Their regular news may be going down the tubes with their liberal reporting but at least their editorial page is still sane.
From the LVRJ: U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans died
in a well-planned military assault on their diplomatic mission in
Benghazi seven weeks ago, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
So why are details surfacing, piecemeal, only now?
The Obama
administration sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night, ignoring
calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours
away. It has spent the past seven weeks stretching the story out,
engaging in misdirection and deception involving supposed indigenous
outrage over an obscure anti-Muslim video, confident that with the aid
of a docile press corps this infamous climax to four years of misguided
foreign policy can be swept under the rug, at least until after
Tuesday's election.
Charles Woods, father of former Navy SEAL and
Henderson resident Tyrone Woods, 41, says his son died slumped over his
machine gun after he and fellow ex-SEAL Glen Doherty - not the two
locals who were the only bodyguards Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and the Obama administration would authorize - held off the enemy for
seven hours.
The Obama administration was warned. They received an
embassy cable June 25 expressing concern over rising Islamic extremism
in Benghazi, noting the black flag of al-Qaida "has been spotted several
times flying over government buildings and training facilities." The
Obama administration removed a well-armed, 16-member security detail
from Libya in August, The Wall Street Journal reported last month,
replacing it with a couple of locals. Mr. Stevens sent a cable Aug. 2
requesting 11 additional body guards, noting "Host nation security
support is lacking and cannot be depended on," reports Peter Ferrara at
Forbes.com. But these requests were denied, officials testified before
the House Oversight Committee earlier this month....
These behaviors go far beyond "spin." They amount to a pack of lies.
To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this
nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens
riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr.
Strangelove," would be disastrous.
Candidate Obama said if he couldn't fix the economy in four years, his would be a one-term presidency.
Mitt
Romney is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it's time
to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about
that, come Tuesday. http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/benghazi-blunder-obama-unworthy-commander-in-chief-176736441.html
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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