Congresswoman and former United
States Ambassador to Luxembourg Ann Wagner (R-MO) appeared on The
Dana Loesch show and placed the blame, of the
stand down order to those that could have offered assistance to Americans under
attack, on none other than Barack Obama.
Loesch asked Wagner, “Because you
have been an ambassador, you have been overseas with similar responsibilities
and similar missions – who gives such an order to stand down? Where does that
come from?”
“The President of the United
States,” the Missouri congresswoman affirmed.
As top diplomat in Libya Gregory
Hicks testified to on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, “The
Libyans that I talked to, and the Libyans and other Americans who were involved
in the war have told me also, that Libyan revolutionaries were very cognizant
of the impact that American and NATO airpower had with respect to their
victory.”
“They are under no illusions that
American and NATO airpower won that war for them,” Hicks continued. “And so, in
my personal opinion, a fast mover flying over Benghazi at some point, you know,
as soon as possible might very well have prevented some of the bad things that
happened that night.”
He went on to add, “if we had been
able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as
possible after the attack commenced” — around 9:30 that night — “I believe
there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I
believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that
we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them.”
In fact, Hicks suggested that the
Libyans would have granted the US permission to fly their planes directly over
their airspace. “If we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two
over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced. I believe
there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I
believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that
we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them.”
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
(R-CA) said that personnel “may not have arrived in time to save lives, but at
the time the decision was made, the decision was wrong.”
Representative Jason Chaffetz
(R-UT), a member of the committee also said that “military personnel were ready willing and able,
and within proximity, but the Pentagon told them they had no authority and to
stand down.”
I wrote back at the end of October of the reports coming
out that there were calls for “military support and help because they were
taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were
no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the
compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In
fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a
heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security
officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up
support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special
Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground
involved in intense firefights.”
We know from testimony this week
that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s statement that
“The U.S. military did not get involved during the attack on the U.S. mission
in Benghazi, Libya, last month because
officials did not have enough information about what was going on before the
attack was over” was not true. They did know. They knew in real time.
There was no way they would not have known, but Panetta testified that Obama
was simply absent on
the night of the Benghazi attacks. In fact, the White House received several emails indicating what was going on and yet Obama would not
authorize any help.
While Chris Stevens was appointed as
a diplomat to Libya in 2007 under President George W. Bush, he was named
ambassador under Barack Obama. Now stop and think about that for a moment. If
Obama will just let one of his appointees, a U.S. ambassador, die at the hands
of Islamists, how much do you think he cares about American citizens? I’m
guessing not too much.
Over and over, this comes back to
one person, Barack Hussein Obama. He is the one that over and over in his first
days in office had to beat the drum that he was the “Commander-in-chief” and
don’t you people forget it! Well, I say Mr. Obama needs to own up to his dereliction of
duty, which resulted in the deaths of
four Americans.
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Comment
When teenagers are arrested for murder and
mayhem, they point the finger at each other and in all directions to avert
blame. That’s what happened with the Benghazi failure.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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