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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
quote: Personally, this 'coverup' is not even close to the many more horrific things critics of Obama can present. Am I missing something?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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And Rep. Issa (R-Stupidity) has identified the Smoking Gun of the Cover-Up:
In the day following the Benghazi attacks, Obama appeared at the White House Rose Garden alongside then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In his remarks, Obama referred to the incident as an act of terror and used the phrase again at a campaign rally the day after in Denver, CO. I want people around the world to hear me: To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished, he said. But Issa claimed that Obama relied on the act of terror formulation to dissuade Americans from thinking it was a terror attack, thus improving his chances of re-election. [...] "The words that are being used carefully like you just said, ‘act of terror’ an ‘act of terror’ is different than a ‘terrorist attack.’" See? There's a big difference between an attack which is an "act of terror" and and attack which is "terrorist". By his choice of words, President Obama must have fooled millions of Americans, millions of incredibly stupid Americans, into thinking that this was just an act of terror and not a terrorist act, and that's basically the only reason he won re-election, and not the fact that the Republicans are a bunch of unelectable loonies. Impeach! Impeach! But then isn't it time we also investigated George W. Bush? Two days after 9/11, he described that event as an "act of terror". Of course, he wasn't even slightly black when he said it, which I guess makes all the difference. Certainly Rep. Issa had absolutely no objection to Bush's choice of words.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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Personally, this 'coverup' is not even close to the many more horrific things critics of Obama can present. Am I missing something? Yeah, you've got to wonder how the Republicans choose the things they're going to pretend to be outraged about.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
First you're missing the premise that any hint of error or miss-step no matter how minor or innocent in an American administration must be a major scandal requiring constant charges of coverup and aiming at impeachment.
Second, you are missing the will, the need, to find any way to destroy a sitting president of the opposite party, regardless of the harm it does to the nation, so that you can say that you can do better and should be handed power in the next election. Gather these two postulates in your quiver and you will no longer be shooting blanks. Don't you just love mixed metaphores? Edited by AZPaul3, : expanded
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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Second, you are missing the will, the need, to find any way to destroy a sitting president of the opposite party, regardless of the harm it does to the nation, so that you can say that you can do better and should be handed power in the next election. But what the Republican elite don't seem to realize is that this sort of thing only appeals to people who are already paranoid lunatics, and so would vote Republican anyway. It's not like if they can make mad people even madder they'll be so mad they'll vote Republican twice, they still only get one vote each no matter how divorced they are from reality. It was the same with the imaginary "death panels". No-one could believe that unless they were already insane enough to believe any crap that comes down from the high honchos of the GOP, in which case one of the stupid propositions they'd already believe is: "I should vote Republican". Having created an unscrupulous and dishonest propaganda machine, the Republicans apparently use it for the sole purpose of painting the lily.
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Panda Member (Idle past 3741 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
quote:How does an attack by a group that isn't al Qaeda interfere with the depiction that al Qaeda is on the wane? Is there anything to support that accusation, apart from the weasel worded and unsupported claim that "some of whom were at least sympathetic to al Qaeda"? Nope. Thought not.Just more hate-filled and ignorant hyperbole. dronester writes:
It's hard to tell from here; are you wearing your tin-foil hat? Am I missing something?"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
WIKI writes: it interferes with the depiction that the administration is trying to convey that al Qaeda is on the wane Uhhh, . . . that was a quote from Wiki, not me. Did you not notice the quote was between quote lines?
Panda writes: Just more hate-filled and ignorant hyperbole. Uhhh, . . . thanks for your continued support.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2134 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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3 al Qaeda operatives took part in Benghazi attack
By Paul Cruickshank. Tim Lister. Nic Robertson and Fran Townsend, CNNupdated 9:23 AM EDT, Sat May 4, 2013 (CNN) -- Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, according to several sources who have spoken with CNN. One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that "three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," or AQAP, took part in the attack. More... Sources: 3 al Qaeda operatives took part in Benghazi attack | CNN
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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
It seems the administration is admitting this now. I presume you are perturbed because it took a while before this truth was fully admitted?
I think we are in agreement, it was certainly naughty of the Obama administration, but is there something more to this? Can you expand please?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
3 al Qaeda operatives took part in Benghazi attack By Paul Cruickshank. Tim Lister. Nic Robertson and Fran Townsend, CNNupdated 9:23 AM EDT, Sat May 4, 2013 (CNN) -- Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, according to several sources who have spoken with CNN. One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that "three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," or AQAP, took part in the attack. More... Error So it was an act of terror. Damn you, Obama, for telling the truth! You misled the public by describing the attacks using the exact same words that G.W.B. used to describe 9/11!
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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
DA writes: Damn you, Obama, for telling the truth! You misled the public by describing the attacks using the exact same words that G.W.B. used to describe 9/11! Well, let's be straight here. Obama ALSO used the false excuse of the anti-muslim movie to redirect anger. Big wippeedoo. But, I keep asking, is this all there is to it? Is this is the ONLY thing about this 'coverup' that has Coyote/Republicans annoyed?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Well, let's be straight here. Obama ALSO used the false excuse of the anti-muslim movie to redirect anger. And he knew it was false because ... ? And we know this because ... ? And he wanted to "redirect anger" because ... ? And we know this because ... ? Oh, right, because loonies made stuff up.
Is this is the ONLY thing about this 'coverup' that has Coyote/Republicans annoyed? It's not even one of the things that makes them annoyed. But they're too ashamed to admit why they really seize on any pathetic excuse to attack Obama. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
DA writes: And he knew it was false because ... ? And we know this because ... ? And he wanted to "redirect anger" because ... ? And we know this because ... ? Oh, right, because loonies made stuff up. I seem to be arguing for both Coyote and Obama at the same time. Roles I am not very comfortable with. I am guessing that republicans would have prefered that the Obama administration not expressed it was the anti-muslim movie until facts were known? Coyote, am I in the ballpark? Can someone from the right throw me a bone? Edited by dronester, : No reason given.
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Panda Member (Idle past 3741 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
dronester writes:
...says the idiot that didn't notice my quote was between quote lines.
Uhhh, . . . that was a quote from Wiki, not me. Did you not notice the quote was between quote lines? dronester writes:
You will continue to get what you deserve. Uhhh, . . . thanks for your continued support. Edited by Panda, : No reason given. Edited by Panda, : No reason given."There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Panda writes: You will continue to get what you deserve. Sayth the man who says I am hate-filled.
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