(May 2, 2014 at 4:25 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(May 2, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: The legitimate scandal of Benghazi is that the Obama administration appears to have purposely misled the American people about what transpired, to protect the President's foreign policy rep, just two months away from an Presidential election.
How would such a lie help?
Embassies get attacked by terrorists all the time. It happened 13 times under Bush, which Al Qaida was "on the run". Why would it be especially damning to have one happen under Obama? And why does a riot make it any better? An attack is an attack. Dead is dead. The damage is done either way, whether the attack was planned or spontaneous.
If memory serves me correct in 1963 there were 8000+ murders in the USA. Now you probably don't know about any of them except for 1....the murder of President John F Kennedy. The reason you know about that murder....the reason that murder still makes news 50 years later is because a President of the United States was murdered.
Your error is that you conflate an attack on an embassy with the killing of an Ambassador. An embassy attack and the killing of an Ambassador are not the same thing.
The "What difference does it make" excuse may fly with you....but it doesn't fly with everyone. This was a big deal and trying to down play it only appeals to the locksteppers.
