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WHY BENGHAZI MATTERS by Bill Whittle

NOTE: This is a good analysis of the timeline of the attack and the cover-up. CAVEAT: So far as I have been able to discern, the photo he used of “Ambassador Stevens being dragged through the streets” is not Ambassador Stevens. I posted this information in the comments at the video.

Americans killed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attack on May 12, 2003: Nine American defense contractors killed.

UNLIKE BENGHAZI: Prior to the attack, the State Department issued numerous warnings of a potential attack. Afterwards, Bush immediately condemned it as a terrorist attack. And the attackers were all killed.

Americans killed in Karachi, Pakistan, attack on March 2, 2006: One American diplomat killed instantly.

UNLIKE BENGHAZI: It was all over with one bang. There was no 8-hour-long siege featuring a U.S. President and his Secretary of State who could not be located. Also, it was not in a recent war zone where an approaching 9/11 anniversary made it a prime target. The embassy had not requested extra security or, having asked for more security, had existing security removed. Nearby service personnel were not told to sit on their thumbs while Americans were under siege. And no one lied or said it was anything other than what it was … a terrorist attack. And the attacker (suicide bomber) was killed instantly.

Americans killed during Benghazi, Libya attack on September 11, 2010: Our Ambassador, a staff member and two soldiers who defied orders to stand down.

WHY BENGHAZI MATTERS:

• Prior to the attack, the ambassador begged for additional security due to increased threats and one actual attack on the compound that might have been a practice run for breaching the wall.
• The State Department removed rather than added security.
• During the attack, nearby armed Americans were repeatedly ordered to stand down.
• For weeks afterwards, Obama and his staff blamed the attack on a protest over a YouTube video.
• When evidence proved they had known from the start it was a terrorist attack, Obama claimed he’d always said so, which was a blatant and glaring lie.
• When asked under oath by a Congressional Committee what she knew and when she knew it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton screeched, “What difference does it make?!” This is the same Hillary Clinton who got fired from the Watergate investigation for exceeding the law in her efforts to get Nixon impeached for lying to Americans about what he knew and when he knew it.
• The White House switched to “It was a long time ago” and “It’s a fake scandal” and “Republicans only care about Benghazi because RAACISM.”
• Left-wing apologists created a  deceptive list of other embassy attacks that allegedly “proved” Republican hypocrisy.
• The attackers have not only never been capture, so far as the public knows, our people aren’t even looking for them.

No Americans were killed in these attacks under Bush (listed alphabetically by country): Greece (Athens) 2007 (Jan 12); India (Calcutta) 2002 (Jan 22); Indonesia (Denpasar) 2002 (Oct 12); Pakistan (Karachi) 2002 (June 14); Pakistan (Karachi) 2003 (Feb 28); Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) 2004 (Dec 6); Syria (Damascus) 2006 (Sept 12); Turkey (Istanbul) 2008 (July 9); Uzbekistan (Tashkent) 2004 (June 30); Yemen (Sana’a) 2008 (Mar 28, Sept 28; 2d attack: One American fatality was reported by news but this was an error).
No Americans were killed in these attacks under Obama (listed alphabetically by country): Afghanistan (Herat) 2013 (Sept 13); Egypt (Cairo) 2012 (Sept 11); Pakistan (Peshawar) 2010 (Apr 5); Turkey (Ankara) 2013 (Feb 1); Tunisia (Tunis) 2012 (Sept 14); Yemen (Sana’a) 2012 (Sept 14).

Source:

• http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/138727-viral-meme-13-benghazis-happened-bush-taken-apart-destroyed-eyes/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_U.S._diplomatic_facilities