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Heard on the news today that 3 different requests for help went out and they were turned down all three times.

 

In the second debate, Obama said that he was offended by the suggestion that anyone in his administration, including the U.N. ambassador, would mislead the country on Libya. Why would they deny CIA operatives 3 different requests for help against a "spontaneous" mob angered by a youtube video? A "spontaneous" mob is too threatening to the US military forces?...

 

http://www.foxnews.c...ck-sources-say/

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Listened to Rush today. There was a guy who said that he knows how things work with urgent requests for help. The communication to the situation room in the White House would supercede all others. It requires that someone physically walk the request to the oval office.

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Petraeus Throws Obama Under the Bus

 

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”

 

So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

 

It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why—and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations—did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need?

 

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/petraeus-throws-obama-under-bus_657896.html

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Listened to Rush today. There was a guy who said that he knows how things work with urgent requests for help. The communication to the situation room in the White House would supercede all others. It requires that someone physically walk the request to the oval office.

 

And he's right... Protocol in a situation like this, is for all American "assets". military, and covert, to assume forward staging points, and await orders. These operations, subject only to the jurisdiction of the POTUS himself, are the best of the best....

 

Unfortunately in this case, REQUESTS for orders, were denied. I know the excuse... PBO didn't know.... Then who the ^%&$ told our rescue forces to stand down? Who impersonated, or spoke for the President?? In fact, all this is coming to light because 2 operatives, actually DISOBEYED orders to stand down!!!

 

Flashback.... I was one of those forward staged personnel when the Iran Embassy was over run many moons ago so have a really, really good idea what those men and women must feel right now. We sat, on the tarmac, for a day and a half KNOWING we were going in to rescue Americans held hostage, hoping they were still alive when we got there, wondering what could be taking so long...

 

Finally, after all the preparations, and all the planning, we were also, told to stand down, and in amazed disbelief, were told to simply go home ...

 

At least after 444 days, those hostages still came home, but IMHO, it should have been more like an overnight stay for them... Ambassador Stevens and his team, are DEAD because we were told to stand down.... PBO has said he would seek justice against the murderers, but now you have to find them after letting them go you idiot!!!

 

I don't know if Stevens and team would still be alive when our teams got there, but the people that did it certainly wouldn't be, and we wouldn't have to "seek justice"..

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You people have a very warped, immature view of how the world works. Particularly if you think that Forbes piece made any sense whatsoever, which was as dumb as any criticism of Bush not doing anything on 9/11.

 

Wow... I'm compressed...

 

you win first idiot award for comparing Bush 9/11 to PBO 9/11... Really thought it would be a self described lib to pull that, not someone who tries to ride the fence, falling to the left an awful lot..

 

And your world view on how this should have been handled is exactly what oh wise @$$ (one)???

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Obama sacrificed 4 American lives for a political calculation that blaming a video would allow him to ride this out to election day.

To have sent in help would have meant having to admit that there was a terrorist attack. It would have raised questions about why we were not prepared and would have set up the possibility for him to be compared to Jimmy Carter if things in a rescue went wrong. Too bad for those Americans in Benghazi. Obama's re election was more important.

 

If he wins, issue disappears because "I won, again, and the American people want me to focus on something other than 4 bumps." If he loses,well, all hell is going to break loose anyway.....................

 

 

(VIDEO) Obama dodges question on denial of help for Americans in Benghazi

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/oct/26/picket-video-obama-dodges-question-denial-help-ame/

 

 

If Reelected, Obama Should Be Impeached over Benghazi

 

 

 

 

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