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Blackfive is a military blog (I didn't put this in Bloggers & Personal because it is an authoritative blog and the subject is newsworthy, but I did post the entire post). Comments are worth reading.
1 posted on 10/27/2012 1:00:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Nothing will happen.


2 posted on 10/27/2012 1:03:40 PM PDT by huckfillary (qual tyo ta)
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To: RoosterRedux

That doesn’t quite explain why the two top generals in the area were removed from the theater in the last few weeks.

A Stalinist purge is in the works.


3 posted on 10/27/2012 1:05:08 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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I would say yes, definitely bigger than Watergate.

Who is going to make the case besides a few conservatives? To discuss a few, the media will not go against one of their own, and certainly the democrats will not either. How about the RINO’s? Scared to death of the media, their social friends in the Beltway, and their own shadows.

Now the bad guy is Black. Oh boy, that seals it, in our equal opportunity society he will be given a pass by all for fear of being called racist.


6 posted on 10/27/2012 1:15:43 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: RoosterRedux
Did anyone die at Watergate?
11 posted on 10/27/2012 1:42:42 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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Nothing will be done.
The rat media will protect him.
The only thing that might help is a blitz of ads by super
pks. Will they even try?


12 posted on 10/27/2012 1:47:01 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: RoosterRedux

it is probably going to come out that the President actually was not involved in the decision ,because he was unavailable due do being ensconced with a male lover somewhere , and someone else took it upon themselves to issue the NO ACTION order , since the Prez was unavailable to make the call. hey are protecting something like this ,which can never be admitted to . The SS know ....they should tell us what actually was going on . One honest man right now could make a HUGE difference for our country . tell the truth and tell it now . Do not stand with the dishonorable and undeserving .


16 posted on 10/27/2012 1:52:45 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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... the AC130 Marine resources were in the middle of a rotation...

On 9/11, of all days. I wonder who made this decision, and if all of this - including the standing down of security in August - was coordinated toward one of the theories floating around (20,000 MANPADS; hostages, etc.).

20 posted on 10/27/2012 2:10:16 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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Now I was only on active duty in NavSpecWar for 5 years, but it was imprinted deeply upon my brain that ONLY the POTUS can give cross-border permission. Probably a million living ex-military officers know this like they know 2+2=4. So this Benghazi fiasco is Obama’s baby 100% and there is no way for him to wiggle out.

The system is designed to ENSURE that when a crisis is happening, (and a missing ambassador with a consulate under attack in Libya is “Crisis Level Infinity”), and military assets are already charging in to the rescue, the president must be in the loop to grant the the cross-border authorization. Nobody else can do this. This one formality must be followed, “just put your intitials here, Mr. President, for history,” so to speak. Boiler plate, but it must be done.

The POTUS has to tell the Sec. State and JCS, “Yes, do it, execute the rescue, cross the borders.” Then it WILL happen, without delay, since the military is already on the way, flying in from all directions toward Benghazi.

(Can you imagine Reagan or either Bush saying “No. Cross border permission not granted. Stop the rescue. Stand down.”)

But if POTUS says at 5pm DC time, “No military action, no cross border,” and then he becomes “unavailable,” then his last standing order stands until he changes it. So if he went to bed, for example, nobody could change his standing orders.

I imagine that a lot of extreme military, CIA and State Dept. craziness was going down while Obama was sleeping. Aircraft must be told proceed, or return to base, or they fall from the sky. I imagine many HEATED arguments around the globe on phone, text and email, subject, “Well wake the damn president up!” Followed by, “I can’t! You MUST stand down the mission!”

Just imagine dozens of inbound planes, jets and helos. Ships moving at full speed into position to be “lilypads” for long-range over-water helo refueling. Airborne refueling tankers all head to the area. It’s a complicated ballet. The Pentagon is wide awake, the military is on full alert. The rescue is in process, from the first minutes after the alarm.

Everybody in all the planes and involved HQs knows how many minutes/miles to the Libyan border, Benghazi, and their “bingo fuel” moment, when they must turn around or run dry and crash. Ships can “loiter,” but planes fall from the sky.

So you can imagine why General Ham of Africom was (if true) relieved for refusing to stand down. He probably KNEW Obama was “unavailable,” and was screaming over the phone, “Well, wake him up, dammit!!”

Planes and jets and helicopters and ships and commando teams are zooming all around the central Med, keying in on Benghazi——

And in that environment, OBAMA WAS ASLEEP AND UNREACHABLE!!!!!

Resting up for Las Vegas! With a MISSING AMBASSADOR, in Al-Queadatown!

No wonder General Ham didn’t want to stop the rescue. He knew the derelict captain was not on the bridge of the ship of state.


23 posted on 10/27/2012 2:35:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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29 posted on 10/27/2012 4:32:36 PM PDT by CodeToad (Padme: "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
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