Ambassador Steven’s blood is on Obama’s hands [Reader Post]

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US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens’ fate was determined by Barack Obama.

Obama set these events into motion when he decided Moammar Gaddfi had to go. Gaddafi’s overthrow resulted in the disappearance of countless weapons, including RPG’s and stingers.

Hundreds of surface-to-air missiles have gone missing from Libyan arms depots since the fall of the Gaddafi regime, according to reports.

Around 480 Russian SA-24 man-portable missiles, along with SA-7s and SA-9s, were said to be missing from a commercial storage unit in Tripoli after being moved from the headquarters of Khamis al-Gaddafi’s 32nd Brigade in the early stages of the conflict.

Around 12,000 land mines were also said to have gone missing, and there are fears that the weapons could be used to arm al-Qaida in Africa or the Gaddafi regime in exile.

In April there were reports that pickup trucks had transported SAM-7s, machine guns and RPGS from Libya to Chad and Niger to the South en route to Al-Qaida fighters in Mali.

“The problem is pretty huge. There are around 20,000 surface-to-air missiles in Libya and a hell of a lot of them are missing,” Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch’s emergencies director told The Independent.

And Al Qaida was grateful for that:

A leading member of an al Qaeda-affiliated terror group indicated the organization may have acquired some of the thousands of powerful weapons that went missing in the chaos of the Libyan uprising, stoking long-held fears of Western officials.

“We have been one of the main beneficiaries of the revolutions in the Arab world,” Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a leader of the north Africa-based al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [AQIM], told the Mauritanian news agency ANI Wednesday. “As for our benefiting from the [Libyan] weapons, this is a natural thing in these kinds of circumstances.”

The claim comes just days after the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Libya and its neighbors to secure the loose weapons — including some 20,000 man-portable surface-to-air missiles — before they could fall into the hands of terrorists. The resolution specifically mentioned AQIM as a dangerous potential beneficiary.

So many weapons were procured by Al Qaida that is was able to take much of Mali:

Meanwhile, the fall of Gaddafi caused his arms dumps to be thrown open, flooding Libya with illegal weapons. Unsurprisingly, extremists from across the region seized their opportunity. “Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” the North African branch of bin Laden’s terror network, plundered this new source of weapons, becoming so well armed that it was able to capture 300,000 square miles of Mali earlier this year, in concert with local allies.

Libyan weapons have turned up as far away as Nigeria, flowing into the hands of Boko Haram, one of the most dangerous extremist groups in Africa. Israel believes that Libyan guns have even been smuggled into the Gaza Strip. As an unintended consequence of Gaddafi’s downfall, radicals from Algeria to Nigeria – and from Mali to the Sinai Peninsula – have become better armed and more dangerous.

There were warning signs of the impending attack. al-Zawahiri promised retaliation for the loss of his lieutenant:

Ayman al-Zawahiri mourned the death of a leading commander from Libya and urged his followers to puncture the “arrogance” of the “evil empire, America”.

This taped missive first appeared on jihadist websites on Monday. On Tuesday, an armed assault claimed the lives of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his colleagues.

This sequence suggests there could have been more to the bloodshed in Benghazi than a spontaneous demonstration against a YouTube film that escalated out of control. It seems unlikely that an attack could have been planned and executed so quickly in direct response to Zawahiri’s words. But the evidence shows that armed groups in Benghazi have been trying to kill the representatives of Western countries for some time.

On June 11, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at Sir Dominic Asquith, the British ambassador, as he drove through the city. He was unscathed, but two of his bodyguards were injured. Britain responded by closing its diplomatic office in Benghazi and withdrawing all UK staff. Five days earlier, unknown assailants had thrown an improvised explosive device at the gates of the US consulate in the middle of the night, causing no injuries.

Jihadis threatened to burn down the US Embassy in Egypt:

According to El Fagr, they are calling for the immediate release of the Islamic jihadis who are imprisonment and in detention centers in the U.S. including Guantanamo Bay: “The group, which consists of many members from al-Qaeda, called [especially] for the quick release of the jihadi [mujahid] sheikh, Omar Abdul Rahman [the “Blind Sheikh”], whom they described as a scholar and jihadi who sacrificed his life for the Egyptian Umma, who was ignored by the Mubarak regime, and [President] Morsi is refusing to intervene on his behalf and release him, despite promising that he would. The Islamic Group has threatened to burn the U.S. Embassy in Cairo with those in it, and taking hostage those who remain [alive], unless the Blind Sheikh is immediately released.”

Then during the attack Obama’s new best friends in Libya apparently gave Stevens up:

According to a CBS News report updated at 8:39 am Eastern time Wednesday, the Libyan security forces hired to protect the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya moved Ambassador Chris Stevens to a second building within the consulate, then told the militant crowds where he was:

Wanis al-Sharef, a Libyan Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said the four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a U.S.-made film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building, deemed safer, after the initial wave of protests at the consulate. According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.
Stevens, 52, was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.

Yet despite all this Obama did not even provide Stevens with a Marine guard:

The consulate where the American ambassador to Libya was killed on Tuesday is an “interim facility” not protected by the contingent of Marines that safeguards embassies, POLITICO has learned.

Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed with three other Americans in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the city of Benghazi, where Libyan rebels ousted strongman Moammar Qadhafi last year.

Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Kendra Motz said that Marines were not posted to the consulate, unlike the embassy in the capital, Tripoli.

A defense official told POLITICO on Wednesday that the Pentagon is sending an elite team of about 50 additional Marines, called a Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, to reinforce the embassy.

A senior administration official Wednesday called the Benghazi consulate “an interim facility,” which the State Department began using “before the fall of Qadhafi.” It was staffed Tuesday by Libyan and State Department security officers. The consulate came under fire from heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at about 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday. By the time the attack ended several hours later, four Americans were dead and three others had been injured.

The Benghazi consulate had “lock-and-key” security, not the same level of defenses as a formal embassy, an intelligence source told POLITICO. That means it had no bulletproof glass, reinforced doors or other features common to embassies. The intelligence source contrasted it with the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt – “a permanent facility, which is a lot easier to defend.” The Cairo embassy also was attacked Tuesday.

And they knew Stevens was coming

As for the theory that the fatal incident was sparked by the YouTube video, no other protests of this kind are known to have occurred elsewhere in Libya. No mob gathered outside the US Embassy in Tripoli, the usual base of Chris Stevens, the late ambassador which, on the face of it, would have been a more logical target. Instead, the focus of the anger was the consulate in Benghazi, at a time when Mr Stevens happened to be visiting.

While Stevens was being dragged through the streets of Benghazi, Barack Obama was partying it up with Jay-Z and Beyonce.

Shockingly, Obama decided to attack Mitt Romney before he condemned the attacks on the Embassies.

Obama hasn’t had a security briefing in a week. Maybe things could have been different had he paid attention.

There is no excuse for this. Barack Obama was negligent. He’s put his fund raisers and his re-election campaign before anything- including the security of Americans. He’s too busy for that.

Obama has Chris Stevens’ blood on his hands, not Mitt Romney.

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The Independent, UK, backs up that Ambassador Stevens was given up….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html

Revealed: inside story of US envoy’s assassination

Exclusive: America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’

1st point:

[T]he details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential.

2nd:

Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi….

3rd:

[T]he US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and “lockdown”, under which movement is severely restricted.

Something I had not read elsewhere:

There was, according to witnesses, little defence put up by the 30 or more local guards meant to protect the staff. Ali Fetori, a 59-year-old accountant who lives near by, said: “The security people just all ran away and the people in charge were the young men with guns and bombs.”

Also:

Wissam Buhmeid, the commander of the Tripoli government-sanctioned Libya’s Shield Brigade said, “There were definitely people from the security forces who let the attack happen because they were themselves offended by the film; they would absolutely put their loyalty to the Prophet over the consulate. The deaths are all nothing compared to insulting the Prophet.”

Political exploitation of a man’s death doesn’t get much lower or become much more shameful than what I’m seeing right here, right now.

@Greg:
I don’t know, Greg.
I think Trayvon Martin’s death was politicized worse.

@Greg:

I notice that you didn’t rebut, or even attempt to rebut, any of the damning factual information that has come out regarding the embassy attacks and the resulting murders.

Wonder why that is.

Don’t you find it more than a bit disturbing that President Lady’s Tee has made it a habit to skip his intelligence briefings including yesterday’s briefing?

Don’t you find it shocking that the US had credible, actionable information that these attacks were coming 48 hours ahead of time yet they did nothing?

You voted for this guy Greg. That puts the Ambassadors’ blood on your hands too.

Congratulations on that.

My rebuttal of this sort of crap will be at the polling place on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012.

@Aye:

You voted for this guy Greg. That puts the Ambassadors’ blood on your hands too.

Congratulations on that.

And this is just the start, a foretaste, of the bitter fruit of Pres. Obama’s labors.

@Aye: @DrJohn: @Greg:

For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Luke 23:31

Soon cometh the sequester …

This is just the start, a foretaste, of the bitter fruit of Pres. Obama’s labors.

It is not four years and we have return to the year 1938.

President Obama kicks our country in the crotch. We say, “Don’t kick us in the crotch.” Then Greg says, “Why are you guys always talking about your crotch? Show some decency.”

Greg and thousands of other morally deformed little DNC flying monkeys.

With the help of folks like you, Mr. Romney can fast-track America straight into another interminable, unwinnable war, even before we’ve manage to extricate ourselves from the one you left unfinished the last time. How many more dead and how many more trillions of dollars will it cost us this time? Just where the hell is the money for the next one supposed to come from? You sure as hell won’t want to pay more taxes for it.

I’m beginning to think it isn’t because you don’t learn. I’m beginning to think it’s because you can’t learn.

@Greg:

I’m beginning to think it isn’t because you don’t learn. I’m beginning to think it’s because you can’t learn.

And this criticism comes from the guy who voted for the Empty Chair and will, by all indications, vote for the guy again four years later.

The irony meter just shattered and is in 4,363 pieces on the floor.

I guess you can sweep up the pieces while you think about the paragraph that preceded that sentence.

@Greg:

Mr. Romney can fast-track America straight into another interminable, unwinnable war,

So your answer, After the Empty Chair knew 48 hours ahead of time that the embassy would be attacked and did nothing and then Empty Chair loses election for lack of action, you think it would be wrong for Romney to make it right?
The Empty Chair only has one honorable move and that is to resign. He doesn’t need to embarrass the country even more. He is the only person occupying that office that has been an absolute joke. Totally unqualified.

@Redteam, #15:

So your answer, After the Empty Chair knew 48 hours ahead of time that the embassy would be attacked and did nothing and then Empty Chair loses election for lack of action, you think it would be wrong for Romney to make it right?

I haven’t seen where that assertion has been confirmed by any reliable source.

What I have seen is that the right wing spin machine is far more concerned with covering Romney’s incompetent ass than about objectively covering a rapidly developing international crisis. It’s enough to make a reasonable person wonder about their priorities.

@Greg:

I haven’t seen where that assertion has been confirmed by any reliable source.

Wow, I would’a thought a leftie would believe anything the Left Wing Press puts out. but, according to your standards, you will never be satisfied that EC (empty chair) knew ahead of time. The world knows, you never will.

The other two dead men have been identified.
Both ex-Navy SEALs.
Forty-two-year-old Glen Doherty was killed with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi while on security detail.
Also killed was Tyrone Woods, a 41-year-old former SEAL.
More here:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/13/former-navy-seal-identified-as-embassy-attack-victim/

@Greg:

With the help of folks like you, Mr. Romney can fast-track America straight into another interminable, unwinnable war, even before we’ve manage to extricate ourselves from the one you left unfinished the last time.

Go back and read Bush’s statements when GWOT began. He stated from the start and repeatedly thereafter that the war would not be over on his watch and that it would take a long time. He, unlike Truman in Korea, Johnson in Vietnam, and Clinton in Bosnia, was straight up with the American people as far as timelines go. If you are trying to inject party politics into this, all of those wars/operations were ended on Republican presidents’ watches. Which unwinnable war are you referring to? We accomplished what we said we would in Iraq and were therefore victorious. Could it be Afghanistan?

Greg

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and “lockdown”, under which movement is severely restricted.

So, are you gonna claim that the EC would have been briefed on it had he been occupying the EC for the Daily Intelligence Briefing, but since the Chair was Empty, that he didn’t know? Novel. So he didn’t know because of his own choice to not know. Well, he’s your guy. claim that if you wish.

@another vet, #19:

You didn’t pay for the previous installments. How do you propose to pay for the next one?

You know what could finally bring America down? Being sucked into the same sort of black hole they pulled us into with 9/11. Osama may be dead, but he won that round. Just consider how little they spent to drain a couple of trillion dollars out of the U.S. economy. Do you think we can tolerate that sort of blood-letting again?

I’m seeing warning signs that Romney could let himself be led into the same sort of trap. He fits a profile. He’s a leap-before-you-look sort of guy.

@Redteam, #20:

I am claiming that anyone can say, “According to senior diplomatic sources,” and then spin any sort of story they like. Just saying those words doesn’t make what follows true.

@Greg:

You didn’t pay for the previous installments. How do you propose to pay for the next one?

Wow, a leftie worrying about overspending. Did you miss the message from Another Vet. Dimocrats got us into WW2, the Korean War, Vietnam and Clinton’s little escapade. Repubs got us out (except WW2) No one was worrying about paying for those, why worry about the war on terror cost? Sounds as if you’re saying that if a Dimocrat had been in the presidency after 911 that he would not have seeked any revenge? Wow, lefties sure have a standard..

Just consider what they spent to drain a couple of trillion dollars out of the U.S. economy.

EC’s war on the environment, giving money to his Solyndra buddies, and his food stamp program is what’s draining the trillions.

@Greg: Greg, if you weren’t so pathetic you’d be funny. It’s your Dear Leader that’s going to drag us into a war that will have far great consequences than he or you can ever imagine. If that happens then maybe you’ll realize how totally foolish you are.

@Greg: you do realize you’re criticizing the Lame Stream Media here, don’t you? They are on EC’s side, they are likely hiding much more, wait til the other shoe drops…

We are not in deep s**t economically because of the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Those cost about a trillion each over ten years. The gonernmental financial disaster we face is from unsustainable Federal entitlements, and high costs for public employee salaries, pensions and benefits at the federal, state and municipal levels. The price tag for those things is about two orders of magnitude greater.

Not to mention depressing the private sector with a hostile and unpredictable business environment.

@UpChuck.Liberals: Hey Upchuck: you referred to him as

Dear Leader

The proper title now is Empty Chair.

@Greg:

You didn’t pay for the previous installments. How do you propose to pay for the next one?

I see it this way, National Defense is authorized by the Constitution of the United States, therefore the war and the other Constitutional responsibilities of our government are paid for first. Expenditures for programs that are not authorized in the Constitution are for paid second and are therefore what needs to be looked at as far what has not been paid. In other words, the war was paid for but PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, welfare etc. weren’t. And since I’ve paid taxes all of these years, I DID pay for the previous installments. Since you said ‘you’ instead of ‘we’, does that mean you didn’t pay taxes the last 12 years?

@Redteam, #23:

Dimocrats got us into WW2, the Korean War, Vietnam and Clinton’s little escapade.

Under democratic management, those wars were paid for. For democrats, the practice is tax and spend.

Cut taxes and spend is a republican innovation. I put it to you that this innovation doesn’t work.

Greg They can politicize this all they want. Fed Chair Bernanke, clearly in the tank for BHO,( Mitt said he’d fire him if elected) OK’D Q.E.3 today and assured all rates will be kept down through 2015. Markets will go to all time highs just in time for election. BHO will take credit== GAME OVER. Look to Rubio/Rice 2016

By then they might be wary of any ticket with 2 Rs in it. If not, they’ll hopefully work out a new logo that doesn’t resemble a patriotically painted human posterior.

Quantitative easing makes me very uneasy. Truth be told, I’m a social liberal that leans toward fiscal conservatism. I know unsustainability when I see it. I just can’t abide the GOP’s totally one-sided approach to a solution. Increasing the money supply is dangerous when the GDP isn’t expanding in pace. We all know what you eventually get as a result.

@Richard Wheeler:

Wonderful. QE-3

That couple of dollars you have in your pocket just took a dive in buying power.

Obama bad
God is good

Every mindless zealot needs his mantra. Thank you once again, Dr John, for providing that place for those who hate the American President as much as our foreign enemies do to express that mindless hatred.

Retire 05 The inevitable inflation won’t kick in till well after BHO takes credit for booming new highs and a perceived bergeoning economy.BHO WINS AND BERNANKE KEEPS HIS JOB.

@Richard Wheeler:

Look to Rubio/Rice 2016

If we have the chance, maybe it would be nice to run a qualified person, as in : natural born citizen.

@ DrJohn,
You’ve rightly pointed out a very major cause for concern – the empowerment of radical terrorist groups in Africa.

The Maghreb basically comprises North Africa West of Egypt. Under the less than watchful eye of Western forces (led from behind by Obama) as Qaddafi was violently ripped open, radicals were busy pilfering his sizeable armaments, accumulated over decades. Mali is 2/3 controlled by Islamist militant groups who have set their sites on the rest of the Maghreb starting with Algeria which has recently demonstrated a ‘soft’ leadership. Algerian leadership is accused by many in Africa of arming and supporting terrorism outside its borders. If Algeria goes down, Morocco is not far behind.

There are endless ‘sub-terror’ groups. Qaddafi’s arms have found many homes. These groups will all fight one another for control of the region. North Africa may be heading for disintegration of its already fragile political structures.

NONE OF THIS IS NEW. Why weren’t embassy employees better defended in an environment so out of control? Responsibility lies at the top with the President, but it also lies with others appointed by Obama. As you noted in #1 DrJohn, “Hubris can kill.”

Obama has Chris Stevens’ blood on his hands, not Mitt Romney.

Sorry Dr. J, but in the vein of being consistent, I cannot agree that Steven’s blood is on Obama’s hands. Just as I couldn’t agree that it is on the film-maker’s hands. The ones who murdered him, and the other three people, made that conscious choice to end the life of another human being.

And I’ll probably get in trouble with Mata, here, but Obama’s stupidity, since the first rumblings of unrest in Libya back when Gaddafi was still alive and in power, aren’t enough to raise him up to the same level as the animals that committed the murders. Obama was stupid, yes. No disagreement there.

@Richard Wheeler:

Fed Chair Bernanke, clearly in the tank for BHO,( Mitt said he’d fire him if elected) OK’D Q.E.3 today and assured all rates will be kept down through 2015.

The inevitable inflation won’t kick in till well after BHO takes credit for booming new highs and a perceived bergeoning economy

It is amazing that someone would seemingly cheer on an action that they know is sure to fail, and make us all worse off in the long run, simply because it might get Obama re-elected.

Tell me, Rich. Have you fitted your own wrists and ankles for the chains you are in the process of purchasing?

@Greg:

Truth be told, I’m a social liberal that leans toward fiscal conservatism.

Now, I’ve heard tall tales before, Greg. But that one is taller than the one about the giant man and the blue bovine. Fiscal conservatism? Since when? Obama has shown nothing but being a spend first, don’t even ask questions later type guy, putting up $6 Trillion in new debt over 3.5 years, and you have done nothing but cheer him on as more and more money rolls out of DC.

I just can’t abide the GOP’s totally one-sided approach to a solution.

One sided? Show me that the Democrats are willing to cut one dime of anything other than Defense spending, and then maybe we can talk. Until then, smooth your dress down. Your hypocrisy is showing.

Since past republican fiscal responsibility pledges have not worked out so wonderfully well, I tend to be a little skeptical to begin with. Add to that a budget proposal that doesn’t follow the rules of common sense or arithmetic, plus the growing likelihood of involvement in yet another war when previous wars simply weren’t paid for, and the needle of my skepticism meter pegs on the side of total incredulity. There’s no genuine fiscal conservatism over there.

I do take them at their word regarding their intentions to dismantle our social programs. Our line of credit is probably almost tapped out, and they’ll likely have to get rid of something to pay for that preposterous new batch of tax cuts.

@Greg:

I do take them at their word regarding their intentions to dismantle our social programs.

Would you give us an actual quote of a conservative giving their word to dismantle our social programs?

Redteam re 35 There you go again.
J.G. I’m stating what I see. Not cheering it on. The power of incumbancy.

Imagine if he wins and has the flexibility he told the Russian that he will have.

@Greg:
Greg, maybe you should switch to decaf. You’re starting to foam at the mouth.
By the way, I do have a brother, and he does look like Chris Stevens. The resemblance is uncanny.
I just hope Obama doesn’t get my brother killed for an encore.

Some perspective.

Costs of US Wars.

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/108054.pdf

Hi John Galt (#37):

We don’t have hard facts. The attack occurred on … when? … 9/11. Were there generic warnings about generic threats against US assets on 9/11? I can’t imagine that there weren’t. Were there similar threats every year for the past 10 years? Probably. Were the embassies adequately guarded? They thought so. Did either Obama or Clinton micromanage the security? Doubtful. Should they have micromanaged the security? No, they aren’t qualified. Do they rely on security experts? Yes. What were they told by both security experts and by intelligence (beyond the same old/same old generic warnings)? We don’t know.

Was the Libyan rebel support mission a mistake? McCain and others urged more forceful support and earlier support. There was a humanitarian disaster in the making in Benghazi. Our NATO allies took the lead and asked for our help. We can’t expect England and France to support the wars of our choosing when we won’t support theirs. That’s the way an alliance works. You scratch my back, I scratch yours.

I’m writing to you, John, not because I expect you to agree with anything I say about this, but because your anti-Obama comments on this otherwise sick and disgusting thread do show measures of both reason and humanity.

To Greg: Admiration for taking on the mob.

To Rich: I don’t think that QE3 will have any salubrious effect on the economy (save for juicing the equities markets temporarily) until the next POTUS is sworn in. I do understand the rationale of Bernanke’s move. The housing sector traditionally leads recoveries from economic downturns. The backlog of unsold properties has been a millstone around Obama’s neck. It’ll be ironic if it’s Romney who benefits from being freed from this millstone.

Hi Sherman (#45): Really fascinating data…thanks! Note the following, however:

All estimates are of the costs of military operations only and do not reflect costs of veterans benefits, interest on war-related debt, or assistance to allies.

The above is important, because long term veterans costs for these 21st Century wars are going to be very great. For every dead soldier, there are many with grievous and permanent wounds.

The Revolutionary War was a bargain, wasn’t it? A bit more than a billion dollars and we got a whole new country out of it.

Washington was some general.

The other point to make is that, until Iraq, we always raised taxes in war time. Those who didn’t serve at least paid. Even LBJ raised taxes to pay for his war. We can’t say the same for the 21st century wars.

– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA

It is time to pull all of our personnel out of these hell holes, cut off all foreign aid (including military aid) to these countries, and peg a bushel of US grain to the price of a barrel of oil. Let them eat their oil!

While we are at it, get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.

@Redteam: The EC SOB didn’t even vote “present”

@Greg:

Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry and many other Democrats voted for those wars. There is blame enough to go around. Obama bombed Libya for months, they never attacked us. His reason was people were being killed in the streets. Syria is doing that as well, why aren’t we bombing them? And no I don’t want to. I don’t want more war, paid for or not by anyone’s definition. We’ve lost Iraq and are on the way to losing Afghanistan. The latter isn’t worth much to try and do more. I’m not sure staying 5 more years or leaving tomorrow would make much difference in the long run.

As for Romney and war talk, well Obama has stated he will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon. Sounds like war talk to me.

So, now it’s the Hildabeast’s turn to to go under the bus, my guess is Huma will move on to a better mark or put on her burqa and return the ME as a hero of the MB.

Chris Stevens like Mary Joe Kopeckne, gave his life to spare America an insufferable POTUS, may he rest in peace.

Meanwhile some contortionists (I can only assume judging from cranial position) don’t admit that ALL deaths in war are “political”.

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