NF that is pure bull, pedal it somewhere else.
How dare you imply they died because we believe in less government. They died because of the incompetent leadership out of this administration, it is the cover up we are intent on exposing.
I have not a single problem with congress spending money to protect our people and you will be hard pressed to find many conservatives who object to our defense spending to protect our people but you have no problem finding liberals that want to cut funding to anything that has to do with our great military and troops... In fact they could stop funding half the parasites and use that money to bettet protect our people as far as I am concerned...
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While you may not have a problem with congress spending money to protect our people the republicans in congress think differently. They cut the state departments security budget. That's a fact - look it up.
I'm not implying anything. I'm saying it directly. We were under manned because hard decisions had to be made on how to efficiently allocate limited resources. That's what happens when your budget gets cut. Every business owner or manager in this country understands that concept. In this case - Benghazi wasn't at the top of the list. Nor was it the only consolate screaming for more security.
Incompetence absolutely played a role. And hillary should be held accountable for her role in that incompetence. Unfortunately, incompetence in government is imbedded and gets rolled over from administration to administration. Hillary didn't invent the apparatus that we call the state department. She was saddled with it. Still, as it's head she could have made changes. But like all bureaucrats she let the status quo rule.
And if incompetence is what's really got you goat let's roll the clock back about 12 years. Then new president George Bush was at the helm. This time 12 years ago our country's foremost terrorism expert couldn't get a meeting with the President. Why, because his boss Codoleza Rice devalued him. Under Clinton this man had an open line to the White House. He met weekly with the President. Under Bush, he first met weekly with Rice and wasn't permitted to see the president. Then Rice decided she was too important to meet with him either. So he met with underlings who would decide for him if anything he had to say was important enough to pass up the line.
That, on it's face is pure incompetence. Who doesn't meet with therir top experts on national security?
About 146 months ago this expert started banging the table that he needed to meet with the president. The underlings listened and did nothing. The expert was blathering on about airplanes used as missles, people with impossible to pronounce names, and something about September. Bang bang bang for months and no one listened! Finally, the expert got his meeting with the president. In July at the ranch. IOW, the prez is too busy to see you on official time, but fly to Texas and he'll take a few minutes out from mountain biking to talk to you. The president was polite, took his written report put it down and never looked at it again until Sept 12th.
On Sept 12th this man suddenly became very important. In a meeting with our country's top leaders and entire top military command he was the only one in the room who knew who attacked us the day before. How ridiculous is that? Had these people listened, they all would have known who attacked us. Incompetence at the highest level. Incompetence that may have cost us 3000 lives on our own soil!
TH, there is plenty of government incompetence to to go around. Hillary's roll here pales in any comparison to what happened in 2001. Could 911 have been averted? Even the expert doesn't know that answer. Maybe. But the point is because of the incompetence of the Bush Administration we didn't even give our citizens a fighting chance.
Of course after 911 the incompetence continued. The expert was fired when he disagreed that Iraq was involved. He was then scapegoated in a white wash of the facts. Rice telling all who istened that his information wasn't valuable. Of course disproven by the fact that he was the only one who knew what and who. By outing the expert they cut off the man's wisdom and weath of knowledge. Which could have come in very handy in tracking down the terrorist who continued to threaten us. Again, total incompetence!
Incompetence in government - nothing new there!
