Why did Ambassador Stevens (pictured) have to die? We now know that real-time e-mails, and even real-time video, clearly shows that the White House knew, or should have known, that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist hit.
But now a Tea Party activist says that it strains credulity even to suppose that Obama just didn't want his sweetness-and-light narrative blown away, and that's why he blamed it on a video.
Well, I once suggested that the idea was to kidnap, not kill, Ambassador Stevens, and then stage a daring raid to get him back. Like something out of a Jack Ryan movie.
Here's a new theory: Ambassador Stevens was set up for a kidnap, all right. Only it was a set-up to release Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, better known as The Blind Sheikh.
It was the perfect set-up. The local militia was supposed to skedaddle. Only the planners slipped up. They didn't know that three men would be on the scene who knew how to fight. They fought. So the thugs fought back, harder. And killed them all.
Speculation? Sure it is. But the White House narrative makes zero sense. And the theory that the White House just wanted to protect the broader narrative about how much they now "love" us doesn't make much more sense. Or at least, not enough.
So why do *you* think the Ambassador ended up dying?
"What is Obama hiding?" ........... EVERYTHING! Just as he has done from January 20th, 2009.
"I promise to follow my own agenda, and treat the American people like mushrooms... And, to hell with the Constitution! 'Transparency', HA! The fools BOUGHT IT!"
Picked this answer only because I don't think it was any of the choices given. I think it has more to do with gun running by the US, and the aftermath has everything to do with keeping the public from knowing what actually happened before the election. Not that we'll ever really find out what was really going on, but can't have any sort of "taint" before Nov 3.
Hurry up November 6 so we can get rid of this inept liar .... and shame on you Hillary for going along with the lies .... Obama is now finished and you are now too .... how you two could shamelessly go to our heros funerals and continue with your lies is despicable.... the time will come both of you will have to pay....
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That's an interesting theory...I have another one. The Obama administration is the most incompetent in the history of the US. Either way they have to go. How would any US administration be so out of touch to be caught off guard by an attack on our interests in the Middle East on 911 off all days???
I heard that on Glenn Beck. That is truly despicable. Obama will go down as the worst President in history, hands down. If he gets re-elected imagine how much more damage he will do to this country. I don't know if we can take any more of this.
How could they be caught off guard at all? They already had three requests to beef up security. They had a 40-foot breach in the wall. The English and someone else, brain cramp here, had already closed up shop and left. We don't yet know, except I'm thinking it has something to do with the getting of guns to the bad guys, what was really going on. Either way - VOTE and VOTE HIM OUT!!!!! And it'd be nice if Reid and Pelosi went with him.
I have no idea how they could've been caught off guard. This is either the most corrupt administration ever or the most inept. Either way I agree, he has to go.
I can't say for sure. I've heard seemingly convincing evidence of a few theories. What I can't quite get a grip on is why the white house did such a pathetic job on the cover up. I scratched my head immediately after first hearing the story "Spontaneous riot on 9/11 because of a you tube video". They all had to know that the lie would not last and it would only look worse when the lie was discovered. Were they desperate? Trying to buy time? Counting on most of us being apathetic or stupid? Or did they figure the media would be on their side until the election was over? There are four things that I do know for sure: 1) It was a terrible waste of life 2) The victims predicted the event and requested more security. 3) They were ignored. 4) The following "blame the video" campaign was an attempted (pathetic) cover up.
Maybe it was a cover up on the thousands of missing missiles.
When rebels rose up to overthrow Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, they also began looting his massive stores of weapons. Gadhafi's arsenal had once held as many as 20,000 surface-to-air missiles, and the revolution brought with it the threat of terrorists gaining access to portable weapons capable of taking down commercial airliners.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter...
Although, there is still the curious questions about timing... Why Stevens was flown back to Benghazi, why he met with the Turks shortly before the attack, why the attackers waited until the Turk's left, why the attackers split off the guards from the main residence, why the attackers didn't engage the DS agent in the main residence near the safe room, why they chose instead to use fire and smoke in an effort to get those in that area to leave, and why they praised Allah when they found Amb. Stevens alive!!!
The lie was to cover his assertion that he had decimated the leadership of al qaeda by killing Bin Laden. If anything killing Bin Laden put them into the planning mode and more likely to bite us back. I never understood his thought process there!
That is an interesting premis. I would not be suprised if it was something like that sad to say. I have said from the get go he sacrificed Stevens but I didnt know what to/for.
The fact that someone somewhere in our government WATCHED THOSE MEN DIE with our special forces sitting an hour away at Aviano Italy makes me sick. He WENT TO BED. I repeat our commander in cheif WENT TO BED with no order to retaliate.
There is absolutely NO evidence that the Video blammed for the violence at the embassies by this administration was even KNOWN to the protesters in the middle east until THS admnistration brought it to their attention..
LOOK at the signs at the Cairo protest on the FIRST day..There are NONE complaining about a video.. The signs had Osama bin Ladi's picture on them and the words,, "We are 1.6 BILLION Osamas strong and we're all calling for Death to America"..
The Secretary ot State was out there blamming h Video EVEN as the State Department said that they NEVER said that to her OR Obama..
The Intelligence agencies are PROVING that they informed Obama that THIS was a TERRORIST'S attack even as Obama was out there blamming a Video..
NOW they're ALL saying they they didn't KNOW the truth and therefore could NOT disclose it but the question remains,, " WHY did they throw a LIE out there???"...
THIS is NOT the ONLY time that Obama and his Political HACK Secretary of State did this..
Both Hillary and Obama were out there making speeches blamming America for the Gun Violence in Mexico and calling for GUN CONTROL back in the FALL of 2009.. A year later we discover that Fast and Furious began in OCTOBER of 2009..
Not ONLY do I think that Obama is protecting the narrative that a...
There is absolutely NO evidence that the Video blammed for the violence at the embassies by this administration was even KNOWN to the protesters in the middle east until THS admnistration brought it to their attention..
LOOK at the signs at the Cairo protest on the FIRST day..There are NONE complaining about a video.. The signs had Osama bin Ladi's picture on them and the words,, "We are 1.6 BILLION Osamas strong and we're all calling for Death to America"..
The Secretary ot State was out there blamming h Video EVEN as the State Department said that they NEVER said that to her OR Obama..
The Intelligence agencies are PROVING that they informed Obama that THIS was a TERRORIST'S attack even as Obama was out there blamming a Video..
NOW they're ALL saying they they didn't KNOW the truth and therefore could NOT disclose it but the question remains,, " WHY did they throw a LIE out there???"...
THIS is NOT the ONLY time that Obama and his Political HACK Secretary of State did this..
Both Hillary and Obama were out there making speeches blamming America for the Gun Violence in Mexico and calling for GUN CONTROL back in the FALL of 2009.. A year later we discover that Fast and Furious began in OCTOBER of 2009..
Not ONLY do I think that Obama is protecting the narrative that al-Qaeda is on the run,, I think that the CLAIM prompted the violence in the FIRST place..
Stevens and his staff paid the ultimate PRICE for Obama to SPIKE Osama's head in the end zone and claim that it's the END of the game while STILL in trhe FIRST quarter..
Stevens and his Staff DIED to get Obama and Biden re-elected..
Al-Qaeda attacked because that is what they do attack their enemies when they can. Owebama can't be honest about anything because that is just the way he is!
WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT *BENGHAZIGATE, AND THE OBVIOUS SUBSEQUENT COVER-UP, IS MONSTEROUS IN IT'S CRIMINAL IMPLICATIONS! *(AMERICA, WE WANT ANSWERS, AND WE WANT THEM NOW, AND LONG BEFORE NOV. 6TH!) *(ROMNEY/RYAN 2012') -"Honorable leaders are here, waiting in the wings!"-
As fluid as the information may be in the fog of an attack, I lot of different things can be said within the first 48-72 hours and it won't always be the same. It's regrettable that Romney and the Republicans are making a political issue over this.
Why should the Democrats make this a political issue? Four Americans were killed in a militia attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. This attack has nothing to do with Democrats and Republicans. It is an international issue that needs to be tackled by all Americans, regardless of political persuasions, and by the Libyan government.
And who committed the act of war? The current Libyan government? Gaddafi loyalists? Al-Qaida militants? Roving militias still running most of the country following the Libyan civil war? Remember, Benghazi was the main rebel stronghold during the civil war against the now-ousted Gaddafi regime.
Who are these folks that you mentioned? We armed the Libyan rebels last year duing the Libyan civil war to oust Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi from power. The country today is still awash with these weapons and other weapons from other suppliers.
We had troops an hour away? Where are they located?
There are 2 aircraft carriers in the gulf, and we KNOW obama knows about them, he hmade that clear in the debate. There are spec forces in Aviano Italy. The spec op africa bunch was in Germany far less than 7 hours away.
The Mediterranean Sea is not a gulf. Maybe you meant the Persian Gulf. If so, our forces there could not reach the consulate in Libya in time...too far away. They are busy there monitoring Iran.
It's logistically impossible for any of our forces to make it to Libya from Europe to stop the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Besides, our forces serve under the NATO command and we would need clearance from NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to even undertake such a mission, as it falls outside of the responsibilities of the NATO Charter.
Sorry, I was military myself. I grew up military. I KNOW our spec forces wouldf have moved heaven and earth to get there to help. NATO be damned right along with the UN. This was OUR job and our CiC did not do the job.
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When rebels rose up to overthrow Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, they also began looting his massive stores of weapons. Gadhafi's arsenal had once held as many as 20,000 surface-to-air missiles, and the revolution brought with it the threat of terrorists gaining access to portable weapons capable of taking down commercial airliners.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter...
We will never know the truth!
I find it fascinating that as of now, not a single person on this poll believes it had anything to do with the video.
The fact that someone somewhere in our government WATCHED THOSE MEN DIE with our special forces sitting an hour away at Aviano Italy makes me sick. He WENT TO BED. I repeat our commander in cheif WENT TO BED with no order to retaliate.
LOOK at the signs at the Cairo protest on the FIRST day..There are NONE complaining about a video.. The signs had Osama bin Ladi's picture on them and the words,, "We are 1.6 BILLION Osamas strong and we're all calling for Death to America"..
The Secretary ot State was out there blamming h Video EVEN as the State Department said that they NEVER said that to her OR Obama..
The Intelligence agencies are PROVING that they informed Obama that THIS was a TERRORIST'S attack even as Obama was out there blamming a Video..
NOW they're ALL saying they they didn't KNOW the truth and therefore could NOT disclose it but the question remains,, " WHY did they throw a LIE out there???"...
THIS is NOT the ONLY time that Obama and his Political HACK Secretary of State did this..
Both Hillary and Obama were out there making speeches blamming America for the Gun Violence in Mexico and calling for GUN CONTROL back in the FALL of 2009.. A year later we discover that Fast and Furious began in OCTOBER of 2009..
Not ONLY do I think that Obama is protecting the narrative that a...
LOOK at the signs at the Cairo protest on the FIRST day..There are NONE complaining about a video.. The signs had Osama bin Ladi's picture on them and the words,, "We are 1.6 BILLION Osamas strong and we're all calling for Death to America"..
The Secretary ot State was out there blamming h Video EVEN as the State Department said that they NEVER said that to her OR Obama..
The Intelligence agencies are PROVING that they informed Obama that THIS was a TERRORIST'S attack even as Obama was out there blamming a Video..
NOW they're ALL saying they they didn't KNOW the truth and therefore could NOT disclose it but the question remains,, " WHY did they throw a LIE out there???"...
THIS is NOT the ONLY time that Obama and his Political HACK Secretary of State did this..
Both Hillary and Obama were out there making speeches blamming America for the Gun Violence in Mexico and calling for GUN CONTROL back in the FALL of 2009.. A year later we discover that Fast and Furious began in OCTOBER of 2009..
Not ONLY do I think that Obama is protecting the narrative that al-Qaeda is on the run,, I think that the CLAIM prompted the violence in the FIRST place..
Stevens and his staff paid the ultimate PRICE for Obama to SPIKE Osama's head in the end zone and claim that it's the END of the game while STILL in trhe FIRST quarter..
Stevens and his Staff DIED to get Obama and Biden re-elected..
They were watching it live. They (the whitehouse) WENT TO BED. the same 'hero" who "got Bin Ladin" WENT TO BED.
What kind of issue is this if NOT political???
You seem to be inferring that the democrats are not making a political issue of it. Well They damned sure should be.
We were arming the rebels in Libya. The rebels are at least in part Al Quada.
We could have handled it on the spot. We had troops an hour away....
We armed the Libyan rebels last year duing the Libyan civil war to oust Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi from power. The country today is still awash with these weapons and other weapons from other suppliers.
We had troops an hour away? Where are they located?
It's logistically impossible for any of our forces to make it to Libya from Europe to stop the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Besides, our forces serve under the NATO command and we would need clearance from NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to even undertake such a mission, as it falls outside of the responsibilities of the NATO Charter.
Logistically impossible my hiney frankly.
Our forces cannot be anywhere and everywhere whenever a US diplomatic mission is being attacked somewhere in the world.