Posted By: inicky46
Re: Of course they should be remembered. But your comparison is simply insulting.
Here's why:
1) Nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11. All of them innocent civilians and first responders. Four Americans died at Benghazi but at least some of them had a fighting chance. How do you compare 3,000 deaths to 4? Badly.
2) Neither event should have been allowed to happen. Before 9/11 there were warnings that were ignored by the Bush Administration. Before Benghazi there were also warnings. But, in fact, Ambassador Stevens had been warned to leave and did not. Brave but foolish. The 3,000 Americans who died on 9/11 received no such warning.
3) The 9/11 attacks brought America together and were never used by anyone to gain partisan political advantage. I was among those who cheered Bush when he stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center and said, "The people who knocked down these buildings will be hearing from all of us." But the Benghazi attacks were weaponized by Republicans to partisan advantage. McCarthy was even stupid enough to admit it on Hannity:
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee. A select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. "
All this makes me wonder whether Shempy/Mini McCarthy is really in mourning or just doing what Republicans do: posturing for political advantage. That would explain why he's come up with such a bogus comparison.
It’s not even remotely insulting to remember Benghazi today! GFY! Your assertion that Because the republicans raised questions over the handling of Benghazi which resulted in 4 killed we shouldn’t remember their sacrifice? Steven’s was there doing what he thought was right FOR DEAR SWEET HILLARY!
In addition! You know why the cia was there? Their primary mission was to buy up surface to air missiles that had been raided from Qaddafi‘s military. Then why was this necessary? Because our administration decided to pick Libya as the place to back the Arab spring movement. 🤢🤮
This was a huge mistake because well let’s see we had no plan to secure Qaddafi‘s armories and weapons stores, oh and by the way Qaddafi had sworn off backing terror and had turned around and was providing the US with actionable intelligence about Islamic extremism. So yeah it made total sense that that was the guy we were deposing not the green revolution in Iran oh no let them get stomped out… 🙄 that alone should have cost Obama the presidency, Never mind the Iran nuclear deal never mind Obama’s massive environmental fuck up of his handling of the gulf oil spill but I digress.
The reason everyone went after Dear sweet Hillary was simple she and the rest of the administration went right on TV and told the biggest lies possible that it was the fault of a church in Florida producing a video. She was covering up this was a planned attack! Also the fact that when the annex called for air support they got none. Way to go leave our people hung out to dry.
Your rant is Typical of your angry “get off my lawn” rhetoric 🙄 “it’s them evil republicans tying to subvert life liberty and the pursuit of happiness!”
So yeah I’m going to remember both today!
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