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Playing the Petraeus card
Washington Examiner, by Michael Barone
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Posted By:ketchuplover, 10/28/2012 3:06:56 AM
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| Who denied the Navy Seals’ pleas for help in Benghazi? Bill Kristol, in a Friday Weekly Standard blogpost entitled “Petraeus Throws Obama under the Bus,” noted that the CIA put out a statement that “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.” (snip) The last thing the Romney campaign would ever want, I think, is several of the last days of the campaign to be taken up by an argument between Romney and Petraeus. Mainstream media, which has been striving to downplay this story lest
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If this is true, then it was a very shrewd and calculated move by Romney not to bring the issue up. Besides, it was not that long ago that the general's name was coming up as a potential VP running mate for Romney. The last thing Romney would now want is to give fodder to the media that would put him at odds with Petraeus.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bob913, 10/28/2012 3:48:36 AM (No. 8968675)
I do not want shrewd and calculated.
I want the truth and David Petraeus knows it and and is keeping silent.
Why?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
veritas, 10/28/2012 3:55:58 AM (No. 8968682)
As usual, the larger point, the big issue, is missed. I haven't seen or heard anyone in media address it.
The situation should never have gotten to the point where rushing in armed force at the last instant was the only hope of our people.
The "he said / she said" of who knew or did this or that is wasted breath. Our embassies and our people should have had unquestionably more firepower than needed in hand well before 9/11/2012. That is, if they were to be left in that forsaken part of the globe at all.
You didn't need to make a phone call to a 1-900 psychic to know that date was charged with danger, or that the whole Muslim world is a bad, bad place for any American to be. Why the deaths came to pass is, right now, secondary to the fact that Obama, Hillary, et. al. are at best utter incompetents, and [at least some of them] are actively working against our nation's interests -- and safety.
That's the pertinent issue for late in a campaign.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/28/2012 4:04:14 AM (No. 8968685)
Petraeus has refused to lie to CYA Obama,so he is an honrable man.Petraeus still has a boss to report to whether he likes him or not. It's more respect for the office than Obama himself.
Just compare Petraeus to Panetta who gleefully lied for Obama..This is some variation of there being honor among thieves.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NotaBene, 10/28/2012 4:13:59 AM (No. 8968689)
"Terrible, terrible anti-Muslim video." Not so. Just watch "Innocence of Muslims", only 13 minutes and free in YouTube. At times it is very funny. The poor Christian that made it is in Federal Prison in Los Angeles, as promised by Clinton to Tyrone Wood's father.
Petraeus, Panetta, Susan Rice General Dempsey, and Barack Hussein Obama will have to explain these deaths. The more that can be teased out before November 6 the better. Just now we learned that Tyrone Woods and Doherty took 60 Muslim enemies with them. Sadly, Woods did not get to meet his newborn son.
Tyrone Woods for Medal of Honor.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Th-Gr-Sil-Majority, 10/28/2012 4:14:05 AM (No. 8968690)
...with hindsight, I agree it may have been wise not to make the attack on 0bama the night of the debate. Romney was the only sane voice the night of the 11th, only to find himself skewered by the press the next day, as if he brought on the death of Stevens...
...this story is building into something bigger than could have been touched on in a few minutes during a debate...
...true, much of the press should be ashamed of how they are covering it, but there are those doing it. I sense with 0bama's loss, the firewall comes down and it will explode. Romney will be having to clean up the mess left behind as the ineptness of this administration comes to light...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
beamer, 10/28/2012 4:28:21 AM (No. 8968694)
When will the intelligent people of this country throw out the ignorant crooks who lie, cheat and steal from us? This election should be a landslide for decency. It is close?? BS!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 10/28/2012 4:52:47 AM (No. 8968703)
It's been reported that Gen. Ham, head of AFRICOM, was relieved of duty on Sept. 11, 2012, as he was ordering units to go to Libya to aid our people there. John Bolton has mentioned that he would be interested in what Gen. Ham has to say. In addition, there are reports that an Admiral in the mediterranean was also relieved at the time.
Reportedly, Dempsey fired Ham. Why? Who told him to do so? Why immediately, on Sept. 11, in the middle of the Libya debacle?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/28/2012 5:19:18 AM (No. 8968714)
Couple of years ago Petraeus had to walk back his comments that Israel was at the core of all the problems in the middle east.
His assertion was that they were the cause of all the middle east unrest.
He's the perfect fit for the O administration.
Remember the original story about the 'video' maker. He was an Israeli who had funding from other Israeli's.
So where did that lie emanate from???
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
poodlemom, 10/28/2012 7:18:09 AM (No. 8968815)
Why did Petraeus ever accept the CIA appointment? I once thought him to be an honorable man :-(
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 10/28/2012 8:23:22 AM (No. 8968933)
What #8, and #9 said. IMO, this is not a matter of Gen. Petraeus not wanting to lie for obama. It is the DUTY of the CIA Director to KNOW what is going on and do something about it. There's been no "sighting" of Petraeus since he was appointed by obama. That is a problem.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bur Oak, 10/28/2012 8:25:29 AM (No. 8968936)
Be on the lookout for parsing. The statement says the CIA didn't not deny requests for aid. Note that it is possible a request was made and have not been denied, but just ignored.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
nonsense, 10/28/2012 8:45:45 AM (No. 8968976)
I guess it follows the old maxim that if your enemy is destroying himself, just stand aside and let it happen.
By the way where is the grinnin' and lovin' the title of defacto potus, these days? The brain behind so many failed schemes, ValJar?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
irishwolfielady, 10/28/2012 10:44:48 AM (No. 8969237)
Not surprised about Petraeus. He was a brown nosing, butt kisser in Bosnia when he was a 2 star.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
enuf8, 10/28/2012 12:51:23 PM (No. 8969525)
#4 - Can a civilian receive a "Medal of Honor? The two, Woods and Doherty were former Seals - resigned from service.
We all know obama is incapable of making a decision and probably walked out of the Situation Room the same way he left Bibi N. in the Oval Office and said he was going to dinner with his family.....without a decision made. At that point in time a decision by others should have been made (like in the osama bin laden case) where a decision was made to go after bin laden and then tell obama in was in progress as they pulled him off the golf course.
Blood is on the hands of too many who are now denying any responsibility.
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