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| 'We Could Have Been There': Squadron Member Speaks Out on Stalled Benghazi Response | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 12 2016, 01:04 PM (1,062 Views) | |
| Robertr2000 | May 12 2016, 01:04 PM Post #1 |
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'We Could Have Been There': Squadron Member Speaks Out on Stalled Benghazi Response By Adam Housley - May 12, 2016 His squadron got the alert: a “real world mission was going down.” The team – at Aviano Air Base in northeastern Italy – raced to the field and was briefed, as planes were armed and prepared to launch. Hundreds of miles away, fellow Americans were under attack in Benghazi. "There were people everywhere. That flight line was full of people, and we were all ready to go” to Benghazi, he said. Only they were waiting for the order. It never came. http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/05/12/we-could-have-been-there-squadron-member-speaks-out-stalled-benghazi-response |
| "if that **** wins we'll all hang from nooses" | |
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| Robertr2000 | May 12 2016, 01:05 PM Post #2 |
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| "if that **** wins we'll all hang from nooses" | |
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| Two a.m. | May 12 2016, 01:38 PM Post #3 |
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Been debunked. Lotsa times. |
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| jeffersonCarter | May 12 2016, 07:55 PM Post #4 |
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And Ronald Reagan sold missiles to Iran and got 241 marines killed in Lebanon. Benghazi was tragic, but come on man you've got to get a life. |
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| Drudge X | May 12 2016, 08:47 PM Post #5 |
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According to Clinton? |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| Right-Wing | May 12 2016, 10:41 PM Post #6 |
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Link... |
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| jeffersonCarter | May 12 2016, 10:43 PM Post #7 |
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Debunked by Congressional investigation. A Repub led Congress. |
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| Right-Wing | May 12 2016, 11:10 PM Post #8 |
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![]() It makes a difference to those who are directly impacted by this. To the family and friends of those killed and to those who now and in the future serve our country overseas...it makes a difference. It wasn't the Republicans who first made this a political issue, it was the Obama Admin and the Clinton Department of State who knowingly lied to the American public about the facts surrounding this tragedy, and they did if for political expediency...remember that. |
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| jeffersonCarter | May 13 2016, 12:08 AM Post #9 |
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Everything a president does is political. It's what the opposition does with the political mistake that matters most. The Repubs have made the word Benghazi a political megaphone for anti-Hillary rhetoric. What Reagan did in the Middle-east was a huge mistake and pales in comparison to what Hillary did as Sec of State. Hardly anyone knows what Reagan did because Democrats have a little more respect for themselves. The Repubs are pigs. |
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| Right-Wing | May 13 2016, 03:03 AM Post #10 |
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| Right-Wing | May 13 2016, 03:04 AM Post #11 |
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What exactly are you referring to with Reagan? |
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| Two a.m. | May 13 2016, 03:42 AM Post #12 |
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Yep. Even the Republicans eventually gave up on the nonsense about the mythical squadron that could have magically saved the embassy staff. |
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| jeffersonCarter | May 13 2016, 03:46 AM Post #13 |
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Picking a bunch of screw ups to run his foreign policy and military. Oliver North was the biggest f-up. |
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| Two a.m. | May 13 2016, 03:49 AM Post #14 |
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Probably the Marine Barracks bombing which was mismanaged by Reagan both before and after. But instead of rubbing Reagan's face in it, the Democrats held quiet, respectful hearings and came up with genuinely useful suggestions for improving security - which Reagan pretty much ignored - and we got hit again. http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/ronald-reagans-benghazi But that was before the radicalization of the Republican Party. At that time, inventing conspiracy theories and parading American corpses around for electoral benefit would have been considered horrifying by either party. The Democrats lived by the dictum about politics ending at the water's edge and didn't point fingers at Reagan but at the terrorists. Republicans have indeed acted like pigs on Benghazi. It's repulsive. Edited by Two a.m., May 13 2016, 03:49 AM.
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| "The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984 | |
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| jeffersonCarter | May 13 2016, 04:12 AM Post #15 |
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Darrell Issa, the biggest pig of them all. |
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| Robertr2000 | May 13 2016, 11:19 AM Post #16 |
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Reagan was wrong too. Don't shoot the messenger, I didn't write the article. |
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| Robertr2000 | May 13 2016, 11:21 AM Post #17 |
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Hillary lied (lies still today) to congress about the entire matter. |
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| Opinionated | May 13 2016, 11:41 AM Post #18 |
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In 1967 an Israeli torpedo boats and fighter aircraft attacked the unarmed United States technical research ship, the USS Liberty. These attacks took place over a period of several hours and resulted in the death of 34 crew members and the wounding of 171 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident Where is the outrage about how the President didn't stop this attack? |
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| Dem4life | May 13 2016, 12:24 PM Post #19 |
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I remember when nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on 9/11 and not so much as a peep from the right. Clearly the gop didn't care about those who were impacted by the attacks on that fateful morning... |
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| Right-Wing | May 13 2016, 05:24 PM Post #20 |
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From your article... "Reagan, who was tormented by a tape of Buckley being tortured, blamed himself. Congress held no public hearings, and pointed fingers at the perpetrators, not at political rivals." Contrast that with the lying and the cover-up of the Obama admin...that alone explains the difference in Congressional reactions. Reagan took full responsibility for what happened...even personal responsibility. Clinton and Obama knowingly lied to the American people and blamed a g*ddamned video for the tragedy. Reagan was a real leader...Obama, Clinton...not even close. |
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