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Rand Paul Calls Benghazi "Worst Tragedy Since 9/11"

Bill Clinton is who decided not to kill him.

Clinton was presidence on 9/11?

Wow, I mean I know tea partiers are revisionists, but now they make up new timelines! It's all they got. That and cutting spending on embassy security.
 
I have no idea who the "Objectivist Senator from Galtville" is but it has nothing to do with what did or did not happen in Benghazi.

Oh I think you do.

Meanwhile who called Benghazi the worst tragedy since Bush's 9-11 (after cutting spending on embassy security)? Come on, I know you can answer. Look at the OP!
 
Embassies get attacked in wartorn countries. It's not some strange rare occurance!

Terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Let's start with this fact. The job is dangerous and people do attack embassies. Rarely is it as intense as the Benghazi incident. So an attack here and there isn't all that strange and certainly isn't common for those attacks to consistent of such a large determined force. The fact is a well organized group stormed the joint and no one foresaw a force this large and well-armed doing it.

Sooooo, back to the Captain Hindsight clip.
 
I will never be convinced that this was not a false flag operation that went south.

Conspiracy -- the last gasp of tea partiers losing another argument on the merits.
 
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Wasn't it Reagan who sold arms to Iran, Syria's only ally in the region. Are you projecting or something?


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A mysterious Libyan ship -- reportedly carrying weapons and bound for Syrian rebels -- may have some link to the Sept. 11 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Fox News has learned.

Through shipping records, Fox News has confirmed that the Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar, which means "The Victory," was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun -- 35 miles from the Syrian border -- on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants


Read more: Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador

On the night of Sept. 11, in what would become his last known public meeting, Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin, and escorted him out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 9:35 p.m. local time.

Read more: Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador

Were you avoiding reality.....again?
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Who was president when 9-11 and wasn't he warned him that al Qaeda was an imminent threat?

Hint:

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No at the time Bush was President all intel agencies were not sharing intel. But you can thank Bush for forcing the French Interpol to do so!
 
Yeah, why did the Tea Party Occupied Congress cut spending on ambassy security?

Wait a minute, Paul agrees with those cuts and wants more.

Do I sense a hypocrite or just a tea party fool?

No you more than likely sense complete and utter incompetence by team Obama for not just the Attack on Benghazi.....but for dropping the ball on the anniversary of 911 and slacking Security.
 
I have to go work.....but I will be back later. Let me know if you need to see the links from any other newsources as well. Corker already pointed out what those other committees discovered about the lack of security and the more obvious failure to recognize the warnings that had been given.

Including a Note from the Group of Militants.....which really was the same group of Libyans used to provide for security for Benghazi, that attacked in March. Saying they would be back. Which is how they got the roadblocks set up and forced our people to fight a withdrawl to the safehouse.
 
Oh I think you do.

Meanwhile who called Benghazi the worst tragedy since Bush's 9-11 (after cutting spending on embassy security)? Come on, I know you can answer. Look at the OP!
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Even though several different Democrat congressmen are on record as saying that cuts to the budget had "zero impact on our ability to provide additional security", I see that in no way deters you from using the already thoroughly debunked talking point in a pitiful attempt to further another one of your bull**** narratives.
 
Do you understand the difference between a National Security/Foreign Policy tragedy that could have easily been avoided, compared to some lunatic that nobody knew existed before he walked up to a Gun Free zone and opened fire?

Please answer my question.....
 
Rand Paul needs to learn that acting like an asshole trying to exploit a tragedy to score political points instead of trying to learn how to avoid such tragedies in the future is not going to work. I did laugh out loud at the "if I had been president" line. He is getting a little big for his britches.

Republicans could have had the big score they wanted if they had focused on the mistakes made. Instead they went the asshole route and let Clinton come out looking professional.

And the conspiracy carp is retarded.
 
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Even though several different Democrat congressmen are on record as saying that cuts to the budget had "zero impact on our ability to provide additional security", I see that in no way deters you from using the already thoroughly debunked talking point in a pitiful attempt to further another one of your bull**** narratives.

Let's see: Tea Party Occupied Congress cuts spending on embassy security; an embassy is attacked and there aren't ready resources to defend it; and you conclude that spending cuts didn't matter.

Funny, basic logic would suggest the opposite conclusion.
 
From a Foreign Policy and National Security standpoint, it absolutely is. This was a US Ambassador. Sean Smith was a network admin. Stevens repeatedly begged for help/more security, even up to the day he was killed. Those pleas were ignored.



Laughable dodge

Your offhandedly dismissing mountains of evidence and emails that refute how much you are trying to downplay it. Why don't you just admit that the death of 4 Americans at that embassy really isn't that big of a deal to you? As long as Hillary can lie her way through a hearing to skate politically, you're cool with a few dead bodies. The lies be damned. The fact that she lied to the faces of the families at the wake, and told them their loved ones died because of a youtube video doesn't matter.



Oh I get it now. It's Steven's fault now that his pleas for additional security were ignored. Got it.

Not his fault at all, just a risk he took routinely, walking out among the regular people, being seen outside Embassy grounds which was very risky. there is a 'mountain' of evidence he should never have gone to the far less secure Benghazi compound, especially on the anniversary of 9-11.

However I didn't know you was so privy to all the communications. You know so much about how many 'pleas' and begging was done. (especially compared to the other stations around the world where last i heard had a bushel basket of other nations not that into us.
 
The amount of spin here is laughable. Arrogantly dismissing his assessment of the situation might work for the Jon Stewart crowd, but the fact is we were lied to for weeks following this attack and still are being lied to. This was a huge failing on the part of the state department. Claiming that nobody knew was complete BS. Somebody had to tell those Marines to stand down. And attacking his claim about "worst since 9/11" by going back to CT is a transparent political dodge, especially when coupled with the earlier warnings we heard about later and the other attacks on US assets on the same day. On top of that we find out about delivering tanks and planes to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood leaders, it all stinks. If the smirks and smears allow you to dismiss the miserable failings of this administration keep in mind that they will continue to lie and laugh at YOU too when your taxes go up again and whatever they decide to do next to further an agenda that has nothing to do with the wellbeing of the American people. We need more of this kind of dressing down by those who are not afraid of Chicago style politics.

This (coupled with the other attacks on that day) could be argued to be the worst TERRORIST attack since 9/11 (even though they would still have their useful idiots believe it was about a tape). CT was a mentally unstable kid who killed a bunch of kids. Tragic, but it wasn't terrorism. And even in the face of that, the administration used it to further an agenda and try to bastardize the Constitution AGAIN with changes that would not have prevented it. You people who are buy or defending this crap are are either blind, stupid, or just as driven and cold as the powers that be.
 
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The anthrax letters were worse IMO.
 
He's absolutely right

They were repeated warnings that were ignored. The Security at the consulate was basically disarmed and outsourced. Stevens was the first ambassador killed in 30 years.

CT was a completely different animal. Paul is speaking of National Security, Politics, Foreign Policy. ect.

Rand Paul 2016

Good to see that somebody got it. He's right, she should have been fired.
 
Let's see: Tea Party Occupied Congress cuts spending on embassy security; an embassy is attacked and there aren't ready resources to defend it; and you conclude that spending cuts didn't matter.

Funny, basic logic would suggest the opposite conclusion.
Lets see... congress holds hearings where several Democratic congressmen testify, under oath, to the very question of "Did budget cuts effect our ability to provide the additional security that was requested?" They all answered... "No, it did not."

Funny, google and the ability to read and comprehend would sway most people into concluding that this talking point is bogus. But not you.
 
Lets see... congress holds hearings where several Democratic congressmen testify, under oath, to the very question of "Did budget cuts effect our ability to provide the additional security that was requested?" They all answered... "No, it did not."

Funny, google and the ability to read and comprehend would sway most people into concluding that this talking point is bogus. But not you.

Clinton said otherwise. Now, which would know better?

But keep dancing. I love how tea partiers have to run from the consequences of their crank philosophy.

Here's a concept: if you want better embassy security, PAY FOR IT!
 
Rand Paul needs to learn that acting like an asshole trying to exploit a tragedy to score political points instead of trying to learn how to avoid such tragedies in the future is not going to work. I did laugh out loud at the "if I had been president" line. He is getting a little big for his britches.

Republicans could have had the big score they wanted if they had focused on the mistakes made. Instead they went the asshole route and let Clinton come out looking professional.

And the conspiracy carp is retarded.

Hillary looked like exactly what she is. A liar and incompetent. Of course, she had to understand at one point in her life what is is. But the, what difference does it make, right?
 
Hillary looked like exactly what she is. A liar and incompetent. Of course, she had to understand at one point in her life what is is. But the, what difference does it make, right?

Wow, it's like you aren't even trying. Are you a poe?
 
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