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2013-05-03 Africa North
Benghazi Whistle Blower: “… Americans Were Deliberately Left There To Die”
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Posted by tipper 2013-05-03 00:55|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 The Champ and the Hildebeast, it's the way they roll.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-03 02:00||   2013-05-03 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 We know the truth already. This leadership is of the third world. The voters are of the third world who vote for them. This is not a country we know but a country for them alone. This is not the right stuff. They will never be or do what is best for this country. The rest of the world knows this. Things can only get worse. They can admit no wrong. They can only do what is in their own political interests. The stock market is a good example. Why does it go up when we know things are so bad. Our money is now all their money. Our lives are now theirs to control. This has been one of the biggest con jobs in history. Not the only one but one of the biggest. They have lied so much they now believe their own lies. This is a modern illness. It is everywhere. When people seek to control others not represent them. A modern day people with primitive minds.
Posted by Dale 2013-05-03 04:51||   2013-05-03 04:51|| Front Page Top

#3 this is opinion, not whistleblowing

the author was in the US during the event
Posted by lord garth 2013-05-03 06:19||   2013-05-03 06:19|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and so was Obama and Hillery and the people at the White House and State who are without question engaged in damage control and cover up.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-05-03 08:05||   2013-05-03 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I believe the theory that they expected it to end any moment so they didn't send reinforcements that probably would have been to late and escalated the whole thing. Except it didn't end and continued on not ending. Then it became something they had to hide because there was time to save folks after all.

It points out to lack of judgement, lack of respect for those on the ground at risk, and lack of respect for the military.
Posted by rjschwarz 2013-05-03 08:34||   2013-05-03 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Three Big Developments in the Benghazi Investigation
Posted by tipper 2013-05-03 08:41||   2013-05-03 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Appears #2 and #5 [along with the SC State Legislation and their Obamacare Bill] have it!

Benghazi was a long time ago.
- Odious, little weasel WH spokesperson
Posted by  2013-05-03 08:59||   2013-05-03 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 BREAKING NEWS:

"USAF AC-130 Aircraft breaks into three piece in Kazakhstan crash".
Posted by Beseoker 2013-05-03 09:03||   2013-05-03 09:03|| Front Page Top

#9 That's four major air crashes in about 4 days (can only remember 3 but feel like there was a fourth.) That's statistically way beyond coincidence into the neighborhood of pattern. At least one or two were not accidents; it won't be long until a civilian airliner at a western airport gets hit.
Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-03 09:11||   2013-05-03 09:11|| Front Page Top

#10 CNN says a KC-135.
Posted by Matt 2013-05-03 09:14||   2013-05-03 09:14|| Front Page Top

#11 As many here are aware, a KC-135 is a 4 engine refueling tanker, a jet. Been around for a very, very long time.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-03 09:20||   2013-05-03 09:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Glenmore, what're the chances of this just being the accumulation of hard use and deferred or skimped maintenance just all coming due at the same time? We've been running airlift pretty heavily to make up for the Pakistani supply uncertainties.
Posted by Mitch H.  2013-05-03 09:37|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2013-05-03 09:37|| Front Page Top

#13 ABC Crash link.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-03 09:41||   2013-05-03 09:41|| Front Page Top

#14 The 747 the other day looked like a stall/mush to the crash. Flight control/systems failure? Crew incapacitation...?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-05-03 13:28||   2013-05-03 13:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Conventional wisdom on the 747 freighter is a catastrophic change in the center of gravity caused by freight movement.
Posted by Shipman 2013-05-03 13:43||   2013-05-03 13:43|| Front Page Top

#16 You disturb the Center of Gravity (CG) on one of those beasts, and the nose goes up....it can be 'shi* city' Ned. A vehicle breaks lose, or a 463L pallet, very bad juju.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-03 13:58||   2013-05-03 13:58|| Front Page Top

#17 The KC 135, basically a 707, was at least 47 years old. Look for more to break apart as the years go on.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-05-03 14:16||   2013-05-03 14:16|| Front Page Top

#18 I seem to remember a plan to purchase a replacement airframe for the KC-135... but the buy was put in the ditch by a greedy USAF Colonel and a crooked contracting scheme. Not sure if the upgrade ever took place.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-03 14:20||   2013-05-03 14:20|| Front Page Top

#19 There was an 8 year hiatus in the replacement as a result of the scandal. The 767 version was finally approved in 2011. I don't know when the first will be/was delivered.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-05-03 14:24||   2013-05-03 14:24|| Front Page Top

#20 All are tragic, but....The crash near Carpentersville, IL in '82 was very tragic. Many Space-A's aboard. You could have put the largest remaining piece in a pickup truck bed without much difficulty.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-03 14:37||   2013-05-03 14:37|| Front Page Top

#21 Wasn't that replacement mess also a part of a fight over Airbus v. Boeing?
Posted by AlanC 2013-05-03 15:47||   2013-05-03 15:47|| Front Page Top

#22 Yes.
The KC-17 idea was too damn obvious.
Posted by Shipman 2013-05-03 18:58||   2013-05-03 18:58|| Front Page Top

#23 And yeah, I'm of the party that thinks more C-17s and even more F-22 will not only win the war against terror but also scare the shit out of the rest of the world in case they are getting froggy.
Posted by Shipman 2013-05-03 19:00||   2013-05-03 19:00|| Front Page Top

#24 The 767 tanker program is pretty much on schedule up here in Boeingstan. as well as the 737-based P-8A ASW bird ( P-3 replacement). unlike the civilian 747-8 and easy bake airliner (aka 787) programs. Agree w/ previous about more KC-17s; lots of airframes in desert storage that would be cheaper to buy/modify and have bigger payload to boot.
Posted by USN,Ret, 2013-05-03 21:02||   2013-05-03 21:02|| Front Page Top

#25 BENGHAZI, as possibly linked to "Fast-n-Furious I" = Mexico + Drug-Crime Cartels, as possibly linked to "Fast-n-Furious II" [post-Gaddhafi Libyuhn arms to Syrian Rebels, North AFrica MIlitants] as possibly linked to "Fast-N-Furious III" [Syrian Reb arms to Caucasus] as linked to .... ... ???

And, unlike IRAN-CONTRA, wid no FAWN HALL + SHREDDER andor USMC COL. OLIVER NORTH.

NO SEXY SLINKY MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ EITHER.

But I digress ...
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-05-03 22:44||   2013-05-03 22:44|| Front Page Top

#26 OOOOOPPSIES, forgot WORLD NEWS > [Zee News]
"NORTH KOREA SUPPLIED NUKES [NucMats]TO LIBYA, SYRIA VIA AQ KHAN".

Possible Nukulaar link to Benghazi???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-05-03 22:47||   2013-05-03 22:47|| Front Page Top

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