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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, the President did not &quot;party&quot; the day after the Benghazi attacks. He, in fact, turned his speech at a brief campaign stop into a tribute to the four Americans lost in Benghazi. His schedule for September 11 and 12, 2012 is posted below. 

And where did President Ronald Reagan go the day after the Beirut terrorist attacks? He launched a three-day campaign swing in Iowa. 

The reality is that five of the seven deadliest terrorist attacks on Americans overseas, claiming from five to 283 lives between 1983 and 2004, occurred in the lead-up to or during presidential campaigns. Clearly, efforts have been made to influence or disrupt our democratic process. 

The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified that President Obama, as soon as word of the Benghazi attack reached Washington, gave orders to immediately deploy all necessary forces in response. The Chairman further testified that the White House maintained constant contact with the military command center during the attacks. 

In 1983, President Reagan -- despite the objections of his own staff -- sent American military personnel into harms way in Beirut with a presidential order not to load their weapons. From the outset, the American embassy in Beirut had sent numerous cables warning Washington that this military presence would provoke terrorism and undermine America’s standing in the Mideast. But there was no response.

Two weeks before the second embassy attack, the CIA obtained photographs of a Lebanon terrorist training facility that revealed oil drums arrayed to mimic the street layout and concrete barriers in front of the embassy, with fresh tire tracks visible that revealed the path the suicide bombers subsequently took. Despite this, no effort was made to beef up security at the embassy. The Reagan Administration later tried to hide these warnings and attempted to blame former President Carter. Reagan himself insensitively declared that “anyone who’s ever had their kitchen done knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.”

-- On April 18, 1983: Terrorist Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut.  Sixty-three people were killed, including 17 Americans.

-- On Oct. 23, 1983: Terrorist Bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut. A suicide bomber blew detonated a truck full of explosives at a U.S. Marine barracks; Two hundred and forty-one U.S. Marines were killed. It was the largest one-day death toll for Marines since the Battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. News reports described how, &quot;Realistically, they had become “sitting ducks” from the moment they entered Beirut. And as a result of their absurd orders, when the explosives-laden truck sped toward their doomed barracks, the two unarmed guards had no way of stopping it.&quot;

-- On Sept. 20, 1984: Terrorist Bombing of U.S. Embassy annex. In Aukar, northeast of Beirut, a truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy annex killing 24 people, two of whom were U.S. military personnel.

Despite the fact that Reagan had dispatched the Marines into an impossible situation and then had issued orders that led to their inability to defend themselves, he suffered relatively little criticism from the press or partisan opponents. 

And what did Ronald Reagan do on September 21, 1984, the day after the attack? He made three campaign appearances in Iowa.

I can get all snarky about this like you, but the reality is that we should not let terrorists impact our democratic campaign process. And it is nothing but partisan nonsense to think that strategic orders from the commander-in-chief are only issued from the White House situation room. 

President Reagan (who by the way, initially called it a &quot;despicable act&quot; -- not a terrorist attack or even an &quot;act of terror&quot;), went to great lengths defending his campaign activities after the terrorist attacks and explained that the official communications technology bubble (even at that time) and national security members who travel with the President made the location of the Commander-in-Chief largely irrelevant to the ability to respond to crisis. 

In 2012, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney saw his poll numbers plunge sharply as he tried to politicize the Benghazi attacks even before the full facts were known. The Nation reported, &quot;As forcefully as Romney is attempting to depict the attack as a consequence of Obama’s perceived Middle East “weakness,” over 90 percent of the 538 Americans who died in these seven earlier incidents did so while a Republican was in the White House, and Obama’s tally of four fatalities in overseas incidents is the lowest death toll of any modern American president.&quot;

On September 11, 2012, the President started the morning at a White House ceremony dedicated to the 9/11 attacks. He then proceeded to additional 9/11 ceremonies at the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery, where he acknowledged our troops lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the initial Benghazi assault commenced, President Obama was at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, meeting with wounded servicemen. When word of the Benghazi attack reached Washington, President Obama was briefed by his National Security Advisor and proceeded to meet with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at approximately 5 pm EST. He gave them full authority to immediately deploy all necessary forces. Photos from later that evening show the President continuing to confer with the Vice President and members of the National Security Team. 

On September 13, 2013 at 4 am EST, the President was notified that Ambassador Stevens had died from smoke inhalation from the intense fire started within the first 15 minutes of the initial attack. The President spent the morning conferring with staff including National Security advisors and from the State Department. At 10:35 am, the President addressed the American people and the press from the Rose Garden. He condemned the Benghazi attack as an act of terror and, despite initial intelligence and news reports linking the attacks to the anti-Muslim propaganda video, declared that there was no excuse for the violence against our people. At 10:50 am, the President traveled to the State Department and met with the colleagues grieving the loss of Ambassador Stevens and the other three Americans. The President later returned to the White House and continued to confer with National Security advisors and other staff. Later, the President proceeded to Andrews Air Force Base en route to Las Vegas, Nevada. At 9:10 pm, the President turned a scheduled campaign speech at the Cashman Center into a tribute to those lost in Benghazi. (See remarks below.) At 10:25 pm, the President departs McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas en route for Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado where he arrived at 11:55 am. 

The Cashman Center
Las Vegas, Nevada
6:03 P.M. PDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  So I wanted to begin tonight by just saying a few words about a tough day that we had today.  We lost four Americans last night, who were killed when they were attacked at a diplomatic post in Libya.  And they were serving overseas on our behalf, despite the dangers, despite the risks, to help one of the world’s youngest democracies get on its feet.  They were working to advance the interests and the values that we hold dear as Americans.  And as Americans, we stand united -– all of us -– in gratitude for their service, and we are mindful of their sacrifice, and we want to send out heartfelt prayers to their loved ones who grieve today.  

It’s a reminder that the freedoms we enjoy -– sometimes even the freedoms we take for granted -– they’re only sustained because there are people like those who were killed, who are willing to stand up for those freedoms; who are willing to fight for those freedoms; in some cases, to lay down their lives for those freedoms.  So tonight, let’s think of them and thank them.

As for the ones we lost last night:  I want to assure you, we will bring their killers to justice. And we want to send a message all around the world -- anybody who would do us harm:  No act of terror will dim the light of the values that we proudly shine on the rest of the world, and no act of violence will shake the resolve of the United States of America.  

We will not be deterred.  We will keep going.  We will keep going because the world needs us.  We are the one indispensable power in the world.  And if we are going to see peace and security for our children and our grandchildren, then that means that this generation of Americans has to lead.  We’re going to have to keep doing the work -- no matter how hard it seems sometimes.

And that’s what I want to talk to you about here today.  We’ve got work to do overseas; we’ve also got to do some work here at home. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, the President did not &#8220;party&#8221; the day after the Benghazi attacks. He, in fact, turned his speech at a brief campaign stop into a tribute to the four Americans lost in Benghazi. His schedule for September 11 and 12, 2012 is posted below. </p>
<p>And where did President Ronald Reagan go the day after the Beirut terrorist attacks? He launched a three-day campaign swing in Iowa. </p>
<p>The reality is that five of the seven deadliest terrorist attacks on Americans overseas, claiming from five to 283 lives between 1983 and 2004, occurred in the lead-up to or during presidential campaigns. Clearly, efforts have been made to influence or disrupt our democratic process. </p>
<p>The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified that President Obama, as soon as word of the Benghazi attack reached Washington, gave orders to immediately deploy all necessary forces in response. The Chairman further testified that the White House maintained constant contact with the military command center during the attacks. </p>
<p>In 1983, President Reagan &#8212; despite the objections of his own staff &#8212; sent American military personnel into harms way in Beirut with a presidential order not to load their weapons. From the outset, the American embassy in Beirut had sent numerous cables warning Washington that this military presence would provoke terrorism and undermine America’s standing in the Mideast. But there was no response.</p>
<p>Two weeks before the second embassy attack, the CIA obtained photographs of a Lebanon terrorist training facility that revealed oil drums arrayed to mimic the street layout and concrete barriers in front of the embassy, with fresh tire tracks visible that revealed the path the suicide bombers subsequently took. Despite this, no effort was made to beef up security at the embassy. The Reagan Administration later tried to hide these warnings and attempted to blame former President Carter. Reagan himself insensitively declared that “anyone who’s ever had their kitchen done knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.”</p>
<p>&#8211; On April 18, 1983: Terrorist Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut.  Sixty-three people were killed, including 17 Americans.</p>
<p>&#8211; On Oct. 23, 1983: Terrorist Bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut. A suicide bomber blew detonated a truck full of explosives at a U.S. Marine barracks; Two hundred and forty-one U.S. Marines were killed. It was the largest one-day death toll for Marines since the Battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. News reports described how, &#8220;Realistically, they had become “sitting ducks” from the moment they entered Beirut. And as a result of their absurd orders, when the explosives-laden truck sped toward their doomed barracks, the two unarmed guards had no way of stopping it.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; On Sept. 20, 1984: Terrorist Bombing of U.S. Embassy annex. In Aukar, northeast of Beirut, a truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy annex killing 24 people, two of whom were U.S. military personnel.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that Reagan had dispatched the Marines into an impossible situation and then had issued orders that led to their inability to defend themselves, he suffered relatively little criticism from the press or partisan opponents. </p>
<p>And what did Ronald Reagan do on September 21, 1984, the day after the attack? He made three campaign appearances in Iowa.</p>
<p>I can get all snarky about this like you, but the reality is that we should not let terrorists impact our democratic campaign process. And it is nothing but partisan nonsense to think that strategic orders from the commander-in-chief are only issued from the White House situation room. </p>
<p>President Reagan (who by the way, initially called it a &#8220;despicable act&#8221; &#8212; not a terrorist attack or even an &#8220;act of terror&#8221;), went to great lengths defending his campaign activities after the terrorist attacks and explained that the official communications technology bubble (even at that time) and national security members who travel with the President made the location of the Commander-in-Chief largely irrelevant to the ability to respond to crisis. </p>
<p>In 2012, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney saw his poll numbers plunge sharply as he tried to politicize the Benghazi attacks even before the full facts were known. The Nation reported, &#8220;As forcefully as Romney is attempting to depict the attack as a consequence of Obama’s perceived Middle East “weakness,” over 90 percent of the 538 Americans who died in these seven earlier incidents did so while a Republican was in the White House, and Obama’s tally of four fatalities in overseas incidents is the lowest death toll of any modern American president.&#8221;</p>
<p>On September 11, 2012, the President started the morning at a White House ceremony dedicated to the 9/11 attacks. He then proceeded to additional 9/11 ceremonies at the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery, where he acknowledged our troops lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the initial Benghazi assault commenced, President Obama was at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, meeting with wounded servicemen. When word of the Benghazi attack reached Washington, President Obama was briefed by his National Security Advisor and proceeded to meet with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at approximately 5 pm EST. He gave them full authority to immediately deploy all necessary forces. Photos from later that evening show the President continuing to confer with the Vice President and members of the National Security Team. </p>
<p>On September 13, 2013 at 4 am EST, the President was notified that Ambassador Stevens had died from smoke inhalation from the intense fire started within the first 15 minutes of the initial attack. The President spent the morning conferring with staff including National Security advisors and from the State Department. At 10:35 am, the President addressed the American people and the press from the Rose Garden. He condemned the Benghazi attack as an act of terror and, despite initial intelligence and news reports linking the attacks to the anti-Muslim propaganda video, declared that there was no excuse for the violence against our people. At 10:50 am, the President traveled to the State Department and met with the colleagues grieving the loss of Ambassador Stevens and the other three Americans. The President later returned to the White House and continued to confer with National Security advisors and other staff. Later, the President proceeded to Andrews Air Force Base en route to Las Vegas, Nevada. At 9:10 pm, the President turned a scheduled campaign speech at the Cashman Center into a tribute to those lost in Benghazi. (See remarks below.) At 10:25 pm, the President departs McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas en route for Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado where he arrived at 11:55 am. </p>
<p>The Cashman Center<br />
Las Vegas, Nevada<br />
6:03 P.M. PDT</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  So I wanted to begin tonight by just saying a few words about a tough day that we had today.  We lost four Americans last night, who were killed when they were attacked at a diplomatic post in Libya.  And they were serving overseas on our behalf, despite the dangers, despite the risks, to help one of the world’s youngest democracies get on its feet.  They were working to advance the interests and the values that we hold dear as Americans.  And as Americans, we stand united -– all of us -– in gratitude for their service, and we are mindful of their sacrifice, and we want to send out heartfelt prayers to their loved ones who grieve today.  </p>
<p>It’s a reminder that the freedoms we enjoy -– sometimes even the freedoms we take for granted -– they’re only sustained because there are people like those who were killed, who are willing to stand up for those freedoms; who are willing to fight for those freedoms; in some cases, to lay down their lives for those freedoms.  So tonight, let’s think of them and thank them.</p>
<p>As for the ones we lost last night:  I want to assure you, we will bring their killers to justice. And we want to send a message all around the world &#8212; anybody who would do us harm:  No act of terror will dim the light of the values that we proudly shine on the rest of the world, and no act of violence will shake the resolve of the United States of America.  </p>
<p>We will not be deterred.  We will keep going.  We will keep going because the world needs us.  We are the one indispensable power in the world.  And if we are going to see peace and security for our children and our grandchildren, then that means that this generation of Americans has to lead.  We’re going to have to keep doing the work &#8212; no matter how hard it seems sometimes.</p>
<p>And that’s what I want to talk to you about here today.  We’ve got work to do overseas; we’ve also got to do some work here at home. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Ward]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to keep up. Even the conservative Washington Times reported in June that there was no stand down. 

Hicks, who acknowledged he was in Tripoli watching TV and missed several calls from Ambassador Stevens during the initial attack, erroneously described the site security team leader, Army Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson as being told to &quot;stand down.&quot; 

&quot;But Col. Gibson said Wednesday [June 26, 2013] that no stand-down order was given, according to the House Armed Services subcommittee on oversight and investigations. The subcommittee held a classified briefing with Col. Gibson; retired Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, former commander of U.S. Africa Command; and Navy Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa.&quot;

“Contrary to news reports, Gibson was not ordered to ‘stand down’ by higher command authorities in response to his understandable desire to lead a group of three other Special Forces soldiers to Benghazi,” the subcommittee said in a rare statement about a closed-door briefing.
Instead, the site security team was ordered to remain in Tripoli to defend the embassy and its staff in case terrorists also struck in the capital while the Benghazi post was under attack, and to assist the wounded who were being evacuated to Tripoli after the first phase of the fighting had ended, the statement said.&quot;

&quot;Col. Gibson “acknowledged that, had he deployed to Benghazi, he would have left Americans in Tripoli undefended. He also stated that, in hindsight, he would not have been able to get to Benghazi in time to make a difference, and as it turned out, his medic was needed to provide urgent assistance to survivors once they arrived in Tripoli,” the statement said.

The medic “saved the leg and probably the life” of one of the evacuated personnel, according to Mr. Hicks‘ congressional testimony.&quot;

Read more: http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/27/lawmakers-no-stand-down-order-given-benghazi/#ixzz2akAlWOla 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Try to keep up. Even the conservative Washington Times reported in June that there was no stand down. </p>
<p>Hicks, who acknowledged he was in Tripoli watching TV and missed several calls from Ambassador Stevens during the initial attack, erroneously described the site security team leader, Army Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson as being told to &#8220;stand down.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;But Col. Gibson said Wednesday [June 26, 2013] that no stand-down order was given, according to the House Armed Services subcommittee on oversight and investigations. The subcommittee held a classified briefing with Col. Gibson; retired Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, former commander of U.S. Africa Command; and Navy Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Contrary to news reports, Gibson was not ordered to ‘stand down’ by higher command authorities in response to his understandable desire to lead a group of three other Special Forces soldiers to Benghazi,” the subcommittee said in a rare statement about a closed-door briefing.<br />
Instead, the site security team was ordered to remain in Tripoli to defend the embassy and its staff in case terrorists also struck in the capital while the Benghazi post was under attack, and to assist the wounded who were being evacuated to Tripoli after the first phase of the fighting had ended, the statement said.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Col. Gibson “acknowledged that, had he deployed to Benghazi, he would have left Americans in Tripoli undefended. He also stated that, in hindsight, he would not have been able to get to Benghazi in time to make a difference, and as it turned out, his medic was needed to provide urgent assistance to survivors once they arrived in Tripoli,” the statement said.</p>
<p>The medic “saved the leg and probably the life” of one of the evacuated personnel, according to Mr. Hicks‘ congressional testimony.&#8221;</p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/27/lawmakers-no-stand-down-order-given-benghazi/#ixzz2akAlWOla" rel="nofollow">http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/27/lawmakers-no-stand-down-order-given-benghazi/#ixzz2akAlWOla</a> </p>
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		<title>By: Alice Sharpen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Sharpen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the 32 Survivors who were in Benghazi and injured have not been interviewed on American soil by the Congressional Panel yet Jimmy.  Ramstein just doesn&#039;t cut it since this Administration is just not trustworthy, nor are the reasons worth explaining to you again.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But the 32 Survivors who were in Benghazi and injured have not been interviewed on American soil by the Congressional Panel yet Jimmy.  Ramstein just doesn&#8217;t cut it since this Administration is just not trustworthy, nor are the reasons worth explaining to you again.</p>
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		<title>By: Alice Sharpen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Sharpen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your words actually had any merit Jimmy, and Obama was fully aware of all that occurred just as you claim, the man boarded AF1 less than 12 hours after learning of Stevens death for a Jay-Z fundraiser in Las Vegas.  The body of an American Diplomat wasn&#039;t even yet cold and Obama insisted on partying down with the Felon Jay-Z as scheduled Jimmy.  Jimmy, you are flawed, your responses are made by your cookie cutter provided by this Admin.  The Low-Information mentality of Obama&#039;s voters fall for your bullshit Jimmy, but not everybody.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If your words actually had any merit Jimmy, and Obama was fully aware of all that occurred just as you claim, the man boarded AF1 less than 12 hours after learning of Stevens death for a Jay-Z fundraiser in Las Vegas.  The body of an American Diplomat wasn&#8217;t even yet cold and Obama insisted on partying down with the Felon Jay-Z as scheduled Jimmy.  Jimmy, you are flawed, your responses are made by your cookie cutter provided by this Admin.  The Low-Information mentality of Obama&#8217;s voters fall for your bullshit Jimmy, but not everybody.</p>
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		<title>By: Alice Sharpen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Sharpen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;and 32 Americans were safely evacuated and on a plane home within hours.&quot;
Wrong Jimmy, they were enroute to Ramstein AFB and haven&#039;t been heard from since.  Until now.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;and 32 Americans were safely evacuated and on a plane home within hours.&#8221;<br />
Wrong Jimmy, they were enroute to Ramstein AFB and haven&#8217;t been heard from since.  Until now.</p>
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		<title>By: Alice Sharpen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Sharpen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Hicks testimony who was in Tripoli &amp; in contact with Stevens &amp; Benghazi, there was indeed a stand down order given Jimmy. This is public knowledge and is public record from his testimony before Congress.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Hicks testimony who was in Tripoli &amp; in contact with Stevens &amp; Benghazi, there was indeed a stand down order given Jimmy. This is public knowledge and is public record from his testimony before Congress.</p>
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		<title>By: Alice Sharpen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Sharpen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim according to you the survivors were taken to Ramstein and made available for questioning by the FBI and Technicians for several days, thousands of miles away from their homes and the USA, dog.  How transparent.  Very cookie cutter of you Jimmy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim according to you the survivors were taken to Ramstein and made available for questioning by the FBI and Technicians for several days, thousands of miles away from their homes and the USA, dog.  How transparent.  Very cookie cutter of you Jimmy.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Ward]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, dawg. But this isn&#039;t about you or me, is it? And your accusations -- initially concocted by partisans trying to win political points by exploiting these deaths -- are all bark and no bite. Multiple investigations, hearings and reports and the facts remain the same: no stand down, no delayed response from superiors, and no cover-up. Stevens and Smith died from smoke inhalation from the outpost being set ablaze within 15 minutes. 2 Global Response forces were launched, the first in 25 minutes from 1.5 miles away and the second from Tripoli. The forces were comprised of active military and former SEALS and Commandos. Partisans dishonor the two soldiers -- one from each force -- who were killed manning a machine gun atop the CIA base -- when they claim there was no rescue team launched. In the end, these brave forces killed nearly 100 of the attacking militants/terrorists, the bodies of our 4 dead were secured, and 32 Americans were safely evacuated and on a plane home in hours. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, dawg. But this isn&#8217;t about you or me, is it? And your accusations &#8212; initially concocted by partisans trying to win political points by exploiting these deaths &#8212; are all bark and no bite. Multiple investigations, hearings and reports and the facts remain the same: no stand down, no delayed response from superiors, and no cover-up. Stevens and Smith died from smoke inhalation from the outpost being set ablaze within 15 minutes. 2 Global Response forces were launched, the first in 25 minutes from 1.5 miles away and the second from Tripoli. The forces were comprised of active military and former SEALS and Commandos. Partisans dishonor the two soldiers &#8212; one from each force &#8212; who were killed manning a machine gun atop the CIA base &#8212; when they claim there was no rescue team launched. In the end, these brave forces killed nearly 100 of the attacking militants/terrorists, the bodies of our 4 dead were secured, and 32 Americans were safely evacuated and on a plane home in hours. </p>
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		<title>By: bruce101</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[jim ward you are a good commie liar for bongo boy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jim ward you are a good commie liar for bongo boy.</p>
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		<title>By: anthony barrett</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[anthony barrett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh it just makes your blood boil, who do these people think they are, do they work for the population of the usa, or do they work for someone else, i would say the latter,these people have no control on what they are doing we need change everywhere,a concerned citizen of the united kingdom]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh it just makes your blood boil, who do these people think they are, do they work for the population of the usa, or do they work for someone else, i would say the latter,these people have no control on what they are doing we need change everywhere,a concerned citizen of the united kingdom</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your credibility carries as much water as your messiah Obummer. The bottom line which you so conveniently forget to mention from those so called experts, is we do not leave personnel in the field and hang them out to dry for political expediency, period. Your so called facts are nothing more than political sycophants covering up their cowardly behavior. Oh yes before you call my creds into question, I have been in this line of work for over 25 years now. So before you think you can come out and bark with the big dogs, you had better get off of the porch first.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your credibility carries as much water as your messiah Obummer. The bottom line which you so conveniently forget to mention from those so called experts, is we do not leave personnel in the field and hang them out to dry for political expediency, period. Your so called facts are nothing more than political sycophants covering up their cowardly behavior. Oh yes before you call my creds into question, I have been in this line of work for over 25 years now. So before you think you can come out and bark with the big dogs, you had better get off of the porch first.</p>
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		<title>By: wildjew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your &quot;facts&quot; prove nothing.  Barack Obama has no credibility.  That is the essential point.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your &#8220;facts&#8221; prove nothing.  Barack Obama has no credibility.  That is the essential point.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Ward]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CIA&#039;s reference to the Benghazi attack being &quot;inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo&quot; proves that the intelligence community itself believed that a link existed between the attacks and the film. The &quot;protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo&quot; were part of a series of global riots and protests in Muslim countries that were partly in response to increased awareness of the anti-Islam video.

On Oct. 16, David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times reported from Cairo:
&quot;To Libyans who witnessed the assault and know the attackers, there is little doubt what occurred: a well-known group of local Islamist militants struck the United States Mission without any warning or protest, and they did it in retaliation for the video. That is what the fighters said at the time, speaking emotionally of their anger at the video without mentioning Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the terrorist strikes of 11 years earlier. And it is an explanation that tracks with their history as members of a local militant group determined to protect Libya from Western influence. … The assailants approvingly recalled a 2006 assault by local Islamists that had destroyed an Italian diplomatic mission in Benghazi over a perceived insult to the prophet. In June the group staged a similar attack against the Tunisian Consulate over a different film. … Other Benghazi militia leaders who know the group say its leaders and ideology are all homegrown. … [T]hey openly proselytize for their brand of puritanical Islam and political vision. They profess no interest in global fights against the West or distant battles aimed at removing American troops from the Arabian Peninsula.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The CIA&#8217;s reference to the Benghazi attack being &#8220;inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo&#8221; proves that the intelligence community itself believed that a link existed between the attacks and the film. The &#8220;protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo&#8221; were part of a series of global riots and protests in Muslim countries that were partly in response to increased awareness of the anti-Islam video.</p>
<p>On Oct. 16, David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times reported from Cairo:<br />
&#8220;To Libyans who witnessed the assault and know the attackers, there is little doubt what occurred: a well-known group of local Islamist militants struck the United States Mission without any warning or protest, and they did it in retaliation for the video. That is what the fighters said at the time, speaking emotionally of their anger at the video without mentioning Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the terrorist strikes of 11 years earlier. And it is an explanation that tracks with their history as members of a local militant group determined to protect Libya from Western influence. … The assailants approvingly recalled a 2006 assault by local Islamists that had destroyed an Italian diplomatic mission in Benghazi over a perceived insult to the prophet. In June the group staged a similar attack against the Tunisian Consulate over a different film. … Other Benghazi militia leaders who know the group say its leaders and ideology are all homegrown. … [T]hey openly proselytize for their brand of puritanical Islam and political vision. They profess no interest in global fights against the West or distant battles aimed at removing American troops from the Arabian Peninsula.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to have a foreign policy discussion about the long history of U.S. &quot;secret&quot; wars that have continued through decades of Republican and Democratic administrations, fine, but there is no impeachable offense here. Not even close. So the CIA was arming Western-backed rebels in Syria fighting to overthrow the Assad regime. This further flies in the face of all who wish to paint this President out to be some kind of leftist. John Bolton and all the Neocons have been calling for the overthrow of the Assad regime. At least President Obama is not giving them the outright war against Syria and Iran that they are thirsting for. Then, of course, we have the hypocrite McCain who knew full well what we were doing in Benghazi, attacks the Obama Administration for the operation, and then gets a photo op with the Syrian rebels and calls on the Administration to arm them. Yes, bloody pathetic!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to have a foreign policy discussion about the long history of U.S. &#8220;secret&#8221; wars that have continued through decades of Republican and Democratic administrations, fine, but there is no impeachable offense here. Not even close. So the CIA was arming Western-backed rebels in Syria fighting to overthrow the Assad regime. This further flies in the face of all who wish to paint this President out to be some kind of leftist. John Bolton and all the Neocons have been calling for the overthrow of the Assad regime. At least President Obama is not giving them the outright war against Syria and Iran that they are thirsting for. Then, of course, we have the hypocrite McCain who knew full well what we were doing in Benghazi, attacks the Obama Administration for the operation, and then gets a photo op with the Syrian rebels and calls on the Administration to arm them. Yes, bloody pathetic!</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And this proves that the facts I have laid out on Benghazi are wrong, huh?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And this proves that the facts I have laid out on Benghazi are wrong, huh?</p>
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		<title>By: 4Bravo1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the totally discredited talking points is your proof, but the eye witness accounts are not?  Additionally the protests were on 9-11 which just might have something to do with it, since all foreign U.S. outposts receive the same warnings every year on 9-11.  Sure watching other people attack embassies could embolden you, but the cause-effect for the attack in Benghazi was not the video.  Zero proof and zero mention.  The administration is factually on the record as saying it was a protest in Banghazi caused by the video which turned into the attack.   Extra meaningless paragraphs do not provide any weight to your argument.  The fact that you even begin to offer the talking points shows how weak your argument is.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the totally discredited talking points is your proof, but the eye witness accounts are not?  Additionally the protests were on 9-11 which just might have something to do with it, since all foreign U.S. outposts receive the same warnings every year on 9-11.  Sure watching other people attack embassies could embolden you, but the cause-effect for the attack in Benghazi was not the video.  Zero proof and zero mention.  The administration is factually on the record as saying it was a protest in Banghazi caused by the video which turned into the attack.   Extra meaningless paragraphs do not provide any weight to your argument.  The fact that you even begin to offer the talking points shows how weak your argument is.</p>
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		<title>By: bungopony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Ridiculous&quot;?!!?Every day these scum plumb new depths of evil.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Ridiculous&#8221;?!!?Every day these scum plumb new depths of evil.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Ward]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The point was missing because it is fiction. There were no &quot;stand down&quot; orders. There were attacks on embassies and U.S. facilities throughout the Mid East and in more than 20 nations. Being told to stay at your post guarding other facilities is hardly a &quot;stand down&quot; order. Not scrambling planes because they would not arrive in time to make a difference is hardly a &quot;stand down&quot; order. 

As Bush&#039;s Secretary of Defense, Republican Robert Gates explained, such criticism is based on a &quot;cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces.&quot;

&quot;Suggestions that we could have flown a fighter jet over the attackers to &quot;scare them with the noise or something,&quot; Gates said, ignored the &quot;number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from [former Libyan leader] Qaddafi&#039;s arsenals.&quot;

&quot;I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances,&quot; he said.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The point was missing because it is fiction. There were no &#8220;stand down&#8221; orders. There were attacks on embassies and U.S. facilities throughout the Mid East and in more than 20 nations. Being told to stay at your post guarding other facilities is hardly a &#8220;stand down&#8221; order. Not scrambling planes because they would not arrive in time to make a difference is hardly a &#8220;stand down&#8221; order. </p>
<p>As Bush&#8217;s Secretary of Defense, Republican Robert Gates explained, such criticism is based on a &#8220;cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Suggestions that we could have flown a fighter jet over the attackers to &#8220;scare them with the noise or something,&#8221; Gates said, ignored the &#8220;number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from [former Libyan leader] Qaddafi&#8217;s arsenals.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances,&#8221; he said.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;CIA Documents Supported Susan Rice&#039;s Description of Benghazi Attacks&quot; by David Ignatius, October 19, 2012

“Talking points” prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate as a reaction to Arab anger about an anti-Muslim video prepared in the United States. According to the CIA account, “The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. Consulate and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations.”

&quot;The CIA document went on: “This assessment may change as additional information is collected and analyzed and as currently available information continues to be evaluated.”
The senior intelligence official said the analysts’ judgment was based in part on monitoring of some of the Benghazi attackers, which showed they had been watching the Cairo protests live on television and talking about them before they assaulted the consulate.&quot;

“We believe the timing of the attack was influenced by events in Cairo,” the senior official said, reaffirming the Cairo-Benghazi link. He said that judgment is repeated in a new report prepared this week for the House intelligence committee.&quot;

&quot;A memo prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center on Sept. 14 illustrates the fragmentary nature of the evidence: “As time progresses, we are learning more, but we still don’t have a complete picture of what happened,” noted the analysts. “At this point, we are not aware of any actionable intelligence that this attack was planned or imminent. . . . We are very cautious about drawing any firm conclusions at this point with regard to identification and motivation of the attackers.”

&quot;Ironically, the Sept. 15 talking points that were the basis for Rice’s televised comments were requested by the House intelligence committee. Ideally, the congressional oversight committees would provide bipartisan support for intelligence officials who are probing the attack. But in the heat of the final pre-election weeks, the murky details of what happened in Libya have instead become political assault weapons.&quot;

(This article incorrectly refers to the Benghazi outpost as a U.S. consulate. We now know that it was, of course, not a consulate or an embassy, and was largely a CIA operation recovering arms in post-war Libya and supporting allies arming the Western-backed rebels in Syria trying to overthrow the Assad regime.) 

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;CIA Documents Supported Susan Rice&#8217;s Description of Benghazi Attacks&#8221; by David Ignatius, October 19, 2012</p>
<p>“Talking points” prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate as a reaction to Arab anger about an anti-Muslim video prepared in the United States. According to the CIA account, “The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. Consulate and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations.”</p>
<p>&#8220;The CIA document went on: “This assessment may change as additional information is collected and analyzed and as currently available information continues to be evaluated.”<br />
The senior intelligence official said the analysts’ judgment was based in part on monitoring of some of the Benghazi attackers, which showed they had been watching the Cairo protests live on television and talking about them before they assaulted the consulate.&#8221;</p>
<p>“We believe the timing of the attack was influenced by events in Cairo,” the senior official said, reaffirming the Cairo-Benghazi link. He said that judgment is repeated in a new report prepared this week for the House intelligence committee.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A memo prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center on Sept. 14 illustrates the fragmentary nature of the evidence: “As time progresses, we are learning more, but we still don’t have a complete picture of what happened,” noted the analysts. “At this point, we are not aware of any actionable intelligence that this attack was planned or imminent. . . . We are very cautious about drawing any firm conclusions at this point with regard to identification and motivation of the attackers.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Ironically, the Sept. 15 talking points that were the basis for Rice’s televised comments were requested by the House intelligence committee. Ideally, the congressional oversight committees would provide bipartisan support for intelligence officials who are probing the attack. But in the heat of the final pre-election weeks, the murky details of what happened in Libya have instead become political assault weapons.&#8221;</p>
<p>(This article incorrectly refers to the Benghazi outpost as a U.S. consulate. We now know that it was, of course, not a consulate or an embassy, and was largely a CIA operation recovering arms in post-war Libya and supporting allies arming the Western-backed rebels in Syria trying to overthrow the Assad regime.) </p>
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		<title>By: Jim Ward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m glad to hear you know better than Democratic and Republican military experts alike in this regard. As Bush&#039;s Secretary of Defense, Republican Robert Gates explained, such criticism is based on a &quot;cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces.&quot;

&quot;Suggestions that we could have flown a fighter jet over the attackers to &quot;scare them with the noise or something,&quot; Gates said, ignored the &quot;number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from [former Libyan leader] Qaddafi&#039;s arsenals.&quot;

&quot;I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances,&quot; he said.

And, believe me, you don&#039;t want to compare the number of terrorists killed on Obama&#039;s watch with the Bush Administration. As Jake Tapper reported in 2011 (the list has since grown substantially)... 

The list of senior terrorists killed during the Obama presidency is fairly extensive.

There’s Osama bin Laden,  of course, killed in May.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki as of today.

Earlier this month officials confirmed that al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan.

In August, ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman,  the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.

In June, one of the group’s most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan. In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior operatives Ammar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed.

Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani  in Quetta.

Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.

In September of that month, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.

Then in December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and ‘Abdallah Sa’id were killed.

In February 2010, in Pakistan,  Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured; Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani was killed; and Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed.

In March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan, while senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin  - accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia.

In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.

In May, al Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri was killed.

In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed.

Remember when Rudy Giuliani warned that electing Barack Obama would mean that the U.S. played defense, not offense, against the terrorists?

If this is defense, what does offense look like?

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad to hear you know better than Democratic and Republican military experts alike in this regard. As Bush&#8217;s Secretary of Defense, Republican Robert Gates explained, such criticism is based on a &#8220;cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Suggestions that we could have flown a fighter jet over the attackers to &#8220;scare them with the noise or something,&#8221; Gates said, ignored the &#8220;number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from [former Libyan leader] Qaddafi&#8217;s arsenals.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>And, believe me, you don&#8217;t want to compare the number of terrorists killed on Obama&#8217;s watch with the Bush Administration. As Jake Tapper reported in 2011 (the list has since grown substantially)&#8230; </p>
<p>The list of senior terrorists killed during the Obama presidency is fairly extensive.</p>
<p>There’s Osama bin Laden,  of course, killed in May.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki as of today.</p>
<p>Earlier this month officials confirmed that al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan.</p>
<p>In August, ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman,  the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.</p>
<p>In June, one of the group’s most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan. In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior operatives Ammar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed.</p>
<p>Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani  in Quetta.</p>
<p>Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.</p>
<p>In September of that month, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.</p>
<p>Then in December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and ‘Abdallah Sa’id were killed.</p>
<p>In February 2010, in Pakistan,  Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured; Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani was killed; and Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed.</p>
<p>In March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan, while senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin  &#8211; accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia.</p>
<p>In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.</p>
<p>In May, al Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri was killed.</p>
<p>In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed.</p>
<p>Remember when Rudy Giuliani warned that electing Barack Obama would mean that the U.S. played defense, not offense, against the terrorists?</p>
<p>If this is defense, what does offense look like?</p>
<p>-Jake Tapper</p>
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