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  • Aug 2, 2013, 12:44 PM
    NeedKarma
    Nope they weren't but nice try in misrepresenting their positions. Another example of non-existent honest discussions here.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 01:21 PM
    excon
    Hello again, Steve:

    If four dead is a scandal, what do you call 4,000 dead in a phony war? By the way, it's the war we LOST!!

    excon
  • Aug 2, 2013, 01:33 PM
    talaniman
    Republican scandals don't count. And liberals are all scandalous. It's the TParty vs RINO"s. Enjoy the show.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 01:36 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Nope they weren't but nice try in misrepresenting their positions. Another example of non-existent honest discussions here.

    LOL, do you really think I'm that stupid? Generally if I say it I can back it up, unlike you who just spews bullsh!t.

    "All the right wing scandals are phony ones" -Talaniman

    Hillary on Libya: 'What Difference Does It Make?'


    White House outrages Benghazi attack victim's mother as Obama continues to call the deadly assault a 'phony scandal'

    Like I said, that would be the Tal, the administration and Hillary "what difference does it make" Clinton who calling the deaths of Americans a "phony" scandal.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 01:38 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    LOL, do you really think I'm that stupid?
    Well, yes. Since I was referring to you misrepresenting the posters that you mentioned in the post I quoted.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 01:39 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, Steve:

    If four dead is a scandal, what do you call 4,000 dead in a phony war? By the way, it's the war we LOST!!!!

    excon

    Um, Obama is the one that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and my comment was about the very selective liberal outrage, not the deaths of Americans.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 01:40 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Well, yes. Since I was referring to you misrepresenting the posters that you mentioned in the post I quoted.

    I backed it up with the quotes, so bite me.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 01:44 PM
    talaniman
    You dismiss 4000 dead Americans and holler about 4, and say liberals are the ones with selective outrage??

    Those 4000 dead Americans had mama's too you know!!
  • Aug 2, 2013, 02:52 PM
    smoothy
    More of them died on Obamas watch than on Bushes. And Obama still has almost 3.5 years to go on his second term.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 03:03 PM
    talaniman
    iCasualties: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Casualties
  • Aug 2, 2013, 03:29 PM
    smoothy
    Year US
    2001 12
    2002 49
    2003 48
    2004 52
    2005 99
    2006 98
    2007 117
    2008 155
    2009 317
    2010 499
    2011 418
    2012 310
    2013 85
    Total 2259


    Yeah.. every year under Obama the numbers were WAY higher than under bush... and this year its well on its way with 5 months to go as well

    And we were on our way out of Iraq while Bush was still in Office.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 03:39 PM
    NeedKarma
    I like how you completely overlook the Iraq war stats. Pretty typical of the righty mentality."If it doesn't fit the narrative..."
  • Aug 2, 2013, 03:43 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    I like how you completely overlook the Iraq war stats. Pretty typical of the righty mentality."If it doesn't fit the narrative..."

    I know you are a bit slow... But that would be comparing apples to Oranges since we were on our way out before Bush left office... Unlike Afghanistan.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 04:28 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    we were on our way out before Bush left office
    And that makes a difference to the statistics how?
  • Aug 2, 2013, 04:59 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    And that makes a difference to the statistics how?

    Think about it a little... it should come to you.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 04:59 PM
    paraclete
    So now there are revelations of large scale CIA activity in the middle east and this is a surprise to someone? What were a large number of CIA operatives doing in Benghazi? Why didn't they rescue the ambassador? This sounds like boots on the ground to me
  • Aug 2, 2013, 05:04 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    so now there are revelations of large scale CIA activity in the middle east and this is a surprise to someone? What were a large number of CIA operatives doing in Benghazi? Why didn't they rescue the ambassador? This sounds like boots on the ground to me

    They HAD boots on the ground in the way of Rapid Reaction force at the Airport in Libya. (those were NOT CIA)... they were ordered to stand down.

    Yeah we all want to hear the real explanation for this... and they are stonewalling and obstructing to keep from doing it...
  • Aug 2, 2013, 05:23 PM
    paraclete
    Well if we don't know the answers after a year... interesting that as soon as this fresh information is revealed we have a smoke screen.. sorry what was I thinking.. alert, an attack somewhere, sometime, no one is safe, is this Al Qaeda talking or their new PR agency
  • Aug 2, 2013, 05:35 PM
    tomder55
    It won't be a year for another 5 weeks... but such is the power of an executive dept cover up.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 05:59 PM
    excon
    Hello again,

    Look.. I want to know if my president is a coward and a liar... I want to know if he left his men on the battlefield. If he did, I want his a$$.

    But, what we've got here is a terrorist attack and four of our men died including the ambassador. Nobody could have saved them. Nobody is saying they could. Obama was slow to call it a terrorist attack. Big Deal. You have some problem with the talking points given to Susan Rice. Big Deal. If the station was a CIA black ops office, big deal.

    I'm waiting to hear what was covered up, and who should be hung for it. Yawwwwwwn...

    excon
  • Aug 2, 2013, 06:17 PM
    smoothy
    Ex... that attack lasted for hours... we could have and it turns out we did have troops on the group in Libya long before it was over... they were ordered to stand down and several high ranking officers were relieved of their commands as a result of going that far...

    Now when there is smoke there is fire... so if there was noting to hide... why the massive efforts to threaten and intimidate people that were in the know.

    If there really was nothing it could have easily been put to rest VERY early on.

    You've seen kids that did something got in trouble and tried their best to hide it from their parents... and of course once the lies start piling up... the charade soon collapses... sometimes it takes longer... but the truth always comes out in the end.
  • Aug 2, 2013, 06:47 PM
    paraclete
    Ex wants to know, hell we all want to know so we can move on. We know it was an Evita stuffup but she is no longer around to answer. Thing is; if they lied about Libya then they are lying about Syria
  • Aug 3, 2013, 01:27 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    Ex wants to know, hell we all want to know so we can move on. We know it was an Evita stuffup but she is no longer around to answer. Thing is; if they lied about Lybia then they are lying about Syria

    Indeed... Whether one agrees about Iraq or not, one of the big differences is that Iraq was debated for months... and a bipartisan war resolution was passed by Congress authorizing it. There was also bipartisan support for Afghanistan and authorization to use force to wage war against AQ ;and to take the steps to secure the country against their terror war against us.

    There is very little about the changes in American foreign policy that has been debated or put to a congressional vote since the emperor began his reign . Where was the debate to materially support the ouster of Mubarack ,the support of the Arab spring in the Maghreb ;the enforcement of a 'no fly zone ' in Libya which led to our active military assistance in the ouster of QDaffy ? Where is there now any authorization for the material support of jihadists in Syria ? Seems like everything he does is surreptitious and done through executive action of dubious and questionable constitutional authority. Then when his policies are questioned ,he calls them out as "phony" scandals ,and actively covers up and obstructs any attempt at discovery .
  • Aug 3, 2013, 02:37 AM
    paraclete
    What part of Commander in Chief do you not understand? Problem is; this power has been given to the wrong person
  • Aug 3, 2013, 04:42 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    what part of Commander in Chief do you not understand? Problem is; this power has been given to the wrong person

    Only congress has the authority to declare war. Bush went through the proper channels with bipartisan consent as tom noted and was vilified relentlessly by these same liberals / progressives that have no problem with all of Zero's unilateral escapades. Nothing to see here, move along... Oh look something shiny!
  • Aug 3, 2013, 07:15 AM
    paraclete
    What is shiny the seat of his pants?
  • Aug 3, 2013, 07:22 AM
    talaniman
    Proper channels? He lied, 4000 died, and there was nothing proper about it. Obama brings the troops home and he is vilified by the right. Trying to revise history won't help you guys.
  • Aug 3, 2013, 08:18 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Proper channels?? He lied, 4000 died, and there was nothing proper about it. Obama brings the troops home and he is vilified by the right. Trying to revise history won't help you guys.

    Even your lefty champions were out banging the war drums, like John "I was for it before I was against it" Kerry. That's the revisionist history, you pretend your side has clean hands. I guess your oh so intelligent pols were outsmarted by the man you refer to as "the dufus", eh?
  • Aug 3, 2013, 08:34 AM
    excon
    Hello again, Steve:
    Quote:

    Even your lefty champions were out banging the war drums, like John "I was for it before I was against it" Kerry.
    It's true.. He was able to DUPE a lot of Democrats too. So? He didn't dupe ME.

    By the way, I'm not going to call him dufus anymore.. He's looking much less dufuslike compared to present day right wingers.

    Excon
  • Aug 3, 2013, 08:35 AM
    speechlesstx
    At least you admit Democrats aren't too sharp.
  • Aug 3, 2013, 08:59 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Proper channels?? He lied, 4000 died, and there was nothing proper about it. Obama brings the troops home and he is vilified by the right. Trying to revise history won't help you guys.

    Really... he lied, care to prove that? Considering there was ample proof in the Security briefings... that the president doesn't write... for it to be a lie... YOU have to prove the security briefings said otherwise.

    Not to mention the 200+ metric tons of stuff that you claim didn't exist that went to Canada for reprocessing...

    But then... why let the fact get in the way of the propaganda.
  • Aug 3, 2013, 09:39 AM
    talaniman
    Links please since you have the facts. Don't forget Cheney and his lies with your facts.
  • Aug 4, 2013, 01:55 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Links please since you have the facts. Don't forget Cheney and his lies with your facts.

    500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says - CNN.com

    As for the Bush lied bs.. that has been debunked so many times I won't bother providing all the links . It is so woven into your fictional narrative that you won't believe it anyway. Besides that's Iraq ;it's over because your side quit... move on .
  • Aug 4, 2013, 02:12 AM
    NeedKarma
    It's naturally occurring yellowcake ("yellowcake uranium is a commonly traded commodity used for nuclear power generation. It is not enriched and cannot be used without first going through a complicated enrichment process"). It isn't weapons of mass destruction.
  • Aug 4, 2013, 02:19 AM
    tomder55
    Didn't say it was.. just providing a link to Smoothy's claim. It does show that Saddam retained the core of his WMD program... another indisputable fact that was verified by much more than just this yellow cake . The claim against Saddam was not that he had stock piles of new weapons. The claim was that he was violating UN resolutions related to the full cooperation with the IAEA in accounting for his stock piles . The ball was always in his court . Had he cooperated with the UN terms then the war would not have happened.
  • Aug 4, 2013, 04:36 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    didn't say it was ..just providing a link to Smoothy's claim. It does show that Saddam retained the core of his WMD program ...another indisputable fact that was verified by much more than just this yellow cake . The claim against Saddam was not that he had stock piles of new weapons. The claim was that he was violating UN resolutions related to the full cooperation with the IAEA in accounting for his stock piles . The ball was always in his court . Had he cooperated with the UN terms then the war would not have happened.

    Another indisputable fact the left refuses to acknowledge. But hey at least they proved the point, they're still all too eager to cling to the phony "Bush lied" narrative while excusing the proven lies on Benghazi and stonewalling over IRS abuses that were revealed by admission of the abuse. Talk about living in denial.
  • Aug 4, 2013, 05:16 AM
    paraclete
    Hey let's get beyond this. Bush lied. There were no WMD in Iraq. We know there were undisirables in Iraq but no WMD. Why. Because of fear, nothing more. Bengahazi, well here we have something different, CIA maybe, who knows the spooks have been busy again.I can't deny that, it is obvious
  • Aug 13, 2013, 08:08 AM
    speechlesstx
    According to the attorney for a Benghazi whistleblower, 400 U.S. missiles were stolen that night. What could go wrong?

    Quote:

    On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.'s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were "diverted to Libya" and ended up being stolen and falling into "the hands of some very ugly people."

    DiGenova represents Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson. He told WMAL that he "does not know whether [the missiles] were at the annex, but it is clear the annex was somehow involved in the distribution of those missiles."

    He claimed his information "comes from a former intelligence official who stayed in constant contact with people in the special ops and intelligence community." He said the biggest concern right now is finding those missiles before they can be put to use. "They are worried, specifically according to these sources, about an attempt to shoot down an airliner," he claimed.
    I can't imagine what "very ugly people" might want some SAMS, perhaps those same "very ugly people" filling the void in Syria?

    Quote:

    Senior U.S. intelligence officials are concerned about the growing presence of al Qaeda terrorists in civil war-torn Syria. In a statement released over the weekend, the State Department said the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has moved himself and the group's operations to Syria. A State Department spokesperson also noted that the deadly suicide attacks and car bombings carried out in Iraq in recent days can be attributed to AQI.

    CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell warned of the risk of the collapse of the Syrian government -- which possesses a considerable stockpile of chemical and advanced weapons -- namely, a power vacuum which would leave room for al Qaeda to take hold and take advantage of their weapons cache and technical capabilities.

    The al Qaeda movement is very much "based on ideology and has very little to do with the kind of organization" that the U.S. is accustomed to, according to CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, who cited Syria's "massive stockpile of chemical weapons" and depth of knowledge about employing those weapons as a unique threat compared to other, previous al Qaeda training havens.

    "The people who know the most about chemical weapons in the United States say that what is scary about Syria is not just the presence of chemical stockpiles ...it's the the technical knowledge and training and know-how and the delivery system required to deliver those weapons," Logan said Tuesday on "CBS This Morning."

    "Nobody knows yet who's going to win the peace in Syria," she added, "It might very well be al Qaeda."
    Anyone else longing for the day when al Qaeda was "decimated" and "on the run?"

    Mission accomplished!
  • Aug 13, 2013, 08:13 AM
    NeedKarma
    So this is a GOOD whistleblower then?
  • Aug 13, 2013, 08:51 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    So this is a GOOD whistleblower then?

    Yes.

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