For Immediate Release
September 12, 2012Presidential Proclamation — Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Benghazi, Libya
HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE ATTACK IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
As a mark of respect for the memory of John Christopher Stevens, United States Ambassador to Libya, and American personnel killed in the senseless attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, September 16, 2012. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.
BARACK OBAMA
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And of course David will ignore this: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_21604307/30-000-protest-militias-benghazi-libya-burn-militants
And of course David will continue to ignore the fact that Obama hasn’t apologized to the Middle East and hasn’t sympathized with the attackers.
Why? Because David isn’t interested in being honest. He just wants to weaken the United States by putting the serial flip-flopper..the most wishy washy of men into the White House..that being Mitt Romney.
How can you trust that Mitt Romney will stand up to our enemies when he doesn’t even stand up for his own supposed convictions?
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To quote:
You do know that Obama just did Vegas after an American ambassador was dragged through the streets
And where was Bush right after 9-11? And Hurricane Katrina?
And what did Mittens do when an ambassador of ours was killed?
Yeah once again you don’t hold the moral high ground here. Because you live in a fantasy world because you’re oh so cared of the scary black man in the White House so you blithely ignore the history of your own party and its actions.
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So, you’re not happy unless Obama takes your word over what he actually knows, and goes into mourning to allow Romney free run of the airwaves?
Obama has crises, but he’s not stupid. Obama deals with stuff, and carries on.
Okay, I’ll talk about how you’re way out of your depth, and flailing. Discretion suggests we would withhold judgment on how the Benghazi compound was overrun. Where you get the information that there was “insider intelligence” would be briefly entertaining, but not informative. Clinton’s information, revised by new intelligence, doesn’t excuse Romney’s defense of the horrid movie. (Can you imagine what he’d say were it the LDS faith attacked with false claims against Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, instead of Islam?)
Is much of the Islamic world still ticked off that the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and Iraq? Yes. That wasn’t Obama’s doing, however. Are al Quaeda sympathizers really ticked off that since Obama became commander in chief, the campaign against al Quaeda has been much more successful? No doubt. I don’t think that justifies any leap from loyalty to America as Romney appeared to make, or you appear to be making. It’s a crisis for all Americans. Spreading disinformation is not helping matters.
In any case, claims that Obama “sympathized” with the attackers are scurrilous (traitorous, too, but why gild the lily). Claims that Obama didn’t do what he should have done are completely groundless. If you’re going to run your life claiming that anything Obama does is wrong, you’re going to get into trouble when he salutes, the flag, saves America, and warns against eating yellow snow.
Help me out here: Are you going to argue that Obama sympathizes with the attackers, or claim that he’s too tough on them? Don’t try to argue both at the same time, though — it confuses readers and makes you look wishy-washy and foolish.
Okay, so you’re not going to defend democracy, you don’t give a hang about Libyans, peace in the Middle East isn’t something you’d like to see, and you’ll even go so far as supporting Gadhaffi in your sheer hatred of Obama?
Yeah, we see what you’re doing.
The reality is that Gadhaffi did not wipe out the entire population of Benghazi as he had pledged to do, because Obama’s solution and actions stopped him. Obama prevented a great genocide. It’s sadly ironic that Benghazi then became a site for the killing of a U.S. diplomat of the high caliber of Chris Stevens, who worked tirelessly to free Libya. Those are realities in the world today. It’s no reason for us to pull support from the Libyan people, from the Libyan government, from Democracy, or from our engagement in the world to promote justice, democracy and peace.
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You do know that Obama just did Vegas after an American ambassador was dragged through the streets. ( Ok, the dead ambassador, was being taken to hospital , but stopped for some cell phone pictures) Then Obama did Letterman…and a hip hop radio interview. Talk about a ‘tin ear’. The the assault on the consulate complex was planned and carried out with precision due to obvious insider intelligence. This ‘act of war’ was not the result of a silly movie that had been released months ago…as Sectary of State Clinton misleadingly said it was intially. Talk about an appointment who is out of her depth and flailing…
“There is growing belief that the attack was in revenge for the killing in a drone strike in Pakistan of Mohammed Hassan Qaed, an al-Qa’ida operative who was, as his nom-de-guerre Abu Yahya al-Libi suggests, from Libya, and timed for the anniversary of the 11 September attacks.”
So Remember how Kaddafi kept saying that the rebels were al Qaeda types, and that if he went down they would come to power? Well, al Qaeda may not be formally in power in Libya, but we can be sure that if Kaddafi were still alive, al Qaeda would not have been in a position to launch this deadly attack on a U.S. consulate.
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David asks: self censure and criticism of Islam to stop attacks on Americans? What say you!
If the criticism is honest and not racist then go ahead. But if your side is constantly going to engage in nothing short of sociopathic lying about Islam and Muslims and treat them more or less like how Hitler treated the Jews then you should probably shut up as you and yours are harming the national security of the United States.
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With all the timelines around on the internet, in the newspapers, on television, how can you get this stuff so wrong?
Obama’s reaction was appropriately calm. Should the religious idiots in the U.S. use their heads? Yes. Should the U.S. defend its diplomats? Three former SEALs died doing that. The attack in Benghazi was not just a mob — it started out with a well-coordinated, massive grenade attack which overwhelmed the Libyan defense forces. Libya has apologized.
I’ve tried to figure out what Romney’s position is on Libya. He seems to blow with the wind, usually simply opposing what Obama says or does. Obama said “don’t eat yellow snow,” and Romney put out a list of ten benefits of eating yellow snow.
Specifically, as best I’ve figured:
I gotta go recruit Scouts. Maybe you can read up on these incidents in the interim, get your facts right.
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Romney’s initial criticism was of the Obama administration’s reflex comments after the initial embassy raid which condemned the film maker who has made a documentary critical of Mohammed.
This seems a legitimate area of criticism from Romney , after all Bush was never ever spared- and his as a legal war.
After the invasion of the embassy in Egypt and the desecration of our flag by a mob of Islamic militants here was the Obama administration’s first response:
“The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions,”
This was followed up by a clarification by Hillary Clinton:
“The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind,”
It does seem that these statement are worthy of criticism, regardless of one’s position on the overthrow of the governments of Egypt and Libya. It is never right to invade embassies and kill ambassadors, and that is the point one would expect the administration to make. The ire of the mob was over a film which the USA had no part in creating.
But at least one definite and salient fact emerges—there was a battle in the consulate compound that went on for several hours. And evidently there was no armed Libyan government force that could or would come in and simply end it. For our government to describe this catastrophe as having been brought about by small group of malcontents having no connection to the Libyan powers-that-be is a transparent lie.
Repeat: this former enemy, Qaddafi, made peace with us, and we accepted and celebrated this peace with a former enemy and we restored normal diplomatic relations with him and we even pursued friendly bilateral relations with him. And he never did anything to violate our new-found peaceful relations or to threaten us. And then we helped overthrow and kill him, and boasted of his death. As I said many times, the U.S. intervention in Libya was mad, lawless, criminal, self-damaging, and self-damning. It is impossible to have any sympathy for the U.S. in what has now happened in Libya.
And please , I remember that the congressional Republicans and Mitt Romney did nothing to oppose America’s criminal intervention in Libya but supported it. Condoleezza Rice , who as Secretary of State had a cordial visit with Qaddafi in Tripoli, welcomed his overthrow and murder. Sen. McCain , who, along with several other senators, had a cordial visit with Qaddafi in Tripoli in 2009, two years later urged on his overthrow and boasted of his murder.
The Russian get It- “Russia has long argued that the West should not support popular uprisings against dictatorships in the Middle East lest Islamic fundamentalism take hold. Vladimir V. Putin, then serving as prime minister, was especially enraged last fall after an angry crowd killed his ally, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, an event he later condemned as a “repulsive, disgusting” scene.”
But this is what ‘we’ wanted, and what ‘we’ want. We as a country support democracy, i.e. universal open elections, as the highest good, and therefore we support whatever democracy brings about. And, in Islamland, democracy automatically brings about Islamic rule, which means, among other things, the rule that anyone who insults Muhammad must die, and that if an individual in a foreign country insults Muhammad, it is as if that entire country and its government had insulted Muhammad.
It leaves me no pleasure in saying that Hillary and the Obama administration are clearly a step further along the path to of appeasing Islam savagery, than the mass of conservatives, who, whatever other failings of logic they have vis-a-vis Islam, still support the rights of artists to produce work critical of others beliefs. The State Department , on the overhand deplores and condemns such art when it offends Muslim sensibility.
So are Obama’s initial responses worthy of criticism? Should we self censure and criticism of Islam to stop attacks on Americans? What say you!
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And naturally the right wing, showing all the patriotism of Benedict Arnold, manages to spin this and the tragedy into an attack on the President…
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