As we now know the latest facts about Benghazi —

[aadler]

 
As we now know that there were American drones over the area, sending streaming video back to the White House Situation Room in real time,

As we now know that there were military forces in the area, which could have come to the aid of the besieged embassy staff in relatively short order (planes within an hour, commandos within three hours, whereas the entire attack stretched out over seven hours),

As we now know that military men repeatedly requested permission to intervene, and were repeatedly denied that permission (and two of the four fatalities were men who finally defied the ‘stand-down’ order and went out on their own initiative to try and do whatever they could for fellow Americans),

As we now know that our Commander-in-Chief, still without taking action or allowing anyone else to do so, finally went to bed with the situation still unresolved because he had to be at a Las Vegas fundraiser the next day,

(Oh, and he skipped his security briefing the following morning, but he does that about 60% of the time anyway)

As we now know all these things, there is only one possible conclusion.

Mister President: Resign. Now.

If you had any shred of honor, you would have resigned already. (Of course, that same shred would have moved you to do something, anything, while your own people were being murdered.) If you have any desire to imitate the appearance of honor, you must resign.

You’re not fit to lead this nation. You’re not fit to lead anything.

Resign.

We’re going to kick your ass out of office anyway. Go ahead and get it over with.

Comments

[lostboy-lj.livejournal.com]

There is a thick layer of evil at the center of this coverup. Thanks to a lapdog press, the depths won't be plumbed by the national media until after the elections. But the facts that have come out so far are so damning that it's surreal no one has resigned or turned whistleblower yet.

The assignment itself reeks of something rotten. We have an ambassador and some diplomats without a marine detail, housed in the No Man's Land/ Terror Garden of Benghazi, and the only American safeguard is a nearby CIA flophouse? I'd like to know this: exactly what was the nature of Ambassador Stevens' Benghazi mission? Who proposed it and who signed off on it?

There are two answers that seem likely to me, and both of them sound loud alarm bells that we need to get this sinister bunch out of Washington, pronto, and probably fit a few of for prison togs.

I got a big shiver when Obama tapped Clinton for State. It was the first time in my life (in our nation's history?) that a president picked a hated political foe as his SoS, purely using the Chicago machine math of payoffs and patronage to silence dissent in the ranks. I am getting the strong feeling that the Ambassadors, his entourage were pawns in a political battle between these two.

Hilary knows very well that she has no hope of winning the presidency in 2016 after a second Obama term -- the Repubs could nominate Joe the Plumber and win -- and that 2016 is probably her last viable chance to run. My guess that Hilary, after being chronically ignored on foriegn affairs issues by our incompetent, petty bozo of a prez, decided to dangle the Ambassador out on the hook for the local terrorist franchise to CAPTURE, not kill, with the CIA on hand to help smooth over the details with the bad guys. Remember - the Ambassador died of smoke inhalation, not by bullet, beheading or bomb blast, which is AQ's usual M.O. The sloppy plan was for a rehash of Iran 79', with a damaged and weak-looking Obama losing the election, and Hilary rescuing her legacy at State by getting the hostages back during the lame duck transitional period.

That would explain a lot about why no assets were mobilized to rescue them. In light of that, Doherty and Woods were even more heroic in their actions. I'm guessing they were no dummies -- you don't get stationed in a CIA "annex" in downtown Hell without understanding some realpolitik. The moment they left their position, they probably knew the very best outcome they could hope for was getting turned into scapegoats by their crooked, evil bosses.

In a just world, the moral strength those guys demonstrated would inspire reporters to demand answers 24/7, and instantly destroy the political fortunes of soulless rats like Clinton, Obama, Panetta and "Smilin' Joe" Biden. Unfortunately we don't live in that world. The only hope is that Romney wins and declassifies everything.

[aadler]

I can’t really speculate on what may have been behind the original assignment. I can’t even lend myself to deep speculation about the motives behind the actions (or complete lack of them) that we know. And, ultimately, I don’t care that much. Cowardice? A self-centered egotism so intense that other people simply have no reality? Electoral gamesmanship? Utter, bottomless, befuddled incompetence? It could be any of them, it could be a mixture of all of them, but the final conclusion still comes out to the same thing: This man doesn’t belong in the White House. He doesn’t belong in any position of authority, or respect, or stature.

Hell, he doesn’t even belong in this country. He’s so scornful of it, let him go to one of the many places he likes so much more than he likes America. I’ll chip in for the plane ticket.

Though, at bottom, I’d rather spend my money on a ringside seat at his trial. “Depraved indifference” doesn’t sound the least bit inaccurate in this case.