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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: txradioguy on October 31, 2013, 02:21:27 AM
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Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military’s elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a mission that further undercuts the Obama administration’s original story about the Benghazi tragedy.
For months, administration officials have claimed no special operations forces were dispatched from outside Libya to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012, al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA annex because none was within range.
The Pentagon, under intense public criticism for not coming to the aid of besieged Americans, published an official timeline in November that carefully danced around the issue.
It said time and distance prevented any commandos outside Libya from reaching a CIA compound under attack. The timeline disclosed that a reinforcement flight 400 miles away in Tripoli contained two “DoD personnel†but did not describe who they were. Later, the official State Department report on Benghazi said they were “two U.S. military personnel†— but provided no other details. It made no mention of special operations forces.
But sources directly familiar with the attack tell The Washington Times that a unit of eight special operators — mostly Delta Force and Green Beret members — were in Tripoli the night of the attack, on a counterterrorism mission that involved capturing weapons and wanted terrorists from the streets and helping train Libyan forces.
When word of the Benghazi attack surfaced, two members of that military unit volunteered to be dispatched along with five private security contractors on a hastily arranged flight from Tripoli to rescue Americans in danger, the sources said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because the special operations forces’ existence inside Libya was secret.
The two special operations forces arrived in time to engage in the final, ferocious firefight between the terrorists and Americans holed up in the CIA annex near the ill-fated diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the sources added.
The two special operators were awarded medals for valor for helping repel a complex attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens, another American diplomat and two former Navy SEALs, but spared many more potential casualties.
“Yes, we had special forces in Tripoli, and two in fact did volunteer and engaged heroically in the efforts to save Americans,†one source told The Times. “The others were asked to stay behind to help protect Tripoli in case there was a coordinated attack on our main embassy.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/30/us-military-commandos-made-it-to-benghazi/
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The Obama administration lied?
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The Obama administration lied?
Shocking I know...
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Lindsay Graham has threatened to hold up any more nominations/appointees until the survivors are allowed to come forward and tell what they know about that night in Benghazi.
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The Obama administration lied?
They would never lie, you stinking racist.
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Is this supposed to make us believe that Obama did send help?
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Is this supposed to make us believe that Obama did send help?
No...just that the lies about "nobody could have gotten there were false.
That and IIRC the claims that there were no special forces on the ground in Libya at the time.
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No...just that the lies about "nobody could have gotten there were false.
That and IIRC the claims that there were no special forces on the ground in Libya at the time.
They claim that there wasn't time to send help, yet the attack went on for something like 7 hours. If Obama had given the okay at the beginning of the attack, there could have been a hell of of a lot of help and the attackers would likely all be dead.
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Lindsay Graham has threatened to hold up any more nominations/appointees until the survivors are allowed to come forward and tell what they know about that night in Benghazi.
Lindsey will meekly shut his cock holster and sit his linguini spined ass back down whenever the HMFIC over across the street tells him to.
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They would never lie, you stinking racist.
I only said that because our President is black. :-)
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They claim that there wasn't time to send help, yet the attack went on for something like 7 hours. If Obama had given the okay at the beginning of the attack, there could have been a hell of of a lot of help and the attackers would likely all be dead.
What this administration doesn't understand is if those Green Berets only options was to road march to Benghazi to try and stop that attack they would have.
Especially since there were former fellow operators there and in harms way.
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They claim that there wasn't time to send help, yet the attack went on for something like 7 hours. If Obama had given the okay at the beginning of the attack, there could have been a hell of of a lot of help and the attackers would likely all be dead.
Also, that security guy was left on the roof for something like 22 hours.
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What this administration doesn't understand is if those Green Berets only options was to road march to Benghazi to try and stop that attack they would have.
Especially since there were former fellow operators there and in harms way.
Exactly, but someone gave an order to stand down.
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Obama can not tell a lie......but he does a damn good job of reading them off a teleprompter.
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owebuma cannot tell the truth.
By the way I am "borrowing" the story from TRG to post on my other forum.
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The Complete List of Things Obama Doesn’t Know About
https://www.nrcc.org/2013/10/29/complete-list-things-obama-doesnt-know/
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The Complete List of Things Obama Doesn’t Know About
https://www.nrcc.org/2013/10/29/complete-list-things-obama-doesnt-know/
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They left off....
"He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."
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They left off....
"He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."
Oh no; Prezzy 'Down Low' knows that one. He couldn't have as much fun playing hide the snausage in a hole in the ground.