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2016 Postmortem

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kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)
Mon May 13, 2013, 07:06 PM May 2013

This Benghazi story smells and I am highly suspious of it. Almost like it was set up. [View all]

I remember the day after the attack and Romney was out so quick to attack the President before even the CIA or the State Department could investigate what happened. The talking points about the President not saying it was an an act of terror (when he said it) and today the newest talking points going around reich wing world debating the semantics of using terror or terrorism (as if there is a big difference).

Today I heard on Randi Rhodes a woman saying McCain was in Libya last year and was at Benghazi. If the security was so bad why didn't he speak up when he came back and raise his concerns about the security there? So I decided to do a little research and came up with is "gem"

"John McCain is dying to help Mitt Romney. But is his advice wanted? Howard Kurtz reports exclusively on the 2008 nominee’s failed efforts to counsel Romney, his frustration at a behind-the-scenes role in the campaign—and his damning faint praise for Romney’s foreign-policy instincts."

"For the moment, McCain is something of a caged lion, circling his circumscribed world, using vacation breaks to jet off to foreign-policy hotspots. Early this month, McCain was in Tripoli, where he watched 200,000 flag-waving people pour into the streets to cheer Libya’s first democratic election in four decades. Many approached him, some wearing T-shirts bearing pictures of slain relatives, to thank him for his push for U.S. airstrikes against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. “John likes a good fight,” says his Senate pal Joe Lieberman. “He likes being in the arena.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/john-mccain-is-chomping-at-the-bit.html

In 2011 he made a specific trip to Benghazi
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/110422/mccain-libya-rebels-video

McCain and Lieberman meet with the Free Syria Army | The Cable
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are on a surprise trip to the Turkish-Syrian border to meet with leaders of the Free Syria Army and visit Syrian ...
thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/04/10/mccain_and.

http://www.tennessean.com/VideoNetwork/2277304930001/RAW-VIDEO-John-McCain-in-Libya
What else was McCain doing in Libya to help Romney?

I am not an investigative reporter but some smart person could really make a reporting cred for themselves if they are able to connect the dots.

All these fake scandals trying to tear down this President instead of trying to get the economy going, jobs, helping the poor and our vets makes me sick and disgusted with the republican party to the point that I think they are the real enemies of America not Al Quaida.

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The attack was set up. I have believed that from the day it happened. TwilightGardener May 2013 #1
Romney was completely awful and his response completely graceless karynnj May 2013 #11
And check out the article on the link below too Tx4obama May 2013 #2
Good to see people waking-up and opening their eyes!!!!-NT Anansi1171 May 2013 #3
k/r Dawson Leery May 2013 #4
Good to see the conspiracy crowd is still active on DU. former9thward May 2013 #5
Getting even more crowded. reteachinwi May 2013 #6
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. kimbutgar May 2013 #7
Democrats can be devious. former9thward May 2013 #9
Well to get rid of conspiracy, John2 May 2013 #14
Yes there should be investigations. former9thward May 2013 #16
Pretty sure that it was set up by McCain et al Rosa Luxemburg May 2013 #8
Was he behind the death of your handle? former9thward May 2013 #17
he's not that old! Rosa Luxemburg May 2013 #21
Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2013 #10
I give up, what? BlueDemKev May 2013 #12
Am Embassy breach ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2013 #15
C'mon man... BlueDemKev May 2013 #19
I SAID ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2013 #20
That's good to know. BlueDemKev May 2013 #22
I don't get what you're trying to tell us. n/t AverageJoe90 May 2013 #13
I think that the video might have been sort of tossed out there by the right-wing Proud Liberal Dem May 2013 #18
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