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I encourage all of you to watch this, if you haven't already. It is chilling...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5 ... -benghazi/

We learn a few things from this report:

1) Fox News reporting of the incident in the fall of 2012 by Katherine Herridge, Amy Kellogg, Jennifer Griffin, and James Rosen was spot on.... despite the left's contentions then and now that it was not.

2) Hillary Clinton, Barack 0bama, Jay Carney and Susan Rice flat out lied to the American people and the rest of the world. There was plenty of warning, they knew exactly who the threat was, yet nothing was done. Then the administration lied stating that it was spontaneous and caused by some video. Furthermore, Clinton lied under oath to congress after she lied with her hand on the casket of one of the fallen heroes.

3) The commander in chief left dead Americans on the field of battle and offered no help to our heroes who were sadly outnumbered...... He put his political well being and re-election ahead of the lives of Americans in harm's way. 0bama lied in his statements in the Rose Garden and also with his statements at the second presidential debate.

4) The retired Navy SEALS who fought their way from the CIA compound to the consulate and back again only to be killed by mortar fire are the very definition of patriots and heroes.

5) The lies from the administration and state department, combined with the cover up by ignoring the story by their lapdog media- with the sole exception of Fox News and now CBS News- is the very definition of a scandal. Contrast the treatment of this situation with the media's treatment of Abu Gharib and the Valerie Plame "outing."

I invite any of you 0bama and Clinton supporters to try to defend their actions... furthermore, try to explain to the families of the slain ambassador and those SEALS who gave their lives that the actions of the administration and state department were just.

High crimes and misdemeanors...
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blueballs wrote:I encourage all of you to watch this, if you haven't already. It is chilling...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5 ... -benghazi/

We learn a few things from this report:

1) Fox News reporting of the incident in the fall of 2012 by Katherine Herridge, Amy Kellogg, Jennifer Griffin, and James Rosen was spot on.... despite the left's contentions then and now that it was not.

2) Hillary Clinton, Barack 0bama, Jay Carney and Susan Rice flat out lied to the American people and the rest of the world. There was plenty of warning, they knew exactly who the threat was, yet nothing was done. Then the administration lied stating that it was spontaneous and caused by some video. Furthermore, Clinton lied under oath to congress after she lied with her hand on the casket of one of the fallen heroes.

3) The commander in chief left dead Americans on the field of battle and offered no help to our heroes who were sadly outnumbered...... He put his political well being and re-election ahead of the lives of Americans in harm's way. 0bama lied in his statements in the Rose Garden and also with his statements at the second presidential debate.

4) The retired Navy SEALS who fought their way from the CIA compound to the consulate and back again only to be killed by mortar fire are the very definition of patriots and heroes.

5) The lies from the administration and state department, combined with the cover up by ignoring the story by their lapdog media- with the sole exception of Fox News and now CBS News- is the very definition of a scandal. Contrast the treatment of this situation with the media's treatment of Abu Gharib and the Valerie Plame "outing."

I invite any of you 0bama and Clinton supporters to try to defend their actions... furthermore, try to explain to the families of the slain ambassador and those SEALS who gave their lives that the actions of the administration and state department were just.

High crimes and misdemeanors...

Where were the closest troops who could have responded?
Was there a Carrier Group in the Med. at the time?
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blueballs wrote:I encourage all of you to watch this, if you haven't already. It is chilling...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5 ... -benghazi/

We learn a few things from this report:

1) Fox News reporting of the incident in the fall of 2012 by Katherine Herridge, Amy Kellogg, Jennifer Griffin, and James Rosen was spot on.... despite the left's contentions then and now that it was not.

2) Hillary Clinton, Barack 0bama, Jay Carney and Susan Rice flat out lied to the American people and the rest of the world. There was plenty of warning, they knew exactly who the threat was, yet nothing was done. Then the administration lied stating that it was spontaneous and caused by some video. Furthermore, Clinton lied under oath to congress after she lied with her hand on the casket of one of the fallen heroes.

3) The commander in chief left dead Americans on the field of battle and offered no help to our heroes who were sadly outnumbered...... He put his political well being and re-election ahead of the lives of Americans in harm's way. 0bama lied in his statements in the Rose Garden and also with his statements at the second presidential debate.

4) The retired Navy SEALS who fought their way from the CIA compound to the consulate and back again only to be killed by mortar fire are the very definition of patriots and heroes.

5) The lies from the administration and state department, combined with the cover up by ignoring the story by their lapdog media- with the sole exception of Fox News and now CBS News- is the very definition of a scandal. Contrast the treatment of this situation with the media's treatment of Abu Gharib and the Valerie Plame "outing."

I invite any of you 0bama and Clinton supporters to try to defend their actions... furthermore, try to explain to the families of the slain ambassador and those SEALS who gave their lives that the actions of the administration and state department were just.

High crimes and misdemeanors...
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D1B wrote:blah, blah, blah more conk bullshit. Fake outrage is poor substitute for actually coming up with a plan to change government for the better and tackle real problems facing Americans.
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89Hen wrote:
D1B wrote:blah, blah, blah more conk bullshit. Fake outrage is poor substitute for actually coming up with a plan to change government for the better and tackle real problems facing Americans.
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blueballs wrote:I encourage all of you to watch this, if you haven't already. It is chilling...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5 ... -benghazi/

We learn a few things from this report:

1) Fox News reporting of the incident in the fall of 2012 by Katherine Herridge, Amy Kellogg, Jennifer Griffin, and James Rosen was spot on.... despite the left's contentions then and now that it was not.

2) Hillary Clinton, Barack 0bama, Jay Carney and Susan Rice flat out lied to the American people and the rest of the world. There was plenty of warning, they knew exactly who the threat was, yet nothing was done. Then the administration lied stating that it was spontaneous and caused by some video. Furthermore, Clinton lied under oath to congress after she lied with her hand on the casket of one of the fallen heroes.

3) The commander in chief left dead Americans on the field of battle and offered no help to our heroes who were sadly outnumbered...... He put his political well being and re-election ahead of the lives of Americans in harm's way. 0bama lied in his statements in the Rose Garden and also with his statements at the second presidential debate.

4) The retired Navy SEALS who fought their way from the CIA compound to the consulate and back again only to be killed by mortar fire are the very definition of patriots and heroes.

5) The lies from the administration and state department, combined with the cover up by ignoring the story by their lapdog media- with the sole exception of Fox News and now CBS News- is the very definition of a scandal. Contrast the treatment of this situation with the media's treatment of Abu Gharib and the Valerie Plame "outing."

I invite any of you 0bama and Clinton supporters to try to defend their actions... furthermore, try to explain to the families of the slain ambassador and those SEALS who gave their lives that the actions of the administration and state department were just.

High crimes and misdemeanors...

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free...

There is no shame in initially falling for the lies of these clowns in DC. There is only shame in holding on to the lie, after it has been exposed.
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D1B wrote:
89Hen wrote: Brawk.
Eat shit, Cock Ring. Time for conks to move on.
Sounds like you know you're wrong here.
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89Hen wrote: Brawk.
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Interesting how ASSGreaseFun and his pals suddenly find the mainstream media to be the gospel. :roll:

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houndawg wrote:Interesting how ASSGreaseFun and his pals suddenly find the mainstream media to be the gospel. :roll:

All these people knew the risks when they took these jobs. Don't conk fvcks ever stop whining and sniveling?
You are the biggest partisan hack on the boards. :coffee:
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89Hen wrote:
houndawg wrote:Interesting how ASSGreaseFun and his pals suddenly find the mainstream media to be the gospel. :roll:

All these people knew the risks when they took these jobs. Don't conk fvcks ever stop whining and sniveling?
You are the biggest partisan hack on the boards. :coffee:
You've really hurt my feelings bro. I'm going to be an emotional wreck all day now. :coffee:
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houndawg wrote:Interesting how ASSGreaseFun and his pals suddenly find the mainstream media to be the gospel. :roll:

All these people knew the risks when they took these jobs. Don't conk fvcks ever stop whining and sniveling?

A lot of the major media outlets have carried water for Obama at least passively by not trying to get to the bottom of so many different things that have happened from fast and furious to Benghazi. So when they criticize the administration it might be a good idea to hear them out.
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Pwns wrote:
houndawg wrote:Interesting how ASSGreaseFun and his pals suddenly find the mainstream media to be the gospel. :roll:

All these people knew the risks when they took these jobs. Don't conk fvcks ever stop whining and sniveling?

A lot of the major media outlets have carried water for Obama at least passively by not trying to get to the bottom of so many different things that have happened from fast and furious to Benghazi. So when they criticize the administration it might be a good idea to hear them out.
No problem there. But I've been listening to our resident half-wits like blueballs for years now telling us how the msm doesn't get anything right. All of a sudden he changes his mind the first time they say something he agrees with. :coffee:

Help was too far away. Sad, but that's how it is sometimes when you have a dangerous job. I believe we lost more diplomats during the Bush admin and didn't hear a peep out of screwballs and his posse. :ohno:
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Hey hounding. Fuck you, and I say that with all sincerity. You should hope our paths don't cross. It is personal now and you made it that way.
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houndawg wrote:
89Hen wrote: You are the biggest partisan hack on the boards. :coffee:
You've really hurt my feelings bro. I'm going to be an emotional wreck all day now. :coffee:
I'm sure you don't care. Partisan hacks rarely care what others think of them.
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houndawg wrote:I believe we lost more diplomats during the Bush admin and didn't hear a peep out of screwballs and his posse. :ohno:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

just like Cap'n

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Like I've been Saying All Along

There IS NO EMBASSY IN BENGHAZI

THERE IS NO CONSULATE IN BENGHAZI


Here is a list of all US Embassies, Consulates, and Missions; http://www.usembassy.gov/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Notice anything in Benghazi? It isn't listed because IT DOESNT EXIST.

Was There Ever a Real “U.S. Consulate” in Benghazi?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/15/was ... -benghazi/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In the many news reports published since the tragic and mysterious assassinations of four Americans in Libya on September 11, 2012, the scene of the terrorist attack is referred to variously as the “U.S. consulate” in Benghazi, the “U.S. mission” in Benghazi, or even as an American “embassy” in Benghazi.

Although President Obama in his news conference yesterday did little to bring greater clarity to what really happened in Libya, a look at several U.S. State Department websites might at least eliminate one of the many unknowns in this case: None of the official U.S. government websites refers to an actual U.S. “consulate” in Benghazi.

Consulates are Foreign Service posts that issue visas and passports, provide other American citizen services, and do day-to-day political and economic reporting as well as U.S. State Department “Front Office” diplomatic representation. Clearly the people in the facilities that were attacked in Benghazi (and we know little about them beyond the identities of those who were killed) were not doing that.

There are legitimate and real consulates in nearby countries—for example in Alexandria, Egypt, and in Casablanca, Morocco. The American public may be certain that those brick-and-mortar U.S. government facilities actually exist—in part because there are pictures of them and links to them on the websites of the U.S. embassies in Cairo and Rabat.

But the website of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya, contains no link to a consulate in Benghazi (or anywhere else in Libya, for that matter). Likewise, the Key Officers List—the State Department’s continually updated guide to all U.S. diplomatic facilities worldwide—contains no information about a consulate in Benghazi, but it does list the addresses and names of senior personnel assigned to the U.S. consulates in Egypt and Morocco.

So if U.S. government websites do not list the diplomatic facilities attacked by terrorists in Benghazi in September as a genuine “consulate” in the traditional sense, then what was it? And whatever it was, why wasn’t it adequately protected?
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blueballs wrote:Hey hounding. **** you, and I say that with all sincerity. You should hope our paths don't cross. It is personal now and you made it that way.
Awwww, look, another internet ninja. The usual conk dish=it-out-but-can't-take-it. :coffee:


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houndawg wrote:Interesting how ASSGreaseFun and his pals suddenly find the mainstream media to be the gospel. :roll:

All these people knew the risks when they took these jobs. Don't conk fvcks ever stop whining and sniveling?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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houndawg wrote:
89Hen wrote: You are the biggest partisan hack on the boards. :coffee:
You've really hurt my feelings bro. I'm going to be an emotional wreck all day now. :coffee:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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DSUrocks07 wrote:
houndawg wrote:I believe we lost more diplomats during the Bush admin and didn't hear a peep out of screwballs and his posse. :ohno:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

just like Cap'n

can't prove it, just thinking it happened is all the evidence you need. :coffee:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

11 attacks on consulates and embassies in seven countries between June, 2002 and September, 2008. Pakistan (3), Saudi Arabia (2), Uzbekistan, Syria, Greece, Turkey, Yemen (2).

59 killed, 98 injured. :tothehand:

Outrage from you and screwballs - nonexistent.


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expandspanos wrote:Like I've been Saying All Along

There IS NO EMBASSY IN BENGHAZI

THERE IS NO CONSULATE IN BENGHAZI


Here is a list of all US Embassies, Consulates, and Missions; http://www.usembassy.gov/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Notice anything in Benghazi? It isn't listed because IT DOESNT EXIST.

Was There Ever a Real “U.S. Consulate” in Benghazi?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/15/was ... -benghazi/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In the many news reports published since the tragic and mysterious assassinations of four Americans in Libya on September 11, 2012, the scene of the terrorist attack is referred to variously as the “U.S. consulate” in Benghazi, the “U.S. mission” in Benghazi, or even as an American “embassy” in Benghazi.

Although President Obama in his news conference yesterday did little to bring greater clarity to what really happened in Libya, a look at several U.S. State Department websites might at least eliminate one of the many unknowns in this case: None of the official U.S. government websites refers to an actual U.S. “consulate” in Benghazi.

Consulates are Foreign Service posts that issue visas and passports, provide other American citizen services, and do day-to-day political and economic reporting as well as U.S. State Department “Front Office” diplomatic representation. Clearly the people in the facilities that were attacked in Benghazi (and we know little about them beyond the identities of those who were killed) were not doing that.

There are legitimate and real consulates in nearby countries—for example in Alexandria, Egypt, and in Casablanca, Morocco. The American public may be certain that those brick-and-mortar U.S. government facilities actually exist—in part because there are pictures of them and links to them on the websites of the U.S. embassies in Cairo and Rabat.

But the website of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya, contains no link to a consulate in Benghazi (or anywhere else in Libya, for that matter). Likewise, the Key Officers List—the State Department’s continually updated guide to all U.S. diplomatic facilities worldwide—contains no information about a consulate in Benghazi, but it does list the addresses and names of senior personnel assigned to the U.S. consulates in Egypt and Morocco.

So if U.S. government websites do not list the diplomatic facilities attacked by terrorists in Benghazi in September as a genuine “consulate” in the traditional sense, then what was it? And whatever it was, why wasn’t it adequately protected?

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D1B wrote:
expandspanos wrote:Like I've been Saying All Along

There IS NO EMBASSY IN BENGHAZI

THERE IS NO CONSULATE IN BENGHAZI


Here is a list of all US Embassies, Consulates, and Missions; http://www.usembassy.gov/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Notice anything in Benghazi? It isn't listed because IT DOESNT EXIST.

Was There Ever a Real “U.S. Consulate” in Benghazi?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/15/was ... -benghazi/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In the many news reports published since the tragic and mysterious assassinations of four Americans in Libya on September 11, 2012, the scene of the terrorist attack is referred to variously as the “U.S. consulate” in Benghazi, the “U.S. mission” in Benghazi, or even as an American “embassy” in Benghazi.

Although President Obama in his news conference yesterday did little to bring greater clarity to what really happened in Libya, a look at several U.S. State Department websites might at least eliminate one of the many unknowns in this case: None of the official U.S. government websites refers to an actual U.S. “consulate” in Benghazi.

Consulates are Foreign Service posts that issue visas and passports, provide other American citizen services, and do day-to-day political and economic reporting as well as U.S. State Department “Front Office” diplomatic representation. Clearly the people in the facilities that were attacked in Benghazi (and we know little about them beyond the identities of those who were killed) were not doing that.

There are legitimate and real consulates in nearby countries—for example in Alexandria, Egypt, and in Casablanca, Morocco. The American public may be certain that those brick-and-mortar U.S. government facilities actually exist—in part because there are pictures of them and links to them on the websites of the U.S. embassies in Cairo and Rabat.

But the website of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya, contains no link to a consulate in Benghazi (or anywhere else in Libya, for that matter). Likewise, the Key Officers List—the State Department’s continually updated guide to all U.S. diplomatic facilities worldwide—contains no information about a consulate in Benghazi, but it does list the addresses and names of senior personnel assigned to the U.S. consulates in Egypt and Morocco.

So if U.S. government websites do not list the diplomatic facilities attacked by terrorists in Benghazi in September as a genuine “consulate” in the traditional sense, then what was it? And whatever it was, why wasn’t it adequately protected?

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houndawg wrote:
DSUrocks07 wrote:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

just like Cap'n

can't prove it, just thinking it happened is all the evidence you need. :coffee:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

11 attacks on consulates and embassies in seven countries between June, 2002 and September, 2008. Pakistan (3), Saudi Arabia (2), Uzbekistan, Syria, Greece, Turkey, Yemen (2).

59 killed, 98 injured. :tothehand:

Outrage from you and screwballs - nonexistent.


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Perhaps you shouldn't rely on wikipedia for your replies. :coffee:
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Re: 60 Minutes Segment on Benghazi

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houndawg wrote:scrueballs - schooled by 'spando. The ultimate in adding insult to injury... :ohno:
I'm not sure you understand what was just posted. :suspicious:
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