In years to come when America looks back on the Benghazi debacle, it will not be found in the history books, but Ripley’s “Believe it or Not.”
An attack on our consulate in Benghazi and murder of an ambassador and three others, clearly the work of terrorists, is labeled by our own government as the result of a crudely-made anti-Islam video.
This goes on for two weeks, even to the point that with the Middle East going up in flames due to anti-American sentiment, the President of the United States refers to the video six times in a major speech at the UN.
Finally the administration admits it was terrorists, but blames the intelligence community for the erroneous information despite no one in the intelligence community identifying the video as the source of the attack, and in actuality knowing it was terrorism in less than twenty-four hours.
The Vice President then goes on national TV during a debate and states that the administration didn’t know anything about repeated requests for additional security at the consulate, despite two days of congressional testimony stating so with copies of cables from the consulate read into evidence!
Stupid? Clueless? Incompetent? Liars?
Whatever they are, it falls into the category of “Believe it or not.”
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Biden and Ryan and future candidates for either President or Vice President should all be put under oath so if they lie they can be held accountable for their lies. I watched the entire hearing that was conducted by Congressman Darrell Isa and there is absolutely no doubt that the Administration did not know that the Ambassador did not request additional protection on numerous occasions.
Obama lied, Clinton lied, and Biden lied to protect Obama’s failed foreign policies.
OBiden ben Lyin for 40 years. I wish Ryan would have gotten out of his chair and leaned over on OBiden and sternly asked him to stop the insane laughter and act like a vice president instead of a vice plugsident. How does that hack get elected every time???? Vote fraud to the max by the entrenched commies.
That is bidens answwer when he is too drunk to understand the Question!
Politicians know that most people just believe their lies. They really do not care about those of us who don’t.
Debra…
It seems all too coincidental that there just happened to be two heroic ex-Navy Seals within the area of the location at which the ambassador was taken. When I look at the rabble of jihadists running amock in the courtyard of the building swinging RPG’s around like so many untrained idiots it just doesn’t make sense that members of that group may have employed mortar fire accurately and effectively. I am a US Army veteran. Two of my Military Occupational Specialties (M.O.S.) were 11-Charlie (Heavy Mortar) and 13E-(Artillery Fire-Direction Control Specialist).
There is a defensive tactic taught in Army training manuals called the “Final Protective Fire, (FPF).
The FPF is a pre-plotted mission. The mortar squad or artillery fire-direction-control center plots a number of coordinates to basically lay down a wall of steel rain or even an impenetrable white phosphorous cloud and prepares firing data such as the elevation of the mortar tube or artillery piece, the size of the explosive charge to put behind the rounds to be fired–all pre-determined to fire quickly and accurately on a position or dangerously close to a position occupied by our troops intended to give those troops a window of opportunity to escape, continue holding their position or to counter-attack.
Consider this: the group that is on film attacking the embassy don’t look organized to the degree that they may have had leadership on a radio directing the fire of mortars onto the buildings in which our personnel were dug-in and even if they had that level of communication and coordination with a mortar team, small mortar fire would have been ineffective and not broken through the roof of –and I am assuming that the building was a hardened construction– a hard target; heavy mortar fire would have left far more devastating destruction upon the scene than what we observe on film taken of the location after the attack.
It is my contention then that the mortar fire employed, as reported from the scene of the incident, was Final Protective Fire delivered by the two Navy Seals who had been held up in a safe house with a mortar tube laid in by compass or even an M-1 Aiming Circle and X number of rounds pre-positioned with pre-determined cheese charges (plasticized nitroglycerin) already cut for firing. The mortar was probably emplaced in a basement which had windows facing in the direction of the embassy because when the first round is fired from a mortar the base plate is driven sharply into the ground, so whenever they laid-in their mortar they would have fired at least one round and adjusted the firing data on that mortar at that time in a manner not unlike zeroing one’s personal weapon called a registration mission. It works roughly like this. A target is chosen, let us say a tree in a field. The target’s location is plotted on a map. The distance to the target is determined and the difference in elevation between the target’s location and the gun position is determined. With a compass the mortar is emplaced in a general direction of fire. The difference between the Grid North on the map and Magnetic North on the compass is compensated for so that the direction in which the mortar tube is facing equivocates to the same direction on the map. When the firing data is provided which, in a perfect world, SHOULD hit the target, and the round is fired, a Forward Observer (FO) watches for a “splash,” of dirt in the air where the round hit, or if an air burst, the air burst, so that he can relay the message back to the mortar position how far up or down or right or left the fire needs to be adjusted. The mortar can fire again for further adjustments onto target or simply apply the corrections obtained in the registration mission to their future computations of firing data which will be more accurate on account of having registered the tube, or in the case of artillery, the gun or piece.
It has been released that several communications were made from the embassy building under attack. I believe that the evidence shows that one of those calls was to a nearby mortar position which had been clandestinely emplaced in order to provide Final Protective Fire on the embassy’s position in case of a breach of the positions perimeter. Had such an emplacement not been established those responsible for the local security of that embassy would have been remiss in their duty.
After firing the last of their ammunition the two heroic ex-Navy Seals advanced upon the enemy attacking our embassy.
This is just a theory, but it explains a lot.
This information is most probably being withheld from the public due to the fact that Final Protective Fires are an element in setting up a defensive perimeter taught in the Dept. of the Army training manuals.