RE: Benghazi: What's the Charge Again?
May 3, 2014 at 12:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2014 at 1:52 am by Heywood.)
(May 2, 2014 at 5:18 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: OK, for now, we're setting aside my questions #1 and #2, which ask you to back up the allegations that he "lied", which shouldn't be hard since it was so "obvious". As an aside, I note you're already hedging, going from "obvious" to "seemed".
It was also, by the way, next day, not "days after the murder", that Obama called it a terrorist attack. But let that go for now.
Read the transcript of the Rose Garden speech. He called the act "outrageous" and "shocking" and "brutal" but he never described the specific act of the ambassador being murdered a terrorist act. In the rose garden he said, "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."
The same day Obama gave that Rose Garden speech he was asked this on 60 minutes.
KROFT: “Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word ‘terrorism’ in connection with the Libya attack.”
OBAMA: “Right.”
KROFT: “Do you believe that this was a terrorist attack?”
OBAMA: “Well, it’s too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.”
The lie was sending Rice out to spin this as a spontaneous act of an angry mob. The evidence this is a lie is the fact that there was no evidence this was a spontaneous act of an angry mob and lots of evidence this was a pre-planed attack.
(May 2, 2014 at 7:14 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I don't think the GOP wants to disclose anything related to the alleged activity of the CIA annex. That's why they've been pursuing the stupid allegation that the Obama administration purposely let the ambassador die. It's basically all politics between the GOP and Obama, all smoke and mirrors to sidestep the real possibility that the CIA was engaged in illegal activity, i.e. taking people as prisoners.
There is probably some truth to what you say. If what General Wesley Clark says is true....Obama is just following thru on a Bush strategy. The GOP wants to bash Obama and Clinton over the ambassador's death for obvious political reasons...but they may be purposely avoiding the real story because if it came out....it could look bad on them as well.
