Anyone remember the Responsibility to Protect (RTP)?

Submitted by EdMass on Tue, 06/28/2016 - 2:01pm

Libya.

Benghazi

Sherman, set the Wayback machine for 2011.

Wherein we find SOS and NS Advisor and Samantha Power (who actually wrote a book on this topic), Imploring and exhorting the Potus to do his duty to a theory never proven successful.

Combined with the wildly successful "Lead from Behind" strategy and the aggressive behavior of the French and Italians pining for the North African dominance they enjoyed in WW II, we were all in. Yeah, we sent ships, we sent planes, we sent so many missiles and drones in support of the "leaders", it was awesome.

You do know, the cost of the ordinance we deployed from behind exceeded the annual military budgets of France and Italy?

Oh, pshaw EdMass.

Anyway, the Dem establishment is raging against Gowdy's report. They haven't read it. I have read a lot of it and summaries from news orgs that got advanced copies of various sections

Did you know Panetta ordered the the deployment of Troops to Benghazi and no one acted on his order? They were having a smoke break in the forward deployment Italian zone. For a day and a half until some of them showed up in Tripoli? Amazing stuff, of course if you can believe his testimony and others.

Nah, no one goes to jail for lying to a Congressional Committee anymore. Yo, Elijah your minority report is focused on the Drumpf? Really? If memory serves 2012 was way before his involvement in anything political or public. Just sayin .

There is no f'g "smoking gun". There is no targeting of HRC. There are many others involved in the BS that happened. Look it up it up its out there. There is just 800 pagers of mostly factual evidence as I can tell, demonstrating the politiciaztion of the whole thing 4 months before the GE.

Just read it if you care. If your mind is already made up, just don't.

For me, it's just more of the lying and obfuscation that always comes with the Clintons, to name just one.

Oh, HRC, I'm Invincible!

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Submitted by hecate on Tue, 06/28/2016 - 2:47pm

all the benghazi

investigations, committees, hearings. etc., have been farcical, because neither the Republicans nor the Democrats would want to get anywhere near what was really going on there, which Seymour Hersh set forth back in 2014:

A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi's arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn't always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he was having an affair with his biographer.

At first the GOoPers tried to claim The Kenyan sat in a chair and ate popcorn and laughed and laughed as he watched Americans die in Benghazi in real time; then, they shifted to trying to claim The Mad Bomber, she got a Huma boner, while watching them Americans die.

Meanwhile, the career analysts in the CIA, who had always hated Petraeus—they called him Daffy Dave—because of his moronic insistence on ginning up "counterinsurgency" operations in the agency, which resulted in howling disasters like Benghazi, they sussed out his wandering penis, and exposed it to the press, and that was the end of Daffy Dave.

The Republicans, they proceeded to spend years, monomaniacally focusing on the deaths of this one ambassador, one State Department factotum, and two mercenary serial killers, while tens of thousands of other human beings, they died over there, over that rat line.

But. Of course. Those people. Were brown.