“They had nobody coming. They left us. They left us behind.”
WT: The military was woefully unprepared to help Americans in Benghazi during the 13-hour crisis, with no nearby troops on alert for the Sept. 11 anniversary and not one aircraft sent to that Libyan city to pick up survivors and four dead.
The Pentagon itself did not know of the Islamist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission until an hour after it happened. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, in a conference call with the White House on Sept. 10, 2012, said forces would be on heightened alert. But the units that could have gone to North Africa that night and morning were not, in fact, on alert.
The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli on its own organized a small rescue team and hired an aircraft, with no help from U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, or from Washington. Mr. Panetta did not know until the next day that he had two Delta Force commandos at the embassy, the only U.S. military forces to respond to Benghazi.
When the besieged and wounded Americans — dealing with the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his aide and two former Navy SEALs — finally reached the Benghazi airport, there were no U.S. military planes to get them out. They had to ride in the embassy-chartered flight and a Libyan C-130 that had been unable to fly at night.
This single event absolutely disqualifies Clinton from the presidency.
So, Obama assembles a cabinet meeting on security measures for 9/11 ON 9/11? That tells me everything I need to know.
Obama/Clinton/Jarrett ignored 100s of requests for additional security.
Then when they were attacked, they knew immediately. There are NEST and FEST teams that could have been spinning wheels within a few minutes.
If you saw 13 Hours, Bay’s film, and weren’t burning hot when it was over, you’re one stone cold mofo.
Words that will live in infamy:
“WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE”?
Killary Klinton.
The homo in chief and his harpy agent of incompetence. Marx himself, couldn’t have picked a better pair.
Hillary is simply inept/incapable of leadership.
When given a choice, she chooses Politics over principle every time. To support her false narrative she’ll lie repeatedly and have the talking heads in the media parrot her manufactured talking points.
Her future run for president and obama’s election were more important than the lives of Americans.
Unforgivable.
Hillary is The Jane Fonda of Benghazi. Getting Americans killed for political purposes.
This is just stupid. The world is a big place. There are lots of places in the world where we don’t have military troops ready to swoop in. How uninformed do you need to be to think otherwise? What sort of pinhead thinks this is a good use of resources? There are 198 countries on the planet. There are Americans in all of them, even North Korea. Do we have troops ready to swoop into Russia to save our embassy there? Of course not.
It was a disaster just waiting to happen. After all, ‘we’ put the Fools Brigade of Clinton and Obama in charge. Because of that terrible mistake, American citizens were murdered!
BULLSHIT!
I call utter and complete BULLSHIT!
“Woefully unprepared” is a way to blame the Armed Forces and to divert attention from the political hacks who conspired to assassinate Amb. Stevens for reasons known only to the NSA and/or CIA. Being on the alert and told to change clothes 4 fuckin times is NOT “woeful” unpreparedness, but conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit Treason. The fuckin Generals know it, but are too enamored of their pensions to speak up.
We have lost (jettisoned) our honor … our dignity … our integrity … to a half-assed homosexual moslem usurper.
“Choose disgrace where obedience means dishonor.”
But no one above the rank of Sergeant has, any longer, any sense of honor.
izlamo delenda est …
Cato,
Hellery has principles? Who knew?
For “her”, I thought it was first choice, last choice, only choice.
Tim. Right on!
Tim,
I agree. From EVERYTHING ELSE I’ve read, from other sources not-Mordor-on-the-Potomac, there were military ready to go within the half hour, chomping at the bit, begging to be given the “GO”. And it never came. In fact, those units were told to “stand down”. W-T-F?!
@Tim ~ I agree with every word saving the last sentence.
By Far the majority of senior NCOs and Officers are highly trained career warriors, prepared and willing to do what they do best (those who haven’t been forced out (purged)).
They are either hindered, prevented or placed under absurd rules of engagement by the Obama’s DOD, pentagon politically appointed perfumes princes and our present treasonous president.
The rot we see is from the very top down.
Unfortunately most people – – and that includes voters – – don’t know about Benghazi because the msm has suppressed it.
there is testimony there was military forces available. just the folks in DC did not act on it. This is a blame/distraction effort away from those that did not do anything but talk…
Some of you here know of my history and opinion on this rapid response subject. I took part in the birth of Force Protection through the hand off that has evolved into what we have today … whatever it is or isn’t.
This multi directional finger pointing exercise is just shinning the light through a refractory devise filled with multiple prisms.
After reading the article, cussing under my breath at nearly every point, what I understand is that no one … NO ONE! … is, was, or can be in a position to take charge. A splintered command is doomed to fail.
Seems things are so intertwined in this administration every action or non-action has to be approved through a committee made up of appointed people that don’t have a hint or clue. A great example of “cluster f**k”.