GOP needs to look in the mirror Benghazi incident

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According to some people the GOP congress is to blame for the deaths in Benghazi. Another perspective. Pin the tail on the right Donkey!

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Congress spent more time investigating and did nothing to fund the requests for more money to provide the security needed for our embassy in Benghazi.

They will deny all of it.But the root cause of ALL our mid east problems, was caused by republican meddling in the affairs of other countries. They subsribe to that old turkey, the enemy of enemy is my friend.Now their candidate is looking to stop the meddling, and they hate it.

So thats it. Now I know what the State Department(Hillary) was telling the Government Officials who were asking for more security. No money. And when the attack(whoops, I mean protest, but what difference at this point does it make) was underway and they had no idea where Hillary's good friend Chris(Ambassador) was, or if he was dead or held hostage, they still were telling them that there was no money to send help? So if there is no money and their hands are tied by the vast right wing conspirators, might as well go try to figure out how to spin (or I mean find out what caused the attack, I mean protest) it in a meeting that lasted two hours, while the attack lasted for 13 hours. I'm sure Hillary spent most of that time worrying about her good friend Chris and blaming the Republicans. I just don't understand why they didn't come out of that meeting and blame it on the Republicans. But instead they settled on blaming a video. Hillary must be losing her political edge(because we know that political spin over rules facts, incompetence and even illegality). I'm glad that we can all finally come together and demand better from our Government. Anyone associated with this debacle should at the very least be run out of our Government. We need to remove any incompetence from our Government and demand better, not reward them with the next White House Administration. Oh and who meddled in Libya? Wasn't it Hillary's State Dept that pushed for bombing Libya and overthrowing Kaddafi to help with the Arab Spring? Who authorized the attack by the United States on Libya? I'm pretty sure BO and Hillary did that on their own. What about the Annex? Who was responsible for setting that up and what was it's purpose? I thought we didn't have any money. I watched the movie 13 Hours(wow what a long protest) and have seen the interviews from the men who fought in that battle. You would have to "suspend disbelief"(Hillary's words about Petraeus) to except Hillarys word over theirs. Oh that's right, Hillary's word has already been discredited. I'm tired of both parties that do things like this while in office and we the people keep voting them back in. Run them out of town!

It's the Congress who holds the purse strings and the GOP controlled Congress has blood on their hands for not funding the security improvements for the embassy.

Hillary ran the State Department not the Dept. of Defense. You can't really blame her as the Dept. of Defense was responsible for protecting our over seas embassy.

Remember we are not in our own back yard over there in Benghazi. The US Navy doesn't have enough ships to be everyone at the same time.

Your right it really does NOT matter what we call it. Protest or Attack or Terrorism. The result was that the Congress didn't fund the protection properly.

The GOP tries to blame Hillary and disparage her and they don't care who they hurt in the process. They will attack anyone that defends or even appears to defend Hillary or Bill. Just as Comley? He got a good taste of the GOP attack machine the other day when he said that Hillary didn't do anything illegal and would not be indicted or prosecuted.

Now watch the GOP congressmen try one again to spend millions more tax payers dollars on another Hillary Investigation opps. I mean WITCH HUNT!

I was being sarcastic because it does matter whether it was a protest or an attack. If Dems say that there is nothing to see here then they are more interested in scoring political points than in demanding better from our Government. If a Republican said there is nothing we can do in the middle of an attack, I say run that moron out of town. So that's what our Country has come to. Nothing we can do. That should outrage Dems instead of causing them to make excuses for them and or attack Republicans. If it were Hillary in that Embassy I guarantee you we would at least try to help her, and I bet Dems would be critical if they said we can't do anything because we don't have money. We are close to 20 trillion in debt, seems to me no one in our government has ever said we don't have any money. They will spend it even when we don't have it. But that's not a problem(sarcasm).

I watched the entire hearing on Hillary's email scandal. We learned that she is not sophisticated(dumbern a rock for us little people). I always find it funny when politicians get caught doing something wrong and the only choices are crime or incompetence(or unsophisticated) and they chose the later every time. They know that we wont demand better and will continue to elect unsophisticated people and continue to get the government we deserve.

[QUOTE=Mean Morone;556459]I was being sarcastic because it does matter whether it was a protest or an attack. If Dems say that there is nothing to see here then they are more interested in scoring political points than in demanding better from our Government. If a Republican said there is nothing we can do in the middle of an attack, I say run that moron out of town. So that's what our Country has come to. Nothing we can do. That should outrage Dems instead of causing them to make excuses for them and or attack Republicans. If it were Hillary in that Embassy I guarantee you we would at least try to help her, and I bet Dems would be critical if they said we can't do anything because we don't have money. We are close to 20 trillion in debt, seems to me no one in our government has ever said we don't have any money. They will spend it even when we don't have it. But that's not a problem(sarcasm).

I watched the entire hearing on Hillary's email scandal. We learned that she is not sophisticated(dumbern a rock for us little people). I always find it funny when politicians get caught doing something wrong and the only choices are crime or incompetence(or unsophisticated) and they chose the later every time. They know that we wont demand better and will continue to elect unsophisticated people and continue to get the government we deserve.[/QUOTE]

1st It's hard to read the text and pick up on sarcasm for me at times.

2nd Most all of us are "Dumb as a rock or not sophisticated when it comes to network security or setting up a internet network on a computer". Most all the people I know would have problems doing that. Hillary is very well educated and smart as a tack on may other things. She has way more experience in Government Service than her opponent. She has not had as many law suits filed against her nor has she denied people working for her their pay checks. She has not short changed people who work for her like her opponent. She has not had to file for bankrupsy like her opponent. Just to put the record straight.

She missed a (c) mark on a couple of emails in the body of the text. Only three emails contained a small amount of somewhat and UNMARKED as Classified in the Email Headers material. And we have no idea what the material was. Nor should that information be made public. And these three emails were out of over 30,000 other emails where she said there were not classified and the FBI checked and confirmed that she did the job right in those emails. And remember that most all the actual Classified material conversations were conducted under SECURED GOVERMENT COMMUNICATION CHANNELS at the State Dept. So the vast majority of her work was done in a SECURED manner.

The GOP Congressmen don't care about those diplomats deaths. They pay lip service to them and use them to attack their political opponent. Sad but true. Everyone one of the GOP congressmen attacking Hillary is guilty of the same offense that they are shouting about. They all have access to classified material and carry this information around on their unsecured personal lap tops and smart phones each and every day. So that tells me that they are not worried about classified material getting into the hands of our enemies. They are doing the very same thing that they accused Hillary of doing. How Hippocratic is that?

And finally about the Benghazi incident. Only having a few M1 tanks and a few F18 Hornets in the air over FOREIGN territory would the diplomats have been saved and even then I doubt that they could have stopped the attack and the deaths. Remember Somali and Black Hawk Down? When you are not on your own home territory you are at a significant disadvantage. You are outnumbered 100 to one and can't really protect your embassy when in a foreign country so far away. What business do the USA have in going oversea and telling all those other people how to run their lives. We are acting like the World's Policemen and we can't even police our own cities. Just look at the headlines today and see all the protests going on in this country. Thousands out in the streets protesting about how or police are killing black people. The police have their hands full with tens of thousands of protesters. Short of calling out the National Guard there is not a whole lot the police can do to prevent the shutdown of major highways in Atlanta. And these are Americans protesting in the streets and blocking the use of major highways. Imagine what it was like in Benghazi when the protests started. Even if we have 100 marines they may have been killed along with the diplomats.

And finally if they were so worried about classified material they would pass laws that made them (CONGRESSMEN) follow the same rules that they want the executive branch workers like Hillary to follow. When I see the GOP going after the Clintons and not doing the people work in congress is makes me want to fire every one of them. Maybe I should get up off my duff and go volunteer to work for the local Democratic Party and help them win this next election. I've never done that before but this BS with the emails and all the other crap that the GOP is throwing at Hillary is making me mad. And I hope that it makes other's mad and gets them to the voting both.

Don't get mad. VOTE!

The only thing that Hillary has done or plans to do that I'm very much against if appointing judge to the US Supreme Court that will NOT uphold the true meaning of the 2nd amendment or any of the other bill of rights. But not the emails. The emails are nothing more than Political posturing.