I am so grateful that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are in cha

[Chris_]

Yeah, Obama's doing a great ****ing job.  His hand-picked ambassador wouldn't let the Marines at the embassy in Cairo carry ammunition.

REPORTS: No Live Ammo for Marines

Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit U.S. Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” according to multiple reports on U.S. Marine Corps blogs spotted by Nightwatch. “She neutralized any U.S. military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy.”

Free Beacon

GREAT job.  Assholes.

[docstew]

Yeah, Obama's doing a great ****ing job.  His hand-picked ambassador wouldn't let the Marines at the embassy in Cairo carry ammunition.
Free Beacon

GREAT job.  Assholes.

Another example of incompetence run amok. In the UK or France, sure, maybe they don't need ammo at all times, but in Egypt, that just went through a huge political upheaval? That's just stupid.

[JohnnyReb]

Another example of incompetence run amok. In the UK or France, sure, maybe they don't need ammo at all times, but in Egypt, that just went through a huge political upheaval? That's just stupid.

That's what you get with stupid liberal wymins. A conservative woman running the place would have told the Marines, "Kill 'em before they get inside....I don't want them bleeding on the carpet."

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, that was ****ing brilliant of them to proclaim the Global War on Terror was over and/or didn't exist awhile back, otherwise the attack on the Consulate might have been just an al-Q'aeda counterattack in a war we'd been actually fighting for eleven years, and we could respond to it like one, instead of treating it like some unique event that requires the wheel, fire, writing, and flint knives to all be reinvented.

Oh wait...

[FiddyBeowulf]

Did 0bama LIHOP or MIHOP this?

LIHOP
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.

Holding my breath for the DUmmies to make posts calling for investigations to see who knew what and when.

[JakeStyle]

Yeah, Obama's doing a great ****ing job.  His hand-picked ambassador wouldn't let the Marines at the embassy in Cairo carry ammunition.
Free Beacon

GREAT job.  Assholes.

I'm having a hard time believing that report, there is no way that the Marines would allow that.

[Chris_]

Looks like they've updated their story.  From the same link:

Pentagon Denies Reports of No Live Ammo for Marines

Pentagon denies reports on Marine blogs that U.S. embassy did not authorize service members to carry ammo

A Marine spokesperson at the Pentagon denied reports that U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition in a statement to Fox News Thursday.

Pentagon Lt. Col. Chris Hughes told the outlet: “The ambassador and RSO (Regional Security Officer) have been completely and appropriately engaged with the security situation. No restrictions on weapons or weapons status have been imposed. This information comes from the Det Commander at AMEMB (American Embassy) Cairo.”

[YupItsMe]

Another example of incompetence run amok. In the UK or France, sure, maybe they don't need ammo at all times, but in Egypt, that just went through a huge political upheaval? That's just stupid.

  Should have an Apache and an M1A1 in the courtyard.

[J P Sousa]

I'm having a hard time believing that report, there is no way that the Marines would allow that.

I tend to a gree with you, BUT the State Department is known to act in a way not in sync with the administration even during the Bush administration.

There is precedence for disarming Marines.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/14/marines-told-to-disarm-before-panettas-speech-in-afghanistan/


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[DumbAss Tanker]

I'm having a hard time believing that report, there is no way that the Marines would allow that.

I'm not, I have no doubt the State Department would rather deal with the repercussions of dead or hostage diplomatic staff than deal with a few hundred dead formerly-rioting murderous Muslim street-sweepings in an embassy courtyard.

[jukin]

I'm not, I have no doubt the State Department would rather deal with the repercussions of dead or hostage diplomatic staff than deal with a few hundred dead formerly-rioting murderous Muslim street-sweepings in an embassy courtyard.

This is very true.

[delilahmused]

I'm having a hard time believing that report, there is no way that the Marines would allow that.

The Marines don't have a choice. It's not like they can go up to they WH or SoS and say "hey, we're just not going!"

cindie

[Jasonw560]

And, I'm sure in their minds, they can say, "Look, they killed unarmed Marines!! Get outraged!"

While we're outraged that if Zero had listened to his PDB, he could have gotten them out of there 2 days in advance.

The Charlie Foxtrot is well under way.

[sunsettommy]

The buck really stops with the president who should have been paying attention to a well known foreign policy hotspot but then he is a miserable Muslim communist therefore why should he miss his trips to play land areas when he is a supporter of Muslim radicalism.