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https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...embassies-and/
Prior to Benghazi, were there 13 attacks on embassies and 60 deaths under President George W. Bush?
Why is it always Obama that Trump supporters compare him too?
Thank goodness! That totally excused Obama!!! I was worried a little.
Retired United States Marine and Benghazi annex team member Mark Geist speaks out.
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“I fought to defend the American diplomatic post and CIA annex in Benghazi for more than 13 hours against a determined, organized assault by dozens of Al Qaeda fanatics armed with belt-fed machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and heavy mortars.
....My team and I were told to “stand down” no fewer than three times in the face of what the media later called “protesters” — even as Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were being killed and maimed by the terrorists. No U.S. military reaction force was sent, despite our numerous requests for help. Only by our own tenacity and courage were more than 30 Americans able to escape with our lives.
The Obama administration’s mishandling of this attack — which resulted in the first murder of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty since the 1970s — was a far cry from the Trump administration’s decisive response to threats against our embassy in Iraq
.....Compare that to the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. When Iran-backed militias and their supporters stormed the embassy grounds and Iraqi forces refused to do their duty to defend American lives and property,
President Trump reacted forcefully. In roughly the same amount of time it took to the Obama administration to get an unarmed American drone over our heads as we fought for our lives in Benghazi, more than 100 U.S. Marines were on the scene to defend the Baghdad embassy and two Apache helicopter gunships were in the air asserting American sovereignty.”
Nonsense. The demonstration in Baghdad was measured and coordinated by a well-regulated militia in a nation with a functioning government and against a highly fortified facility minutes from US troops. They were never in any real danger. The Benghazi demonstration was an out of control mob manipulated to commit murder.
I am so glad that people like you are on this board giving us the inside information regarding the plans of those protesters.
Only if they had you at Benghazi!!! So many lives could have been saved.
And therein lies why Trump is the President and Hillary is not. I believe that Obama and Hills handing of the Benghazi assault and subsequent lies to the grieving families of the fallen and the American people was the defining decision for many on who was getting their vote.
Obama and Hilary played politics with peoples lives and lost.
Trump has his issues but it is comforting to think that he is the type of President that would act first and worry about the fallout later. There is no doubt that he would have sent in help on the first call for aide.
It was said of Teddy Roosevelt that he walked softly and carried a big stick which was what was needed back then while Trump stomps loudly and carries a big club and that is what America needs right now.
That is funny because I just described Trump as a caveman.
Trump won because there are people that will believe anything, like the point of this thread. Maybe you missed the 15 Benghazi hearings that missed out on all these facts that the Geist fantasy brings back to life.
The four Americans that were sacrificed in Benghazi were ALLOWED to die by Obama and Hillary because they knew about the illegal gun running to enemy terrorists in which the Administration was engaged. That's all.
That's not what the 11 Republican investigations into Benghazi found.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...embassies-and/
Prior to Benghazi, were there 13 attacks on embassies and 60 deaths under President George W. Bush?
Why is it always Obama that Trump supporters compare him too?
Maybe because Obama escalated over Bush. The lessor of 2 evils is evil.
That's not what the 11 Republican investigations into Benghazi found.
Allowed to die? No.
But make no mistake about it, we were nation building and running guns to 1 side and the other side retaliated. That's called the truth. You should try it on for size. Or just become informed.
I am so glad that people like you are on this board giving us the inside information regarding the plans of those protesters.
Only if they had you at Benghazi!!! So many lives could have been saved.
The Benghazi whiners do not give chit about lives lost. Lives are lost every day. In wrecks caused by drunks, public areas being shot up by nuts, people who die because they cannot afford medical care. Not to mention young foreign civilians being shot by Navy Seals.
Were all Benghazi whiners insisting the congress give the security contract to American installations in foreign countries to the best bid, or like all government work, the cheapest.
You're damn skippy he should have. They were attacking American soil and our people. It hurts my heart whenever I think about our nation abandoning these guys and leaving them to die.
There are a few things that I always think about whenever I think about Obama:
1. His weak face - weak eyes
2. American men fighting on roofs in Benghazi, trying to hang on until reinforcements arrive and then trying to survive after they realized that reinforcements were not coming
3. If I like my doctor I can keep my doctor. Period.
4. American sailors on their knees with their hands behind their heads, and then Kerry thanking the Iranians for their treatment and release
5. James Taylors bald head singing You've Got a Friend (with Kerry standing beside him)
6. BP Agent Terry killed by a gun from Fast and Furious. There was only one way the US could track those guns - when they were used. On that day one of those guns was used to kill one of our border law enforcement officers
7. Giving a toast to the Queen while God Save the Queen was playing, and then stopping mid sentence once he realized that no-one else was standing with him.
8. Bowing from the waist to the Saudi king
9. Denigrating American citizens (who questioned the wisdom of bringing tens of thousands of unvetted refugees into the country) as being afraid of "women and orphans" during an international speech on the world stage
10. Admonishing the country for being racist. During a funeral service in Dallas. For five murdered law enforcement officers.
11. Inviting BLM to the WH
I've been reading for three solid years about how Trump is an embarrassment to the United States. To me, Obama was the embarrassment.
I didn't vote for Trump in 16 because he was a choir boy. I voted for him for many reasons - one of them being that I sensed he would handle international incidents in a different way than Obama did. I will be voting for him again this year.
Thanks for the reminder………..
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