The Benghazi Truth Must Be Heard

On September 11, 2012, Ambassador Chris Stevens, state department official Sean Smith, and two members of Embassy Security and former Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were MURDERED in Benghazi, Libya in a terrorist attack that was planned and coordinated with Libyan forces tied to Al Qaeda. Sadly, the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton don’t care. In fact, they’d rather it go away just as that tool Jay Carney has insinuated in his daily press briefings.

Back to the story; at nightfall of this prolific date, 125 to 150 terrorists closed off access to the state department facility in Benghazi and attacked with weapons including AK-47s, NATO Firearms, hand-grenades, mortars, RPGs and other military style weapons many of which were indirectly provided to these terrorists to defeat Muammar Kaddafi by the same Obama Administration that brought us a “Fast and Furious” program that lead to Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death.

Back to Benghazi; today we had another round of testimony to the House Committee investigating this incident and once again the Democrats on the committee claimed that the Republicans were playing politics with this issue; however, just as they often play the race card, the Democrats always seem to be the ones who try and squeak out of their indiscretions by claiming that those who are investigating are only doing so for reasons of political expediency, racism, sexism, or any other ism that will project the possibility of “disenfranchising” someone based on race, religion, or political belief.

But this is not about any of that, this is about responsibility for foreign diplomats and the cover-up of events that lead to the death of four Americans who were neglected and left to die at the hands of an Al Qaeda affiliate by an Administration that has made a living recently selling the American people on the fact that they have Al Qaeda on the run. Unfortunately, on this night the only place Al Qaeda was running to was the Benghazi Consulate to kill Americans. And every since, the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton have lied and coerce people to cover-up the facts that they were responsible for doing nothing to help those poor souls.

This is an issue that has been a huge concern and should be to us all as Americans. September 11, 2012, is an anniversary that should hold huge significance when dealing with security here at home much less a place like Libya where concern for security should have been doubly significant and IT WASN’T.

Four men who were in Libya serving their country were left to die by the very people who sent them there. These very men reported early on that this was a terrorist attack but President Obama and Secretary Clinton left them there to DIE. This facility had been attacked twice before in the last year and judged to be unable to stand up to an attack; yet there was the Ambassador holding meetings there on September 11^th – ON SEPTEMBER 11^th!

When the ambassador called to say this was an attack no one reacted to help and he was left to die. Now state department officials and military leaders looking to cover their asses have said there was no way to get anyone or any forces there in time to help. But we know there were forces in Tripoli that wanted to go help and they were denied that opportunity by their superiors.

We know that Doherty and Powers held on for six or seven hours before they were finally overrun and murdered when a single flight overhead by an aircraft could have made all the difference. Believe it or not, air power has an amazing affect on the psyche of a less sophisticated enemy. But no aircraft were sent and flurries of excuses have been used to explain this.

We know that there are Military Fast Response teams stationed in Europe that could have been on scene in around four hours and that they were put on standby by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, but those forces were later told to stand down by administration officials. As a result, the Fast Response Team did not arrive and Glen Doherty and Ty Woods were killed in the second attack that COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED!

We know that the so-called anti-Muslim video had nothing to do with the attack and that there was never a demonstration because of that video. We know the Libyan President stated this was a result of an attack from terrorist but the Obama Administration and Hilary Clinton kept up the talk of this resulting from a demonstration about this video.

Now the administration and Clinton hold tight to the claims that this was all based on poor intelligence from the CIA. By the way, that’s a lie also as the actual talking points initially issued by the CIA were later published and spoke of the truth while they were later changed greatly before being presented as the fact by the White House and UN Ambassador Susan Rice.

But the real insult is the fact that even though this was done there has been not even the slightest hint of a modicum of responsibility by President Obama or by Hilary Clinton. And why would they? They lied, won an election (aided by Candy Crowley on this issue), and are set. Any responsibility now would only do irreparable harm to a consistently failing Obama Administration and destroy the future Presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton.

In 2008 there was a Campaign ad by the Hillary Clinton Campaign that used the old Reagan era adage of a call at 3:00 in the morning. Sadly, neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama showed the ability to answer that call when it mattered. AND, unfortunately their incompetence and inaction prior to, during, and following this incident resulted in the needless deaths of four Americans.

Four men who were not just names on a page or faces in a picture but men with wives, children, parents, friends and colleagues. These were men who would sit down to breakfast with their loved ones, fished with their kids, played golf with their friends, watched football on Sunday and lived among us. These were Americans like you and me who were in Libya representing their country and deserved opportunity to live.

During my years in the Navy, working overseas in all corners of the world, I had the opportunity to serve with confidence under four Presidents.  And even though these Presidents all handled matters with different degrees of covert and overt operations, we always felt like we would never be left completely on our own.

Too bad we can’t say that for these four brave Americans.

How about some truth Mr. President?

Enjoy Retirement Hillary. And by the way; IT DOES MATTER!

God Bless the four we all lost,

Bill

You have to get on the field to see the goalpost Mr. President!

I remember many years back when a famous coach said the problem with most people is they don’t get it. I hear the politicians debating the border security issue and it becomes maddening that no one seems to get it. Whether you agree with some sort of guest worker program, amnesty program, or if you just believe all the illegal aliens should be sent back to their home nations, you just don’t get it. The issue is not illegal immigration; the issue is securing the border to keep the criminals out of the country.

Now for you liberals, I can already hear your wheels spinning so let me explain this for you. The criminals are the people who only come across the border for illegal activities, not necessarily those coming over looking for a job or a better life. Do I believe we need a strong immigration policy? Yes; but realistically we already have solid immigration law; we just need to follow it. But without a secure border it cannot be followed.

Where we lose track of this issue is in that we need to secure the border to for the protection of the citizenry of the United States. Sound familiar, well it should. It’s only one of the primary functions of the federal government; a function that quite honestly the federal government is failing at. So when you here the President come to El Paso and claim that his administration has done more than any other administration, stop and think about that for a minute.

The southern border has seen escalating violence over the last few years to a level unmatched since before the civil war when the border was still disputed and before relations with Mexico were normalized. Drug runners, murders, terrorists, rapists, gang-bangers, and all other forms of criminality find our porous border only too easy hurdle on their way to America. But rather than understand the danger and work to secure the border to keep these criminals out, President Obama wants to play politics as usual and criticize those calling for a stricter border policy.

As usual, President Obama does what he does only all too well. He criticizes those issues he can’t overcome and demagogues those who champion those issues. Today in El Paso he glorified his administration’s “accomplishments and ignored their complete inability to understand the depths of the issue. He said his administration is meeting the challenges that exist at the border – He Is Not. He claimed the border fence is complete – Not Even Close! He then claimed that his administration has increased the Border Patrol by 3 times the officers from when he took office – Has He? Not according to those actually on the border. Then he attacked those championing the border security issue by asking how far they would move the goalposts.

Well Mr. President, you need to get out of the club house before you can even see the goalposts so congratulations for getting on the field for the first time since you’ve been president. But rather than propagandizing the issue in El Paso before heading to Austin for a $50,000.00 a couple dinner, maybe you should have gone out and walked the line with some of those Border Patrol Officers and asked them about the border situation. The political issue being bantered around maybe immigration, but the actual issue, the national security issue, is border security.

Once the border is secured then we can have a national dialogue about immigration. But until the politicians understand that, we are at risk. Until the President decides to actually contribute to national security by actually addressing the border security issue, we are at risk. We are all at risk because quite frankly, this President is all about him and his job security. I doubt he’ll ever get it, or even care about getting it.

21 more months and counting!!
Bill

What Happened to Habeas Corpus for Guantanamo Terrorists?

During the election of 2008, many liberals kept preaching about how wrong it was for the Bush administration to keep the detention center at Guantanamo Bay open or how appalling it was to hold captured terrorists and try them in a military tribunal. President Obama even campaigned on this issue and demonized the Republicans for not only allowing this to happen but for supporting this.

So there was little surprise when within hours of being sworn in President Obama signed an executive order to shut down the detention center in Guantanamo in the first year of his administration. There was also little surprise when the naive Obama Justice Department announced they would pursue conviction of these terrorists in a courtroom in New York City. To liberals these both seemed like positive moves by the Obama Administration; however, neither of these moves was very popular when it came to the implementation.

Many liberals wanted Guantanamo closed and many wanted the terrorists tried in a civilian courtroom, but no one wanted those terrorists housed in their state nor did too many people look forward to having those trials take place in their courts. It’s sort of the Dog that caught the car syndrome, once people had what they were chasing or working for, they had no idea what to do with it.

So where would we conduct these trials and house these terrorists? Well enter some true congressional bi-partisanship as congressmen of both parties voted to defund the transfer of the prisoners last year and then this year to defund the President’s Czar in charge of closing Guantanamo Bay.

NOW, THIS WEEK, the President announced that the military tribunals would start back up at Guantanamo while side-stepping the entire question on closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. So after Attorney General Eric Holder has towed the President’s line on civilian trials for these terrorists, he was summarily thrown under the bus by President Obama when the President made his statement about resuming Military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.

Well don’t sweat it too much Mr. Attorney General. You’re in good company. There are many other people who have been thrown under the bus that is the Obama Express. There’s his Grandmother who he threw under the bus for thinking like an elderly white lady, you know…about race and all (no I actually don’t know but it would be nice to have that explanation).

There was former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who was welcomed to the white house as an ally to help make peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, but was thrown under the bus when Egyptians revolted last month.

There’s Jim Johnson who was one of his one of Obama’s primary economic advisors during the campaign and headed his VP search team for a while, but was thrown under the bus when his history at Fannie Mae became an unfavorable issue.

Poor old Reverend Wright preached the gospel to the Obama’s for nearly twenty years, but when the Reverend’s anti-American rhetoric was discovered he was slowly helped under the bus over the course of a couple of weeks.

I could keep going with the names of people living under that bus, but I’ll save that for another time. This blog is about the Democrat’s Habeas Corpus Cry and the 180 degree turn the Obama Administration has taken on this issue. I applaud the President for making a tough choice to proceed with the military tribunals and leave Guantanamo open; I just find it funny and honestly hypocritical of the Democrats and the liberal media for pretending to not notice something that they spent so many years denigrating the Bush Administration for. But then again, what can we expect from our liberal friends?

Wait till the bus makes a complete top before exiting!!
Bill

This week in America – November 18, 2009

Sorry I haven’t been as handy with this as I had wanted but I have been quite busy this summer and football season. Someone gave me a radio microphone this football season and I have been completely engrossed with that. But now it’s time to get back to the grindstone in the issues,

1. Attorney General Eric Holder wants to bring the terrorists in for a civilian trial. Hey Eric, this isn’t “What’s My Line,” or the “People’s Court,”…well I guess maybe it is some of the latter, but you get my meaning. These are dangerous terrorists and KILLERS. They were combatants caught on the battlefield and as such they should be prosecuted in a military court as approved by the Congress a few years ago.

2. Unemployment figures for October 2009 is over 10%...well thank God we passed that stimulus package back in the first few weeks of the Obama administration. Remember that one? It’s the one that President Obama said we needed because without it unemployment might reach 8%. What are they playing by golf scores? Isn’t 10% worse than 8%? Nice call on that one.

3. So in Allentown, Pa., a 17 year-old Boy Scout volunteered his time and worked hard to clear a walking path in a city park as part of his work towards earning Eagle scout. Commendable of the young lad. In this time when most teens are looking for some direction, here is this young man working hard to better himself. Then comes Nick Balzano, he’s the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) boss for Allentown. Nick is threatening to sue Allentown for allowing this scout hoodlum to volunteer when there are plenty of out-of-work union members who could have been used – for a price. You know, the SEIU already seems to have free run of the White House, now they want to go after the Boy Scouts of America – NICE!!

4. So Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Democrat who wants to run for Texas Attorney General says that the 2005 state constitutional amendment that makes the definition of marriage in Texas a union between one man and one women also contains a clause that eliminates marriage altogether in the state – Brilliant. Current Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says this law is perfectly fine and does not mean what Ms. Radnofsky declared. She is going to point this out and try and use this as a campaign issue – Really? Well go ahead Barbara, you should get the vote of everyone who is married and wants to remain married cause that’s what we want, to elect someone who is going to come into office and tell us all we aren’t married.

5. And the Winner of the Day, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled in favor of several New Orleans plaintiffs saying the U.S. Corps of Engineers caused the disaster in parts of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina due to their lack of supervision of the levee system. The judge called it a manmade disaster. So let me get this one straight, if you live in an area that is below sea level and a once a century storm blows through, it is somehow the governments fault. Where was this judge when I was growing up and sent a baseball through Mrs. Johnson’s house? I could have sued on the grounds that Mrs. Johnson shouldn’t have built that house there in the first place – This is Genius!!!!

Carry On Folks,
Bill