Benghazi Boogaloo

The government followed the attack, in real time, for seven hours and did nothing to come to the aid of our people.

They had a drone buzz the scene, but either it wasn't armed or there was no order to engage.

Obama made a big deal out of how he "immediately" ordered measures taken to protect our diplomatic staff in neighboring countries, but he did nothing for seven hours for the folks who were actually taking fire.

Maybe there is a rational explanation for what appears to be a major fubar, but shouldn't the president tell the American people what it is?

Instead he perpetuated the bullshit that we didn't know it was a terrorist attack and blaming a mob that never existed reacting to a video that never really mattered.

Good God!

The latest is that the State Department sent an estimated 300 to 400 e-mails, within hours of the attack on the consulate, to national security figures (Wanna bet the the president and vice-president were included) noting that Ansar al Sharia (an organization declared by the State Department to be a an Al Qaeda-affiliated group) had already claimed responsibility.

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We need (and may have with Benghazi) a governmental scandal that the MSM comes so late to that they have made absolute fools of themselves and percipitate major purges at editorial levels.

Fourteen hours after the attack, President Obama sat down with Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes" for a previously scheduled interview and said he did not believe it was simply due to mob violence.


"You're right that this is not a situation that was -- exactly the same as what happened in Egypt and my suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start," Mr. Obama said.

I shudder to think what will happen if they elect another moron.

Whoever runs Washington heads a global empire. American politics affects people's lives in every part of the world, often as a matter of life or death. So it's scarcely surprising that more than 40% of those polled around the world say they want the right to vote in US presidential elections.

After all, the American revolution was fought on the slogan of "no taxation without representation". So long as the US government arrogates to itself the right to impose its "leadership" by force across the world, a contemporary version of the colonists' demand might be: "no global power without accountability".

And with George Bush's blood-drenched presidency still fresh in the memory, it's only to be expected that 81% want to see the less belligerent Barack Obama re-elected. Only in Pakistan, target of relentless civilian-slaughtering US drone attacks, do a larger number prefer his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney.

What did I "make up?"