White House: Libya consulate siege that killed four was 'terrorist attack'

The White House has confirmed that the terror attack that killed four Americans at the Libya consulate was orchestrated by al-Qaida sympathizers, but questions remain about when it was planned. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

The siege of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last week that left four dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, was a "terrorist attack," a White House spokesman said Thursday.

"It is I think self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack, our (consulate) was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of American officials. That is self-evident," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One.

Since the Benghazi attack occurred amid protests of an American-made anti-Islam video that was circulating on the Internet, it has been unclear whether it was planned independently or launched opportunistically when the demonstration was under way, or if it was a spontaneous attack emerging out of the protests.  

This was the first time the White House called it a "terrorist attack."


Esam Omran Al-fetori / Reuters file

An armed man reacts as the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi burns on Sept. 11 after protests purportedly sparked by an anti-Islam film by a U.S. filmmaker.

"We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al-Qaida or al-Qaida affiliates," said Carney, who noted that the FBI is investigating.

Related: First Read: Press Secretary says it is self-evident that Libya attack was terrorism

"According to the best info we have right now it was an opportunistic attack on our mission in Benghazi."

The low-budget video, "Innocence of Muslims," with its insulting portrayal of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, had been circulating on the Internet for months, and it is unclear why it became a focal point of anger in the Muslim world just before the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the United States.

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House on Wednesday.

"What we do know is that the natural protests that emerged over the video were used as an excuse by extremists," said President Barack Obama, speaking at a forum hosted by the Spanish-language TV station Univision on Thursday about the attacks on diplomatic posts in Libya and Egypt.

Protests, some of them violent, have erupted at U.S. diplomatic missions across majority Muslim countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia in the past week.

In Benghazi, the attack on the consulate took the lives of Stevens, as well as information management officer Sean Smith and security personnel Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, all of whom were honored in a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base last week as their remains were returned to the United States.

Amid questioning from U.S. legislators about the security at the U.S. outpost in Libya, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday announced that she is forming an accountability review board to look at the attack on the Benghazi consulate. The board will be led by retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering, she told reporters at a press conference.

Clinton said she was scheduled to brief senators and congressmen on Benghazi later Thursday. She said she expected the briefing would cover the security posture at the post before, during and after the attack, and the steps the government has taken since to protect U.S. personnel worldwide.

"I will also talk about the importance of the broader relationship with these countries in light of the events of the past days," Clinton said. "There are obviously very real challenges in these new democracies, these fragile societies."

Clinton said she will be joined on the Hill by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Sandy Winnefeld, and experts from FBI, the State Department, and elsewhere in the government.

Clinton was asked about a report that alleges Stevens told others that he was on an al-Qaida hit list. She said she has no information or reason to believe there is any basis for that.

NBC News' Catherine Chomiak, Ali Weinberg contributed to this report. 

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This was without a doubt a pre-planned attack. The apparent complicity of some of the supposed security personnel in the attack clearly bears this out. Why the administration will not just come out and say this is beyond me. What are they trying to cover up, could it be the fact that the Libyan government was at least partially responsible for the attack since they provided the security officers who helped carry out the attack?!?! Is Obama that afraid of upsetting some third world leader that he will not call them out on their failure to protect our embassy and properly screen the security personnel they are providing. Enough is enough!!!

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#1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:17 PM EDT

Or could it be that he failed to act on reasonable intelligence received 2-3 days prior to the protests and is now trying very hard to cover his arse????

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#1.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:19 PM EDT

The siege of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last week that left four dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, was a "terrorist attack," a White House spokesman (CARNEY) said Thursday.

Where is an apology from Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and Ambassador Rice to ALL American people ?

Wow.....here comes the BACK PEDDLING.

Where is the outrage on what happened to the Consulate in the Libyan streets ? Nah, the only OUTRAGE from this administration is on Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan.

Aint' gonna help......your poll numbers just hit rock bottom !!!!

TELL THE TRUTH.......NOT SPIN......NOT LIES.

BTW: Where, oh where, are the Progressive surrogates defending this administration ?

  • 101 votes
#1.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:32 PM EDT

The Obama admin. lied to the American people. The Libya government told them days ago and they didn't want to hear it. They lied to cover it up. The White House had to finally admit the truth. Such shame.

My heart goes out to the four families who lost their loved ones. The four brave men were sitting ducks just waiting to be slaughtered.

Shame to the American media for continuing to defend Obama. Shame to all the stupid celebrities on TV and in music for defending this man and yes I'm talking to you Mr. Letterman, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jay-Z, Beyonce, the writers & actors for SNL and all the other fools out there.

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#1.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:37 PM EDT

What kills me is this admin LIES, DISTORTS, AND SPINS with IMPUNITY!

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#1.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:41 PM EDT

It was a planned attack. And these people who blame the US for this movie, are just invoking anger. Which is all they can do. Tell lies to weak minded people who believe it is ok to kill someone at the drop of a hat. Doesn't matter if that person is innocent, they just kill. The world itself needs to step up just like the US and our allies and start eradicating the scum that do this. There need to be some serious actions taken. I wish Obama had the nuts to call these cowards out and tell them it they want a fight, here we come. But our government like bleeding hearts are soft.

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#1.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:42 PM EDT
Comment author avatarir12Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

"You people" really need to get over yourselves. A President has to deal in facts. He cannot just go around shooting off his mouth without facts as say someone running for President can. This whole show of indignation is over the fact that Mitt came out looking like a fool and is an attempt to divert attention from his foolishness. It does not change the fact he is a flawed candidate. He has remade himself so many times, I am surprised he can keep the current days talking points straight.

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#1.6 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:45 PM EDT
Comment author avatarFlyingEnergyExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Aren't the Marines assigned to protecting consulates? Why where they not there?

And all of you Obama haters are clearly delusional. Obama was on tv only hours after the attack denouncing it. Get a grip.

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#1.7 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:47 PM EDT

Not that it's a surprise to anyone with more than four brain cells that this was pre-planned. Obama and his talking heads love to run around a find someone to always point the finger at when their policy is proven to be WRONG. Way to go, try and play it out on some obscure film that nobody cares about or has seen to cover all your mistakes. Sounds a lot like the "Bush" line he likes to play when things are bad, but scoops up the fame when something positive happens.

Obama is the modern day teflon man, because nothing sticks to him......

  • 60 votes
#1.8 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

Obama misses about half of his National Security meetings...they ignored warnings that this was going to happen. Then Susan Rice, his Ambassador to the UN got on TV Sunday morning and blamed the video...when we already had news that Ambassador Stevens had warned this may happen. There were no marines at the embassy to protect it. Marines only went into the Tripoli embassy after this happened. There's more...lots more. Look around the internet. Demonstrators don't walk around with rocket-propelled grenades...it was a coordinated attack.

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#1.9 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:53 PM EDT

So Obama stated it was an attack because of the film (he shot first) and now we know it was a planned attack. So now he is "aiming".

So who really "shoots first and aims later"? Remember when Obama "shot first" when he accused the Boston police officer of being a racist then had to "aim later" duing his "beer summit"? How about when he "shot first" in the Fl shooting where he blamed the white hispanic and said the kid could have been his son? What ever happened to that case?

  • 65 votes
#1.10 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:54 PM EDT

Kristian113, you understand neither terrorist tactics, nor the United States drone program. We are not fighting World War II. Trust me, if they wanted to meet our Army on a battlefield, the Military would relish the chance to end it once and for all. But when all you have a rocket propelled grenades, it would not be much of a fight. The only chance you have is against innocent unarmed civilians or by ambush. Once a terrorist takes some responsibility, they have drones flying over their homes.

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#1.11 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:54 PM EDT
Comment author avatar2-Lane GypsyExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Sorry, Joann, ands Dotties girl (trolls) not going to work. Its a terrorist attack. They are going to happen no ,matter who is sitting in the whitehouse.

As for the assinine comment 'oh where is the outrage'....it was expressed publically by Hillary Clinton before the American bodies came home and again in joint appearance with the President when they vowed to bring the teorrists to justice. He has an excellent record on that. Bring the nurderers to jsutice. Its all that can be done and I trust OPbama to do so.

What would Romney have done exactly? Do you kow? Does Romney? Should we put troops on the ground in EVRY consulate in the World? Should we shoot all suspected Muslims on sight? Put all of them in jail mhere until we can prove they arent terrorisdts?

Pretty easy being an armchair hack who cant think beyond their emotional response and what Romney thinks his 'base' wants to hear.

Romney has NO SOLUTIONS, NO FOREIGN POLICY alternatives and NO CORE

Rommey is not qualified to be Commander in Chief

Obama/Biden 2012

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#1.12 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:55 PM EDT

Obama has attended 44% of the DAILY security briefs. None the days leading up to 9/11. Talk about asleep at the wheel. At least he was on Letterman.

He has fostered a weak perception of America abroad.

He has appeased our enemies.

His foreign policy, just like his economic policy, sux.

Obama has surpassed Carter and W. Bush as the worst President in my life time.

They lied all week. The Obama Administration is very comfortable lying to you, America. Jay Carney - how do you look at yourself in the mirror.

This is what Democrats are voting for. A failure of a president. Pass the foodstamps.

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#1.13 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:57 PM EDT

The truth is the cover up !!! Our government armed and helped murder Mr. Stephens !!!

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#1.14 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:58 PM EDT
Comment author avatarir12Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Facts people!!! Every statement I saw from this administration was prefaced with the responsible statement, "The best information we currently have is...". The United States government has to be accurate, candidates, not so much so.

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#1.15 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:00 PM EDT

OK NBC I am surprised you reported this. Its pretty plain something was up when "protesters" show up with automatic weapons and RPGs. Now are you going to ask the hard questions of your beloved administration that you have with the secret Romney fund raising tape that you have reported on since it "leeked" out? Can you show your impartial side?

  • 47 votes
#1.16 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:04 PM EDT

All I can come up with in reference to this headline is....Well, Duh!

I'm seriously waiting to read this :

After spending over 150 Billion on a study the CIA, FBI, and NSC have determined that water is wet!

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#1.17 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:07 PM EDT

we first did what the administration does best; they apologised to the Muslims; Ambassador Stevens was brutally slain, sodomized and then hacked to pieces; the Mossed warned us 2 weeks before that a attack in Egypt and Libya was planned; our people had no guns or ammunition, no Marine guards , no back up , our entire mid-east policy is a dismissal failure!

  • 36 votes
#1.18 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:14 PM EDT

JS in SD....I think the answer lies in the fact that the general brain trust of the Obama administration have a history of moving about on the short bus. There is certainly not enough intellect in the administration and particularly their Foreign administration team and Jay Carney himself to be honest with the American People. This is evident in the numerous and changing BS story lines that this administration tried to float last week in the news. They believe America to be so addled that they feel they can test the waters in the news and move forward with whichever story they feel the American people will accept.

The fact is most of America is not that stupid. They still cling to a ridiculous premise that this assault on our embassies because of an amateurish "B" movie that had no interest. This attack was a "Terrorist Attack" as were the assaults on the other embassies around. If in fact it is discovered that our Ambassador was on an al-queda hit lost and it was known in the any aspect of the diplomatic core then Hillary and Barry have much explaining to do. Four Americans died on American soil on the anniversary of 9/11 and that is unacceptable.

How in the world can an American Embassy go so unguarded as to be breached and those inside murdered. So the Obama administration has had a week of floating BS in the media they had better be prepared to stand and be judged now.

Perhaps it is time for Jay Carney and the rest of the brain trust to prepare to leave Washington on the short bus.

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#1.19 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:15 PM EDT

Our emperor Obama has no clothes. He got caught with his pants down!!!! Now let's hear the chorus of Obama apologists minimize and deny what everyone knew at the time. It was an attack on the anniversary of 9/11. Obama is incompetent and his dem cronies will do everything they can...lie...obfuscate...distract the American people from the truth about how bad it is out there...and even use class warfare to keep their fellow citizens duped. Afterall, they get away with parading the great dem Clinton around like he's some savior of America when he was just a sexual predator while in the White House. The dems believe the American people are so stupid they can tell them anything. The dems have no shame...just a dead Ambassador...dead American soldiers...a failed policy in Afghanistan with more dead soldiers...a bankrupt country...and the list goes on and on and on....I want to puke!!!!!

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#1.20 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:16 PM EDT

Well, its not unlikely that we will hear from too many democrats on this site. Afterall, during that past week all they did was blame a christian for invoking a freedom of speech here in the US and tell us over and over again that muslims are peaceful.

I think now would be a good time for them all to apologize.

The President still thinks that all his "peace" money is going to buy him diplomacy while the rest of us knows it is a waste on US taxpayers. How many more times will we fund countries like this only to have them retaliate at us later on? These countries hate the US. When will the President realize that?

Like I said before, you can't appease a bully with money and good deeds. They see it as a sign of weakness.

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#1.21 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:18 PM EDT

Flying Energy:

Aren't the Marines assigned to protecting consulates? Why where they not there?

And who's fault is that? Bush? Hilary's? and if so, who does Hilary report to?

Romney was right about his comment. The WH denied it was a planned attack for days before they could no longer hide the truth and the MSN could no longer protect him

  • 38 votes
#1.22 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:19 PM EDT

George W Bush felt he could ignore facts because he had a "gut feeling" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. How did the work out?

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#1.23 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:22 PM EDT

What???? You mean it wasn't Workplace Violence?

Since the Benghazi attack occurred amid protests of an American-made anti-Islam video that was circulating on the Internet, it has been unclear whether it was planned independently or launched opportunistically when the demonstration was under way, or if it was a spontaneous attack emerging out of the protests.

Hey Jay, The video has been out since MAY!!!! Try again!

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#1.24 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:25 PM EDT

It's only a story on MSN because FOX NEWS made it a story. Without them, Susan Rice would still be going on the Sunday talk shows talking about a movie. This was planned well in advance, Libya warned the WH, they ignored it, Stevens died a horrible death. There's video and pictures of what he went through at the hands of the "peaceful religion," it should be shown on every channel 24 - 7 for a week so America finally understands what's facing them if we don't take care of the problem NOW.

  • 27 votes
#1.25 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:27 PM EDT

Ir12. I find it fascinating that you do everything to give them a pass on this. Excuses all around.

  • 26 votes
#1.26 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:27 PM EDT

iu12 - WHAT are you talking about? Bush was wrong about the weapons. I believe they were moved but can't you admit that this admin can ever be wrong?

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#1.27 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:33 PM EDT

ir12- I understand your point. But all this non-action is hurting the US. We are becoming Russia at the end of the cold war. The US is getting soft when it comes to this type of violence. We just can't go blasting cities. What better use of a cluster bomb if all the people who cause the uprising are in one place. I don't pity these people. And I hope whoever is the next President continues the drone program. And let the countries know, if you have terrorists in your country and you do nothing about it, we will.

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#1.28 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:33 PM EDT
Comment author avatarJeff-1592116Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Why the administration will not just come out and say this is beyond me.

Let's see why...

  1. Elections. There's no way in hell Obama would give you guys fodder by pulling a Mitt Romney and jump the gun.
  2. Jumping the gun can also hurt ongoing FBI investigations.
  3. We'll know more when the details become clearer.
  • 8 votes
#1.29 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:34 PM EDT

"ir12

"You people" really need to get over yourselves. A President has to deal in facts. He cannot just go around shooting off his mouth without facts as say someone running for President can."

Actually “You people” (read dems and libs) need to get over yourselves. Your president shot his mouth off about this being about a film and his administration backed him up without hesitation, even going so far as to go on national television and denounce those who said it was a terrorist attack. The fact is that your president (or at least his administration) received credible intelligence about the attack 3 days before it took place and did nothing. He knew that 9/11 was coming and he still did nothing. Heck, he has more security when going on a vacation than these poor people did. Add to that the fact that he has missed many of the briefings on security issues where he might have been given more information on the subject. Then to top it off he had the gall to try and palm the blame off on a video trailer. Now I’ll grant the trailer was/is stupid and the person who made it and the preacher Jones are idiots. But they are not responsible for the death of these four Americans. That dubious honor belongs to your president and his administration.

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#1.30 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:34 PM EDT
Comment author avatarJeff-1592116Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Or could it be that he failed to act on reasonable intelligence received 2-3 days prior to the protests and is now trying very hard to cover his arse????

Making sh@t up doesn't constitute proof or cause. Aren't you Republitards sick of lying yet?

  • 9 votes
#1.31 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:35 PM EDT

Wonder why Hillary isn't reporting this...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/glenn-beck-on-libya-u-s-consulate-attack-youre-being-set-up-america/

Save your fake tears Hillary! We are not buying it!

Gee wonder what Barry would do if Hillary was attacked....more importantly, what would Bill and Chelsea say?

  • 16 votes
#1.32 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:36 PM EDT

IR2....I think someone on the Left needs to step in and take up the indignation for the liberal side.,..you really don't seem to have leg to stand on....sort of like a suspended chair from a tree....no foundation what so ever.

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#1.33 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:37 PM EDT

The Obama Administration decided not to provide Marines to protect the US Consulate in Libya. And of course instead of answering the question of why there were no US Marines protecting the Consulate, the Obama Administration pointed the finger at the State Department. It's Not Our Fault, We Have Nothing To Do with the State Department. It is Both Obama's and Clinton's fault - Obama for not providing leadership and Clinton's for being inept. There should be a full Independent Special Prosecutor assigned to investigate why in one of the most dangerous places for an American to be, the Middle East on the Anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist attack, US Embassy and Consulates were no on the highest alert.

The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens did not have any security details assigned to protect him, while Valerie Jarrett, a domestic policy adviser and Assistant to the President for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, working in the dangerous Washington DC has a detail of at least five Secret Service agents who give her protection 24/7. In case you don't know the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs coordinate quasi-political events for Obama such as town meetings. Her only qualification for this post, she is a family friend of the Obama's and got Michelle Obama a job in Chicago.

We are not delusional, take time away from watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and listen to Obama's speech.

  • 25 votes
#1.34 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:37 PM EDT
Comment author avatarir12Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

I apologise, my mistake, Fox viewers simply do not know what a fact is because they have never heard one.

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#1.35 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:40 PM EDT

jwilson1234

Or could it be that he failed to act on reasonable intelligence received

Or it could be the Loch Ness Monster stormed the compound...

Or it could be the Keebler Elves conspiring against the U.S. ...

Or it could be none of our @!$%#ing business at this time. We have become a society of second guessers, conspiracy theorists, critical thinkers.

If any of you had the background in National Intelligence and realized that sometimes you can't say a tree is a tree it may be a large hedge, maybe even a chair to keep things upside down for awhile until something else can be done.

You have all watched too many "B" movies.

  • 6 votes
#1.36 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:43 PM EDT

It's way worse than being reported:

The ambassador was actually the CIA operative that set up
the arms deal with the anti-Gadhafi forces and that the two Seals he was with
were with him to recover as many of those weapons as they could so as not to
embarrass the administration. Obama had never confirmed he sent arms to help
bring down Gadhafi and this would prove he had given arms to the Taliban.

Examine the photos of car that the ambassador was travelling in – unmarked and not armored. The
security team he was traveling with – two Navy Seals, one of which had made a
video only days before to say he was going on a mission to recover arms from the
war area – he should have been with Marines who were specialized in protection
and traveling in the standard diplomatic armored car on if he was on official business. He was on a covert mission that went dealy wrong.
Sean Smith, the Foreign Service Information Management Officer was a Communications Expert..... messaged on a gaming site that they were surrounded vs. going through regular channels – the gaming site was the covert "back-door" communications protocol to signal for help. The fact that they were driving in an unmarked car in a war torn area and not taking the standard
precautions suggests that he was there to meet with somebody and the meeting went wrong. The "Consulate"’ was actually just a residential rental house that had bars on the window.
It didn’t matter that there had been warnings of uprisings, they weren’t
there on embassy business. If it was a covert operation it would have made no
difference. When the arms meeting went wrong, they headed for the "Safe House" building to be extracted and the rest is history. The Local "security detail" gave up their location....

"Diplomat Killed in Libya Told Fellow Gamers: Hope I ‘Don’t Die Tonight’"

"On Tuesday, Sean Smith, a Foreign Service Information Management Officer
assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, typed a message to the director
of his online gaming guild
: ”Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of
our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.” The consulate was under
siege, and within hours, a mob would attack, killing Smith along with three
others, including the U.S. ambassador."

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09/vilerat/

"American Killed in Libya Was on Intel Mission to Track Weapons"

" One of the Americans killed alongside Ambassador Christopher Stevens in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya Tuesday told ABC News before his death that he was working with the State Department on an intelligence mission to round up dangerous weapons in the war-torn nation."

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/glen-doherty-navy-seal-killed-libya-intel-mission/story?id=17229037

Like always.....with this Administration.....Watch the other hand.....In this case, the one that doesn't have their blood all over it.

  • 15 votes
#1.37 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:45 PM EDT

This was not about a movie that came out months ago? Say it aint so! Then all of a sudden a diversion, a Mitt Romeny fund raising tape ohhh. Now a statement, oh yeah it was a terrorist plot. Now Obama and the left wing press look like Droopy's cousins AGAIN!

  • 17 votes
#1.38 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:54 PM EDT

ir you should come back...I was wrong Entitled?Damn Right. is so far out of the realm of reality with..his fantasy about the loch ness monster and the keebler elves is so unrelated to the fact this President and his administration did everything they could, even in their typically lame way, to distance themselves from an attack on US embassies on the anniversary of 9/11. Distance themselves from the murders of four Americans in our embassy when it was the United States that provided support to destabilize that country.

  • 7 votes
#1.39 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:55 PM EDT

Hey right wing crazies you do realize Bush had all the information he needed to prevent 9/11 but he chose to ignore it. So please keep your fake outrage to yourself. All you are trying to do is make a mountain out of a mole hill because your candidate can not go a day without doing or saying something stupid. So get a grip already.

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#1.40 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:56 PM EDT

Thank goodness the White House has come out and announced that it was a terrorist attack, because I really couldn't decide that for myself.

  • 15 votes
#1.41 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:02 PM EDT

Hey right wing crazies you do realize Bush had all the information he needed to prevent 9/11 but he chose to ignore it. So please keep your fake outrage to yourself.

Hey left wing crazies, don't you realize the more you protect muslims the more they continue with these kinds of attacks?

So just how many christians bombed the embassies this week?

( crickets)

  • 14 votes
#1.42 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:07 PM EDT

Hey ir12: Does that translate to, "I are twelve."? The Pres, your Allah, now has a failed foreign policy to go along with his failed domestic policy; i.e. he is a failed president! My dog would have done a better job.

  • 12 votes
#1.43 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:14 PM EDT

Hey Mike! Great post! So is this Fast and Furious part II?

  • 8 votes
#1.44 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:20 PM EDT

ir12

George W Bush felt he could ignore facts because he had a "gut feeling" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. How did the work out?#1.23 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:22 PM EDT

HMMMMM, OH YEAH!!! The Democrat Controlled Congress voted to go to IRAQ!

  • 10 votes
#1.45 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:25 PM EDT

And...Madam Secretary you are going to form an "accountability" committee??? Does anyone get the feeling that this is a blame the victim scenario rather than blame the perpetrators of this "fragile" democracy? So, you need a committee to decide that our consulate guards need ammo? It is all about what we did wrong and how we are going to fix it?? That is pure BS!!!! Stop blaming our country and make the right people be held accountable!!! Those that pulled the trigger on the Ambassador and his guards are fully and completely responsible for their actions and THEY are the ones that should be held accountable. I am so p!ssed I could eat nails and spit horseshoes. Another committee to determine "accountability"...What a joke!! What we need is to appoint a committee to GPS all the roads out of there and the rest of the ME and northern Africa. Fragile democracy my @ss. They are a blood lust culture. We didn't cause and we can't cure it. LEAVE!!! Stop blaming US for our deaths. If you want accountability, Madame Secretary, you might ask yourself why the he!! we have a consulate there or anywhere in the ME and hold yourself and our govt. responsible for the deaths that have occurred so that the defense contractors can make billions. YOU ARE ACCOUNTABLE ALSO!!!

  • 12 votes
#1.46 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:27 PM EDT

It's entirely possible that the deaths could have been prevented. But they weren't. Finger pointing serves no purpose now. What will serve a purpose is to aggressively hunt down those involved, their associates and families, if necessary, and bring them to justice of one sort or another. Show no mercy and give no quarter to anyone even remotely allied with radical Islam. It's time to show them that we will not be trifled with. Turn the military loose and let them do what they do best. Rules of engagement be damned. They haven't worked. The average citizen of the Islamic countries hate us no matter what we do, so let's make it worthwhile.

  • 2 votes
#1.47 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:38 PM EDT

an administration that actually waits for the facts. how refrshing. unlike the last who went out and invaded the wrong country

  • 6 votes
#1.48 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:39 PM EDT

Capt Curt...Well said.

  • 1 vote
#1.49 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:48 PM EDT

You know what, the entire Middle East is a cesspool (Israel included) and won't get any better until those that live there get tired of the stench and decide to clean it up themselves. Not in my lifetime or that of my children and possibly my grand children. "And I say to myself, what a wonderful world". If only he could see what it is now. Maybe he can and is singing a different song, or still holding out hope. Oh well.

  • 2 votes
#1.50 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:50 PM EDT

conner...are you serious or being sarcastic? This administration has floated many scenarios in the past week to see what the gullible American population will accept. They are still blaming an obscure film that so many others in the region have claimed had no place in the 9/11 attacks in Benghazi and those that followed around the region.

  • 8 votes
#1.51 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:51 PM EDT

As if the tragedy of the deaths of these four Americans isn't bad enough, our leftist "friends" in the USA have to continue to delude themselves into thinking nothing happened here. There was intel of danger. There was the anniversary to consider. There was the location to think about. And what did Mr. Obama do? He went to bed not knowing if his own emmisary to Libya needed help.

I'm sorry to you liberals, but the reason Mr. Obama and his administration lied about this issue is because his greatest claim to justify re-election is how deft he's been with foreign policy. Conservatives, like me, have consistently claimed every policy of Mr. Obama's has failed. We are not more liked, let alone loved, among muslims. Apologizing to them has failed.

I am most saddened, to be frank about this, that the MSM generally has done all it can to protect Mr. Obama from this reality. When Mr. Romney gave his statement that it was wrong to apologize for our freedom of speech and that this kind of terrorism (it isn't technically terrorism, this was an act of war) must be dealt with, what did Mr. Obama say about him? He was reckless, a shoot first kind of guy. I don't think radical Islamism is an existential threat to the USA, though it's true those Islamists would like us dead and gone. I think, instead, that liberalism and their MSM lapdogs are far more likely to do things which will get Americans killed, and America itself to die.

  • 12 votes
#1.52 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:58 PM EDT

FlyingEnergy :

Aren't the Marines assigned to protecting consulates? Why where they not there?

And all of you Obama haters are clearly delusional. Obama was on tv only hours after the attack denouncing it. Get a grip.

Well, the next days is "within hours". After that, he was off to a Funde Riser.

  • 8 votes
#1.53 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:05 PM EDT

Jim Carney came out today and said it was not a significantly preplanned attack by terrorists. What the heck is not significant ? Who is parsing things now ? First it was spontaneous protestors. I want Carney to tell me what the heck he means by not significant. 1 year, 3 months- what ? Obama doesn't want to give the impression he doesn't have the terrorists under control.

  • 8 votes
#1.54 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:08 PM EDT

Que the Obama haters.....

After reading some of these responses about Obama blaming this on the movie, I went back and read some earlier articles about the consulate attack. Actually in some stories dated as early as 9/12 the question was already being raised by the White House if this was indeed a terror attack, and they always said we are waiting for the investigation to conclude. I never read that anyone in the administration had blamed the movie. I did read an article last week that raised the question of the possiblity the movie had been used to incite rioting as a cover for the terror attack.

Now your average Joe, or even you below average Presidential candidate can ASSume they know the story, but the actual President needs to wait until he has all the facts. I happen to want a President that will wait until he has all the facts in front of him.

  • 5 votes
#1.55 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:29 PM EDT

I certainly agree with you on "accountability"...it's about time that the President starts to be held accountable for his defense of those who are the ones killing our people and bring our consulates home where they can be better protected. If the countries that have our consulates located within them fail to keep their people from kills ours then, they don't deserve to have our help over there to begin with!! Bring our people home and let the countries over there take care of their own people and the problems they have!! Perhaps if that would happen, the people over here might have a chance of getting some of the help they need!! PERHAPS if the government in this country were to concentrate on the problems of the people here, they could actually use their heads for a change and get our own country back on it feet and prosperous again!! There are terrorists within our own country's borders right now; there are people killing people in this country every day, why do we not take care of this at home and let the other country's tend to their people?? I realize this may be selfish on my part but I don't believe that we have any responsibility towards those other countries that do not protect our consulates who are there to help the people of those countries!! Why is it that the people of this country end up paying for having our people over there getting themselves killed for countries that really don't seem to care or want our help??

How about we start taking care of our own country and our own citizens for a change....at least if we concentrated on that, we might actually be seeing our country and our lives improving AND our taxpayers' money actually doing something beneficial for our own people for a change!!

  • 4 votes
#1.56 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:30 PM EDT

I have read the comments of righteous indignation and have to admit I find them quit humorous. No need for the President to deal in facts. It gives me insight on how you can support someone that will say anything depending on the group he is talking to at the moment. You have learned how to defect like pros from Fox News.

But let's cut to the real reason. You just can't accept the fact that your candidate's bid to be elected President was sunk by Jimmy Carters grandson. Talk about karma.

  • 5 votes
#1.57 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:35 PM EDT

@ir12

Facts people!!! Every statement I saw from this administration was prefaced with the responsible statement, "The best information we currently have is...". The United States government has to be accurate, candidates, not so much so.

Yeah the problem is that the "best info they had" (from the Libyans themselves) suggested it was a terrorist attack when they were claiming the opposite.

  • 8 votes
#1.59 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:58 PM EDT

NOW all the LIAR in CHIEF has to do is ADMIT HE SCREWED up and THEN tried to cover it up!

  • 7 votes
#1.60 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:09 PM EDT

This can't possibly be. The news told me that a "YouTube video" was the cause of all the strife everywhere in the world.

It's a good thing that the creator of the "YouTube video" was apprehended. As long as no more videos show up, we'll have peace.

  • 3 votes
#1.61 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:22 PM EDT

O'Bama should be immediately "Impeached" for once again lying to the Legal American Citizens. The only people supporting him are the "deadbeats" that make a living by living off those that pay taxes!! They don't want their "free ride" to end. Redistribution of Wealth" originated in counties like Russia, China, etc.. They were the tools of dictators, and history tells us what happened to those leaders and those countries. You want redistribution then move to Russia or China.

  • 10 votes
#1.62 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:23 PM EDT

SAXON....I just watched the video of Stevens being removed from the consulate. He was NOT hacked to pieces and throwing out mis-information is wrong. The truth was sickening enough. The videos are horrible. He died of asphyxia and was apparently sodomized before he expired. That should have been enough to send in the troops and drop all ties to Lybia. This was an act of war. This pussy footing around by the Secretary of State about this "fragile democracy" makes me sick--especially after seeing the Ambassador. They need to know that this is NOT acceptable and never will be to Americans on American property. Instead, they are busy looking for scaepgoats to blame this on--American scapegoats mind you. There are 535 people in America to blame for this and that is Congress--they allocate the funds to these countries.

  • 11 votes
#1.63 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:27 PM EDT

Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A terrorist attack !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and let me see the obama had 48 hours advance notification about the attack and took no action to protect the Embassy personnel or the Ambassador. Wow Obama and his fellow Muslim terrorist cohorts killed 4 Americans and now Obama has come to then enlightened realization that he and his Muslim cohorts are terrorists - wow no @!$%# really?

  • 10 votes
#1.64 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:57 PM EDT

FlyingEnergy

If you where really up to date you would know that Obama's people disarmed the Marine guards just days before the attack.

The White House knew something was coming and disarmed our men.

Egypt and Libya have been under the control of the muslime brotherhood and al-qaeda since Obama helped overthrow their governments.

Obama has sent them over $2.5 billion dollars of your money since the muslime brotherhood and al-qaeda gained power.

Beginning in October Barack Obama plans on sending the muslime brotherhood and al-qaeda over $2 billion more of your money.

Why is Barack Obama sending taxpayer money to the muslime brotherhood and al-qaeda???

FORWARD?????

  • 8 votes
#1.65 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:03 PM EDT

I never read that anyone in the administration had blamed the movie. I did read an article last week that raised the question of the possiblity the movie had been used to incite rioting as a cover for the terror attack.

Telcogirl: Here you go..... http://washingtonexaminer.com/with-obama-policy-crumbling-white-house-blames-movie-for-mideast-unrest/article/2508085

“This is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to United States policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the American people,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday. “It is in response to a video, a film that we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting. That in no way justifies any violent reaction to it, but this is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy. This is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims.”

Questioned at length about the causes of the anti-American violence, Carney insisted it was all about the movie. “The reason why there is unrest is because of the film,” he said at one point. “This is in response to the film.” At another moment, he said, “The cause of the unrest was a video.” At yet another, “These protests were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region.”

This is why they didn't see it as a terrorist attack.

  • 8 votes
#1.66 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:26 PM EDT

How many times will we be lied to before we vote people out? No one brings RPGs to a protest. Anyone with any sense saw that this was a planned attack. Oh, I'm sorry, those of you who have lived under the freedom the military has given you may not know. Planned attack, they drug the ambassadors body into the street and photographed him, just like the contractors in Iraq. There was no outrage!! Instead, we apologize because of a stupid 13 minute video which is comparable to Monty Pythons Search for the Holy Grail. Bull. We should never apologize for being Americans and that is what we have done every time something hits the fan. I will vote for every new face on the ballot, Democrat or Republican, just to try and fire evry last one of the lying, extremist sympathizers in DC.

  • 6 votes
#1.67 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:45 PM EDT

This story needs to be the HEADLINE!!!!

The Obama administration is involved in a COVER UP and has instructed the Ambassador to the UN to LIE to the American public.

What really happened in Libya?

Why weren't our embassies better protected?

Did the Obama administration have advance intel?

Did the State Department?

Who is leading this cover up??

  • 12 votes
#1.68 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:15 PM EDT

ir12

George W Bush felt he could ignore facts because he had a "gut feeling" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. How did the work out?

#1.23 -

You should have listened to Mr. Bush. Now we are all worried about Assad using those wmds in Syria.

  • 6 votes
#1.69 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:16 PM EDT

I just asked Bin Laden what he thought of President Obama and Team America gathering CORRECT info then responding with swift justice and total destruction of the targets? He answered .............gurgle gurgle blub blub!

  • 2 votes
#1.70 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:32 PM EDT

ir12 - George W Bush felt he could ignore facts because he had a "gut feeling" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. How did the work out?

You are just like the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists, you will defend President Obama Wrong or Right to your Death.

Nice Failed attempt to divert the conversation; and YOU are still WRONG:

President Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address started all that Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction crap. GO READ THAT.

Resulting US Congress passing President Clinton's US Law, H.R.4655 "Iraqis Liberation Act of 1998" Justification Section 2 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Section 3 US POLICY OVERTHROW OF PRESIDENT HUSSEIN

GO READ THAT

FACTS PERTAINING TO THIS ARTICLE.

The US Ambassador was warned and was concerned so he went to the US Consulate to evacuate his people, as to why he was not at the Fortified US Embassy according to this Administration.

President Obama helped defeat a previous US Ally, President Gaddaffi, that according to President Obama "A Dictator killing his own people". While not bothering to find out who his own people were NOT, as President Gaddaffi was asking for assistance due to the increased activities of Al Quada at Libya.

"The Libyan Rebels": Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) aka the New Government of Libya, etc.

The LIFG were those Islamic Jihadist Foreign Fighters killing US Military at Iraq.

President Obama can't even get his story straight.

His arse puppet at the Whitehouse said, "We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al-Qaida or al-Qaida affiliates," said Carney, who noted that the FBI is investigating."

They (FBI) are not even here yet, the FBI said that they would wait until the area is more secure. And we were not going to wait then have to baby sit them.

  • 10 votes
#1.72 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:51 PM EDT

add to post#1.72.

Even SOS Clinton lied saying that the FBI were here investigating.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a team of FBI agents has arrived in Libya to investigate the deaths of four Americans who were killed when the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was overrun last week.

“The FBI has joined the investigation on the ground in Libya and we will not rest until the people who orchestrated this attack are found and punished,” Clinton told reporters after a meeting with Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa at the State Department.

FBI arrives in Libya to probe deaths of four Americans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/fbi-arrives-in-libya-to-probe-deaths-of-four-americans/2012/09/18/5f404560-01d0-11e2-9367-4e1bafb958db_story.html

(read the update: The FBI’s arrival had been delayed by concerns about continued violence in the eastern Libyan city.)

FBI wants safer terrain before heading to Libya

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-09-15/africa/world_africa_libya-us-ambassador-killed_1_benghazi-fbi-agent-consulate

  • 6 votes
#1.73 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:04 AM EDT

You should have listened to Mr. Bush. Now we are all worried about Assad using those wmds in Syria.

Right before the Iraq war Colin Powell showed videos of things being moved around in trucks. During this time Iraq was put on "sanctions" by the UN. These "sanctions" gave Saddam time and of course he laughed at the UN and the world. Saddam had WMDs because he had used them before on his own people. Even Bill Clinton admitted that Iraq had WMDs. Upon hearing Mr. Powell's speech I remember a family member saying that he bet the trucks were going to Syria.

Two things happened when our brave soldiers went into Iraq. 1) Saddam went into hiding like the coward that he was and 2) the WMDs were gone.

It has been confirmed that Syria has WMDs. How did they get them? I think we know the answer.

  • 7 votes
#1.74 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:17 AM EDT

FBI wants safer terrain before heading to Libya

Didn't Obama say during his 2008 campaign that he was going to stop all the hatred towards the US by visiting these countries and have face to face meetings with them?

Of course he blamed Bush for all the hatred back then. Wonder who he is blaming for all the hatred today?


  • 6 votes
#1.75 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:24 AM EDT

Remember Folks.....Just A Few Days Ago The Obama Administration was Claiming A Spontaneous Mob Attacked Our Consulate In Benghazi Libya?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/20/obama-officials-spin-benghazi-attack

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-terror-20120921,0,7487326.story

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/16/rice-benghazi-attack-was-spontaneous-libya-no-it-wasnt/

So Once Again The Obama Administration Flip Flops Their Story To Build Up For Their October Surprise!

Man You Can Smell The Wall Street Bull Sh!t In The Air......Sounds Like The Classic Diocletian Problem Reaction Solution To Me!

Don't Understand Diocletian Principles? Please Allow Me Assist......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEz5fQ_Pm-g

Still Not Convinced? Watch This New PBS Documentary Video........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-8PFk8j5I

America Just Say No To World War III......If The Israeli Want To Take Out Iranian Nuclear Power, Let Them.....But We Do Not Need To Get Involved Unless We Are Provably Attacked By Iranian Forces First!

Always Remember The Gulf Of Tokin & 9/11!

Psst...... And It Is looking More & More Like Our Government Through Contractors May Have Setup the 09/11/2012 Attacks/Protests In The First Place......

http://www.disclose.tv/forum/innocence-of-muslims-busted-whoami-t78481.html

Say What You Will But Check The Links And They Resolve As Claimed.....If This Is True They Don't Make Enough Tin Foil To Cover Up This BS!

  • 3 votes
#1.76 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:30 AM EDT

Jo Ann-666954,

Sequence of Events.

US Military Teams to US Ally Iraq during the Iran Iraq Wars, before US Military Teams rotated to Operation Cyclone. Some of us rotated to US Ally Iraq before the use of Chemical Weapons against the Iranians and their Armed (men, women, children) Allies the Kurdistanis.

The Kurdistanis were NOT President Hussein's "Own People". They speak a form of Farsi. And had been fighting the Iraqis since who knows when.

The Iraqis use of Chemical Weapons ended the Iran Iraq Wars, and saved many lives on both sides. Especially, the Iranians that were using human wave attacks against machineguns, artillery, mortars, etc. because they had previously "purged" (murdered) their Iranian Military of anyone with any experience.

In 2001 the (September) 9/11 Attacks occurred. Shortly afterwards the CIA was already on the Ground at Afghanistan, and were failing due to the previous President Clinton Gutting of the US Intelligence Agencies that allowed the 9/11 2001 Attacks due to the US not having any credible intelligence and had to rely on information (not even intelligence) from "Potentially Hostile" Nations like the Jordanians, and Pakistanis. So the CIA went into Afghanistan in the blind withno linkups with US Intelligence Assets on the Ground. The CIA then sent in their SAD/SOG, and they too started to fail. People believed that the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada were just less than a few hundred, and not the almost 1/3rd of the Afghan Population.

September 2001, we are alerted, attached to the CIA's SAD/SOG, to go into Afghanistan to Overthrow the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada, and stop the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists Training Camps. Due to the US abandoning our US Ally the 1980s Pro US Afghan Muhajeenafter Operation Cyclone, they were massacred (20,000 to 50,000) by the 1990s Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, and because of President Clinton's Gutting of the US Intelligence Agencies and his Cut to the Bone Reduction In Forces of the US Military we were going in blind and without enough US Military Asymmetric Warfare Forces. We split into two Groups; one Group would link up withthe Northern Alliance (Afghans that fled from the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban); Group two (us, survivors from Operation Cyclone with language(s) and cultural experience) went into the Afghan Cities to fight the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban Militias (severly underestimated, they were actually the size of an Army, and fully supported and armed by the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran), in the extremely intense Urban Warfare as house to house, wall to wall, grenades at two feet, we lost Redacted % almost becoming non mission capable. Most of us that had survived Mo(gadishu) had a really bad feeling. At the last moment, Group One literally as Cavalry on horseback to our rescue, reinforced us at the Afghan Cities of Qala I Janghi, Mazar I Sharif, etc..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxKhJIjIiY

The majority of the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada, Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadistswere escaping on the Southern part of the Old Silk Road as we were killing them with extreme prejudice. We were told to stop as not to violate the Soverign Nations of Iran and Iraq. So the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada, Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists of Afghanistan got Fundamentalist Islamic Sanctuary for the Fundamentalist Islamic Kurdistanis of Northern Iraq, Syria, Southern Turkey, Northwestern Iran. They renamed themselves the Fundamentalist Islamic Ansar Al Islam and got stonger as more Islamic Jihadists joined them from Worldwide.

In 2002 President Bush pushed for a US Law to allow us to go into Northern Iraq to eliminate AnsarAl Islam. US Congress passes US Law, 2002 Iraqi War Resolution (Act) with US Congressional Appropriations. We are alerted to conduct 2002 Operation Hotel California as we few surviviors from October 2001 attached to the CIA's SAD/SOG augmented by the US Army 10th Special Forces and go into Northern Iraq to first recruit the Kurdistanis that were against the Fundamentalist Islamic Kurdistanis; after intensive vetting as to eliminate all possible intelligence agents and insurgents we trained, and armed them. Together our Forces were eliminating Ansar Al Islam. At the last moment the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran gave Ansar Al Islam Fundamentalist Islamic Sanctuary, so they escaped us again, and they later returned back to Afghanistan as the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada, etc..

While still at Iraq, our Mission is changed to accomplish President Clinton's US Law, H.R. 4655 "Iraqis Liberation Act of 1998" Section 2 Justification Weapons of Mass Destruction Section 3 US Policy Overthrow of President Hussein (aka Regime Change). Most of us opposed in writing the Overthrow of President Hussein because we knew he was the counterbalance to the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran, we are threatened with Insubordination.

We attacked, seized, and secured the Iraqis Chemical Weapons Facility at Sargat Iraq.

Our primary mission is to create a Strategic Operational Feint to make the Iraqis Military Command and the Iraqis Political Leadership believe that the Main US Military Attack will come thru US Ally Turkey. We do this by attacking, seizing and securing the Northern Iraqis Oil Fields.

The Iraqis Military Command deploys their Main Iraqis Military Forces North of Baghdad. Company sized units of us, attacked, destroyed five Full Stength Iraqis Armor and Mechanized Infantry Divisions without airsupport. The Iraqis Military Command deploys more of their Main Iraqis Units north of Baghdad believing 100% that the Main US Military will be coming thru US Ally Turkey. Unclassified History of the US Army 10th Special Forces Group.

We knew that the Iraqis Military was Command Driven, as no Orders then they do nothing as no individual initative, just like the ignorant US Citizens want the US Military to become. The first use of non nuclear E-Bombs are used and destroyed all Iraqis Electronics. There are absolutely no communications and the Iraqis Military Command cannot organized a cohesive defense.

Will Saddam Fall Victim to the Elusive E-bomb? Feb. 18 2002

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125336&page=1

2002 we start operations for the arrival of the 2003 US Military Conventional Warfare Forces arriving from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as Operation Iraqis Freedom.

2003 we are attached to the newly formed Joint Special Operations Task Force Iraq.

2004. Those few of us that survived are finally allowed to go on R&R (80-90% training for next mission(s), 5% family time, 1-2% individual time, % attending memorial services). Of the almost thousand of us that started out as US Military Asymmetric Warfare Middle East Qualified Officers, there are only a few of us left (with no replacements trained due to the previous President Clinton RIFs, as it takes two or more decades to train each of us, not including the college level language(s) and culture(s) for our Area(s) of Operation(s)).

2005 to current. Other missions. Day -3 we were on R&R after years of consecutive tours living with the locals. Day -2 alerted, Warning Order Issued. Boarded USAF aircraft. Day -1 Southern Europe. Mission planning details finished. Day 0 US AFRICOM. Day +1 Redacted. Day +2 Redacted. Day +3 Redacted.

Jo Ann-666954,

So the Iraqis Chemical Weapons Facility at Sargat Iraq was proof enough.

  • 6 votes
#1.77 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:38 AM EDT

Telcogirli I would sure like you to cite the titles of the stories you read wher any government official said anything other than this was the fault of the movie. I read every single story printed here and I did NOT see any such thing!!!!!! OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAVE FAILED AND THEY NEED TO BE FIRED!!!!! You really have a problem if you can't accept the truth!!!!

Starsailing, that's all you got??? gurgle, gurgle, blub blub??? How about Obama, Obama we are all Osama??? Was that one of the last things our people heard before they were murdered???? Unless you are paid for your comments like some have suggested it's time to give up your blind loyalty to the he who would (think) he is king!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 5 votes
#1.78 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:40 AM EDT

David 475776:

Thank you for your comments. Very informative.

As I read many of the comments tonight, I think of Romney's comments about the 47%. The Arab world is in flames, Israel is very nervous and possibly contemplating an airstrike against Iranian nuclear facilities, our economy is "moribund," to put it mildly, and the only thing that most people on this board care about is Romney's tax returns. They give Obama a pass on everything, even if it means ignoring critical national and global issues, like dead diplomats and college graduates that can't get a job. They won't even listen to Romney, or to anyone else for that matter, because they somehow seem to believe that they have all the answers. They believe what Obama says on its face, no matter what he says, and they reflexively disbelieve what Romney says, no matter what he says. So even when the administration attributes violent demonstrations in twenty one countries to a you tube video, even when they plainly break campaign promises, their supporters go along and they don't ask any questions. Scandals in the Obama administration come and go with regularity, and no one notices.

Can you imagine what the media reaction would have been if the mess that has just blown up in the middle east had happened during the Bush administration? David Gregory would have set the White House on fire himself.

Romney's point in his speech is that he will never reach the 47%, and I think that he's right. Hopefully, the number isn't as high as 47%, but it's still pretty high. How could he hope to win these people over when he can't get them to listen to anything that he is saying? On the other side, Barak Obama could drop trou in the middle of the street and these people would still vote for him.

Now we are told that Obama is ahead in the polls. Well, let's just cancel the elections. It wasn't that long ago that Romney was doing pretty well in the polls. Then David Axelrod got on the phone and threatened Gallup, and Fast and Furious Eric Holder followed up with a DOJ lawsuit against Gallup. Then, just like magic, Obama started moving up in the polls.

In sum, there is no reason to believe the poll results that we are reading, any more than there is any reason to believe anything that the media is trying to force on us. The media is in bed with Obama; they are not going to publicize anything that could remotely effect his re-election chances, and the remarkable part is they don't believe that we're intelligent enough to realize that we are being routinely lied to.

The only other thought that I have to add is that if these polls are correct, and Obama is re-elected, this country is screwed.

  • 4 votes
#1.79 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:23 AM EDT

Bob-1104279,

My ulterior motive for posting, as some sort of record, is if we don't make it out alive this time. We were back less than a month on R&R CONUS, and supposed to be off Mission Status. I was still pulling years of clothing out of duffle bags to be washed when I got the authenticated call. Then I had to be the bad guy and cancel everyone's R&R, Leaves, etc.. I was shoving clean and dirty clothing back into the duffle bags.

  • 2 votes
#1.80 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:11 AM EDT

I remember in 1986 when Reagan was President, Libyans killed Americans and he bombed their leader’s house!

Libya was quiet for 25 years!

  • 6 votes
#1.81 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:30 AM EDT

The Lame truth is the Left cannot defend Obama and his short bus brain trust...Instead of defending or discussing their inept response to an attack they deflect and for some reason think that bringing GWB into the conversation. (shaking my head and wondering why more in America don't take advantage of the free and fair education that is offered).

  • 1 vote
#1.82 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:06 AM EDT

Obama; "What we do know is that the natural protests that emerged over the video were used as an excuse by extremists,"

So do tell me mr. obama, What exactly is a "natural protest"? Is that something that you learned as a Muslim student in Indonesia?

One and done for this sack of s--- liar .

  • 4 votes
#1.83 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:51 AM EDT

Well...as the MAN we didn't elect said, "you don't bring heavy weapons and RPG's to a 'demonstration'"! While the person you did elect waived it off as a demonstration about the "film trailer".

FOLKS...we screwed up! Too many people saw the "savior" and voted for him. Haven't seen the "openess" we were promised. Have seen the "bend over and smile" policies like Obamacare, and "we don't support nor defend the FOMA LAW", or the Supreme Court should stick to law not legislation(which is a true statement) just not correct in the context it was stated.

Obama-san and his socialistic, wealth redisdriputing advisors need to go home...we've lost enough and we can not afford to lose any more. I hope we can regain some stature in the world. At least Mc Cain KNEW what the world was about.

  • 2 votes
#1.84 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:06 PM EDT

Thank you President Obama for waiting for actual intelligence and not just acting like a fool before the world.

Responsible leaders wait for facts, and do not rush to conclusions. Kudos to the administration for handling this professionally.

  • 2 votes
#1.85 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:35 PM EDT

Only a week ago the President's spokespeople were insisting that it was NOT a planned terrorist attack, while the head of the Libyan government said it WAS a planned terrorist attack.

How convenient that the pro-Obama story from NBC does not point out the obvious flip-flop by Obama - can you imagine how this story would have been spun if the lack of adequate security was under Bush's watch? There would have been a 'Witch Hunt' after Bush, but nothing but cover for Obama's ineptitude.

  • 1 vote
#1.86 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:22 PM EDT

FOOL!!! Jay Carney said this is ALL about a film, which they originally blamed on Jews, HOWEVER, it was made by Bill Mayer, who is an Obama supporter and donated 1 million to his campaign!

NOW they are admitting it was a terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9-11

What were you saying about rushing to conclusions? Kudos?

  • 2 votes
#1.87 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:27 PM EDT

So the White House has changed their mind again. I guess that this is the "change" that the President has been talking about along with the "hope" that things get better. If the White House does not know what they are talking about then the least they can do is to shut up.

    #1.88 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:39 PM EDT

    FedupwithFed,

    Do you like lying all the time? The film was made by 65-year-old Alan Roberts, a veteran whose prior oeuvre was dominated by schlock soft porn and hammy action with titles like "Young Lady Chatterley II" and "Karate Cop".

    Why lie? This guy is an anti Obama tea party loon. Bill Maher, the person you where trying to refer too had nothing to do with this lame film.

    Don't get me wrong, the Muslim extremists going crazy over this are like a bunch of two year old brats. It's more a rallying cry for them to fight the infidels than an actual bother. But en-flaming these children is probably not a smart thing to do. Blaming Obama for the actions of an idiot is also, not a smart thing.

      #1.89 - Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:09 PM EDT
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      Well, it's about time MSNBC chimed in on this news! Didn't realize Fiona Apple's drub bust or Walmart no longer selling the Kindle was more important than a conversation on how the WH was managing the Arab crises....

      • 31 votes
      Reply#2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:17 PM EDT

      They're not more important. Now new info about Lindsey Lohan hitting that guy with her car though...

      • 7 votes
      #2.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:18 PM EDT

      But Obama said sorry we love all faiths. You mean they still want to kill us. Good thing Obama knows how to say sorry.

      • 12 votes
      #2.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:23 PM EDT

      So Romney was right on this days ago and yet the fair media continues to lie about it!!

      obama told lettermAN IT WAS THE MOVIE THAT DID IT??!!!

      If you caN NOT BELIEVE bozoHUSSEN'S CORRUPT MACHINE, YOU CAN YA BELIEVE??!!

      obama got on TV and lied to the Prez of Mexico about him & Holder giving guns to the Drug Cartel.

      how about the Whoppers BOZOhussen & Over-the Hill'y are saying about the killing of the USA embassy staff... it was an over -done riot about a movie, that NO one has even seen...It had nothing to do with BOZO shouting " I Killed Osama and saved GM"...it just happened on 9/11.. NOTHING to see here..

      Move along....Where is the American Journalism?? OUT drinking KOOLaid with the sheep leader---

      OoooobbBAAAAAhhMMMaaaa-- put on your flower pot hats and sing along!!!Drink it UP, Drink it GOOD...BbbbBAAAaaahhhaaa!!!! the chosen one has fixed everything!!! Bad BUSH!!!!BBBAAAHHHAAA!!

      • 8 votes
      #2.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:35 PM EDT
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      Why did it take the White House so long to figure this out? Is it not the purpose of the CIA to keep the govt informed? So poor intelligence can happen under any President, not just Bush?

      Is there more to this story? Did the White House have "warnings" and did not respond?

      Was this about a film, a prisoner, 9/11 or perceived weakness of America??

      • 17 votes
      Reply#3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:22 PM EDT

      It did not take them long to come up with another lie. they had been telling the same old same old for a week now

      • 6 votes
      #3.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:21 PM EDT

      Atlas...I won't believe that they have figured it out until THEY take accountability for our presence in the ME and Northern Africa. I don't give a rip what started it. What they did was an act of war and blaming the victims is not the answer. Their "fragile democracy" stinks of corruption and blood lust. The Secretary is wrong. Forming a committee is pure BS. WE know who is accountable and it isn't us.

      • 5 votes
      #3.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:30 PM EDT

      Well you remember Obama refused to meet with Israel's Prime Minister. Well he was going to Obama about the preplanned attack. LOL It might serve us well to remember who are friends our in the region. I mean maybe we should send Iran another strongly worded letter. I'm sure they will listen this time. In the meantime, it was just on the news tonight, Iran has figured out how to circumvent the web. They are going to instruct Obama how to do this as an olive branch. Then he won't have to admit to anything.

      • 5 votes
      #3.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:23 PM EDT

      atlas....why were our embassy personal not protected by US Marines??!!

      why were they just sitting in a car with no cover when hit by anti-tank fire??!! Arab security forced upon them by obama & hillary ???

      If you caN NOT BELIEVE bozoHUSSEN'S CORRUPT MACHINE, YOU CAN YA BELIEVE??!!

      obama got on TV and lied to the Prez of Mexico about him & Holder giving guns to the Drug Cartel.

      how about the Whoppers BOZOhussen & Over-the Hill'y are saying about the killing of the USA embassy staff... it was an over -done riot about a movie, that NO one has even seen...It had nothing to do with BOZO shouting " I Killed Osama and saved GM"...it just happened on 9/11.. NOTHING to see here..

      Move along....Where is the American Journalism?? OUT drinking KOOLaid with the sheep leader---

      OoooobbBAAAAAhhMMMaaaa-- put on your flower pot hats and sing along!!!Drink it UP, Drink it GOOD...BbbbBAAAaaahhhaaa!!!! the chosen one has fixed everything!!! Bad BUSH!!!!BBBAAAHHHAAA!!

      • 1 vote
      #3.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:39 PM EDT

      silvia...that makes sense!! It seemed very odd of even the messiah to alienate Israel so...Very Interesting!!!

      • 2 votes
      #3.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:41 PM EDT

      The White House knew and disarmed our guards before the attack.

      Obama is responsible for the deaths of these brave men.

      • 4 votes
      #3.6 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:08 PM EDT

      Frank...Please post your source....

        #3.7 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:56 PM EDT
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        Well, looks like the Obama Administration can't keep telling the American public a bold faced lie. After how much evidence was produced, they still tried denying it as a planned, terrorist attack. Just another failure for team Obama.

        • 27 votes
        Reply#4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:23 PM EDT

        Eringobragh: Don't count on it! I just read what the debates topics will be....Oddly, Foreign policy will NOT be debated Instead they will talk economy & Obamascare!!! Typical...

        Whenever Obama gets in trouble the Messiah Media lifts up their metaphoric dress & Obama hides under it til the smoke clears. I wonder if it stinks under there.

        The MSM is No friend to the public.....bastards

        • 18 votes
        #4.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:56 PM EDT

        Love, the economy will be off the table for the VP debates, only foreign policy...

        • 2 votes
        #4.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:23 PM EDT

        Oh that will be great- the brain Biden and Ryan with his "workable" plans. The drivel debates.

        • 1 vote
        #4.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:25 PM EDT
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        It only took ten days for the Obama regime to acknowledge the truth.

        Now, who will Obama apologize to?

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        Reply#5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:34 PM EDT

        Won't hear him apologizing to the American people or the families of those 4 brave souls that gave their life in the service of their country and to the Libyans.

        • 17 votes
        #5.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:44 PM EDT

        I'm sure it won't be the American people or the families of those murdered.

        • 13 votes
        #5.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:45 PM EDT

        10 days and how many DEAD Americans?

        I remember when Bush was in office and those slimes in the MSM did a f**king death count EVERY night Under Obama .......... "crickets"

        Maybe its because MORE Troops have died since Obamas Bull sh*t "New Rules of Engagement"

        • 13 votes
        #5.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:00 PM EDT

        No...we'll never hear Obama, Clinton, or the others who were complicit in this cover-up apologize to the American people. Their pathetic response of weakness, waffling, and spewing mindless words that we only want peace and that this murderous rampage was due to a cheap, low budget firm is disgusting. This cruel, illiterate, hate filled religous culture called islam only looks at us as a weak and afraid and that alone gives them even more reason to attack and kill. Get our people out of every one of these worthless, failed islam countries, stop every penny of aid, and kill every one of them who dares attack America. Let these muslim scum rot.

        • 11 votes
        #5.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:05 PM EDT

        I LOVE it. The Obama Regime. It IS a regime, because the press allows him to treat the American public like idiots. And now this is played down by who? NBC, CBS, MSNBC & ABC. The major press guys mentioned here are so in the left back pocket of the Obama Regime. That is all they deserve to be called from now on the "Obama Regime".

        When does the Regime's spin start to become lies? And when do lies become criminal? Is it only when the lies cause people to die (provably...your own ambassador)? (not that Bain capital BS....please don't even go there with that misdirection...again).

        The strong message from this story is that you take your life in your hands to serve as ambassador under the Obama Regime.

        • 9 votes
        #5.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:34 PM EDT

        Where are the libs in this discussion? I really do know; they are hiding in the corner under their blankets sucking their.....thumbs!

        My dog would have been a better Pres than the Allah in Chief we now have. Fire him!

        • 2 votes
        #5.6 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:17 PM EDT

        No he did his muslime duty and disarmed our men before the attacks.

        With Egypt and Libya under the control of the muslime brotherhood and al-qaeda I wonder how long it will be before they stop sending them billions of dollars??

        • 1 vote
        #5.7 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:11 PM EDT

        WOWReally: Down played by NBC, CBS, MSNBC & ABC. You're so right. And it begs the question what's in it for the major media outlets? Why are they so biased in favor of the Obama Administration? I wonder what the payoff is?

        • 2 votes
        #5.8 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:38 AM EDT

        First and foemost it should be to the families and friends of our fallen Americans and our men and women of the armed services who were harmed during these attacks. Then to all the American people that were lied to.THEN he should head back into the white house and start packing!!!!!

          #5.9 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:03 AM EDT
          Reply

          I thought, according to this administration, that we weren't supposed to call them terrorists? Aren't they just well meaning, but misguided, militants and if we just fix a few things, they will leave us alone?

          • 15 votes
          Reply#6 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:38 PM EDT

          You conservatives need to grow up.

          All the reports on the ground indicated that it started as a peaceful "natural protest" and that at some point, people rolled up with rpgs and guns.

          The Administration understands that you don't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater and you don't "Cry Wolf" in the Middle East until you are absolutely sure what the real circumstances are.

          Of course it's an attack. Nobody ever disputed that.

          The issue is whether or or not the attack was pre-planned or opportunistic and if Al-Qaeda was responsible or not.

          Those issues haven't been resolved yet because the investigation is still on-going.

          • 6 votes
          #6.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:57 PM EDT

          No the actual reports on the ground was that there was a handful of folks protesting in Libya a few hours before the attacks but that those folks had dispersed well before the actual attack. The 'reports on the ground' that you are referring to was the bold faced lies that Rice delivered a few days later on behalf of the administration.

          The obama administration kept insisting that the information they were stating was the best they knew at the time and wouldn't go calling it something without facts to back it up. Meanwhile they publicly touted it as a response to some random stupid youtube video (as if the justification means anything anyways) when they either really didn't know the facts (clueless empty chair) or knew the facts but thought they could spin it to not look like they completely dropped the ball on actual security for this country (deceitful).

          In either case do you really think they'll be forthcoming on whether there was intel on matter prior to the attack?

          Nope, they'll continue to talk about stories of Mitt Romney speaking out his frustration with our newly forming entitlement society, and selling sweatshirts over twitter while he watches the coffins fly home.

          • 8 votes
          #6.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:30 PM EDT

          To re-elect OBAMA 2012, You morons are as dumb as a box of rocks, as I don't think anyone can change the mindless you will just live on backing failure after failure, and praise Obismal and his administration on the mismanagement of this Countries economy, defense, the chance for a return to the sovereignty of the United States, and its borders. As others have said here before me (Who would've thought that this NETWORK, and its cable division would fess-up to the crap that even they had to know the group in charge was spewing most of this week. They have been more interested in trying to get that failure re-elected which is not what their job is, or maybe NBC has a vested interest in returning Barry to the Oval office how sad. In 2008 you showed us you weren't racist, now in 2012 show us you aren't stupid by voting Romney/Ryan

          • 7 votes
          #6.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:51 PM EDT

          I'm a registered Independent and re-elect Obama is a lying. Libya knew it was terrorists from the get-go, but we wouldn't listen to them. Anyone with any kind of military training was saying from the get-go it was planned. I'll even give you the hypothetical. If it wasn't planned, how did this spontaneous protest do that to our embassy ? Do they not know they are in Libya ? They just had an overthrow. You think any U.S. citizen would think going to Libya wold be a walk in the park ?

          • 3 votes
          #6.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:37 PM EDT

          Knowing the mission of islam it will stop. After we are all gead!

            #6.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:14 PM EDT

            Re-elect. Paid poster??? Good possibility. Not much other excuse for spewing the same lame lying crap. re-elect you read the same stories the rest of us did and if this is your take on it then I truly pity you.

              #6.6 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:09 AM EDT

              Re-Elect Obama 2012 - The Administration understands that you don't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater and you don't "Cry Wolf" in the Middle East until you are absolutely sure what the real circumstances are.

              Sure "This Administration Does Not Know What It Is Doing". Why because this Administration does NOT listen to their own appointed "Experts with decades of experience".

              Re-Elect Obama 2012 to be impeached, and Federal Prison. Violations of US Laws, 1973 War Powers Resolution (Act), elimination of US Citizens' Constitutional Rights with his January 21, 2009 Patriot Acts (plural US Laws), 2012 NDAA US Military Indefinite Detentions of US Citizens, circumventing US Federal Immigration Laws, Violations of McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Violations of Oath of Office to uphold US Constitution, Secret Wars (not Iraq, nor Afghanistan) outed by Senator Lieberman, etc..

              • 2 votes
              #6.7 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:59 AM EDT
              Reply

              Well, well, well....It seems the heros at FOX news have found out the REAL reason why MSNBC wanted to bury this story...this attack was led by a former Guantanamo detainee!

              http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/20/carney-elf-evident-benghazi-attack-was-terrorism/

              Read it while you can! I can guarantee you MSNBC will now bury this story faster than a female gym teacher running home to watch the Rachel Maddow show!

              (ok..well, maybe not that fast. But fast nonetheless!)

              • 27 votes
              Reply#7 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:40 PM EDT

              From that article, I am waiting for NBC to at least address this aspect of the article:

              "intelligence sources that Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. He was released by the Qaddafi regime as part of its reconciliation effort with Islamists in 2008"

              Even CBS news talks about this guy...linked to article and the video here.

              http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57516569/dispute-over-nature-of-libya-attack-continues-witness-tells-cbs-there-was-no-protest/

              Plus, the video that shows the attackers with RPGs before the attack where there is no crowd or protest.

              So, here is a guy that the US releases from Guantanamo Bay and he may have lead the attack on the US embassy but NBC news does not address this at all? Why?

              Whatever happened to reporters and journalists who used to track down a story and follow it no matter what? It seems they only exist in old movies now...since most of the online material is 'cut-and-paste' journalism where many articles are quickly spliced together, often not even flowing, to get information out there, even if it is not accurate information.

              Anyone know of a legitimate news source that actually writes good articles that are just the facts with no bias or has that also disappeared?

              • 8 votes
              #7.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

              The Gypsy LMAO

              You mean MS DNC? Apparently the MSM & the Elitist OBAMA really do think the American people are stupid!

              This is 2012 MSM we can watch your FILTHY LIES real time - your Ass is showing you lap dog creeps!

              • 7 votes
              #7.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:05 PM EDT

              The article was very artfully written to avoid any reference to the existence of a crowd of protestors (or the crowd's non-existence) prior to the attack. Fox News has been saying for days that their sources on the ground said there was no protest, just an attack. So there's video showing this? Outstanding.

              • 5 votes
              #7.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:26 PM EDT

              Yes, in that link to the CBS news story above...the first video on the page shows footage which I think was originally from Reuters News of the area the night of the attack...you see men walking around with RPGs and Machine Guns just before the attack but there are no crowds...no protests of anyone chanting or anything. The attackers also used Mortars in the attack as well.

              This link below also has a video that says that there was absolutely no demonstration, instead it was a group of 100 armed men of a militia that arrived to attack it. The 100 armed men did not start protesting, they started the attack as soon as they arrived. The video is used here as well.

              http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7422322n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

              The mounting evidence suggests that the reports and what the Press Secretary said were not correct since if there was no demonstration or protest, then the attack could not have been the result of a spontaneous demonstration.

              Frankly, I do not get why the President cannot address the fact that the US experienced a terrorist attack on a US embassy on 9/11. For many people, something like that should be addressed by the President of the US, not just the press secretary.

              And, as someone who was in NYC on 9/11, saw the towers fall over, and was at Ground Zero later as part of the emergency response (since I was stationed in NY at the time), I want to know what the US is going to do about another attack, this time on a US embassy on 9/11?

              • 6 votes
              #7.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:02 PM EDT

              I read that earlier today.

              So the attack was planned by a terrorist Obama let go and a couple days before the attack knowing it was coming Obama disarmed the guards.

              Now we have 2 reasons pointing to Obama as being responsible for the deaths of 4 Americans. Add that to the deaths caused by Fast and furious

              • 6 votes
              #7.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:19 PM EDT

              What is the US going to do about another attack??? Not a damned thing on Obama's watch. If he is not evicted from the white house we can probably expect alot more to come and soon!!!!

                #7.6 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:13 AM EDT

                JRS-619990 - So, here is a guy that the US releases from Guantanamo Bay and he may have lead the attack on the US embassy but NBC news does not address this at all?

                First, Microsoft owns NBC as Microsoft (MS) NBC, MSNBC. Microsoft is owned by Registered Democrat Bill Gates and major President Obama supporter of about $24 Million of Campaign Contributions.

                JRS-619990 - So Why?

                Because President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered the US Military to do something against the US Law, in that President Obama violated the US Law that limits his Presidential War Powers, the 1973 War Powers Resolution (Act). The 1973 War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify US Congress (Both Houses) a minimum of 48 Hours before the start of any US Military Actions to allow US Congress the time to write a US Law to cover his arse, with US Congressional Appropriations; if they refuse US Congress can declare that they will not Appropriate any money to anything else (even not US Military related); maximum of 60 days of US Military Operations of any kind (including advisory, support, etc.); maximum 30 days to withdraw all US Military Forces (absolutely NO combat, advisory, military assistance, support, etc. missions).

                Since President Obama violated this US Law specifically addressed to the US President, President Obama had to use No Previously Budgeted for Discretionary Spending. This included paying for all the cruise missiles, US Military Payroll, Fuel, bombs, etc. and after the NATO Forces ran out of Bombs, Fuel, those too, all paid for by US Taxpayers without US Congress' "Will of the People" consent. SOS Clinton applogizes on behalf of President Obama to US Congress.

                As known by SOS Clinton's US Department of State before the start of the Overthrow of the Former US Ally President Gaddaffi that the "Libyan Rebels" are: Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), etc.

                The Fundamentalist Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) are the New Government of Libya. The LIFG were the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Foreign Fighters that were killing US Military at Iraq.

                One of the First things that the "Libyan Rebels" did was start the "Civil War" (Asymmetric Warfare) at Benghazi with the reason to attack, seize and capture President Gaddaffi's Military 60-bunker Hight Razma facility on the eastern outskirts of Benghazi and a 35-bunker facility on the eastern outskirts of Ajdabiyah. These "bunkers" are the sizes of enormous supersized warehouses. They seized 20,000 portable shoulder launched anti aircraft SA-7 missiles to shoot down US Civilian Airlines "to damage the US Economy" after their other attempts (shoe bomber, underware bomber, laser toner cartridge bombs) failed. Those of us that were at Afghanistan when our coworkers the USN SEALs were shot down believe that it was a SA-7 not a RPG-7.

                The second thing they did was release all of President Obama's Guantanamo Islamic Jihadists that were previously transferred to President Gaddaffi's Prisons.

                The third thing they did, since the US and US Allies lost the Iraqis Oil to the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran's Allies, the Chinese and Russian Federation, due to President Obama's March 2009 Iran Policy (Appeasement), that made the Libyan Oil of Strategic Importance to the US European Allies, was for the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran's Ally the Islamic Nation of Qatar to negotiate with the "Libyan Rebels" so that the Chinese get the Libyan Oil.

                JRS-619990 - Whatever happened to reporters and journalists who used to track down a story and follow it no matter what?

                President Obama's January 21, 2009 Patriot Acts (Plural US Laws) that eliminated all US Citizen's Constitutional Rights. President Obama shown here during a Staged News Media Event signing his US Laws, 04:38 minutes of 11:55 minutes:

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLSeD19m3UE

                To close a loop hole President Obama signed into US Law his 2012 NDAA, the US Military Indefinite Detentions of US Citizens. This was Ruled Illegal and is currently being appealed by President Obama:

                Obama Signs NDAA, ACLU Disgusted

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IeuE16LLDY

                Do you want to see the US News Reporters Preemptively Detained under President Obama's January 21, 2009 Patriot Acts.

                JRS-619990 - Anyone know of a legitimate news source that actually writes good articles that are just the facts with no bias or has that also disappeared?

                You have to use almost illegal methods to get around President Obama's January 21, 2009 Patriot Acts, Section ofthe Monitoring and Censorship of All US Communications. To access the actual International Internet Sites and not the Censored US Only Internet Sites; or you will get "Blocked in your Region", "http 404 or http 403", "Service Not Available in Your Country", etc.. example: the actual video shown unedited and uncut at many Islamic internet sites showed what happened from the start of the attack, the ambassador being dragged out of the safe room, raped (sodomized), beaten to death, dragged around, held up for photos (you don't get that kind of head wounds from smoke inhalation), then taken to the doctor (why do you think SOS Clinton had to go to explain to US Congress in a classified briefing, and not Public released information).

                There is no such thing as an "ex USN SEAL, ex USA SF, ex USAF SO, ex USMC MARSOC, ex CIA SAD/SOG", we will find you. LOL FBI wants to arrest them, have them tried, life imprisoment (3 meals per day, safe, etc.).

                • 1 vote
                #7.7 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:27 AM EDT
                Reply

                How many peaceful protesters bring a mortar team with them?

                • 10 votes
                Reply#8 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:42 PM EDT

                apparently in Libya it's the norm -- gee whodathunkit?

                • 3 votes
                #8.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:47 PM EDT

                Good question Bruno. Here's another one. Why do we need an "accountability committee" rather than blame those that fired the mortars? Does it take a committee to decide that consulate guards deserve to carry ammo and have immediate access to serious weapons in countries that hate our guts? Wonder how long it will take for the committee to issue a report and find a scapegoat. Blame the perps!!!!!

                • 4 votes
                #8.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:34 PM EDT

                Put Hillary over in one of those consulates and see just how fast the ammo and weapons become available...it seems that those who actually risk their lives over there every day just aren't "important enough" for our government to be concerned about!!

                • 5 votes
                #8.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:52 PM EDT

                Linda...So right on target. I can almost hear her saying (and I actually respect the woman) "Ain't collateral damage a b!tch when you have such a fragile democracy." Good post.

                • 1 vote
                #8.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:24 PM EDT
                Reply

                romney was right after all........

                • 18 votes
                Reply#9 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:42 PM EDT

                Who cares about Romney? This isn't about him. It is about our current government and what they will tolerate. Who knows what Romney would have done? No one.

                  #9.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:31 PM EDT

                  Colorblind: Romney called it right the first time and our President of the United States is still blaming some stupid video that know one has even seen. This is about having a strong President who's willing to take the heat and stand up for AMERICANS, first and foremost. President Obama was all but apologizing for this phathom video.

                  • 2 votes
                  #9.2 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:47 AM EDT

                  Well come on now!!! Give him a little credit for some intelligence and maybe give him half a chance before buying the democratic name calling and mudslinging hook line and sinker! Most of us posting here tonight aren't rocket scientists yet we were smart enough to "get" what is really going on from the get go!!!! Romney has more access to the information than we do. He did call it right.

                    #9.3 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:19 AM EDT

                    Colorblind: You are correct. This is not about Romney. It's only about Romney when there is an opportunity to twist what he says and waste a news cycle piling on.

                      #9.4 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:36 AM EDT
                      Reply

                      This is, and has always been, damage control by the administration. They knew it was a terroristic attack day-one. It's just that they flat didn't want the first successful terrorist attack in 10 years on their watch. However, with their incompetence in foreign policy, it was absolutely inevitable........pathetic... Hope yer party in Vegas was enjoyable, Barry.....

                      • 18 votes
                      Reply#10 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:42 PM EDT

                      Bobama & Texson55

                      You two both hit the nail on the head. Tomorrow we should hear about it being Bush's fault, that seems to be the normal card that will be played.

                      Can't wait to send this three ring circus back to Chicago. Sorry Chicago, I love your city but the politicians from the windy city are, well, you know......

                      • 8 votes
                      #10.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:56 PM EDT
                      Reply

                      Wasn't it just yesterday Carney saying this was a spontaneous response to a poorly done video? I think the rest of us had this figured out about 2 minutes after it happened.

                      • 10 votes
                      Reply#11 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:43 PM EDT

                      Now, Carney is refusing any further questions pertaining to their denial of a terrorist attack. Don't bother the administration while they're eating....CROW!! lol

                      • 11 votes
                      #11.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:49 PM EDT

                      Yup Cupcakes...Now they have another video to worry about. The one of the Ambassador being pulled from the rubble pretty much dead after being tortured. Now, there is a video that is worth watching, but you have to have a strong stomach. Some lame @ss trailor from an Egyptian con just doesn't cut it anymore. Politicos need to talk about this new one....It expresses a lot more than opinions that are objectionable...Wow, am I angry or what!!! I haven't posted this much in months. Why haven't we quit all diplomatic relations with Libya and removed ALL our people and funding? This was an act of war...

                      • 3 votes
                      #11.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:29 PM EDT

                      I just heard on the news that he was tortured, too. This is must just be so painful for his family.

                        #11.3 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:56 AM EDT
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                        I guess Obama foreign policy isnt as good as he says... I wonder what other of his policy isnt as good as he says?

                        • 6 votes
                        Reply#12 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:45 PM EDT

                        It would be laughable if so many Americans hadn't died .........

                        Sadly ~ the MSM is willing to put the USA in grave danger as long as they protect

                        the MESSIAH Obama.

                        • 5 votes
                        #12.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:36 PM EDT

                        Lets just see what unfolds here than when the smoke clears and Obama is found to not be any way at fault are you guys gonna apologize to Barack ? I doubt it ..so far the biggest liars have been Romney and Ryan but I don't see any of you condemning them !!?? Mitts going down hard and you guys are just trying to soften the hit for him ..too bad it won't work boys ..Obama the best president we've had in decades !!

                        • 2 votes
                        #12.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:05 PM EDT

                        Why did Obama rush onto t.v. and say it was a spontaneous attack ? Others were reporting it wasn't. I don't like being mislead. He rushed on t.v. because he is busy campaigning, otherwise we don't see him.

                        • 2 votes
                        #12.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:51 PM EDT

                        This isn't about just our President. This is about our whole government. Congress allocates funds to these countries and the Secretary of State's lame response is an insult...

                          #12.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:34 PM EDT

                          colorblind: Oh yes it is about our President. He's supposedly the leader of our country, that's why we voted him into office. He has to man- up and be willing to admit when he's wrong. And he definitely made the wrong call on this one. His whole campaign is about "GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead." Well guess what there are 1000's of wanna be bid ladens waiting in the wings to attack Americans any chance they get.

                          • 1 vote
                          #12.5 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:03 AM EDT

                          Yes, Believe, it is about the President--I said it was NOT JUST ABOUT THE PRESIDENT-- and it isn't. Congress controls the money and they are just as responsible for our presence there as is the President.

                            #12.6 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:30 AM EDT
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                            So when does Susan Rice get grilled for lying to us all day long last Sunday?

                            When does Hillary apologize for the "we came, we saw, he died" remark?

                            When does Obama tell us why none of the security had live ammo? Or come clean about releasing the blind shiek to Egypt?

                            You jackasses at MessNBC are pathetic bootlickers. And I'm being kind.

                            • 11 votes
                            Reply#13 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:46 PM EDT

                            The beauty about voting O out is you not only get rid of O, his cronies, and czars but bye bye: Susan Rice, Jay Carney, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geitner just to start! YAY!

                            • 11 votes
                            #13.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:49 PM EDT

                            Government is like a refrigerator that is overloaded with rotten leftovers.....every now and then you just have to clean out all the liberals from it to keep the smell down.....

                            • 9 votes
                            #13.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:52 PM EDT

                            Dotties girl, I agree!! Don't forget to take Holder with them too....

                            • 10 votes
                            #13.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:00 PM EDT

                            Susan Rice = Bagdad Bob.......remember him? lol

                            BTW the MSM debate coordinators aren't going to talk about foreign policy during the debates...

                            hmmmmmmm I wonder why.......LAP DOGS!

                            • 3 votes
                            #13.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:41 PM EDT
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                            Where are the Obama at all cost nuts, they appear to not be reacting to this news, that finally showed up NBC's news. NBC will only run these stories when it gets to the point where everybody but them is running it. Entertainment not news.

                            • 7 votes
                            Reply#14 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:46 PM EDT

                            I believe most of President Obama's supporters are over on the racest chairs site.

                            • 1 vote
                            #14.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:30 PM EDT
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                            Obama really is an AMATEUR, and has failed another easy test in the middle east. He apologizes to everyone but the American people. Leading from behind is better known as a follower.

                            • 10 votes
                            Reply#15 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:47 PM EDT

                            Biggsie...Sorry, I can't lay this one on President Obama. I am laying this one at the feet of the Secretary of State for appointing a Blame the Victim committee. Apparently, she needs a scapegoat, and has formed a committed to find one rather than hold this "fragile democracy" responsible for the actions of its citizens.

                              #15.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:39 PM EDT

                              We will see who to blame it on, in the meantime, I don't appreciate the White House trying to spin a tragic situation to it's favor. Everyone knows that the British embassy here is in as much danger as we were in Libya. Rocket science. I think we should blame Hillary- then let's see how long the Clinton-Obama alliance lasts. Maybe at least then we would get some answers. I guess Hilary operates independently. Obama can't tell her what committee to form. Obama is at Hillary's mercy.

                                #15.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:57 PM EDT

                                Osambo is about as stable as a kite in a hurricane.

                                He just flows with the prevailing wind direction.

                                Disgusting Fool.

                                  #15.3 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:44 PM EDT
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                                  This administration, like most before it are a bunch of lying scumbags, they always have been. Take another sip, sheep, or wake up.

                                  • 6 votes
                                  Reply#16 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:48 PM EDT

                                  Stock..Add Congress to that mix and I would have to agree with you. They do the monetary gift giving...to themselves and other countries. They want to minimize this incident at all cost so that the defense contractor and private contractors in Libya can continue to get rich.

                                    #16.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:37 PM EDT
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                                    Oh wait, you mean that now you change your story Obama??? We knew you were lying and we will hold it against you in this election.

                                    I am a 47% and vote for Romney!!!

                                    • 11 votes
                                    Reply#17 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:48 PM EDT

                                    Thank you DesertKing!

                                    • 5 votes
                                    #17.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:49 PM EDT

                                    A good part of that 47% like me, know what Romney was talking about. And we're still all 100% behind him!

                                    • 9 votes
                                    #17.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:55 PM EDT

                                    I'm another 47 % er that will vote for Romney, I have children and this isn't sustainable, but he doesn't want to talk about that, only tax the 1 %,divide and conquer, pretty comprehesive plan eh?

                                    • 8 votes
                                    #17.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:03 PM EDT

                                    Amen Desert!...Me too!

                                    • 3 votes
                                    #17.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:10 PM EDT

                                    Me Too

                                      #17.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:18 PM EDT
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                                      Exactly - you really need to ask yourself what motivation Obama had in blaming it on an old youtube video. Let me guess - so close to the election - VOTES!

                                      He tried to spin it, blame it on a lame video, misled the American Public for his own gain.

                                      Sickening.....

                                      • 10 votes
                                      Reply#18 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:48 PM EDT

                                      Did anyone else see the footage of the ambassador being tortured?

                                      We're a pretty easy going nation, gauged by our response to the attacks. This being an election year makes the USA look even more like a nation of derelicts. I'm sure the people that carried out these attacks realize they have an advantage with our government, paralyzed by cowards running it who care more about their seat of power than anything; people pleasers who won't do anything productive until they and their party are taken care of.

                                      I am disgusted.

                                      • 9 votes
                                      Reply#19 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:48 PM EDT

                                      Thank you ragequitter -- I'm equally disgusted, and yes I saw footage of the ambassador being dragged through the streets, which is why it took them hours to get his body. Guess O missed that intelligence meeting as well. I'm even more disgusted that he took off for fundraisers in Nevada and then Colorado in the wake of all this. Wow real American -- NOT!

                                      • 8 votes
                                      #19.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:52 PM EDT
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                                      Dotttie, your just an oportunistic partisan Cun t like the rest of the panicked Teabaggiung trolls looking to get the black man out of office/. Shame on you you f-ing PIG

                                      See ya folks! Im sure Im banned...Tyler...take it away....totally worth it

                                      • 4 votes
                                      #19.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

                                      2-Lame Gypsy ~ You are an idiot. You are a stupid shill.

                                      You are the reason I wish you had to take an IQ test to vote. You are what Darwin talked about.....

                                      • 7 votes
                                      #19.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:04 PM EDT

                                      How can he attend the security briefings he has a busy schedule,Letterman, JZ, today show etc etc. I thought we elected a President not an entertainer.

                                      • 9 votes
                                      #19.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:09 PM EDT

                                      Dear Ryan... Blow me

                                      • 3 votes
                                      #19.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:15 PM EDT

                                      Dear Ryan... Blow me

                                      Good comeback 2-Lane...really showed him.

                                      Made yourself look really mature as well...good thing libs got someone with so much credibility and tact fighting the fight.

                                      • 3 votes
                                      #19.6 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:43 PM EDT

                                      Rage quitter:

                                      I think I have shed more tears than those BASTARDS in the Obama Messiah MSM~ When I saw Obama yucking it up with that POS Letterman I almost threw up!

                                      sickening!

                                      • 3 votes
                                      #19.7 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:45 PM EDT

                                      You mean the video of the Libyans bringing him to the hospital? You people (morons) live in your own fake reality.

                                      • 1 vote
                                      #19.8 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:18 PM EDT

                                      Al Qaeda claims to have tortured him. Congress let out a report confirming he was tortured before death. Footage of torture. His corpse being taken to a hospital afterwards.

                                      Again, the need for pointless bickering over facts by both sides of the isle and their apathetic actions leave no doubts in my mind of what our leaders find important.

                                      • 1 vote
                                      #19.9 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:31 PM EDT

                                      Rage...You are quite accurate. He was, however, tortured before they found him. The footage was quite graffic and disturbing. I am sickened by the fact that the Secretary of State is putting more priority on blaming the victims by appointing an "Accountability Committee" than the lies that were told up front. We should hold only the perpetrators accountable for the atrocities that were committed on American soil and quit trying to find scapegoats or quibbling about who knew what first. We need to get out of there and leave those people to their own devices. If blood lust is their wish--let them kill each other. I am unimpressed by the lack of outrage over the event itself rather than who said what first. I don't care if it was spontaneous or planned. It was a horror show all the way. We have done nothing but minimize the actions of the perps and downplayed the violence perpetrated on American citizens. We should have sent the whole damn SEAL TEAM in and showed them that this is not acceptable and never will be.

                                      • 2 votes
                                      #19.10 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:53 PM EDT
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                                      ...

                                      That is just not true.

                                      Even Susan Rice and Jay Carney said so.

                                      You right wingers just don't quit trying to make the administration look bad.

                                      ...

                                      • 4 votes
                                      Reply#20 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:50 PM EDT

                                      Heck, who has to try?

                                      • 8 votes
                                      #20.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:54 PM EDT

                                      @ nothing new here: "Even Susan Rice and Jay Carney said so.

                                      You right wingers just don't quit trying to make the administration look bad."

                                      Man, is making the Obama administration look bad and EASY GIG or what??!!! LOL

                                      • 9 votes
                                      #20.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

                                      Both of whom were just exposed for spinning the actual nature of the attack. I wouldn't rely too much on those sources for your news on this situation.

                                      • 2 votes
                                      #20.3 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:43 PM EDT

                                      Funny thing is, we don't even have to try. They make themselves look bad. My dog would have been a better President. Fire the Jerk in Chief!

                                        #20.4 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:23 PM EDT

                                        nothing....What isn't true? Did you see the video of the Ambassador? I don't blame Obama soley for this. There is plenty of blame to go around in the govt. and our intelligence agencies.

                                          #20.5 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:41 PM EDT

                                          nothingnew: What are you talking about? Did you see the video?

                                            #20.6 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:09 AM EDT

                                            This administration does not need any help to look bad.They are proving to be the biggest joke in diplomacy since Jimmy Carter.

                                            Just another case of Osambo sucking up to a bunch of raghead thugs.

                                              #20.7 - Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:41 PM EDT
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                                              this was a complete coincidence. it just started and got out of control. the internet trailer was the sole reason for everything . even though we have the best intellegence on the planet and pay of a lot of squeelers we had not a clue protests would break out. the murders were just some armed radicals who took advantage of the situation . the early tweets from the embassy and white house were erased but that doesn't mean anyhing. romney called it a terrorist attack and scolded the obama's team response. whats wrong with waiting all night to respond after first apologising?look if obama says its was all spontanious then that has to be the truth. i'm sure this has to all be bush's fault.

                                              • 2 votes
                                              Reply#21 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:51 PM EDT

                                              Yer a funny guy, bones! I wish I could see you repeat that comment whiling maintaining a straight face! LOL *thumbs up*

                                              • 4 votes
                                              #21.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:11 PM EDT

                                              I repeat myself: Funny thing is, we don't even have to try. They make themselves look bad. My dog would have been a better President. Fire the Jerk in Chief!

                                                #21.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:28 PM EDT
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                                                usa is full of @!$%#

                                                all i seen were ordinary citizens

                                                and if it was terrorist related the lybian civilians were with them all the way

                                                so get off it was terrorist

                                                no it was the people of lybia period

                                                stop blaming others for ones own idiocies

                                                • 2 votes
                                                Reply#22 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:51 PM EDT

                                                Terrorists don't look like ordinary citizens now? Well that helps things out quite a bit. Thanks for the input.

                                                • 3 votes
                                                #22.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:46 PM EDT

                                                Keith, You need to pull your head out of you're a$$

                                                • 2 votes
                                                #22.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:00 PM EDT
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                                                They are trying to cover their tracks!

                                                The wheels are coming off! It is being reported that we were there looking for weapons that were supplied to the Muslim Brotherhood.

                                                It is also being reported that money sent to Egypt is being funneled to Syria for more uprisings!

                                                • 7 votes
                                                Reply#23 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:51 PM EDT

                                                Obama action items for Middle East crisis:

                                                1. Blame Bush, explain that he inherited this middle east.

                                                2. Locate all middle east leaders and bow to them. That always puffs them up.

                                                3. Ignore Netanyahu and visit instead with Beyonce after all Netanyahu is mean to Obama and Beyonce is cute.

                                                4. Make up more stuff about Romney. Check with Media Matters for new talking points.

                                                5. If things get worse in the Middle East prepare to jettison Hillary and blame both her and Bush

                                                6. Play golf to ease mind.

                                                • 13 votes
                                                Reply#24 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:52 PM EDT

                                                Maybe it was a man made event! Where is Janet Napolitano when you need her.

                                                • 5 votes
                                                Reply#25 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:52 PM EDT

                                                This isn't "homeland"---it's across the ocean......and Obama doesn't DARE let Napolitano get near the ocean.....she might jump in and go looking for her "pod"...

                                                • 3 votes
                                                #25.1 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:15 PM EDT

                                                Sexual harrassing her employees.

                                                  #25.2 - Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:28 PM EDT
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