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Benghazi revisited
Topic Started: Mar 30 2014, 09:27 AM (82 Views)
Thumper
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I had a long discussion with an old friend that spent the most of his military career in Special Ops. He is unquestionably the real McCoy. One of the topics we discussed was the Benghazi Embassy attack. He was very adamant that the Obama Administration handling of this attack was at best disgraceful. Obama knew within the first several hours that it was a coordinated terrorist attack and not a riot over an anti Muslim motion picture. How did he know, the Libyan President called him and told him? The SEALs at the Embassy had as part of their weapons cache, laser designators so they could call in close air support with laser guided air launched munitions. Right across the Mediterranean Sea, are seven US military bases with attack aircraft and at least one AC-130 "Spookie" gunship. These "forces" could have been over target within a very short time but they were told to stand down. The Libyan President would have supported US military intervention. President Obama screwed this up and I believe the ongoing investigations onto this mess is warranted.
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Yeah, it was mishandled.
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Mishandled and then lied about to this day and we don't need a special ops person to tell us that.
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A good and honest post Thump. Additional confirmation of the obvious. And why the misleadings? All for what? I liked the way Obama's G7 speech went, but with actions like this and others like it, how are our "allies" going to take what he says with assurance?
Edited by Banandangees, Mar 30 2014, 10:05 PM.
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Ban, it really wasn't quite obvious to me since I don't generally don't accept the blog/media reports as gospel. The fact that the Embassy had the laser designators was the convincing piece of info for me. I take pride that I can and will change my opinion based on credible knowledge.
BTW, you had enough snow yet!
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Had about 5" more last night. By the looks of the temp. forecast this (hopefully) will be the last for the season. It's been a long, snowy, cold winter; 133" recorded at the airport which is close to the lake. We always get more south of I-90 where the temps drop as the elevation rises and the lake affect dumps it. But it's the consistently low temps this winter that is a bit out of the ordinary.
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I watch the Pennsy weather and you had it rough for sure.
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