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David Ignatius of The Washington Post on Benghazi

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Chris Stevens
September 11
al Qaeda
Libya
Scandal
Congress
U.S. Ambassador
CIA
Jill Kelley
Benghazi
Paula Broadwell
Affair
David Petraeus
CIA Director
Obama

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    1. MisterMittster  12/18/2012 06:46 PM Report

      ...bring your Tea Party crybaby friends with you!

      I'll Kick ALL Yer Asses!!!!!

    2. MisterMittster  12/18/2012 06:44 PM Report

      Oh Yeah?! Do want to Fight?!

      Wanna meet somewhere and Fight?!!

      Yeah tough guy?!

    3. NeilMacCallister  12/17/2012 01:48 AM Report

      Barack Obama is a THIEF, ..he "inspires" only the theft of personal property, ..he DESPISES the Constitution's protections from government theft, and enslavement of the individual.

      Warren Buffett will make another $10 Billion Dollars off of Barack Obama, ..the rest of America will dig in the trash pits for their supper.

      I KNOW which side YOU are on, ..you hooded thief!

      Go ahead, ..count your government money, ..the truth is on the way!

    4. NeilMacCallister  12/17/2012 01:40 AM Report

      You are not a "hooded speaker"???

      Then be a MAN, ..and state your NAME, ..and quit STEALING someone else's, you dispicable coward!!!

    5. MisterMittster  12/05/2012 06:30 PM Report

      As usual, RonaldMacDonald, you miss the point completely.

      First of all, it's not the President's job to "enfranchise no one" anyway. duh.

      A good President like Reagan and Obama is to INSPIRE Americans to franchise themselves. Get it?!

      They do that through good communication skills, by speaking clearly, and not talking a bunch of blather like typical politicians and yourself.

      Exaggerating, only impresses yourself and Sean Hannitty.

      ... at least hannitty is getting paid for the luxury of brainwashing fools like you.

      ... and by the way I am not a "hooded-speaker"; nor an 'uncircumcised klansman'. Like probably you are.

    6. NeilMacCallister  11/27/2012 08:47 PM Report

      Barack Obama is "enfranchising" no one.

      His entire carnival-like idiom preaches that HE can make 1% of the people responsible for managing the life matters of the then non-managing 99%.

      That is a clear DIS-enfranchisement.

      ***

      But, if you now "feel" enfranchised, it is but the same as the strength you "feel" from a noseful of methamphetamine -- or the wonderful creativity you "feel" from a dosage of LSD.

      But reality is different: During these years of Obama excitements - American incomes have dropped, America now has fewer homeowners, unemployment is strong long and enduring, job ads have disappeared from our newspapers, America's credit rating has fallen, foreign nations have stopped buying our bonds or seeking our currency, food stamps and welfare rolls have risen to record levels, and our HISTIRIC deficits have become a topic for which any American will soon go to jail if he DARES to speak their name.

      How are you going to "feel" then? ..you hooded-speaker you??

    7. MisterMittster  11/27/2012 06:28 PM Report

      @ NeilMacCallister 11/25/2012 01:38 AM

      Well, one 'single solitary good' Barack Obama has done for America, is to motivate the disenfranchised to be enfranchised. And the more Americans who 'feel' enfranchised the stronger America is. Stronger compared to the rest of the world; and that's what it's all about. Right? Mr. Free Market Capitalist Extraordinaire You

      "Try to look past the obvious, and you will know more than what the assholes want you to know." - doodah (a very wise man)

    8. NeilMacCallister  11/25/2012 01:38 AM Report

      Warren Buffett would NEVER hire Barack Obama to manage Berkshire-Hathaway!!!!

      So why do Warren Buffett, Charlie Rose, and the rest of you sock-puppets force Barack Obama down America's throat???

      ***

      Second question: "What single solitary good has Barack Obama done for America???"

      I'll await any answer at all, ..from you, David Ignatius, or Charlie Rose.

    9. MisterMittster  11/24/2012 04:44 PM Report

      There you go again, NeilMacCallister; you're drunk on donald Trump's urine again. And you need to Stop drinking that crap; it's NOT good for you, .. or America.

    10. tabs  11/23/2012 06:33 PM Report

      The Obama administrations handling of the aftermath of the 4 Dead In Benghazi massacre is sounding just like a French farce without Jerry Lewis. The last episode of this on going soap opera has US UN Ambassador Susan Rice angrily saying that, "It is all James Clappers fault" as he was the one that supplied her with the talking points which she so eloquently expressed on those 5 now infamous Sunday talk shows. Mr Clapper previously advised Congress that he did not alter the intel??? The problem for Ms Rice is not that she perhaps naively gave out doctored intel to the American people, but that everytime she shows her face she will be remembered for doing so and out of that a little bit of doubt about her veracity will hang in the air. "Ohhh wasn't she the one that...." So the question becomes, why should a President nominate a Secratary of State who already has the baggage of a tainted credibilty coefficient? Better to start off with a fresh face that isn't so burdened. Thus Ms Rice future is all used up.

    11. fjames1000  11/22/2012 06:01 PM Report

      As our chronic 11 year old wars are coming to an end, the military industrial complex has to somehow maintain its profits. So expect other conflicts to escalate in different area of world -including Middle East. We always ask and talk about the cost of war. Why don’t we ever ask “Which companies are making the profits? and how much?”

    12. BENEZRAA  11/21/2012 11:36 PM Report

      REMANT RIDES AGAIN...

      ... likening Israel's active self defense unto a "Munich moment". What drugs are you on, REMant? For all the propaganda attempting to paint the Gaza population as facing genocide, they flourish far better than normally portrayed in the media, their population is growing and not shrinking, as are their material and financial resources. Munich was a true act of genocide by the Arab terrorist group Black September, perpetrated against Israeli athletes and in the Munich Olympic Village. That you would attempt such an analogy is not merely bizarre, it is unconscionable.

    13. NeilMacCallister  11/21/2012 10:34 PM Report

      I was wrong to not speak to "the whole truth" in my below agitation about our President's uncaring attitude toward America's survival.

      The "whole truth" demands that I put his selfish printing of money -- with which to play golf, tour the world, and run election campaigns -- is nothing DIFFERENT from what the electing majority of other Americans are also doing.

      Barack Obama does not want to "kill America" anymore than my Nurse brother who hopes ObamaCare drops "windfall" printed cash into the hands of his paycheck printers, or my other brother living off the retirement checks of his union-retirement wife, or my other brother who hopes ObamaCash will help support the family he walked away from 2 years ago. They all loudly voted for Obama.

      Yes! ..there are a LOT of Americans who voted for Barack Obama!! ..and a LOT of Americans who pound the table with cheers every time this President prints up another 16 Trillion dollar pile of cash!!!!

      Barack Obama is NOT a statistical outlier, ..his ethos of "Grab all the money you can!" is EXACTLY the heart and soul of the new dying America.

      I'm sorry, ..I had just hoped that the promises born with America could attract an equally moral and intelligent leadership in the present day.

      I believe it a profound tragedy that America got aborted.

    14. NeilMacCallister  11/21/2012 03:32 AM Report

      Who is this David Ignatius?? ..How much is he paid by Barack Obama???

      My connection here is breaking up, ..but I heard enough of this speaker to understand that he wants me to support Barack Obama.

      "Why" ..of course, nobody is ready to put their name to.

      Barack Obama is KILLING America, ..but then nobody apparently misses America!!!!

      Does anybody actually KNOW why Barack wants to KILL America???

    15. MisterMittster  11/20/2012 07:38 PM Report

      These people have been fighting each other since the beginning of time; and they will continue to fight each other to the end of time. They are taught at a very early age (just as soon as they're old enough to hate) to hate those people. The arabs hate, mostly out of jealousy, they can't understand why those people (the jews) are so clever, especially when it comes to finding bargains, and getting the most bang for their buck. It drives them crazy, to think that if their arab women were free to be humans, that they might prefer to be jews, because lets face it, all ladies love to shop, they don't really love death more than life, like their loser men are trying to preach.

      And the Israelis hate the arabs because the arabs won't leave them alone, they're tired of being harrassed constantly, and so they develop a hatred.

      I'm no expert on the matter, but that's just how I see it. It's pretty ridiculus and foolish. Like children that can't behave because they're so stupid. They don't know anything else.

    16. rtb  11/20/2012 05:33 PM Report

      There's not a person watching CR if dropped into Gaza wouldn't join in Jihad within months of living there.

    17. Dasein  11/20/2012 04:50 PM Report

      Surely Mr. Ignatius is aware that the Central Intelligence Agency has a counter intelligence component which certainly listened to The Director, if you know what I mean. The failure of the agency to anticipate and prevent the attack on the consulate is grounds enough to fire The Director. The real story that is still being covered up is the attempted kidnapping of the Ambassador(whom the terrorists suspected of being a homosexual). Stevens apparently realized what the game was and choose death-making him the victim who prevented an international fiasco that most likely would have insured the Commander in Chief's defeat on November 11. Petraeus needs to be held responsible for his failures. That an attack on the agency's complex also was attempted speaks for itself. Rice was only following orders and surely should be rewarded according to the Peter Principle. L'etat c'est Obama!

    18. REMant  11/20/2012 12:03 PM Report

      At the UN Rice has blamed the Gaza affair on Hamas, as if the Palestinians have not continually both bent over backwards for peace as revealed by leaked documents, and seen violations of accords already reached. How she can countenance this attack and not Libya or Syria is beyond me. Clearly she is not talking about peace, but war. If anyone is looking for Munich moments, this is one. As recounted by Samantha Power, when the Rwanda massacres first came to light, in a situation very much like the now infamous Sunday morning talk shows, Rice hesitated calling it genocide fearing the implications for the US elections.

      Besides the issue of minimizing references to al-Qaeda or terrorism prior to the election, which seems obvious whether or not the president was directly involved, there's now a question of why no effort was made at aid or rescue, it being alleged that Carter Ham was relieved of command, demoted and retired as a result of insubordination in this connection, and this may somehow involve Petraeus, for, if McChrystal is any indication, this would be the reason most likely. Pancetta says he's been investigating the general's bad behavior for a long time, but one does not get the idea that Obama likes being crossed.

      Of course considerable evidence can be adduced to indicate Israel has never had any intention of letting Gaza alone, and only ended its occupation so that it will be free to blow the hell out of it periodically.

      But without either Syria or Egypt on its side Israel would seem to have no chance of any kind of lasting peace, which I've thought all along would turn it to the right, and bring it to gamble on bringing the US and NATO in, attacking Iran and its allies with the Sunni's blessing. However, what Bibi has done, it seems, is to reunite the feuding Muslim factions, and what they will do is anyone's guess. Gaza's independence now figures in Egypt's security in a different way, and they've recalled their ambassador. And we need Egypt more than they need our money.

      But as I write this a new ceasefire it is reported will be announced tonight.