Posted on 05/05/2013 5:10:59 PM PDT by kristinn
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Throughout the night, sources say Americans on the ground in Libya at times felt helpless and abandoned.
"We relied on Washington for dispassionate assessment," one eyewitness told CBS News. "Instead, they [Washington officials] were asking us what help we needed. We answered: 'Send reinforcements!' "
But they were told immediate help wasn't available.
Embassy personnel say they repeatedly asked the Defense Attache on site in Tripoli for military assistance.
"Isn't there anything available?" one Embassy official says he asked. "But the answer was 'no.'"
"What about Aviano?" the official pressed, referencing the NATO air base with US assets in northeastern Italy. "No," was the answer.
Two of the four Americans killed that night died hours after the first attack began.
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Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack.
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Don’t give them too much credit: Keep asking yourself why they weren’t on this 4 months ago.
No No NO> PIAPS is complacent...”Dis-Gust-Tinggg Vid-E-OOOO.”
She kept the ruse alive and gave it her own smarmy emphasis...
AFRICOM leader General Carter Ham was never given the order to secure the consulate in Benghazi. Youtube 1:43
An Admiral in the Med at the time was removed from command shortly after...
I forget his name.
The White House apparently panicked when the consulate came under attack. The main concern was not with the U.S. personnel in Benghazi but over potential political repercussions. Obama may have envisaged a repeat of Jimmy Carter's failed rescue of Iranian hostages. Or he may have feared an armed U.S. incursion into Benghazi would damage relations with Libya. So he decided to do nothing and hope for the best. The issue was confined to the “most senior national security officials” because they are political appointees. Had the Counterterrorism Security Group been convened they would have followed established doctrine which would have involved a rescue attempt followed by tracking down the attackers and destroying them.
Yeah that may be so. But we got Liz Warren, who may be to the left of Kerry, and so is Ed Markey. So what do you do? Gomez and former Senator Brown are still at least 50% to the right of those 2 would have vote to organize the Senate against Harry Reid. Romney would have won with the same turnout against Obama in '08. Conservatives are on a narrow beachhead right now and in '14 losing the House will be devastating.
Purity is a virtue,but Goldwater '64 had to wait 16 years for Reagan in '80. We can't wait that long now.
It seems like that to me. What ever they were doing there was never suppose to get out to the public.
Fast and Furious was designed to blame Americans for guns in Mexico and help push for stricter gun laws once the dead started showing up. That wasn't suppose to get out to the public, either.
I’ve been saying the dems deep down do not want more klintoons. That is why they jumped on nobama regardless of his qualifications, Anyone But Clinton.
Its clear now why Hitlery was “allowed” to resign. If she ever got elected that lowdown bitch would make even nobama look like a walk in the park by comparison,
TREASON - continuous, pre-meditated, in-your-face, media-complicit, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, ongoing...
FUBO FUJB FUHRC FUSR
R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods
Condolences to your families. Condolences to your friends.
Don’t worry, the spineless Repubs won’t do anything with it anyway.
The air distance between Tripoli and Benghazi is 400 miles. The air distance from Aviano to Benghazi is 1043.76 miles.
Excellent analogy.
OBAMA LIED
AMB STEVENS DIED
Any bets he gets a free clandestine one way trip to Mecca someday?
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