Dismissing the standard liberal argument that it’s all okay on the grounds of BUT BUSH!!!, Bill Whittle provides a timeline demonstrating that Benghazi matters because it reveals the competence and character of the two people responsible for the debacle:
No reasonable, informed American could possibly consider it acceptable that the likes of Obama and Hillary Clinton rule over this country.
By Michael Becker
The Daily Sheeple
Well, they won’t obey the law – even the laws they passed with only Democratic votes and the President signed – and they won’t follow the Constitution. But, aside from that, we’re really talking about the effort they’ll make to cover-up incompetency and dishonesty.
There’s Fast & Furious, there’s the New Black Panther Party’s efforts at voter intimidation, there’s the DoJ involvement in the George Zimmerman prosecution that they were hoping would be a lynching, there’s the IRS mess, there’s the Benghazi cover-up, there’s the criminal activities at the VA that has murdered who knows how many veterans, there’s, well, you know there’s a lot more.
The latest administration FusterCluck is the Terrorists for Traitors swap. We’re not going to out the grizzly details, if you’re not familiar with them ask our friend Mr. Bing about “Bergdahl” and he’ll tell you more than you want to know.
The wrinkle here is that is seems the administration got caught off-guard on this one. They thought that the military and the veterans and families would be celebrating in the streets over getting a “POW” home from captivity. It’s pretty obvious – and it was a long time ago for anyone paying attention – that the Obama administration, to a man (and woman) know absolutely nothing about the military. That includes Chuck Hagel, the Secretary of Defense. After all, it seems his only job is defending the President, to hell with national security.
When the news about the circumstances of our POW hit the headlines, the fit hit the shan. Even the NYT and the WaPo couldn’t ignore the level of anger on the part of those of us connected with or serving in the military, and the stupidity of the Obama administration, top to bottom.
So the stonewall boys went to work. The first thing they did was float the idea that the POW’s service was somehow “honorable.” That didn’t fly. Next, and this is on-going, they’re attacking the men who served with the POW, trying in every way possible to discredit them, dishonor them, and shut them up.
At this point we don’t think anybody in the Obama administration understands they’ve picked a fight with the wrong guys. These men are not John Boehner, Eric Cantor, or Mitch McConnell. These are men who understand what a fight is and who will carry it through to victory. They’re not afraid of a bunch of loudmouth politicians or their toadies. One would have thought they’d have learned their lesson when they took on John O’Neill and got their collective clocks cleaned.
Obviously they haven’t learned.
It’s going to be interesting to see how long they try to defend the POW in question. The people they’re attacking will not back off and there’s an election coming up in five months.
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I don’t get it, Obama drones Pakistan and Yemen like it’s going out of style but he won’t do it in Iraq?
WASHINGTON — As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials.
But Iraq’s appeals for military assistance have so far been rebuffed by the White House, which has been reluctant to open a new chapter in a conflict that President Obama has insisted was over when the United States withdrew the last of its forces from Iraq in 2011.
The swift capture of Mosul by militants aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has underscored how the conflicts in Syria and Iraq have converged into one widening regional insurgency with fighters coursing back and forth through the porous border between the two countries. But it has also cast a spotlight on the limits the White House has imposed on the use of American power in an increasingly violent and volatile region.
A spokeswoman for the National Security Council, Bernadette Meehan, declined to comment on Mr. Maliki’s requests and the administration’s response, saying in a statement, “We are not going to get into details of our diplomatic discussions, but the government of Iraq has made clear that they welcome our support” in combating the Islamic extremists. […]
Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s foreign minister, last year floated the idea that armed American-operated Predator or Reaper drones might be used to respond to the expanding militant network in Iraq. American officials dismissed that suggestion at the time, saying that the request had not come from Mr. Maliki.
By March, however, American experts who visited Baghdad were being told that Iraq’s top leaders were hoping that American air power could be used to strike the militants’ staging and training areas inside Iraq, and help Iraq’s beleaguered forces stop them from crossing into Iraq from Syria.
“Iraqi officials at the highest level said they had requested manned and unmanned U.S. airstrikes this year against ISIS camps in the Jazira desert,” said Kenneth M. Pollack, a former C.I.A. analyst and National Security Council official, who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and who visited Baghdad in early March. ISIS is the acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, as the militant group is known.
As the Sunni insurgents have grown in strength those requests have persisted. In a May 11 meeting with American diplomats and Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the Central Command, which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, Mr. Maliki said that he would like the United States to provide Iraq with the ability to operate drones. But if the United States was not willing to do that, Mr. Maliki indicated he was prepared to allow the United States to carry out strikes using warplanes or drones.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted that “the trust has been broken” between the White House and Congress following the Obama administration’s decision to skirt U.S. law and release five top Taliban leaders without first consulting with lawmakers.
Hagel admitted to lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday that the administration unilaterally inked a deal with the Taliban to release five top prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp without first notifying Congress, as is legally mandated.
The deal was signed “without providing 30 days notice to Congress,” as is required by law, Hagel told lawmakers before attempting to justify the administration’s decision to ignore this law.
The White House’s decision to skirt this law has prompted the House Armed Services Committee to launch a full investigation into the matter, lawmakers revealed on Wednesday.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – the terrorist group that has seized the Iraqi city of Mosul and is now driving toward Baghdad – has now carved out a “nation sized” area that “stretches from the eastern edge of the Syrian city of Aleppo to Fallujah in western Iraq – and now also includes the northern Iraqi city of Mosul,” says the Washington Post. Their goal is to establish a new Caliphate – and they’re well on the way of doing so.
Socialism is not the Answer 