Let's Talk About Those Arab Riots Again

Remember the article I wrote a couple of days after the raids on our missions over in the Middle East, once the facts started to point to the “riots” being nothing of the sort, but rather exhibiting command, control and military characteristics?

Yesterday a band of murderous, militaristic thugs decided to break into a diplomatic location in Libya. They were carrying RPGs and automatic weapons and murdered four people, including the Ambassador.

There were other related incidents across the Middle East and Africa. These attacks exhibited command and control, along with detailed planning. They were not, as many have represented, “mobs” that got out of control while demonstrating and had nothing to do with a video on Youtube.

Well, as it turns out State is now saying they never claimed (internally or otherwise) that this “video” was the cause of the disturbances:

The State Department denied Tuesday it ever concluded that the deadly consulate attack Sept. 11 in Libya was an unplanned outburst prompted by an anti-Islam movie, despite public statements early on by some in the Obama administration suggesting that was the case.

The Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. Most notably, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said in several TV interviews five days after the attack that it appeared to be “spontaneous” violence spinning out of protests of the film.

Uh huh. Me thinks someone is in damage-control mode, and with good reason. Indeed, it harkens back to this guy:

Anyone remember him?

Let me quote from a former Naval Intelligence officer:

This scandal now surpasses Watergate as the gold standard for Presidential malfeasance. Nixon had the decency to resign. Of course, Obama will seek to throw someone (probably Hillary), under the bus.

This is now a black-and-white issue for all candidates running for Federal office. If the candidate in question does not insist that Obama resign, or offer him support in any way, it should be grounds for not voting for that candidate.

I agree.

It’s bad enough that our President has repeatedly apologized for our Bill of Rights, which absolutely protects the right of people to speak freely, including speaking ill of an alleged “prophet”, “God” or anything else. Indeed it is exactly this freedom that allows such a thing as “piss Christ” to exist without the creator winding up in Guantanamo (or worse.)

But what’s worse is that it has now been discovered that these missions had repeatedly asked for more and better security as they had reason to believe there was a problem brewing with these extremists and they were the potential targets of attack. This request was apparently repeatedly rebuffed, and then of course the beliefs proved to be tragically accurate.

So we have first a screw-up, second we have people that died as a direct consequence of Presidential malfeasance, third we have a direct violation of the Constitution by a sitting President who is apologizing for our Bill of Rights and finally we have a cover-up of the entire thing by that same President, making knowingly false claims about what led to the violence.

It’s time to go for this Administration and everyone involved in this — all the way to the top.

Take out the trash.

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