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The 12-Year War: 73% of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan on Obama's Watch



Twelve years ago today, nineteen al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four U.S. commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.

In the war that Congress authorized against al Qaeda only three days after that attack, the vast majority of the U.S. casualties have occurred in the last four and a half years during the presidency of Barack Obama.

In total, 2,144 U.S. military personnel have given their lives fighting in and around Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...n-obamas-watch


This goes unmentioned by a Media that did a Nightly "Body Count" during the Bush Administration.... and under the Command of The One who campaigned under the banner of "Bring Our Troops HOME."



And the first anniversary of the attack and murder of our ambassador and the brave men who fought to protect him. A modern day Alamo story.

Spitting on Their Graves:
Democrats Leave Benghazi Hearing Before Testimony From Families of Victims
Katie Pavlich | Sep 19, 2013



During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused to listen to the testimony of Patricia Smith and Charles Woods. Ms. Smith is the mother of Sean Smith, an information management officer killed in the 9/11 Benghazi attack. Charles Woods is the father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was also killed.

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PHOTO: @Oversight Dems excuse themselves from testimony of #Benghazi heroes' family members
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2:23 PM - 19 Sep 2013

The far side of the room, shown empty in the photo, belongs to the Democrats. The only Democrats who stayed were Ranking Member Elijah Cummings and Rep. Jackie Speier.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepa...ource=facebook

Why did they do that? What possible plausible reason could they have had to justify that?

Apparently testimony by parents of the Benghazi victims isn't really important news to the major networks.
The media has completely FAILED to hold this Administration responsible for it's Benghazi failures



Big 3 Ignore Benghazi Victims' Parents,
Marvel at Caroline Kennedy's 'Shining' Moment
By Matthew Balan | September 20, 2013

The Big Three broadcast networks made their slanted priorities clear on their Thursday evening newscasts, as they fawned over Caroline Kennedy's Senate confirmation hearing earlier that day, but failed to cover the emotional congressional testimony of Pat Smith. Smith is the mother of Sean Smith, who died in the 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. post in Benghazi, Libya.

ABC's Martha Raddatz was awestruck over JFK's daughter: "For one brief shining moment, senators from both sides of the aisle seemed to harken back to the so-called Camelot days." NBC's Harry Smith gushed that "history and legacy were more important this morning than party or partisanship. The daughter of a president said she wanted to fulfill her father's wish." [MP3 audio available here; video below the jump]

World News anchor Diane Sawyer trumpeted Kennedy's testimony: "Today, we all watched as a president's daughter stepped towards a new role in public service – questioned by the Senate, as she seeks to become the next U.S. ambassador to Japan." Raddatz then spotlighted the supposed history behind the hearing:

MARTHA RADDATZ: Today in this Capitol Hill chamber, where there has been so much contentious debate, memories of another time – 1957, when then-Senator John F. Kennedy sat on this same Foreign Affairs Committee. Caroline Kennedy was born that year. But now is her moment in the spotlight.

The ABC journalist continued with her "shining moment" line. Near the end of the segment, Raddatz hyped how "Caroline Kennedy is said to be looking forward to learning Japanese, living in Tokyo, where she can make her own history."

NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams introduced Harry Smith's report by underlining how "a famous daughter of a famous U.S. president went before Congress today – Caroline Kennedy, nominated as U.S. ambassador to Japan – and speaking today about her father and carrying on that family torch." The NBC correspondent led with his own hoopla: "As Senate hearings go, this one was anything but ordinary."

The former CBS anchor also zeroed in on the Camelot mystique, as Raddatz had, but without using that Arthurian label:

HARRY SMITH: She was a little girl when her parents moved into the White House, and the images of those days represent a more innocent time in our country. Fifty years ago this fall, her father was assassinated. Her family – including Teddy's widow – was nearby this morning as she spoke.

Smith used his "history and legacy" line later in his report, and signed off by claiming that "her father would have been proud" of her testimony.

By contrast, CBS Evening News didn't air a full report on Kennedy's confirmation hearing. Instead, anchor Scott Pelley gave a 30-second news brief. But like Raddatz and Smith, Pelley emphasized the supposed history of the moment and the bipartisan welcome Kennedy received from the committee members:

SCOTT PELLEY: More than half a century after John F. Kennedy served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his daughter, Caroline, appeared before the same panel today, as it considers her nomination to be ambassador to Japan....Caroline Kennedy got a warm reception from both Democrats and Republicans. She's expected to win confirmation easily.

The following morning, only CBS devoted air time to the confirmation proceedings on its morning newscast. Like Pelley, CBS This Morning anchor Gayle King hyped that "Caroline Kennedy says she's ready to carry on her father's legacy by serving as the U.S. ambassador to Japan. President John F. Kennedy's daughter testified at yesterday's confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. JFK served on that panel in the 1950s as a senator from Massachusetts."

The CBS morning show also devoted a full report to the House Oversight Committee's Benghazi hearing, unlike ABC or NBC. Sharyl Attkisson, who has provided hard-hitting reporting on the September 11, 2012 attack for months, highlighted the testimony of Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who led the State Department review board investigating the terrorist attack. Attkisson pointed out Pat Smith's testimony, as well as that of Tyrone Woods' father, in a Thursday report on CBSNews.com, but she didn't mention it during her on-air report the following morning.

[Update, Friday, 4:55 pm Eastern: the full transcripts of Martha Raddatz's report from Thursday's World News on ABC, and Harry Smith's report from Thursday's NBC Nightly News can be read at MRC.org. http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/big-3-...shining-moment ]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew...#ixzz2fkqzH2YB

Lan astaslem !

Former Ambassador: Benghazi “Stand Down” Order Came from Obama

Ann Wagner, a former US ambassador and current congresswoman from Missouri, was interviewed about what the protocol would be for a “stand down” order in the event of a consulate being under attack, and she answered what many have suspected already: that’s an order that would come from Obama himself.

This is one of the reasons that the Obama administration has essentially refused to provide details about where Obama was at or what he was doing during the attack. This is because we know exactly what he was doing — ignoring the cries for help for political reasons.

Being wrong about policy is one thing. But ignoring the screams of those who work for you because you’d rather them die than accept that your foreign policy is creating more terrorists is a level of treason rare, even for the most despotic tyrants.

Here’s a summary of the important part of the interview, courtesy of Special Operations Speaks: http://specialoperationsspeaks.com/a...ame-from-obama

Congresswoman and former United States Ambassador to Luxembourg Ann Wagner (R-MO) appeared on The Dana Loesch show and placed the blame, of the stand down order to those that could have offered assistance to Americans under attack, on none other than Barack Obama.

Loesch asked Wagner, ‘Because you have been an ambassador, you have been overseas with similar responsibilities and similar missions – who gives such an order to stand down? Where does that come from?’

‘The President of the United States,’ the Missouri congresswoman affirmed.

As top diplomat in Libya Gregory Hicks testified to on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, ‘The Libyans that I talked to, and the Libyans and other Americans who were involved in the war have told me also, that Libyan revolutionaries were very cognizant of the impact that American and NATO airpower had with respect to their victory.’

‘They are under no illusions that American and NATO airpower won that war for them,” Hicks continued. “And so, in my personal opinion, a fast mover flying over Benghazi at some point, you know, as soon as possible might very well have prevented some of the bad things that happened that night.’

Here’s the specific line itself from the radio interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=iABKTZvj-uc

Meanwhile, General Ham has come forward saying the official story after the attack wasn’t true. http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/g...ham-testifies/

Obama’s response to everything? He promoted one of the women who helped craft the fake story. They know what they’re doing and they’re getting away with it. http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/susan-rice-lied/

This isn’t a “phony” scandal. This is abandonment, betrayal, and treason. All for what? To hide the fact that our foreign policy doesn’t work, it creates more of the enemy, and we need to change course. Pathetic and wrong.

http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/s...ref_map=%5B%5D

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