowdy have enough fire-in-the-belly to fight for THE TRUTH?
Who will be his more powerful foe?
My guess is the cave-in, cowardly Doormat Republicans including Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Ryan, Mike Rogers, Issa and Peter King of New York will be Gowdy’s major opponents to uncovering THE TRUTH.
Any of us can add it. Up user he article there is a tab for add keyword. Click it. Type in your word Hit tab and its added and you return to article. Easy peasy. Folks just forget we have this feature.
When a word is used repeatedly it automatically appears o. The most frequent used list. It when multiple words for the same subject are used that finding articles becomes difficult or are missed.
I’ve also used a select key for my own personal bookmark. Works better than saving to computer and digging there
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