Results 31 to 39 of 39
-
10-29-2012, 04:55 PM #31
Again I have no problems with questions. My problem is you seem to think you know the ultimate answer and you don't.
-
-
10-29-2012, 05:19 PM #32
At this point there is no scenario or explanation that is good, so I m sure the President will continue to act offended when he is asked questions about Benghazi. It seems like the goal is to get past election without this issue blowing up any further, but if he does win a second term, it is going to be a huge albatross around his neck, since many Americans will continue insisting on answers to all the open questions
-
10-29-2012, 05:22 PM #33
That much I can agree with. Why is it so hard to state that without degrading the guy? I'm not saying the theories are definitely wrong, I'm saying you're trying to convict a man with no actual proof.
-
-
10-30-2012, 02:56 PM #34
This is brilliant.
This has become a cliche, but the media would never let President Bush off the hook like this.
-
10-30-2012, 02:58 PM #35
You're right. It is cliche.
-
-
10-30-2012, 03:14 PM #36
Do you think the media is doing a good job digging into this story?
-
10-30-2012, 03:22 PM #37
No, but the whole" Oh if Bush did it" is old, really old. I mean, if Obama said 47%, FOX would have been on it like a dirty shirt. It goes both ways.
-
-
10-30-2012, 04:26 PM #38
True, a negligent media is a negligent media, but they have been mostly MIA on this issue. Luckily the MSM no longer completely controls the narrative and people have other avenues of getting information.
-
10-31-2012, 09:41 AM #39
Still trying to verify if this is true, but if only POTUS has the power to authorize the use of military assets across international borders (cross border authority), then it's pretty simple to determine why the rescue efforts were stopped in their tracks.
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpres...der-authority/
Libya, as far as standing down the rescue, is 100% Obama’s show, and nobody else’s. Only he can grant CBA, not Biden, not Panetta, not Dempsey, not Hillary, and certainly not Ham in Germany.
The entire episode is explained perfectly inside the context of not granting CBA. The CIA QRF in Tripoli? No problem, send them on the local Tripoli station chief’s say-so. He merely informs up COC that he has done so. CCs them so to speak. “This is what I am doing.” Ditto if Predators were in country, no problem using them.
But the big rescue air armada streaming toward Libya right away after the alarm got to Stuttgart and Africom? That has to stop. I believe at the 5pm meeting with Panetta and Biden in the Oval Office, he said, “No outside military intervention,” on the basis that the last report was the “lull” from the consulate, at about 1030 p.m. in Benghazi, when the attack appeared to be over and the situation stabilizing.
(As a soft exception, Obama may have authorized sending an unarmed Predator from outside of Libya, but I am thinking the two Predators were already in-country, and hence available to use within “no CBA granted” rules.)
“No outside military intervention” equals “no cross-border authority” and that constitutes “standing orders” until POTUS changes them. Nobody else can “un-decide” the POTUS decree. The rescue air-armada of C-17s, C-130s and SOF helos like MH-47 Chinooks and Pavehawks cannot proceed directly to Libya without CBA being granted, so instead they are all staged at Sigonella, Sicily.
-
Originally Posted by tpeichel 
