Don't even start with me. Both sides have played the veteran sympathy card time and time again for political brownie points. I have first hand experience with this fake sympathy. You are extremely naive if you think the Republican party does not have a political agenda with screaming Benghazi every chance they get. This is a political issue as evident by the fact that "outrage" of this incident seems to be determined by party lines.
Also by the fact that the source of the outrage is not the deaths of the soldiers, but the talking points used to communicate with the public in the aftermath of the event.
Not a card. Most Americans don't like soldiers being left for dead. there is outrage over the coverup and the coverup of the coverup http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/08/finding-the-truth-at-benghazi so post some links to where u answered the 4-5 questions i asked.
and politicians feed off their constituent's sympathy. I'm speaking of politicians here. I understand that a large share of the actual American public are genuine with their regard to veterans.
I have to admit that I love all this Benghazi hysteria. I think it is quite entertaining, although a bit sad at the same time. This thread rules. I am waiting for more hard hitting revelations like the Sen. Schumer one about him being at the White House on the same day as the attacks. What's are they going to unearth next? That Obama had a chicken shawarma sandwich for lunch that day?
And did the chicken shawarma sandwich have potatoes on it? Potatoes on shawarma sandwiches is more a Lebanon area thing. Could Hezbollah be involved somehow?
it's not that he was there that day that's interesting. it's that he arrived at the same time as Panetta, and then stuck around until midnight, while the embassy attack was ongoing, and supposedly, Obama was monitoring (or not) the situation, and making decisions on how, or whether to respond. Schumer is head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. this was 2 months before the 2012 election. were political concerns factored into whether or not to send help?
It was the deaths of the soldiers. My first impression was that, surely, given the length of the attack, there was something that could have been done. That the administration kept stepping all over themselves about it only made that seem even more likely. But, as you have pointed out, the response itself doesn't seem to have been that bad. As others have pointed out, it's not like this is the first time our embassies have been attacked, and this is far from the most deadly. But, as those defending the administration keep pointing out, this is mainly a political issue now. As a political issue, that the administration lied about the attack is very definitely pertinent. How pertinent? That's for the voter's to decide. But you have many on the left who won't even admit that a false narrative was being driven, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Hence the continued discussion. To your point about this being irrelevant...for the soldiers involved, that's true. But the politics of the situation don't end there---they could, and almost certainly will, have a major impact on what actually gets done about this. Both sides are probably equally guilty there. Has anyone heard much about what is being done to address the various problems that occurred? I suspect the commission reports are going to be mostly ignored, as they almost always are. What happened with the budget commission report that Obama actually called for? Nothing. All these commissions are is more political cover, to pacify the masses or thwart political momentum.
I think the real question is where was Rand Paul that night? Could he have actually been working with the attackers? We just don't know.
The voters did decide, they reelected Obama in a landslide. I suspect that the reports which detail the things you mention here are classified and won't see the light of day for quite some time, much like the documents about how DoD changed SOP after Beirut.
And what about that Manchurian Ted Cruz? The guy is foreign-born and could easily have been setting this whole thing up in preparation to run for President in '16.
There was no "coverup," but just keep f#cking that chicken, preferably until December of 2016. How about I teach you to fish (proverbially) instead? Highlight my moniker, right click, choose Copy Go to a previous page, hold down CTRL while pressing F Right click in the search box that appears and choose Paste Hit the down arrow and scroll through my posts, I answered two of the questions you asked in previous posts
