13 Benghazis Happened Under President Bush

[depotoo]

Where is your link?

Did Bush blame it on some unknown video producer in L.A.? Did Bush cover them up to get elected?

No
No
Apples to Oranges.

Bush blamed Saddam Hussein for 9/11 and used that lie to get support for the Iraq disaster.

90% of the soldiers going to Iraq thought it was because of 9/11. That poll has been posted many times here. Are Republicans going to call them "stupid" or admit they were tricked?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Did Bush blame it on some unknown video producer in L.A.? Did Bush cover them up to get elected?

No
No
Apples to Oranges.

Bush blamed Saddam Hussein for 9/11 and used that lie to get support for the Iraq disaster.

90% of the soldiers going to Iraq thought it was because of 9/11. That poll has been posted many times here. Are Republicans going to call them "stupid" or admit they were tricked?

Nope. No poll says that. They went in there to take out Saddam Hussein. They crushed his forces, then came back to finish the job. They even took part in toppling a few of his statues. Was that because of 9/11? No, it was based on that a so-called 'lie' that WMD was there. I mean that's what you all were saying in my thread weren't you?

Nice contradiction.

 

[depotoo]

That's why I asked. It will expose him.

Bush blamed Saddam Hussein for 9/11 and used that lie to get support for the Iraq disaster.

90% of the soldiers going to Iraq thought it was because of 9/11. That poll has been posted many times here. Are Republicans going to call them "stupid" or admit they were tricked?

Nope. No poll says that. They went in there to take out Saddam Hussein. They crushed his forces, then came back to finish the job. They even took part in toppling a few of his statues. Was that because of 9/11? No, it was based on that a so-called 'lie' that WMD was there. I mean that's what you all were saying in my thread weren't you?

Nice contradiction.

 

[Freewill]

Did Bush blame it on some unknown video producer in L.A.? Did Bush cover them up to get elected?

No
No
Apples to Oranges.

Bush blamed Saddam Hussein for 9/11 and used that lie to get support for the Iraq disaster.

90% of the soldiers going to Iraq thought it was because of 9/11. That poll has been posted many times here. Are Republicans going to call them "stupid" or admit they were tricked?

How in the hell would you know what a soldier thinks?

 

[Publius1787]

13 Benghazis Happened Under President Bush and
Fox News Said Nothing


Check out the timeline of attacks on embassies and consulate compounds during Bush's tenure that received no similar fine-toothed-combing from Fox.

1. Jan. 22, 2002: Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Attacks Indian U.S. Consulate
Five policemen were killed and 16 injured in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta because of an attack on the U.S. consulate by militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami. American employees including the consul-general in Calcutta, Christopher Sandrolini, were unscathed, and those injured and killed were all Indians.

2. June 14, 2002: Suicide Car-Bomb Outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi
Twelve people died in an attack outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi when militants exploded a car bomb. A Taliban splinter group referred to as Al-Qanoon, or "The Law," claimed responsibility for the attacks that also injured 51 people. Two hired guards, a Marine, and five Pakistani staff members were among the injured in the attack that followed then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's visit to the country.

3. Oct. 12, 2002: String Of Bali Bombings Included U.S. Consulate
The U.S. consulate in Indonesia was attacked as part of the 'Bali bombings' on a devastating October night. While there were no fatalities at the consulate, seven Americans were among the 202 dead at the coordinated blasts inside a bar and outside a nightclub.

4. Feb. 28, 2003: Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, Attacked For the Second Time in One Year
Gunmen rode up on a motorbike to the U.S. consulate's security checkpoints and rained gunfire killing two Pakistani police officers. One gunman arrested by paramilitary officers was found to have several rounds of ammunition prepared for what could have been a far more devastating attack.

5. May 12, 2003: 36 People Including 9 Americans Die After Terrorists Storm U.S. Compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The State Department had warned of a potential strike against the Saudi days before gunmen infiltrated the Al Hamra Oasis Village and two others killing 36 people and wounding 160. This was the most devastating attack on a State Department employees to occur under Bush. The Saudi government cracked down on terrorists group but that did not prevent another attack to occur a year later in Jeddah.

6. July 30, 2004: Islamist Attacks U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Two Uzbek security guards died in a bombing on the U.S. embassy in Tashkent days. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claimed responsibility of the bombing after 15 alleged Islamist militants went on trial.

7. Dec. 6, 2004: Five Staff and Four Security Guards Die in U.S. consulate attack in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Gunmen fought their way into the complex, reportedly taking 18 staff and visa applicants hostage for a short time before Saudi security forces stormed the building. The final dead counted four security guards, five staff, and three attackers. No Americans were among the dead.

8. March 2, 2006: Third Attack on Karachi U.S. Consulate Killed U.S. Diplomat
U.S. Diplomat David Foy was specifically targeted in the third attack in as many years on the Karachi consulate compound. He was one of four people killed. The bomb occurred two days before President Bush was to visit Pakistan and also targeted the Marriot hotel in an upscale neighborhood of Karachi.

This was a planned and coordinated attack that nobody covered as more than a news item.

9. Sept. 12, 2006: Four Gunmen Stormed the U.S. compound in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen yelling "Allahu akbar " - "God is great" - fired on Syrian security officers guarding the U.S. embassy. The gunmen used grenades, automatic weapons, car bombs, and a truck bomb and killed four people and wounded 13 others. Condoleezza Rice, then Secretary of State praised the Syrians that defended the U.S. employees: "the Syrians reacted to this attack in a way that helped to secure our people, and we very much appreciate that."

10. Jan. 12, 2007: Greek Terrorists Fired a Rocket-Propelled Grenade at the U.S. Embassy
An antitank grenade was fired into the empty consulate building by leftist terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle angry at American foreign policy. Even though nobody was in the building at the time the attack was a blatant breach of security and showed enormous security loopholes.

11. March 18, 2008: A Mortar is Fired at the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Similar to the Greek attack, a mortar was fired at the U.S. embassy building killing 19 people and injuring 16. This was the second attempt at a similar mortar attack on the embassy. The first one missed the embassy and hit a girls' school next door.

12. July 9, 2008: Three Turkish Policemen were Killed When Gunman Fired on the U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey
Four attackers drove up to the high-walled compound of the U.S. Consulate and started shooting the security guards. The gun battle took the lives of three of the attackers but the fourth one drove off. No Americans were injured or killed.

13. Sept. 17, 2008: 16 People Including 2 Americans Die in an Orchestrated Attack on the U.S. Embassy Sana’a, Yemen
An arsenal of weapons including rocket-propelled grenades and two car bombs were involved in the second attack on the embassy in seven months. Eighteen-year-old American Susan El-Baneh and her husband of three weeks died holding hands.
13 Benghazis Happened Under President Bush and Fox News Said Nothing - PolicyMic

Which one of these embassy attacks involved a group of people being guarded solely by foreign nationals who fled when the enemy attacked after months of asking for more reliable security and were stuck in the middle of nowhere without security or backup only to have the nearest security forces told to stand down? Yeah, that's what I thought.

 

[American Horse]

13 Benghazis Happened Under President Bush and
Fox News Said Nothing
Check out the timeline of attacks on embassies and consulate compounds during Bush's tenure that received no similar fine-toothed-combing from Fox.

1. Jan. 22, 2002: Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Attacks Indian U.S. Consulate
Five policemen were killed and 16 injured in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta because of an attack on the U.S. consulate by militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami. American employees including the consul-general in Calcutta, Christopher Sandrolini, were unscathed, and those injured and killed were all Indians.

2. June 14, 2002: Suicide Car-Bomb Outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi
Twelve people died in an attack outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi when militants exploded a car bomb. A Taliban splinter group referred to as Al-Qanoon, or "The Law," claimed responsibility for the attacks that also injured 51 people. Two hired guards, a Marine, and five Pakistani staff members were among the injured in the attack that followed then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's visit to the country.

3. Oct. 12, 2002: String Of Bali Bombings Included U.S. Consulate
The U.S. consulate in Indonesia was attacked as part of the 'Bali bombings' on a devastating October night. While there were no fatalities at the consulate, seven Americans were among the 202 dead at the coordinated blasts inside a bar and outside a nightclub.

4. Feb. 28, 2003: Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, Attacked For the Second Time in One Year
Gunmen rode up on a motorbike to the U.S. consulate's security checkpoints and rained gunfire killing two Pakistani police officers. One gunman arrested by paramilitary officers was found to have several rounds of ammunition prepared for what could have been a far more devastating attack.

5. May 12, 2003: 36 People Including 9 Americans Die After Terrorists Storm U.S. Compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The State Department had warned of a potential strike against the Saudi days before gunmen infiltrated the Al Hamra Oasis Village and two others killing 36 people and wounding 160. This was the most devastating attack on a State Department employees to occur under Bush. The Saudi government cracked down on terrorists group but that did not prevent another attack to occur a year later in Jeddah.

6. July 30, 2004: Islamist Attacks U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Two Uzbek security guards died in a bombing on the U.S. embassy in Tashkent days. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claimed responsibility of the bombing after 15 alleged Islamist militants went on trial.

7. Dec. 6, 2004: Five Staff and Four Security Guards Die in U.S. consulate attack in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Gunmen fought their way into the complex, reportedly taking 18 staff and visa applicants hostage for a short time before Saudi security forces stormed the building. The final dead counted four security guards, five staff, and three attackers. No Americans were among the dead.

8. March 2, 2006: Third Attack on Karachi U.S. Consulate Killed U.S. Diplomat
U.S. Diplomat David Foy was specifically targeted in the third attack in as many years on the Karachi consulate compound. He was one of four people killed. The bomb occurred two days before President Bush was to visit Pakistan and also targeted the Marriot hotel in an upscale neighborhood of Karachi.

This was a planned and coordinated attack that nobody covered as more than a news item.

9. Sept. 12, 2006: Four Gunmen Stormed the U.S. compound in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen yelling "Allahu akbar " - "God is great" - fired on Syrian security officers guarding the U.S. embassy. The gunmen used grenades, automatic weapons, car bombs, and a truck bomb and killed four people and wounded 13 others. Condoleezza Rice, then Secretary of State praised the Syrians that defended the U.S. employees: "the Syrians reacted to this attack in a way that helped to secure our people, and we very much appreciate that."

10. Jan. 12, 2007: Greek Terrorists Fired a Rocket-Propelled Grenade at the U.S. Embassy
An antitank grenade was fired into the empty consulate building by leftist terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle angry at American foreign policy. Even though nobody was in the building at the time the attack was a blatant breach of security and showed enormous security loopholes.

11. March 18, 2008: A Mortar is Fired at the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Similar to the Greek attack, a mortar was fired at the U.S. embassy building killing 19 people and injuring 16. This was the second attempt at a similar mortar attack on the embassy. The first one missed the embassy and hit a girls' school next door.

12. July 9, 2008: Three Turkish Policemen were Killed When Gunman Fired on the U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey
Four attackers drove up to the high-walled compound of the U.S. Consulate and started shooting the security guards. The gun battle took the lives of three of the attackers but the fourth one drove off. No Americans were injured or killed.

13. Sept. 17, 2008: 16 People Including 2 Americans Die in an Orchestrated Attack on the U.S. Embassy Sana’a, Yemen
An arsenal of weapons including rocket-propelled grenades and two car bombs were involved in the second attack on the embassy in seven months. Eighteen-year-old American Susan El-Baneh and her husband of three weeks died holding hands.
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None of those 13 attacks involved dereliction of duty by Bush or the Bush State Department to protect the American facilities as was the case in Benghazi.

In only a single case was an American diplomat killed AND he was outside the facility and was not on the "American sovereign soil" of a US diplomatic post.

There was no coverup by Bush in any of those instances, nor did Bush lie in any fashion to get away with a failure to protect those posts.

Obama's State Department (HRC) ignored many warnings in the days leading up to the attack then lied about the whole thing to keep secure his image of a master of foreign policy and to further the pretense that he could conduct a new kind of foreign policy; one in which we could fly air and drone missions to affect the outcome of a civil war without consequences or retaliation.

And in no attack did Bush lie about what happened during or afterwards

What those 13 attacks DO show is the utter stupidity of not protecting a diplomatic post in a hostile environment and so the premise completely fails as a moral equivalence

 

[JohnL.Burke]

There are so many unanswered questions about Benghazi that those who pretend that curiosity and questioning is a partisan fault must eventually use historical revisionism and moral equivalency as a morphine drip to stop from being embarrassed by their own agenda driven hypocrisy.

 

[The T]

Bush blamed Saddam Hussein for 9/11 and used that lie to get support for the Iraq disaster.

90% of the soldiers going to Iraq thought it was because of 9/11. That poll has been posted many times here. Are Republicans going to call them "stupid" or admit they were tricked?

How in the hell would you know what a soldier thinks?

Deany wouldn't...and quite a trick for him, isn't it?

 

[whitehall]

For the last time, the cover-up is worse than the crime. Car bombs and RPG attacks are over in an instant. Barry Hussein allegedly ate pizza while Navy Seals fought for hours for their lives and never lifted a finger.

 

[The T]

For the last time, the cover-up is worse than the crime. Car bombs and RPG attacks are over in an instant. Barry Hussein allegedly ate pizza while Navy Seals fought for hours for their lives and never lifted a finger.

He had a campaign stop in Vegas...he couldn't be bothered with the lives of others that were in peril. Remember this about Barry Hussein? It's ALWAYS been about HIMSELF. Everyone around him can die and he wouldn't care.

That's what malignant narcissists are all about.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Barry was too busy making sure that the election was being fixed to be bothered by some piddly problems in Libya.

 

[The T]

Barry was too busy making sure that the election was being fixed to be bothered by some piddly problems in Libya.

Especially one that would torpedo his election narrative: "bin-Laden DEAD, GM Alive, al-Queida on the run...".

Barry was wrong on ALL fronts. Sure he made the decision under pressure to get bin-Laden...indecisive...GM still owes the taxpayers a few billion...and al-Queida is alive as ever and on the offensive.


Barry is a LIAR.

 

[whitehall]

A little reported factoid is when the bodies of the Benghazi victims were brought home the families were invited to Dover AFB when the caskets were brought off the plane. The father of one of the victims said that Hillary told him "I promise you that the producer of the video will be brought to justice". Imagine that, the secretary of state didn't promise that the terrorist thugs would be brought to justice. She wanted to lock up a guy who made an obscure video that nobody ever watched and she thought the father of a Navy Seal would be dumb enough to buy the story.

 

[The T]

A little reported factoid is when the bodies of the Benghazi victims were brought home the families were invited to Dover AFB when the caskets were brought off the plane. The father of one of the victims said that Hillary told him "I promise you that the producer of the video will be brought to justice". Imagine that, the secretary of state didn't promise that the terrorist thugs would be brought to justice. She wanted to lock up a guy who made an obscure video that nobody ever watched and she thought the father of a Navy Seal would be dumb enough to buy the story.

Hillary Clinton to father of American murdered in Libya: We’ll ‘make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted’

 

[American Horse]

90% of the soldiers going to Iraq thought it was because of 9/11. That poll has been posted many times here. Are Republicans going to call them "stupid" or admit they were tricked?

That they nobly enlisted because of what happened on 9/11 and spent time at war in Iraq does not mean or require that they believed the attack came from Iraq.

We don't know what they knew for certain except that they probably knew that the attack emanated from terrorists led by OBL who was hiding in Afghanistan.

The vast majority very likely knew that Saddam Hussein had offered up and paid $25,000 to the families of any terrorist who suicided himself against American interests, and therefore was a state sponsor of terrorism.

That was substantiated by the gutted out Boeing 727 in the desert at Salman Pak that was ostensibly used for training would be terrorist in the practice of hi-jacking planes in the spirit of the 9/11 attack.

NOW Deanie; please post any credible poll or survey that substantiated your 90% claim.

 

[Sallow]

A little reported factoid is when the bodies of the Benghazi victims were brought home the families were invited to Dover AFB when the caskets were brought off the plane. The father of one of the victims said that Hillary told him "I promise you that the producer of the video will be brought to justice". Imagine that, the secretary of state didn't promise that the terrorist thugs would be brought to justice. She wanted to lock up a guy who made an obscure video that nobody ever watched and she thought the father of a Navy Seal would be dumb enough to buy the story.

They watched it all over the middle east and it really was, in part, responsible for the attacks on the consulate.

The other reason that the consulate was attacked was that the CIA had set up house keeping there and were holding militants.

Funny you guys just never questioned what the heck three ex navy seals were doing in the area at the time of the attack.

The other shoe was it was conservative spending cuts that left the consulate without adequate defense.

Gotta love it.

 

[The T]

90% of the soldiers going to Iraq thought it was because of 9/11. That poll has been posted many times here. Are Republicans going to call them "stupid" or admit they were tricked?

That nobly they enlisted because of what happened on 9/11 and spent time at war in Iraq mean or require that they believed the attack came from Iraq.

We don't know what the knew for certain except that they probably knew that the attack emanated from terrorists led by OBL who was hiding in Afghanistan.

The vast majority very likely knew that Saddam Hussein had offered up and paid $25k to the families of any terrorist who suicided himself against American interests, and therefore was a state sponsor of terrorism.

That was substantiated by the gutted out Boeing 727 in the desert at Salman Pak that was ostensibly used for training would be terrorist in the practice of hi-jacking planes in the spirit of the 9/11 attack.

NOW Deanie; please post any credible poll or survey that substantiated your 90% claim.

True.


Saddam Rewards Suicide Bombers' Families

 

[Avatar4321]

Really? Which Ambassadors were murdered under President Bush? And how many were using weapons Americans gave them?

 

[JohnL.Burke]

A little reported factoid is when the bodies of the Benghazi victims were brought home the families were invited to Dover AFB when the caskets were brought off the plane. The father of one of the victims said that Hillary told him "I promise you that the producer of the video will be brought to justice". Imagine that, the secretary of state didn't promise that the terrorist thugs would be brought to justice. She wanted to lock up a guy who made an obscure video that nobody ever watched and she thought the father of a Navy Seal would be dumb enough to buy the story.

They watched it all over the middle east and it really was, in part, responsible for the attacks on the consulate.

The other reason that the consulate was attacked was that the CIA had set up house keeping there and were holding militants.

Funny you guys just never questioned what the heck three ex navy seals were doing in the area at the time of the attack.

The other shoe was it was conservative spending cuts that left the consulate without adequate defense.

Gotta love it.

I guess I could point out that Charlene Lamb (State Department Official) stated that budget cuts had nothing to do with Benghazi security. However, I'm sure most people know that. On the bright side though, since you echoed some conspiracy theories about Benghazi that haven't been proven yet, I'm sure you must approve of a select hearing committee.
Gotta love it.

 

[Faun]

yabut he was a Repub Prez. Its different. IT JUST IS!!!

bush didnt lie about embassay attacks

geez you LWNJs are some stupid SOBs

Yeah, Bush only lied about why he decided to invade Iraq. No big deal. Just 5,000 American lives, 100K Iraqi lives, and upwards of $2 trillion.