Posted on 01/09/2020 9:03:43 AM PST by Kaslin
Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) claimed Tuesday there were no embassy protests or deaths of American contractors under the Obama administration.
Speaking with Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom,” the lawmaker disagreed with President Trump for arguing that President Obama had an opportunity to take out Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
“The president took on former president Barack Obama in an interview, saying, ‘Knowing what we know today and knowing what had been going on, there was an opportunity before to take out Soleimani,'” host Sandra Smith said.
“Do you think there were any missed opportunities in the past that would have prevented Iran from getting to the point that it did?” she asked.
“I do not,” Khanna replied. “Because this was not just Barack Obama. The reporting I’ve seen said President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney also passed on the chance to take out Soleimani. And the reason they all passed is they didn’t want to escalate a war with Iran.”
The California Democrat then went on to tout the Iran deal and seemed to claim Obama's tenure was marked by peace.
“I believe the President Obama had a strategy of the JCPOA that would prevent Iran from becoming nuclear,” Khanna continued. “There weren’t these incidents during the Obama administration. We didn’t have protests against our embassies, the killing of American contractors. Americans were safe at that time.”
While it wasn't a full fledged embassy, the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi and a nearby CIA annex resulted in the deaths in deaths of an American ambassador, Chris Stephens, and three others, including information officer Sean Smith, and CIA officers Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. That attack, along with violent protests against the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, took place under Obama.
Khanna's claim that there weren't killings of American contractors under Obama is also absurd. The New York TImes reported that in 2011, more contractors than soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. And contractor deaths continued in the years after, as well.
Sandra Smith knew not to challenge him on that, if she wants to keep her job.
Chairman, er,.....ChairPERSON of the Congressional Stupid Caucus....
Ro Commie
These people are unbelievable. And it is only possible because the media helps them lie.
Adolph Hitler, Mao and Josef Stalin all claimed they loved peace and they did. They just defined peace as an absence of resistance to their autocratic rule.
Why do all these wacky ethnic leftist Democrats have stupid sounding Middle Eastern names?
I mean who names their kid RO?
In their warped twisted minds, they've determined that a lie is worth telling because not everybody is going to know they are lying and enough people will believe the lie to keep them in power.
So, in a weird mathematical equation sort of way, getting caught telling a lie is less damaging to a demonicRAT than admitting the truth.
Another ‘refugee’ ‘RAT? Geez. Can’t the ‘RATS find an American to vote for anymore?
Ro Khanna (D-Iran)...
I’ve met Ro a few times.
He is always going to be a weather vane.
He introduced himself as a Republican about 15 years ago when running for office.
He abandoned that product and started pitching some lame libertarian position and now thinks he is a democrat.
I use to think he was a pretty smart guy but, he’s proven himself to be demonstrably stupid, which is isn’t fair to call him that, since it’s redundant as he already knows...
They also passed on moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem for the same reasons. I doubt Cheney passed on the chance, but yes the Bush admin ultimately did.
A little peace of Poland
A little peace of France
A little peace of Austria
and Hungary perchance!
A little slice of Turkey
and all that that entails
Und then a peace of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
Sandra Smith and Ro Khanna are a matched set.
Unbelievable....and they call this journalism.
Well remember folks, there wasn’t even a ‘smidgen of controversy’ during the wonderful wonderful utopian reign of king obama /s
[[I mean who names their kid RO?]]
parents named Rot?
Benghazi.
BENGHAZI
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