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In reply to the discussion: Dubya Did Not Keep Us Safe [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)22. Their outrage over BENGHAZI!
and zeal to "investigate" it compared with their response 9/11/01 is so dramatic/OTT that it's absurd. Benghazi was a tragedy and should have been looked to as in any situation of the sort (no more than one investigation should have been necessary though, esp. when none of the embassy attacks following 9/11/01 AFAIK even got one) but 2996 more people died on 9/11/01 and many Republicans and the Bush (mis-)administration resisted calls for an investigation until it was politically unpalatable to do so and used the events to ram through their political agenda and silence their critics.
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It's also part of why they are so foaming at the mouth over Benghazi. It was at first that it was
brewens
Nov 2015
#9
Some of us had our lives torn apart by W and Cheney lying about WMD and starting that war
randys1
Nov 2015
#26