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2013-05-11 Africa North

Gen Hayden: Sticking with false Benghazi story not forgivable

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-11 07:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's not just you General, who is being "treated like a child".

We the people Of the United States of America are the ones treated like a child BY OBAMA,and we're sick of it, we are NOT morons, we won't accept ANY LIE and swallow it, But OBAMA thinks so.

So we get Lie after Lie and are told "Swallow it".

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-05-11 10:54|| 2013-05-11 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 All this is contradicted by the Nov. 2012 election.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-11 11:58|| 2013-05-11 11:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I wouldn't style it "terrorism". A coordinated attack on a US embassy, annnex or no, is an act of war and should be recognized as such. And responded to appropriately, at the time and afterwards.

Posted by KBK 2013-05-11 14:44|| 2013-05-11 14:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Word, KBK.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-05-11 16:00|| 2013-05-11 16:00|| Front Page Top

#5 An act of war requires a state to be behind it - what we are calling terrorism are essentially acts of war without an identified state associated with them. Kind of like if Pearl Harbor had been attacked by unknown entities.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-11 16:06|| 2013-05-11 16:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Or rather, an affiliation of individuals from dozens of different countries, both allied and enemy.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-11 16:07|| 2013-05-11 16:07|| Front Page Top

#7 All having the exact same "Religion".

Go after that "fake" religion.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-05-11 16:44|| 2013-05-11 16:44|| Front Page Top

#8 An act of war requires a state to be behind it

I am still of the opinion that there is a state or states behind the attack.

Posted by Pappy 2013-05-11 17:50|| 2013-05-11 17:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Do you have an opinion about which state or states, Pappy?

Posted by RandomJD 2013-05-11 18:03|| 2013-05-11 18:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Putin seems an interesting name to look at here. If the Turks were meeting with our Ambassador to talk about the arms flow to the Syrian rebels from recovered Libyan armories, and the Russian client state of Syria was loosing it's grip, perhaps the old KGB colonel thought using cutout militants to wack our guy would send a signal that was familar to someone from Chicago.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-05-11 19:28|| 2013-05-11 19:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Do you have an opinion about which state or states, Pappy?

In no particular order: Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran (Al Quds Force or through Hesb'allah) and (yes) Russia.

It depends on whether a) gun running was involved, or b) there was gun-running with a belated attempt at controlling who the recipients were, c) or there was an operation in place to stop gun-running or at least one aspect of it (like MANPADS).

Posted by Pappy 2013-05-11 20:29|| 2013-05-11 20:29|| Front Page Top

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