That's true; it looks to me as if he toed the primitive party line to a tee.
Not really, the party line, from Obama on down, was this was not an attack on our military by an Islamic radical, it wasn't even a terrorist action. Can't be having any of that, especially given Hussein's background in the run up to an election year.
No, it strictly had to be nothing more than a "workplace incident" to protect the "ONE", and Arctic had to go and remind them that the military was involved.