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Move On, They Insisted
You can argue that Benghazi is a political squabble, but you can’t deny one glaring fact: No attacker has been caught or punished. By itself, that’s a massive failure.
Knowing that, I was astonished to read the transcript of ABC News This Week panel discussion on Benghazi.
DAVID PLOUFFE, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: No, I think, you know, lawyers have spoken to this and it’s out now. I think, listen, what Benghazi was was a tragedy. What we need to do is figure out how to prevent it from happening again and to try and hold those accountable, as we did bin Laden.
Took a while, but after 11 years, we did.
I think what you see wasn’t the U.S.S. Cole bombing, 17 of our sailors died. The weeks before the 2000 election. What did then-Governor Bush say? It’s time for our nation to speak as one voice.
Now you couldn’t handle that in this party. This has been politicized like we’ve never seen before.
Those are staggering lies. No other way to put it.
Let’s start with the most incontrovertible fact, the one that the media and the Democrats have desperately tried to divert attention from: No one has been held accountable.
It is going on two years after the attack and not a single attacker has been punished … or even arrested. If you argue that it took 11 years to get bin Laden, you’re skipping over the obvious difference: unlike bin Laden (who went into hiding and had millions to spend in staying hidden) they know where the embassy attackers are. Journalists interviewed them not long after the attack. They’re not searching for the attackers, because they already know exactly where they are.
When was the last time you read a report that explained how the Administration was pursuing the attackers? Why isn’t any reporter asking whether any progress has been made in capturing and punishing them? Cenk Ungyar offered a profane rant demanding that the Republicans move on. Move on? This administration hasn’t moved in the first place. They’ve done absolutely nothing.
That Ben Rhodes memo urged officials to project the claim that this was not a failure of policy. I don’t care whether you believe the conspiracy theories or not … but by any measure, two years after our ambassador and three others were killed, we know where the killers are and yet nothing has been done about it … how is that, by itself, not a whopping failure?
As for speaking with one voice, what a crock! Barack Obama rose to public attention by denouncing the war effort. Whether he was right or wrong about that fact, it’s impossible to argue (honestly) that Obama urged America to speak with one voice, or that the Democrats were solidly in support of one voice in foreign affairs.
- It’s also astonishing that an administration led by a president whose whereabouts and activities during the attack are being zealously obscured would talk about holding anyone else accountable.
- It’s also astonishing that an administration that is still withholding documents has the nerve to talk about accountability.
- It’s also astonishing that the witnesses who were actually there are not allowed to talk to anyone.
- It’s also astonishing that an Administration that held onto the Rhodes memo until they were forced to release it by a court has the nerve to talk about accountability.
A great moment happened a little later on the show. Van Jones tried to say that “11 Americans died under George W. Bush in embassy attacks. We did not politicize it….” Rick Santorum quickly slapped down that spin: “The only difference … between these other attacks and what happened here is that the Bush Administration did not put out a false narrative as to what happened in those situations.” Boom.
The glib, shallow, and insulting explanations offered by David Plouffe, coming after Jay Carney’s vapid brush-off earlier in the week, along with Vietor’s “dude” rebuttal, point to an obvious conclusion: These guys aren’t serious enough to run a high school newspaper, never mind a federal government.
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We know who the ringleaders were and we’ve had multiple opportunities to terminate them with extreme prejudice. The Obama regime is not serious.
KC,
This speaks directly to the real question of motive. What was the motivation for the willful refusal to send aid to Americans pleading for help in harm’s way? It was the desire to disguise a full scale terrorist attack that would have shown the Administration’s foreign policy to be the fraud that it clearly is. The fraudulent nature of the BHO foreign policy would have been self evident to the American people and that would have changed the outcome of an extremely close presidential election.
The creation of the video cover story becomes the cover up for the cover up. From that time to this day the Administration continues to cling to it. The fact that no attacker has been caught or punished suggests that this is more of the same. If an attacker is caught or punished then the attacker must be identified and the whole flimsy lie will come crashing down.
By the way, IRS is the natural follow up to the Benghazi probe. Now that you know the quality of the people who run this government, would you trust them to refrain from politics with the most powerful domestic government agency?!
Regards,
Jim
Every time I hear the phrase “Move On” my mind goes back to those coffins in the hanger and Ms. Clinton lying about the video to the parents and the families in that hanger. Those parents, wives, and families that looked forward to reunions at airports when their loved ones would walk through an airport and would be greeted with hugs, tears, and kisses. Whenever I hear the phrase “Move On” I will never forget that time stood still for those that lost their loved ones and in that moment in that hanger they were eulogized by liars.
The next time Vietor says “dude,” the interviewer should respond, “Is there an adult in the administration that I can speak to?”
Colonel ralph Peters, interviewed by Bill Hemmer last week, called Obama a coward. I wonder if part of the cover-up is to hide this very fact. Obama dithers on everything, and surrenders to terrorists in Benghazi, tyrants in Syria and Iran, and now to Putin in the Ukraine. Obama is, at least an incompetent amateur, but at worst an out and out gutless wonder.
Well said.
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It’s amusing how what would be a scandal for a Republican president is nothing more than a perfectly acceptable process of government under a Democrat. Amusing, and sad.
“What we need to do is figure out how to prevent it from happening again”
Hunh, you did nothing while it was happening, and nothing since. Also, what’s this we? The responsibility lies with the executive and the dept of state. The agitating youtube filmmaker is neutralized, is he not?
KC – I’ve always admired Santorum, and more so now for his rebuke of Van Jones. I would admire him even more if he had reached over and throttled Plouffe – how he had the patience to sit next to that snake I do not know.
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus wrote that “Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.” Obama and his sycophants all lie – there is not a nice way to say that. The truth to them does not matter, so they tell us what the truth is. Why do the sycophants support Obama? Other than get elected President twice (amazing accomplishment) what has he done? His presidency has been a failure from the start. Do they truly believe in him? Do they believe in the progressive movement that has proved to be a failure? Are they saving their hides? These people are an embarrassment, but worse, they are evil.
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Hey Simon! Welcome back.