02-09-2013 07:44 AM
Panetta said, though he did meet with Obama at a 5 o'clock prescheduled gathering, the president left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, "up to us."
In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that night. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.
The 5 o'clock meeting was a pre-scheduled 30-minute session, where, according to Panetta's recollection, they spent about 20 minutes talking a lot about the American embassy that was surrounded in Egypt and the situation that was just unfolding in Benghazi.
As Bill Kristol wrote in the month after the attack, "Panetta's position is untenable: The Defense Department doesn't get to unilaterally decide whether it's too risky or not to try to rescue CIA operators, or to violate another country's air space. In any case, it’s inconceivable Panetta didn't raise the question of what to do when he met with the national security adviser and the president at 5 p.m. on the evening of September 11 for an hour. And it's beyond inconceivable he didn't then stay in touch with the White House after he returned to the Pentagon."
Perhaps it was "inconceivable," but it is according to Panetta exactly what happened.
But Obama did have time to make a political call to the Israeli prime minister "[W]e do know one thing the president found time to do that evening: He placed a call to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to defuse a controversy about President Obama's refusal to meet with Netanyahu two weeks later at the U.N. General Assembly, and, according to the White House announcement that evening, spent an hour on the phone with him," Kristol wrote.
"While Americans were under assault in Benghazi, the president found time for a non-urgent, politically useful, hour-long call to Prime Minister Netanyahu. And his senior national security staff had to find time to arrange the call, brief the president for the call, monitor it, and provide an immediate read-out to the media. I suspect Prime Minister Netanyahu, of all people, would have understood the need to postpone or shorten the phone call if he were told that Americans were under attack as the president chatted. But for President Obama, a politically useful telephone call—and the ability to have his aides rush out and tell the media about that phone call—came first."
My name Obooma and I make the Stock Market go up.
When I don't drone I do lot of skeet shooting.
02-09-2013 07:56 AM
I wonder if Micallef will drop by and post more pics of that fugly motorcycle...
02-09-2013 08:34 AM
Zeopold wrote:I wonder if Micallef will drop by and post more pics of that fugly motorcycle...
You mean this?
You American rightwingers are a strange bunch.
burningsg wrote:No Word from Hillary During Benghazi AttackSpeaking of worthless POS where was this Liberal A-Hole during those EIGHT HOURS ????
Neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to the secretary of state during the 8-hour attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi,
Panetta, Dempsey did not speak to Clinton.
12:55 PM, Feb 7, 2013 •Neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to the secretary of state during the 8-hour attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. At a Thursday hearing in the Senate, Republican Ted Cruz asked both Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey, "In between 9:42 p.m., Benghazi time, when the first attacks started, and 5:15 am, when Mr. Doherty and Mr. Woods lost their lives, what converations did either of you have with Secretary Clinton?"
"We did not have any conversations with Secretary Clinton," Panetta responded.
"And General Dempsey, the same is true for you?" Cruz asked. Dempsey confirmed this. Watch the video below:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/no-word-hillar
y-during-benghazi-attack_700410.html
www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=1909
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Wyn
Hillary was AWOL too.
No Word from Hillary During Benghazi Attack
Neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to the secretary of state during the 8-hour attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. At a Thursday hearing in the Senate, Republican Ted Cruz asked both Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey, "In between 9:42 p.m., Benghazi time, when the first attacks started, and 5:15 am, when Mr. Doherty and Mr. Woods lost their lives, what converations did either of you have with Secretary Clinton?"
"We did not have any conversations with Secretary Clinton," Panetta responded.
"And General Dempsey, the same is true for you?" Cruz asked. Dempsey confirmed this.
http://www.weeklysta...ack_700410.html
It has come to my attention that you once had another Harmony Central account with the name "Scott Glover". Apparently the avatar image for Scott Glover was this smiley face from Rightnation.us.
http://www.rightnation.us/forums/public/style_emot
icons/default/unsure.gif
And let's not forget:
Shaun_Micallef wrote:yanktar wrote:Compared to Wyn Belorusky, VisScoti is a bleeding-heart liberal! Not surprising he's now a long-term contributor to a neo-f@scist web-site digging up every kind of lie about "lib'ruls". He's VisScoti's kind of fellow-traveller.
Well, hello, YankTar. Can you tell us more about our friend Wyn Belorusky? Seems you know him quite well.
http://www.yamahafz1oa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=
17419&page=2 Registered UserJoin Date: Apr 2003Posts: 8,096That's BS. Wyn was BANNED from the WR because of his perpetual abusive behavior. I won't speculate as why he chose not to post at all, but if I did I wouldn't be so praiseworthy of his motivation. Other board members convinced their FRIENDS to return. Your definition of childish and by implication, manhood isn't mine.Quote:
Originally posted by mikekapus You've got to respect the guy for making the decision to go and then carrying through with it. No Bitching. No Whining.
It sure beats the whiney crybabies who posted their intentions to leave the board, pitched hissy fits, cried, whined and sniveled until other board members led them back to the fold like little children and wiped away their tears. I have no respect for them.Shaun_Micallef wrote:Wow, it looks like yanktar and Visconti (Wyn) have been at each other's throats for years!
http://74.50.1.243/forum/showthread.php?t=1220
It also looks like time has proven yanktar and Jimmy Carter to be right on with regards to the Iraq war!
Great bikes Visconti (Wyn)!
Wyn/Visconti/burningsg...disgusting threesome.
02-09-2013 08:38 AM
Zeopold wrote:I wonder if Micallef will drop by and post more pics of that fugly motorcycle...
How often does the rear shock need replacing? That's a lot to carry.
02-09-2013 08:40 AM
I know i shouldn't engage a troll, but this is one of the dumbest premises of the rwnt's!
What was George Dubya doing during the 53 American Embassy deaths during his terms? Clearing out that pesky brush at his ranch again? He holds the record for personal days after all! -Adam

02-09-2013 08:44 AM
02-09-2013 09:14 AM

02-09-2013 09:27 AM
Davo17 wrote:
obama lied, americans died...by terrorists, on 911.
you seem upset that he won reelection. good luck making this issue as big a deal as fast and furious. that went really well for rightwingers.
02-09-2013 09:37 AM
Rev. Wright! David Ayers!
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02-09-2013 01:48 PM
Malcolm Ramone wrote:I know i shouldn't engage a troll, but this is one of the dumbest premises of the rwnt's!
What was George Dubya doing during the 53 American Embassy deaths during his terms? Clearing out that pesky brush at his ranch again? He holds the record for personal days after all! -Adam
You don't think the President should be engaged when an American Embassy is under attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11?
02-09-2013 01:51 PM
McLovin wrote:
Malcolm Ramone wrote:I know i shouldn't engage a troll, but this is one of the dumbest premises of the rwnt's!
What was George Dubya doing during the 53 American Embassy deaths during his terms? Clearing out that pesky brush at his ranch again? He holds the record for personal days after all! -Adam
You don't think the President should be engaged when an American Embassy is under attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11?
since he's already married his wife might not like him getting engaged. but play your cards right and this could be as big a deal as fast and furious was!
02-09-2013 03:28 PM
McLovin wrote:You don't think the President should be engaged when an American Embassy is under attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11?
Actually, I agree that it wasn't handled well at all. My beef is the rabid right's foaming at the mouth response, and continued posting about it. It's as if Obama personally had them killed for his amusement. I'd LIKE them to find out what went wrong, and if anything can be done to prevent a similar situation in the future. NOT go on an endless witch hunt to hang all the blame on one or two people! -Adam
02-09-2013 05:00 PM - edited 02-09-2013 05:21 PM
Tom Hicks wrote:
Davo17 wrote:
obama lied, americans died...by terrorists, on 911.
you seem upset that he won reelection. good luck making this issue as big a deal as fast and furious. that went really well for rightwingers.
i am mad...imagine if this had happened during bushes term. you think the reaction would be different?
i dont think the sequale of this and fast and furious has yet been reached, do you?
02-09-2013 05:05 PM
Belva wrote:
Would it have made a difference? Would lives have been saved?
i dont know, i dont think anyone does.
weve done more with less in the past, and this was a developing ordeal over an entire night.
i think the ambassador and those other heros needed a president who would act in their best interests...especially as they were acting in an official capacity.
02-09-2013 05:11 PM
Davo17 wrote:
Tom Hicks wrote:
Davo17 wrote:
obama lied, americans died...by terrorists, on 911.
you seem upset that he won reelection. good luck making this issue as big a deal as fast and furious. that went really well for rightwingers.
i dont think the sequale of either has yet been reached, do you?
i assume you mean sequel, and the follow-up of both these witch hunts by the GOP has gone nowhere.
but hope springs eternal. i have no doubts that your party will try to manufacture any number of fake scandals to try and tar obama for the remainder of his term. i suspect that will be as impotent as were F&F and benghazi "gate".
though you can always medicate yourself into feeling better by blaming the media, or calling people sheep or something.
02-09-2013 08:54 PM
Davo17 wrote:
Belva wrote:
Would it have made a difference? Would lives have been saved?i dont know,
Davo's posts would be much more accurate if he just said this in all of them.
02-09-2013 08:59 PM
He is a boy. You expected a man.
05-08-2013 08:05 PM
05-08-2013 09:20 PM
Sloppy Santa wrote:
"Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi"
While he might have been absent he sure was responsible. He's the commander in chief (or should I say "thief") and as such bears ultimate responsibility.
It fall heavily on his shoulders. Will he sleep at night? Probably.
You suck at this.
LOL!
Gallus2012 wrote:I've never come across people more dumber than Americans.
I've travelled the globe BTW.
05-08-2013 09:22 PM
bluzboy wrote:
Sloppy Santa wrote:
"Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi"
While he might have been absent he sure was responsible. He's the commander in chief (or should I say "thief") and as such bears ultimate responsibility.
It fall heavily on his shoulders. Will he sleep at night? Probably.
You suck at this.
LOL!
He's like Hoppy with all the funny beat out of him
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