Almalieque wrote:
Gbaji wrote:
Money that had nothing to do with security for our embassy or consulate in Libya. So why should it be mentioned?
Because you can't argue that the Democrats don't care for safety and/or are irresponsible for the safety of embassies and consulates when you are actively being counter productive to the cause.
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The money had nothing to do with security for our embassy or consulate in Libya. This is so relevant I had to say it twice.
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Bush didn't attempt to blame insurgent attacks on angry clowns or something though.
So the whole war on Terror and WMD doesn't count?
Count as what? An excuse for the Obama administration to blame the deaths of our embassy personnel on a film rather than a planned attack by existing terrorist organizations? No. It doesn't count.
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The problem IS the fact that we got attacked and that people died. Whether or not if it were because of a video or a terrorist attack is irrelevant to the fact that it occurred.
If it was so irrelevant, then why lie about it? Why change the language in the intelligence reports to match one while downplaying the other? Why then send Rice out on the Sunday shows to say directly that it was one and not the other? Clearly someone in the Obama administration thought it mattered a great deal.
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The reality that it might be politically motivated is moot as this entire debate is politically driven.
The decision to try to claim this was an outgrowth of protests over a film was politically driven as well. Obviously, any response to that will
also be politically driven. I'm not sure how that somehow nullifies the accusations present though. So the Obama administration can lie to the American people for political reasons, and we should dismiss any criticism of this on the grounds that the criticism is political? You've just justified our government getting away with anything it wants. You get that any criticism of actions taken by the government can be called political, right?
That's a monumentally stupid reason to dismiss something like this. Argue that it didn't happen. Or that the decisions that were made were not as bad as they seemed. Or that they honestly thought it was what they said. Anything like that is legitimate. Saying "it's politically driven" isn't a good counter argument at all. Show that it's *only* driven by politics, and you might have a point.
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Only if you believe conspiracies as facts.
Wait? So it's a conspiracy to say that somewhere between the intelligence reports from the field to the official intelligence briefing, key information was removed which resulted in downplaying the planned nature of the attack? It's not. It's a fact. It's also a fact that several drafts were written and rejected until said changes were made. This is not some "what if" scenario here. The intelligence was "fixed" to match the agenda of the Obama administration. They wanted to sell the whole "We killed OBL and Al Queda is on the run" story to the American people for the election. The attack in Libya made that difficult to do. Surely you can see how if they could convince people that it wasn't a planned terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9/11, but just a protest that got out of hand, then they could protect their foreign policy narrative.
There was a clear and obvious political motivation for lying. What's so strange is how many people are insisting there's nothing to this even with all the facts that are present now. At this point, it's not really a question of whether someone lied, or even why they did. It's a question of who lied, and how far up the chain it goes. Was it just some mid level folks at State acting on their own? Was Clinton involved directly? Was someone on Obama's staff involved? Someone told someone else to downplay the "planned terrorist attack" side of this. Who?
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It was admitted that the information was wrong, just like there were no WMD. That doesn't mean that the people didn't mistakenly act on the current intel that was thought to be real.
Except that it wasn't that the information was wrong. The information was correct. Someone changed the information which ended out in the official briefing so that it said something different. That was not an accident. It's not like every intelligence report from the field said X, but it turned out to be Y instead. In this case, every intelligence report said Y, the briefing draft said Y, but then it was changed to say X instead. And X just happened to be more beneficial to a president engaged in a re-election campaign at the time than Y.
Is it really so hard to connect those dots?
Edited, May 15th 2013 4:17pm by gbaji