Gene363
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13 years ago

Come on Gene: "Acting Presidential" is way too vague. Besides, it is a circular response.

What should any President who is running for re-election have done? Suspend the campaign? Go back to Washington to hold a Press Conference from the White house? Address the matter in a White House Speech? Help me out here. Be specific.

rfenst wrote:



Any protest that destroys US property or personnel will be responded to in kind, x100. Tell the savages we will not impair our freedoms to indulge their religious fantasies.

Your own suggestions are not bad either.

wheelrite
13 years ago

The video is a joke.

This was preplanned and organized before it was released. This was an anniversary event.

ZRX1200 wrote:



yes,,,,
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago

it prolly won't be called terrorism either... 😟

DrafterX wrote:




Ah yeah, the ol' "Workplace Violence" moniker!🐴
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago
Leading from behind

Obama went to sleep Tuesday night without knowing what happened to Ambassador Stevens

In the IDF, the motto for all officers, and the ethos that they are taught is 'acharay' (follow me). Commanders lead their troops into battle. That is clearly not the case in Washington.

If you read this account of how and when President Obama knew what happened to US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens (pictured above being dragged through the streets of Benghazi), it is clear that Obama went to sleep Tuesday night without even bothering to confirm Stevens' fate.

A White House official said national security advisor Tom Donilon first briefed the president on the violence in Benghazi on Tuesday afternoon, at the top of a weekly meeting with the Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey.

The president was updated throughout the evening, and notified late Tuesday that Stevens was unaccounted for. Obama learned Wednesday that Stevens was confirmed dead Wednesday morning, the official said.

Maybe Obama was busy sorting out quarters for his trip to Las Vegas? By comparison, the night that the Navy Seals killed Osama Bin Laden, Mr. 'Gutsiest Call Ever' went on national television at 11:30 pm (6:30 am here in Israel) to announce it. But then, Chris Stevens isn't going to play any role in reelecting him anyway.

Chris Stevens was a career diplomat and not an Obama bundler like many other US ambassadors. Maybe that's why Obama couldn't give a damn about him.


http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/09/leading-from-behind-obama-went-to-sleep.html 



Yeah...he doesn't DESERVE a 2nd term!
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago
Breaking: John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Criticize President's Mid East Response


The press tried to skewer Mitt Romney for his statements about the President's handling of the attacks on our Egyptian and Libyan embassies:

“I also believe the Administration was wrong to stand by a statement sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt instead of condemning their actions. It's never too early for the United States Government to condemn attacks on Americans, and to defend our values. The White House distanced itself last night from the statement, saying it wasn't ‘cleared by Washington.’ That reflects the mixed signals they’re sending to the world.

“The attacks in Libya and Egypt underscore that the world remains a dangerous place and that American leadership is still sorely needed. In the face of this violence, America cannot shrink from the responsibility to lead. American leadership is necessary to ensure that events in the region don’t spin out of control. We cannot hesitate to use our influence in the region to support those who share our values and our interests. Over the last several years, we have stood witness to an Arab Spring that presents an opportunity for a more peaceful and prosperous region, but also poses the potential for peril, if the forces of extremism and violence are allowed to control the course of events.

The Mainstream Media said nothing about the criticism of the President's response in the Middle East that came from the Democratic Party. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and others all ripped the president for his Mid East actions. Most of those statements were vicious, unlike Romney's statesman-like comments.

I didn't read about the press backlash when Nancy Pelosi said this:

"Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he's not a leader,'' Pelosi said. "He's a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon. He has on his shoulders the deaths of many more troops, because he would not heed the advice of his own State Department of what to expect after May 1 when he ... declared that major combat is over,'' Pelosi charged. "The shallowness that he has brought to the office has not changed since he got there.''

Today the press was caught colluding about the questions they would ask at a press conference in an attempt to make Romney look bad. I don't remember them colluding when:

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, in a news conference with Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said the problems in Iraq are due to a "lack of planning" by Pentagon chiefs and "the direction has got be changed or it is unwinnable."

Or when Harry Reid said:

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday," said Reid.

This morning NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd said [The Romney campaign] wish they had that press release back, because as the hours unfolded....this statement looks crass and tone deaf in the light of this day. I can't recall him saying anything on Sept. 7th, 2004:

a day when seven U.S. servicemen were killed in a suicide bombing attack in Iraq, [Democratic Party Presidential candidate John] Kerry termed the war in Iraq "catastrophic." Still later, he referred to it in a statement as "a quagmire," a word often applied to the U.S. conflict in Vietnam.

"I would not have done just one thing differently than the president on Iraq, I would have done everything differently than the president on Iraq. I said this from the beginning of the debate to the walk up to the war. I said, 'Mr. President, don't rush to war, take the time to build a legitimate coalition and have a plan to win the peace.'
When Ted Kennedy passed away, Chuck Todd wrote:

Kennedy's place as Senate legend is well in hand now. The Lion of the Senate is talked about in the same breath as folks like Daniel Webster.

And while Kennedy was a liberal icon, he was known for his ability to find ways to work with Republicans. Not surprisingly, many have questioned what a difference he would have made in the recent health care debate had he been able to participate. Still to come is how his legacy will be used going forward.

I suppose It didn't bother him when Kennedy said:

The president's handling of the war has been a toxic mix ofignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideology. No amount ofPresidential rhetoric or preposterous campaign spin canconceal the facts about the steady downward spiral in ournational security since President Bush made the decision to goto war in Iraq. If this election is decided on the question ofwhether America is safer because of President George Bush,John Kerry will win in a landslide.The war in Iraq has made the mushroom cloud more likely, not lesslikely.

Or even worse Todd forgot to mention that Ted Kennedy committed Treason:

Kennedy dispatched former Sen. John Tunney, a fellow Democrat from California, to seek face-to-face meetings between Kennedy and General Secretary Yuri Andropov. Tunney brought with him a memo on the tense relations between the U.S. and Soviets – with Kennedy siding unequivocally with the Soviets and blaming Reagan.

In a report by KGB Chairman Viktor Chebrikov, Kennedy is represented as suggesting "that in the interest of world peace, it would be useful and timely to take a few extra steps to counteract the militaristic policies of Ronald Reagan."

Well you know that Ted, he was so popular he could get away with murder.

It is very strange that the liberal media would go out of their way's to bash Mitt Romney who criticized the White House for sending a message which seemed to excuse violence and murder waged against American citizens. Especially when you consider the fact that they never opened their mouths to criticize stronger and demoralizing statements made by Democrats against a Republican President. It seems their bias is showing once again


http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2012/09/breaking-john-kerry-nancy-pelosi-and.html 



The chum is in the water...we're gonna need a bigger boat!
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago

The video is a joke.

This was preplanned and organized before it was released. This was an anniversary event.

ZRX1200 wrote:





The 9/11 attacks on the US embassies were not about a movie

Here are a couple of facts:

On June 4 the White House confirmed that the US had killed Abu Yahya Al-Libi - OBL's Libyan lietenant who had moved into Al Qaeda's #2 spot after Ayman Zahawiri after the Navy SEALs whacked OBL.

On Tuesday 9/11, a tape was released of Zawahiri announcing that Libi had been killed earlier this year by a US drone attack. The Zawahiri tape was made during Ramadan which ended in the middle of last month. Zawahiri called for his terrorist underlings to avenge Libi's death and especially exhorted Libyans to take revenge.

The attack in Libya was well planned and executed. It wasn't about a spontaneous protest against some ridiculous internet movie of Muhammad. The assailants came armed to the teeth, with among other things, RPG 7s. They knew that the US Ambassador was in Benghazi rather than Tripoli. They knew how to track his movements, and were able to strike against him after he and his colleagues left the consulate building and tried to flee in a car. As Israel Channel 2's Arab Affairs Correspondent Ehud Yaari noted this evening, you don't often see well trained terrorists participating in protests of movies.

Then there is the attack in Cairo. They were led by Mohammad Zawahiri - Ayman Zawahiri's brother. According the Thomas Josclyn in the Weekly Standard, the US media has been idiotically presenting him as some sort of moderate despite the fact that in an interview with Al Jazeerah he said said, "We in al Qaeda..."

Egypt's US supported Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi recently released Zawahiri from Egyptian prison. The same Barack Obama who has no time in his schedule to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu next week in New York, is scheduled to meet Morsi.

The Egyptian government has not condemned the attack on the US Embassy in Cairo. But Morsi is demanding that the US government prosecute the film's creator.

You may be wondering how some movie no one's heard of has caused such a hullabaloo. Well, as it turns out, the film was screened on an Egyptian Salafist television channel. Obviously the Salafists -- many of whom, like Zawahiri were released from prison by Morsi, wanted to stir up anti-US violence on the eve of 9/11. So if the film is responsible for the violence, a finger needs to be pointed to its chief distributor -- Al Qaida's Egyptian friends and members.

With these facts in hand, it is clear that the attempts to present these acts of war against the US as the consequence of some stupid nothing movie are obscene attempts to deflect the blame for these unwarranted attacks onto their victims and away from their perpetrators.

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/09/the-911-attacks-on-the-us-emba.php 




It's not about the YouTube movie!
snowwolf777
13 years ago
Gee, I guess we're already past all the flower children, group-hugging bull-sh*t of the "Arab Spring".

And there are really people out there who didn't see this coming. People who really thought the hard-liner Muslims weren't going to wrest control of these countries and do this. And the worst is yet to come. But I don't want to ruin the surprise.

There's probably something more important going on right now, like a fund raiser with Snoop Dogg or something.
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago

Gee, I guess we're already past all the flower children, group-hugging bull-sh*t of the "Arab Spring".

And there are really people out there who didn't see this coming. People who really thought the hard-liner Muslims weren't going to wrest control of these countries and do this. And the worst is yet to come. But I don't want to ruin the surprise.

There's probably something more important going on right now, like a fund raiser with Snoop Dogg or something.

snowwolf777 wrote:




**** Stellar!
OldSchool
13 years ago
Abdul Mustafa is the ultimate douchknuckle!
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago
Exclusive: America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing'


US ambassador Chris Stevens and three staff killed in Libya after protesters angry at film that mocks Prophet Mohamed storm consulate

The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal.

American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential.

The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed "safe".

Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.

Mr Stevens had been on a visit to Germany, Austria and Sweden and had just returned to Libya when the Benghazi trip took place with the US embassy's security staff deciding that the trip could be undertaken safely.

Eight Americans, some from the military, were wounded in the attack which claimed the lives of Mr Stevens, Sean Smith, an information officer, and two US Marines. All staff from Benghazi have now been moved to the capital, Tripoli, and those whose work is deemed to be non-essential may be flown out of Libya.

In the meantime a Marine Corps FAST Anti-Terrorism Reaction Team has already arrived in the country from a base in Spain and other personnel are believed to be on the way. Additional units have been put on standby to move to other states where their presence may be needed in the outbreak of anti-American fury triggered by publicity about a film which demeaned the Prophet Mohamed.

A mob of several hundred stormed the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday. Other missions which have been put on special alert include almost all those in the Middle East, as well as in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Burundi and Zambia.

Senior officials are increasingly convinced, however, that the ferocious nature of the Benghazi attack, in which rocket-propelled grenades were used, indicated it was not the result of spontaneous anger due to the video, called Innocence of Muslims. Patrick Kennedy, Under-Secretary at the State Department, said he was convinced the assault was planned due to its extensive nature and the proliferation of weapons.

There is growing belief that the attack was in revenge for the killing in a drone strike in Pakistan of Mohammed Hassan Qaed, an al-Qa'ida operative who was, as his nom-de-guerre Abu Yahya al-Libi suggests, from Libya, and timed for the anniversary of the 11 September attacks.


Senator Bill Nelson, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said: "I am asking my colleagues on the committee to immediately investigate what role al-Qa'ida or its affiliates may have played in the attack and to take appropriate action."

According to security sources the consulate had been given a "health check" in preparation for any violence connected to the 9/11 anniversary. In the event, the perimeter was breached within 15 minutes of an angry crowd starting to attack it at around 10pm on Tuesday night. There was, according to witnesses, little defence put up by the 30 or more local guards meant to protect the staff. Ali Fetori, a 59-year-old accountant who lives near by, said: "The security people just all ran away and the people in charge were the young men with guns and bombs."

Wissam Buhmeid, the commander of the Tripoli government-sanctioned Libya's Shield Brigade, effectively a police force for Benghazi, maintained that it was anger over the Mohamed video which made the guards abandon their post. "There were definitely people from the security forces who let the attack happen because they were themselves offended by the film; they would absolutely put their loyalty to the Prophet over the consulate. The deaths are all nothing compared to insulting the Prophet."

Mr Stevens, it is believed, was left in the building by the rest of the staff after they failed to find him in dense smoke caused by a blaze which had engulfed the building. He was discovered lying unconscious by local people and taken to a hospital, the Benghazi Medical Centre, where, according to a doctor, Ziad Abu Ziad, he died from smoke inhalation.

An eight-strong American rescue team was sent from Tripoli and taken by troops under Captain Fathi al- Obeidi, of the February 17 Brigade, to the secret safe house to extract around 40 US staff. The building then came under fire from heavy weapons. "I don't know how they found the place to carry out the attack. It was planned, the accuracy with which the mortars hit us was too good for any ordinary revolutionaries," said Captain Obeidi. "It began to rain down on us, about six mortars fell directly on the path to the villa."

Libyan reinforcements eventually arrived, and the attack ended. News had arrived of Mr Stevens, and his body was picked up from the hospital and taken back to Tripoli with the other dead and the survivors.

Mr Stevens' mother, Mary Commanday, spoke of her son yesterday. "He did love what he did, and he did a very good job with it. He could have done a lot of other things, but this was his passion. I have a hole in my heart," she said.

Global anger: The protests spread

Yemen

The furore across the Middle East over the controversial film about the Prophet Mohamed is now threatening to get out of control. In Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, yesterday around 5,000 demonstrators attacked the US embassy, leaving at least 15 people injured. Young protesters, shouted: "We sacrifice ourselves for you, Messenger of God," smashed windows of the security offices and burned at least five cars, witnesses said.

Egypt

Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi yesterday condemned the attack in Benghazi that killed the US ambassador. In a speech in Brussels, Mr Morsi said he had spoken to President Obama and condemned "in the clearest terms" the Tuesday attacks. Despite this, and possibly playing to a domestic audience, President Obama said yesterday that "I don't think we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy".

Demonstrators in Cairo attacked the mission on Tuesday evening and protests have continued since.

Iraq

Militants said the anti-Islamic film "will put all the American interests Iraq in danger" and called on Muslims everywhere to "face our joint enemy", as protesters in Baghdad burned American flags yesterday. The warning from the Iranian-backed group Asaib Ahl al-Haq came as demonstrators demanded the closure of the US embassy in the capital.

Bangladesh

Islamists warned they may "besiege" the US embassy in Dhaka after security forces stopped around 1,000 protesters marching to the building. The Khelafat Andolon group called for bigger protests as demonstrators threw their fists in the air, burned the flag and chanted anti-US slogans.

Others

There was a Hamas-organised protest in Gaza City, and as many as 100 Arab Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv. In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai postponed a trip to Norway, fearing violence. Officials in Pakistan said they "expected protests". Protesters in Tunis burnt US flags.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html 




Arab Spring Brings Poo Showers...it's sticking all over the Kenyan King now! He's DRENCHED in his own STENCH!
teedubbya
13 years ago
I for one blame Obama
Papachristou
13 years ago
When discussing the debt, we have only ourselves to blame. Neither party has been fiscally responsible and we continue to stand by as we bankroll absurd spending, pensions and health benefits for federal and state workers that we cannot afford.

The reality is that US citizens will not stand for a reduction in the debt. all these "debt plans" are really just facades. A few billion in savings OVER TEN YEARS... really? how is that substantial when we are going in debt $4 billion per DAY! The reality is that any REAL plan for debt reduction will results in pain to all of us. We all would have to be willing to make sacrifices which we are not.

i see countless people driving themselves around in a suburban because it is their RIGHT, yes, it may be, but look at the resources used to produce that behemoth along with the fuel it consumes. Why dont you think about the future? What about cutting back absurd spending, police having new cars, cameras, tanks, tahoes etc, cameras and speed cameras going up everywhere, these quicksand wars we are mired in all over the world while our infrastructure crumbles around us.

At the end of the day, WE as citizens are responsible and left holding the bill. This is happening on our watch.
Gene363
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13 years ago

So, who:

FAILED to, "Connect the dots."

Left our Embassies unprotected on 9/11?

(Hint, not GWB)

teedubbya
13 years ago
Lol. Righhhht
pdxstogieman
13 years ago

So we are in hock 56 trillion and change to our fellow working Americans, future retirees, the Social Security trust fund, civil service pensions, and only 8% to the Chinese.

I feel better already.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 

DadZilla3 wrote:



You should at least feel better informed after having been corrected by someone who actually provided facts and data that directly rebutted your baseless assertion.
HockeyDad
13 years ago
Obama is sticking to the Pirate Code.
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago
The Pirate Code?




Jeez...after watching this...I wanted to kill someone too! Not a US Ambassador though...a director...producer...cameraman...scriptwriter...actors...last thing I'd think about is storming a foreign embassy...the people in Hollywood should be extra vigilant! Those 7th Century backwards thinkers just might storm the Valley!!!!


Gag me with a spoon!
rfenst
13 years ago

When the national bankruptcy is declared, we will be mainly screwing fellow Americans.

HockeyDad wrote:



That's the American way!
pdxstogieman
13 years ago

When discussing the debt, we have only ourselves to blame. Neither party has been fiscally responsible and we continue to stand by as we bankroll absurd spending, pensions and health benefits for federal and state workers that we cannot afford.

The reality is that US citizens will not stand for a reduction in the debt. all these "debt plans" are really just facades. A few billion in savings OVER TEN YEARS... really? how is that substantial when we are going in debt $4 billion per DAY! The reality is that any REAL plan for debt reduction will results in pain to all of us. We all would have to be willing to make sacrifices which we are not.

i see countless people driving themselves around in a suburban because it is their RIGHT, yes, it may be, but look at the resources used to produce that behemoth along with the fuel it consumes. Why dont you think about the future? What about cutting back absurd spending, police having new cars, cameras, tanks, tahoes etc, cameras and speed cameras going up everywhere, these quicksand wars we are mired in all over the world while our infrastructure crumbles around us.

At the end of the day, WE as citizens are responsible and left holding the bill. This is happening on our watch.

Papachristou wrote:



So what you're saying is you want new roads and no speed enforcement so you can preserve your right to ride your motorcycle as fast as you want?

Sounds reasonable to me.
DrMaddVibe
13 years ago
Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Three days before the deadly assault on the United States consulate in Libya, a local security official says he met with American diplomats in the city and warned them about deteriorating security.


Jamal Mabrouk, a member of the February 17th Brigade, told CNN that he and a battalion commander had a meeting about the economy and security.

He said they told the diplomats that the security situation wasn't good for international business.

"The situation is frightening, it scares us," Mabrouk said they told the U.S. officials. He did not say how they responded.



Inside the U.S. consulate in Benghazi

Slain ambassador returns

Possible security leak in Libya Mabrouk said it was not the first time he has warned foreigners about the worsening security situation in the face of the growing presence of armed jihadist groups in the Benghazi area.

The main building in the compound is in charred ruins.

Disagreement over how attack began

The suite where the body of the ambassador was found was protected by a large door with steel bars; the windows had steel bars.

His body was recovered after looters broke into the room. It appears his security detail left him in the room while they tried to deal with the attack.

There are numerous questions about what happened at the consulate where protesters had gathered to demonstrate against the film "Innocence of Muslims," which reportedly was made in California by a filmmaker whose identity is unclear.

Chief among the questions is what happened to U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who went missing during the attack.

The State Department has not released details about how Stevens died, though numerous media reports have said the ambassador was taken from the consulate to the Benghazi medical center by locals.

Clinton demands Arab Spring nations protect embassies

He arrived at the hospital, according to the reports, unresponsive and covered in soot from the fire. A doctor was unable to revive him and declared him dead, the reports said.

According to one of the Libyan security guards who was stationed at one of the gates armed with only a radio, the assault began simultaneously from three directions.

Heavy machine guns and rocket -propelled grenades were used, according to the guard. He said masked men threatened to kill him at gunpoint for 'protecting the infidels. He declined to appear on camera for fear of repercussions.

Ex-SEALs among Benghazi dead

The February 17th Brigade -- a militia connected to the government but not part of Libya's armed forces -- was closely involved in the rescue of the American staff trapped after the attack Tuesday night.

After the consulate was attacked and set on fire, a number of Americans escaped to a safe-house in another part of the city. But that came under attack too.

Mabrouk said he received a call from an official in Tripoli, who said he had been called by a "terrified" American in Benghazi.

The official was at the safe-house. Mabrouk says the Brigade asked the Americans if they needed help -- but were told that while the situation was dangerous, it was under control.

A few hours later, Mabrouk said he received another call from Tripoli about the arrival of a U.S. team at Benghazi airport that needed transport into the city.

He met the seven Americans, who were heavily armed but not in military uniform, on the runway and provided them with an armed escort, he said.

As soon as the two vehicles carrying the seven Americans arrived at the safe house, they came under intense attack -- including a volley of grenades and machine-gun fire. The assailants then fled.

The Libyan government has vowed to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. But on a visit to the heavily-damaged consulate, the country's president said Libya expected help form its friends in the international community.

Asked whether the government was not capable of controlling extremist groups, he responded "You are not far from the truth."

What the Mideast protests reveal


http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/15/world/meast/libya-diplomats-warning/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 



No, please continue to talk about state budgets for roads and bridges though. Continue to be distracted by cheezy YouTube videos and American Karaoke!


Face up...The Kenyan King...Mr. Hopey Changey...he went to bed while one of his embassies was being laid to waste and it's ambassador was killed and dragged through the streets by peaceful muslims that we gave weapons and cash to!

Yea...let's give this moron and his failed policies a second term? WAKE UP!
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