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   Adrian Snare said, 10 months ago

   NO ONE can overcome thousands of years of fear and ignorance, NO ONE.
   But Jesus..
   This from watching thousands of movies on TCM for 50 years…
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   Peabody-Martini said, 10 months ago

   Yelling in a echo chamber does not make a scandal. I’ve yet to see a shred of proof that the President or the Secretary of state are either culpable of events in Libya or have attempted to cover anything up. There is however plenty of evidence of malfeasance by Republican members of Congress and the media, particularly fox news in regards to this.
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   mikefive said, 10 months ago

   @Peabody-Martini

   “I’ve yet to see a shred of proof that the President or the Secretary of state are either culpable of events in Libya or have attempted to cover anything up.”
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   In Pickering’s report it isn’t the criticism that is so damning, but the recommendations. The progression of the revisions in the talking points memo does seem to indicate a strong desire to avoid expressing any responsibility for security shortcomings.
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   Harleyquinn said, 10 months ago

   Nice. Did you know the President of Libya was to Ticked off at our politicizing it and denying it was a terrorist attack like he said from day one that he would not let us into the "crime scene for over two weeks. My guess that is one reason why Clinton was the 1st to call it a terrorist attack 10 day later.
   Anyone else going to buy popcorn and watch when Clinton turns on Obama? Obama accounts have still not been made public yet Clinton is getting most of the heat. If she thinks he in anyway starts blaming her I am sure the claws will come out. Chicago politics vs The Clinton Machine.. FIGHT!
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   Peabody-Martini said, 10 months ago

   @Gore Bane

   That’s no proof of any wrongdoing by anyone in the administration. I read the article in question and it seems to be filled with the opinion of the author and not much else. Once again all sizzle and no steak. This is a Republican obsession, but if the Republican Party wants this nonstory to be the hill they die on much as Mitt Romney did before the last election I say they should keep right on going. But how do you think that the American public is going to react to Congress spending all of its time endlessly rehashing this issue when there are real problems in the country that need to be addressed. I must say that if you get what you seem to want here it will be very good election night in 2014 for the Democratic Party.
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   Peabody-Martini said, 10 months ago

   @Harleyquinn

   The President’s comments in the Rose Garden the morning after the attack. You and Mitt Romney both forgot about that. That more or less destroyed any chance that Mitt had in the election, as if he ever really stood a chance. Thank you for allowing me to bring up one of the greatest debate screw ups of all time. I would suggest that you do more than repeat RWNJ talking points.
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   Peabody-Martini said, 10 months ago

   @Gore Bane

   Yes, your hatred of the Democratic Party is all the proof you need. I forgot that it’s unfair of me to argue facts and logic against your opinion.
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   ansonia said, 10 months ago

   @Peabody-Martini

   “I forgot that it’s unfair of me to argue facts and logic against your opinion.”
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   Facts? Logic?
   Please quote yourself where you posted either.
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   You have the “I said it so it must be true” debate style. That doesn’t really work. You’ve only posted opinion.
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   ansonia said, 10 months ago

   @DrCanuck

   “Stopping Hillary in 2016 is what this witch hunt is all about.”
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   hehheheheheheheh you said “Hillary” and “witch” in the same sentence uhhuhuhuhuhuh
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   Is a witch hunt wrong if there actually is a witch doing bad things? Hillary did bad things.
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    ansonia said, 10 months ago

    @lookinside

    The President is the one who said, 3 days after his inauguration to Republicans who were trying to negotiate points in obamacare, “We won.”
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    ansonia said, 10 months ago

    Thanks for the cartoon Mr. Breen.
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    All the Democrats got so upset about Sanford, and here they are defending and protecting someone who is trying to shirk responsibility for the deaths of 4 brave Americans.
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    ansonia said, 10 months ago

    @Gore Bane

    “Petreaus sex scandal was just another part of the attempt to distract public attention”
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    The timing of him stepping down is interesting. And it certainly did distract public attention.
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    Petraeus never said the attack was caused by a video.
    Makes me wonder if he couldn’t be controlled, so he had to be diminished by embarrassment,and eliminated from the scene.
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    CIA director David Petraeus was surprised when he read the freshly rewritten talking points an aide had emailed him in the early afternoon of Saturday, September 15.
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    The original CIA talking points had been blunt: The assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi was a terrorist attack conducted by a large group of Islamic extremists, including some with ties to al Qaeda.
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    Within 24 hours of the attack, the U.S. government had intercepted communications between two al Qaeda-linked terrorists discussing the attacks in Benghazi. One of the jihadists, a member of Ansar al Sharia, reported to the other that he had participated in the assault on the U.S. diplomatic post. Solid evidence. And there was more. Later that same day, the CIA station chief in Libya had sent a memo back to Washington, reporting that eyewitnesses to the attack said the participants were known jihadists, with ties to al Qaeda.
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    All told, the draft of the CIA talking points that was sent to top Obama administration officials that Friday evening included more than a half-dozen references to the enemy​—​al Qaeda, Ansar al Sharia, jihadists, Islamic extremists, and so on. The version Petraeus received in his inbox Saturday, however, had none. The only remaining allusion to the bad guys noted that “extremists” might have participated in “violent demonstrations.”
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    http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/benghazi-scandal-grows_722032.html
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    Robert Landers said, 10 months ago

    @mikefive

    Does that report also allow for Congress cutting the funds for diplomatic security? A House of Representatives that cut the funds in order to make the current president look bad (their ONLY goal, certainly NOT to serve the people of the USA!) regardless of the negative consequences to the people of the USA, and the incredibly brave people that serve in our diplomatic core?
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    Dry said, 10 months ago

    And in the meantime, 4 families still have no answers as to why or how or whose fault it was that their loved ones died senselessly. While you’re debating politics, think about them!
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    Harleyquinn said, 10 months ago

    @Peabody-Martini

    Obama said the next day the attack was an act of terrorism."
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    Let’s put this to rest once and for all.
    Obama NEVER, not once, ever in the Rose Garden speech said, “The Benghazi attack was an act of terrorism.” THAT would be calling the attack an act of terrorism. He never said, “This attack was done by terrorists.”
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    I’ll prove he didn’t say it by directly quoting him.
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    First he said
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    “Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi.”
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    Nothing here about terrorists or terrorism, just killed in “an attack”
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    “The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack.”
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    This time he goes so far as to say it’s an “outrageous” and “shocking” attack, but can’t say “terrorist”
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    “…we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people”
    Note how he uses the term “killers” ? Still can’t call them terrorists. And still “attacked"
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    “…this attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya”
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    Still just an “attack” not “terrorist attack”
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