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To me it's just depressing. We really do have a lot of stuff the government needs to be dealing with: jobs, energy, the deficit, healthcare,immigration, infrastructure, urban renewal, education, etc. These are all complex problems requiring immediate but thoughtful attention, and yet we waste our time on this nonsense. Awful.
There is nothing stopping them from dealing with these issues. They all must be really inept if this one issue prevents them from addressing other issues.

 
To me it's just depressing. We really do have a lot of stuff the government needs to be dealing with: jobs, energy, the deficit, healthcare,immigration, infrastructure, urban renewal, education, etc. These are all complex problems requiring immediate but thoughtful attention, and yet we waste our time on this nonsense. Awful.
There is nothing stopping them from dealing with these issues. They all must be really inept if this one issue prevents them from addressing other issues.
Yes they are really inept. And whether it makes sense to you or not, one of the sad facts of modern times is that whenever there is a political scandal that is the center of attention, nothing else gets done.
 
Now the Benghazi scandal is to blame for Obama's lack of effort on jobs and the deficit? That is hilarious. At least it is not Bush's fault for a change.

 
Saints, Maher was absolutely correct. But your tie in is not, because Hillary's decision not to name Boko Haram a terrorist organization had nothing to do with how liberals regard Islam. The State Department's majority view was at the time that naming Boko Haram would give them greater notoriety and actually increase their membership among disaffected Nigerians and other Africans. The trade off wasn't worth it. In hindsight this may not have been the best decision, but attempting to tie it to what Maher was discussing is simply false.
One can understand the logic, but it certainly looks like it was (yet another) awful decision from State.

 
Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who’ve laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.

“Those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country,” Clinton writes in the gripping chapter, “Benghazi: Under Attack.”

Casting doubt on the motivations of congressional Republicans who have continued to investigate the attacks, including with an upcoming House select committee, Clinton continues: “I will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans. It’s just plain wrong, and it’s unworthy of our great country. Those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me.”

The 34-page chapter is Clinton’s most complete account to date of the attack and its aftermath. Her tone is less defensive than defiant: Clinton takes responsibility for the “horror” of the loss of life in Benghazi, but puts it in the context of “the heartbreaking human stakes of every decision we make” — and she accuses adversaries of manipulating a tragedy for partisan gain.

There has been, she writes, a “regrettable amount of misinformation, speculation, and flat-out deceit by some in politics and the media,” but new information from “a number of reputable sources continues to expand our understanding of these events.”

The chapter appears intended, in part, to give Democrats a clear framework to respond to Republicans who have raised questions about Clinton’s role and what the Obama administration has said about the Sept. 11, 2012, killing of four Americans. The section was obtained and reviewed by POLITICO on the eve of a meeting in which members of Democratic-leaning groups will be briefed by Clinton’s team about how she addresses the attacks in the book.

And in a sign of the concerted effort to rebut the ongoing controversy in a cohesive way, Clinton’s camp has brought on former National Security Council spokesman and longtime President Barack Obama hand Tommy Vietor to assist in the response to the book, a source familiar with the plan said.

The book’s arrival comes as Clinton is considering a second presidential campaign in 2016. Pieces that have emerged ahead of the June 10 release include a section about Clinton’s late mother, the author’s note and a four-minute video featuring the former first lady talking about the book. On Thursday, conservative-leaning Fox News — which has heavily covered the Benghazi story — announced Clinton will sit down with two of its anchors for an interview during her book rollout media blitz.

Asked to comment on what Clinton hoped to achieve with the Benghazi chapter, among the most anticipated sections of her State Department retrospective, her spokesman, Nick Merrill, responded, “Until the book is released, there’s nothing to say. And once it’s released, it will speak for itself.”

The chapter is a mostly chronological retrospective of the attack interspersed with Clinton’s views. She points out that she ordered an investigation into what happened nine days after the attacks, and that she agreed with and implemented all 29 of the recommendations made by a review board.

While saying that as a former senator she respects the “oversight role that Congress is meant to play,” Clinton later adds, “Many of these same people are a broken record about unanswered questions. But there is a difference between unanswered questions and unlistened to answers.”

Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in “later investigation and reporting,” including by The New York Times, to have been “indeed a factor” in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.

That point is among those that has been debated during hearings into the attacks.

“There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives,” she writes. “It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.”

Clinton addresses lingering questions about how military assets were deployed to try to rescue personnel at the besieged compound, writing that Obama “gave the order to do whatever was necessary to support our people in Libya. It was imperative that all possible resources be mobilized immediately. … When Americans are under fire, that is not an order the Commander in Chief has to give twice. Our military does everything humanly possible to save American lives — and would do more if they could. That anyone has ever suggested otherwise is something I will never understand.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clintons-benghazi-chapter-107240.html#ixzz33FcRZifq

 
Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who’ve laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clintons-benghazi-chapter-107240.html#ixzz33FcRZifq
Hillary says to the GOP, want to talk about Benghazi? Well, bring it on. :pickle:

 
Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who’ve laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clintons-benghazi-chapter-107240.html#ixzz33FcRZifq
Hillary says to the GOP, want to talk about Benghazi? Well, bring it on. :pickle:
This makes me sure she's running too. A book right now? The book tour will be a prelim for the campaign, watch.

 
squistion said:
timschochet said:
Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who’ve laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clintons-benghazi-chapter-107240.html#ixzz33FcRZifq
Hillary says to the GOP, want to talk about Benghazi? Well, bring it on. :pickle:
Great Zeus she is doubling down.

Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in “later investigation and reporting,” including by The New York Times, to have been “indeed a factor” in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.
This probably guarantees this thread will still be active in 2017.

What I recall from 2007-08 was a Hillary who was slow to respond to Obama in her campaign, in interviews and on stage in person.

Her husband has the common touch, a man who brought home a balanced budget, a great economy, who got reelected repeatedly in a red state, who weaved his way through the first meaningful third-party election ballots since 1912, to victory, twice. Hillary won a US Senate election against a tomato can in lock solid blue NY State, entered into the Demo primary the heavy, heavy favorite and managed to lose, even crying in a desperation plea for sympathy and to belatedly show her humanness at the end.

This is a woman who denied having billing records from her law firm for years (forget the why), actually claimed they had been destroyed, and then they were "discovered" by a maid in a WH closet. Forget the whole stupid scenario behind it, either ditch the records or turn them over. Don't keep on inviting inquiry with 'right wing conspiracy' accusations and then whoops lookie here. She invites this stuff. This is what she does. She lambastes Obama over the 3 o'clock call business, then guess what happens the one time she gets the 3 o'clock call. Whoops.

Tell you how this is going to go: she is going to keep this alive by repeating the 'thought it was the video' theme over and over again and the media will keep asking her about it because of her defensiveness, her insistence on blaming others, and her complete lack of ability to point to any specific source that told her it was that besides maybe CNN or her own imagination. Hillary will eventually become the shrill person we saw on Capitol Hill that day, right or wrong it won't matter, that is who will emerge and it won't be pretty.

 
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squistion said:
timschochet said:
Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who’ve laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clintons-benghazi-chapter-107240.html#ixzz33FcRZifq
Hillary says to the GOP, want to talk about Benghazi? Well, bring it on. :pickle:
Questioning the integrity of her opponents on this issue and 'bringing it on' seems to throw more logs into the fire, and keeps alive the debate. I don't doubt that this issue is large politics from the Republicans, but there are still questions on this that have not been answered.

I'm also interested in hearing all of her achievements while serving under Obama.

 
timschochet said:
Obama “gave the order to do whatever was necessary to support our people in Libya. It was imperative that all possible resources be mobilized immediately. … When Americans are under fire, that is not an order the Commander in Chief has to give twice. Our military does everything humanly possible to save American lives — and would do more if they could. That anyone has ever suggested otherwise is something I will never understand.”
:lmao:

 
squistion said:
timschochet said:
Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who’ve laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clintons-benghazi-chapter-107240.html#ixzz33FcRZifq
Hillary says to the GOP, want to talk about Benghazi? Well, bring it on. :pickle:
This makes me sure she's running too. A book right now? The book tour will be a prelim for the campaign, watch.
Tim, you are not going out on a limb here.

 
Democrats are praying that Republicans double down on this Benghazi stuff- Saints, you think Hillary made a mistake by devoting a chapter to it and mentioning the video? Think again. The whole thing is being done on purpose. She mentioned the video because she WANTS to drive people like you crazy. It only helps her electoral chances.

 
Funny to me that Hillary royally ####s up and then pulls the aggressive how dare they bring this up shtick; and dopes buy in. Don't know whether to laugh or cry that this is our future.

 
Democrats are praying that Republicans double down on this Benghazi stuff- Saints, you think Hillary made a mistake by devoting a chapter to it and mentioning the video? Think again. The whole thing is being done on purpose. She mentioned the video because she WANTS to drive people like you crazy. It only helps her electoral chances.
Funny thing about that is that it may likely be a Democrat who brings it up first in the primaries.

Remember how it was the Clintons who raised the Jeremiah Wright business?

Hillary has one thing on her resume, her time as SOS, and this issue is front and center on that record. If and when a Democratic opponent decides to go after her, and someone will, they will have to go through here.

I will also add that Hillary does not have the touch of Bill Clinton and Obama; Hillary has yet to show the ability to rise above it all, quite the opposite, when controversy embroils her she just seems to get more wrapped up in the imbroglio.

 
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Democrats are praying that Republicans double down on this Benghazi stuff- Saints, you think Hillary made a mistake by devoting a chapter to it and mentioning the video? Think again. The whole thing is being done on purpose. She mentioned the video because she WANTS to drive people like you crazy. It only helps her electoral chances.
I doubt Benghazi is a campaign strategy for Hillary. Even if Republicans are overplaying their hand, it keeps the focus on Hilary and her lack of accomplishments while serving under Obama.

This will be the just the first of "War on _____" from Hillary's camp. Anything said about her will be turned into some inequality argument.

 
The fauxtrage about this is from the "Benghazi Truthers" is freaking unbelievable.
We get it. Anytime anyone criticizes or wants answers from a Democrat, they always have some kind of fake outrage or are some kind of "____________ Truthers". By labeling people as such, it allows Democrats to avoid any responsibility.

I'm sure in very short order we're going to be hearing about "VA Truthers".

 
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Let's be fair here. There's no way the current Benghazi kerfluffle will ever rise to the level of the Democratic-led kangaroo courts about all of the embassy deaths under Republican Presidents.

(You'd think that the fact the Dems are embracing these hearings and are more than happy to engage in a big fight about all this might tip off Reps that they've got a dog of an issue here, but... no.)

 
Funny to me that Hillary royally ####s up and then pulls the aggressive how dare they bring this up shtick; and dopes buy in. Don't know whether to laugh or cry that this is our future.
If Benghazi is a "royal #### up", how do you label Colin Powell and Condi Rice's tenures?

 
Funny to me that Hillary royally ####s up and then pulls the aggressive how dare they bring this up shtick; and dopes buy in. Don't know whether to laugh or cry that this is our future.
If Benghazi is a "royal #### up", how do you label Colin Powell and Condi Rice's tenures?
Will they be running for President in 2 yrs?
Do you have links to posts you made at the time of you raising heel about their screw ups? Or does it depend if you have a D or an R next to your name?

 
Democrats are praying that Republicans double down on this Benghazi stuff- Saints, you think Hillary made a mistake by devoting a chapter to it and mentioning the video? Think again. The whole thing is being done on purpose. She mentioned the video because she WANTS to drive people like you crazy. It only helps her electoral chances.
Funny thing about that is that it may likely be a Democrat who brings it up first in the primaries.

Remember how it was the Clintons who raised the Jeremiah Wright business?

Hillary has one thing on her resume, her time as SOS, and this issue is front and center on that record. If and when a Democratic opponent decides to go after her, and someone will, they will have to go through here.

I will also add that Hillary does not have the touch of Bill Clinton and Obama; Hillary has yet to show the ability to rise above it all, quite the opposite, when controversy embroils her she just seems to get more wrapped up in the imbroglio.
You're dreaming if you think a Democrat rival would criticize Hillary over Benghazi. Also, when you wrote that Hillary has only one thing on her resume, I think you're forgetting her 8 years as a United States Senator. If Obama was one of the least qualified Presidential candidates in modern history, Hillary Clinton is the opposite.
 
Democrats are praying that Republicans double down on this Benghazi stuff- Saints, you think Hillary made a mistake by devoting a chapter to it and mentioning the video? Think again. The whole thing is being done on purpose. She mentioned the video because she WANTS to drive people like you crazy. It only helps her electoral chances.
Funny thing about that is that it may likely be a Democrat who brings it up first in the primaries.

Remember how it was the Clintons who raised the Jeremiah Wright business?

Hillary has one thing on her resume, her time as SOS, and this issue is front and center on that record. If and when a Democratic opponent decides to go after her, and someone will, they will have to go through here.

I will also add that Hillary does not have the touch of Bill Clinton and Obama; Hillary has yet to show the ability to rise above it all, quite the opposite, when controversy embroils her she just seems to get more wrapped up in the imbroglio.
You're dreaming if you think a Democrat rival would criticize Hillary over Benghazi. Also, when you wrote that Hillary has only one thing on her resume, I think you're forgetting her 8 years as a United States Senator. If Obama was one of the least qualified Presidential candidates in modern history, Hillary Clinton is the opposite.
Yes, people running for president will do anything, again see the Clintons and Wright. Also it's her 5-6 years time as SOS is the one thing on her resume, not just this one incident. If someone runs against her for the Demo nomination, and someone will, they will have to go through this incident though.

 
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Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Trying so hard, falling so short.
Reminder: it's Hillary who just devoted and separately issued a whole chapter on this.

On Thursday, conservative-leaning Fox News — which has heavily covered the Benghazi story — announced Clinton will sit down with two of its anchors for an interview during her book rollout media blitz.
Everyone ok with that?

Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in “later investigation and reporting,” including by The New York Times, to have been “indeed a factor” in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.

That point is among those that has been debated during hearings into the attacks.

There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives,” she writes. “It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.”
That;'s not what the NYT says. The NYT says that there were some terrorists who were angry about the video - along with all the other stuff they are "angry" about, such as the fact of the USA itself, intellectual freedom, western education, western cultural and economic influence, support for Jewish people in Israel and religious freedom, etc. - not that there were ordinary citizens who were spontaneously protesting a video. Nowhere does the NYT say there was a spontaneous protest about the video. The terms "spontaneous" and "protest" as opposed to "terrorism" are key here. The NYT makes clear that Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist militia, was the perpetrator.

Clinton also addresses her much-seized-upon remark before a congressional committee in January 2013, when she used the phrase “what difference at this point does it make.” Republicans have claimed it betrayed Clinton’s lack of interest in getting to the bottom of the attack. Clinton writes that her words were blatantly twisted.

“In yet another example of the terrible politicization of this tragedy, many have conveniently chosen to interpret” that phrase “to mean that I was somehow minimizing the tragedy of Benghazi. Of course that’s not what I said,” she writes. “Nothing could be further from the truth. And many of those trying to make hay of it know that, but don’t care.”

She adds, “My point was simple: If someone breaks into your home and takes your family hostage, how much time are you going to spend focused on how the intruder spent his day as opposed to how best to rescue your loved ones and then prevent it from happening again?”
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B6194549-C464-462A-924A-068F944F18C7

The issue has always been about the motives of the attackers and the nature of the attack. I think it's more like someone who continues to say, 'Hey let's not get caught up in whether they had just walked into the wrong house thinking it was theirs and really thought those hostages were their friends who wanted to be tied up, or whether they were really trying to hurt us, what happened, happened." Clearly these were bad guys up to no good, they were criminals, and in the real example, terrorists committing terrorism. And nobody, not the president, not the CIA, not the NSA, not the Senate Demos, not the press, not anyone is accepting or plying this "spontaneous protest with mixed motives" bs anymore. It's one thing to say they didn't know at the time, it's a whole other thing to say they believe now what they claim to have believed then.

That's what I'm talking about, her own ego and bad wordsmithing won't let this go. And politically her performance that day on Capitol Hill is as bad and maybe worse of a problem than the events themselves.

 
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Democrats are praying that Republicans double down on this Benghazi stuff- Saints, you think Hillary made a mistake by devoting a chapter to it and mentioning the video? Think again. The whole thing is being done on purpose. She mentioned the video because she WANTS to drive people like you crazy. It only helps her electoral chances.
Hillary released that chapter now so it won't be the only focus once the book is officially released. Get any discussion out there now and talk about other things later on.

 
Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in “later investigation and reporting,” including by The New York Times, to have been “indeed a factor” in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.

That point is among those that has been debated during hearings into the attacks.

There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives,” she writes. “It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.”
That;'s not what the NYT says. The NYT says that there were some terrorists who were angry about the video - along with all the other stuff they are "angry" about, such as the fact of the USA itself, intellectual freedom, western education, western cultural and economic influence, support for Jewish people in Israel and religious freedom, etc. - not that there were ordinary citizens who were spontaneously protesting a video. Nowhere does the NYT say there was a spontaneous protest about the video. The terms "spontaneous" and "protest" as opposed to "terrorism" are key here. The NYT makes clear that Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist militia, was the perpetrator.
So you admit there were people involved in the attack who were upset about the video?

If so, then the administration's initial claims were not completely unfounded.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Trying so hard, falling so short.
Reminder: it's Hillary who just devoted and separately issued a whole chapter on this.

On Thursday, conservative-leaning Fox News — which has heavily covered the Benghazi story — announced Clinton will sit down with two of its anchors for an interview during her book rollout media blitz.
Everyone ok with that?

Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in “later investigation and reporting,” including by The New York Times, to have been “indeed a factor” in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.

That point is among those that has been debated during hearings into the attacks.

There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives,” she writes. “It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.”
That;'s not what the NYT says. The NYT says that there were some terrorists who were angry about the video - along with all the other stuff they are "angry" about, such as the fact of the USA itself, intellectual freedom, western education, western cultural and economic influence, support for Jewish people in Israel and religious freedom, etc. - not that there were ordinary citizens who were spontaneously protesting a video. Nowhere does the NYT say there was a spontaneous protest about the video. The terms "spontaneous" and "protest" as opposed to "terrorism" are key here. The NYT makes clear that Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist militia, was the perpetrator.

Clinton also addresses her much-seized-upon remark before a congressional committee in January 2013, when she used the phrase “what difference at this point does it make.” Republicans have claimed it betrayed Clinton’s lack of interest in getting to the bottom of the attack. Clinton writes that her words were blatantly twisted.

“In yet another example of the terrible politicization of this tragedy, many have conveniently chosen to interpret” that phrase “to mean that I was somehow minimizing the tragedy of Benghazi. Of course that’s not what I said,” she writes. “Nothing could be further from the truth. And many of those trying to make hay of it know that, but don’t care.”

She adds, “My point was simple: If someone breaks into your home and takes your family hostage, how much time are you going to spend focused on how the intruder spent his day as opposed to how best to rescue your loved ones and then prevent it from happening again?”
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B6194549-C464-462A-924A-068F944F18C7

The issue has always been about the motives of the attackers and the nature of the attack. I think it's more like someone who continues to say, 'Hey let's not get caught up in whether they had just walked into the wrong house thinking it was theirs and really thought those hostages were their friends who wanted to be tied up, or whether they were really trying to hurt us, what happened, happened." Clearly these were bad guys up to no good, they were criminals, and in the real example, terrorists committing terrorism. And nobody, not the president, not the CIA, not the NSA, not the Senate Demos, not the press, not anyone is accepting or plying this "spontaneous protest with mixed motives" bs anymore. It's one thing to say they didn't know at the time, it's a whole other thing to say they believe now what they claim to have believed then.

That's what I'm talking about, her own ego and bad wordsmithing won't let this go. And politically her performance that day on Capitol Hill is as bad and maybe worse of a problem than the events themselves.
You keep acting like this hurts Clinton in some way? Hillary devoted the chapter, and will go on Fox, and will continue to toss out bait for the same reason Obama kept hanging his birth certificate out for all of you... because you guys do this.

You fall for it. Again. And again. And again. :yes:

Nutjobs hanging on to Benghazi for dear life is Hillary's dream. Just like the birthers were the best thing that could have happened to Obama.

 
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Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in “later investigation and reporting,” including by The New York Times, to have been “indeed a factor” in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.

That point is among those that has been debated during hearings into the attacks.

There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives,” she writes. “It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.”
That;'s not what the NYT says. The NYT says that there were some terrorists who were angry about the video - along with all the other stuff they are "angry" about, such as the fact of the USA itself, intellectual freedom, western education, western cultural and economic influence, support for Jewish people in Israel and religious freedom, etc. - not that there were ordinary citizens who were spontaneously protesting a video. Nowhere does the NYT say there was a spontaneous protest about the video. The terms "spontaneous" and "protest" as opposed to "terrorism" are key here. The NYT makes clear that Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist militia, was the perpetrator.
So you admit there were people involved in the attack who were upset about the video?

If so, then the administration's initial claims were not completely unfounded.
Nobody on any side of this issue has to admit anything.

HC referred to the NYT article, that's what I did. I've actually read it. It doesn't say there was a spontaneous protest over a video, it says it was a planned attack by the terrorist militia group. In 1-2 sentences in one paragraph in a 6 part series it says a Libyan journalist who works for the NYT says that there were some attackers there who referred to the video. That is different from a spontaneous protest about the video being the cause of the deaths and destruction.No one, not the NYT, no one in the administration, no one, is still claiming it was a spontaneous protest.

 
The fauxtrage about this is from the "Benghazi Truthers" is freaking unbelievable.
We get it. Anytime anyone criticizes or wants answers from a Democrat, they always have some kind of fake outrage or are some kind of "____________ Truthers". By labeling people as such, it allows Democrats to avoid any responsibility.

I'm sure in very short order we're going to be hearing about "VA Truthers".
That's nice but I'm not a democrat. I have voted republican (Bush 1 x 1, Bush 2 x 1) independent (Perot, Paul) and democrat (Obama x 1).

I am a citizen who is tired of this Benghazi nonsense, this is a non-story that people are trying to manufacture into something to be outraged about (and wasting far too many man hours and resources on). They don't care about getting to any truth about the issue (if they did they would have dropped it years ago instead of holding hearing after hearing that ultimately shows no wrong doing) they care about repeating false accusations over and over until it becomes beaten into people's head long enough that they begin to believe Hilary actually did something wrong.

It's a joke and I am annoyed when either party does it. And people like you are part of the problem.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
Exactly...there are legit questions about this...they need to be put to bed...if a dem wants to pretend there is not he is lying...if a GOPer is using this for pure politics than he is a scumbag...let's tie up the loose ends and move on...

 
Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in later investigation and reporting, including by The New York Times, to have been indeed a factor in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.

That point is among those that has been debated during hearings into the attacks.

There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives, she writes. It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.
That;'s not what the NYT says. The NYT says that there were some terrorists who were angry about the video - along with all the other stuff they are "angry" about, such as the fact of the USA itself, intellectual freedom, western education, western cultural and economic influence, support for Jewish people in Israel and religious freedom, etc. - not that there were ordinary citizens who were spontaneously protesting a video. Nowhere does the NYT say there was a spontaneous protest about the video. The terms "spontaneous" and "protest" as opposed to "terrorism" are key here. The NYT makes clear that Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist militia, was the perpetrator.
So you admit there were people involved in the attack who were upset about the video?If so, then the administration's initial claims were not completely unfounded.
:lol:

 
Clinton defends the intelligence at the time preceding the attack on the American compound in Benghazi. An anti-Islamic video that had sparked a protest at an embassy in Cairo was proved in “later investigation and reporting,” including by The New York Times, to have been “indeed a factor” in what happened in Benghazi, Clinton writes.

That point is among those that has been debated during hearings into the attacks.

There were scores of attackers that night, almost certainly with differing motives,” she writes. “It is inaccurate to state that every single one of them was influenced by this hateful video. It is equally inaccurate to state that none of them were. Both assertions defy not only the evidence but logic as well.”
That;'s not what the NYT says. The NYT says that there were some terrorists who were angry about the video - along with all the other stuff they are "angry" about, such as the fact of the USA itself, intellectual freedom, western education, western cultural and economic influence, support for Jewish people in Israel and religious freedom, etc. - not that there were ordinary citizens who were spontaneously protesting a video. Nowhere does the NYT say there was a spontaneous protest about the video. The terms "spontaneous" and "protest" as opposed to "terrorism" are key here. The NYT makes clear that Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist militia, was the perpetrator.
So you admit there were people involved in the attack who were upset about the video?

If so, then the administration's initial claims were not completely unfounded.
Nobody on any side of this issue has to admit anything.

HC referred to the NYT article, that's what I did. I've actually read it. It doesn't say there was a spontaneous protest over a video, it says it was a planned attack by the terrorist militia group. In 1-2 sentences in one paragraph in a 6 part series it says a Libyan journalist who works for the NYT says that there were some attackers there who referred to the video. That is different from a spontaneous protest about the video being the cause of the deaths and destruction.No one, not the NYT, no one in the administration, no one, is still claiming it was a spontaneous protest.
Good enough for me that the administration wasn't completely lying and there was no cover up.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?
Huh? So the people on the left in this thread have no issues that we haven't found the perpetrators?

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?
Huh? So the people on the left in this thread have no issues that we haven't found the perpetrators?
Dont change the question. <_<

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?
Huh? So the people on the left in this thread have no issues that we haven't found the perpetrators?
Dont change the question. <_<
Why not? Based on what I have seen in this tread the answer is they don't.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?
Huh? So the people on the left in this thread have no issues that we haven't found the perpetrators?
Dont change the question. <_<
Why not? Based on what I have seen in this tread the answer is they don't.
Of course they don't. They're not concerned about the truth until a Republican is President.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?
Huh? So the people on the left in this thread have no issues that we haven't found the perpetrators?
Dont change the question. <_<
Why not? Based on what I have seen in this tread the answer is they don't.
I'm not sure I count myself as "on the left", but at this point.. no. I don't care anymore. I don't think they can be found. This is why "the right" focusing on this tired topic is only going to help the "the left".

Any sane person is going to run so far away from you guys chanting "BENGHAZI BLAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"... reference birthers, Tea Party, etc.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?
Huh? So the people on the left in this thread have no issues that we haven't found the perpetrators?
Dont change the question. <_<
Why not? Based on what I have seen in this tread the answer is they don't.
I'm not sure I count myself as "on the left", but at this point.. no. I don't care anymore. I don't think they can be found. This is why "the right" focusing on this tired topic is only going to help the "the left".

Any sane person is going to run so far away from you guys chanting "BENGHAZI BLAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"... reference birthers, Tea Party, etc.
Any sane person would want the perpetrators to be found and considering they knew that night what groups were behnd it gives reasonable people the belief they can be found.

 
Still on this? lol Come on Fox News, time to think of a new scandal. This one is running out of steam. :lol:
Has anyone been brought to justice yet, as Obama promised they would be, for killing our ambassador?
No.. why do you ask?
Wouldn't you think that finding who killed our ambassador matters?

And I am someone who thinks the stories matters. It's not a Watergate-like scandal like some on the right think it is, but it's not a non-story like some of the left think it is either.
How has the never ending series of hearings and right wing media stories helped find the people who are responsible for the murders? Do you believe the intent of this is to gain information to find/apprehend/kill the perpetrators?
Huh? So the people on the left in this thread have no issues that we haven't found the perpetrators?
Dont change the question. <_<
Why not? Based on what I have seen in this tread the answer is they don't.
I'm not sure I count myself as "on the left", but at this point.. no. I don't care anymore. I don't think they can be found. This is why "the right" focusing on this tired topic is only going to help the "the left".

Any sane person is going to run so far away from you guys chanting "BENGHAZI BLAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"... reference birthers, Tea Party, etc.
Any sane person would want the perpetrators to be found and considering they knew that night what groups were behnd it gives reasonable people the belief they can be found.
Any sane person would see that by now that isn't going to happen.

But don't let me stop your obsession, personally I look forward to the kookiness.. the Tea Party, birther, and Palin efforts were some of the best entertainment I've seen over the years.

 

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