Demonstrating yet again the fact that he has spaghetti for a spine, our illustrious Speaker of the House, John Boehner, just could not quite bring himself to commit on whether or not he thought that Congress should investigate why, in God's name, there were no Marines stationed at the diplomatic posts in Libya, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed in cold blood, and what idiot, it was, who made that decision. He would only say that he suspects the ongoing investigation by the FBI "will take a look at that." Duh? Ya think, there John? Come on folks, we have got to better than this! We have the 'Keystone Cops' in charge of our foreign policy and no one seems to give a flying fart.
On September 11, that date sound familiar to anyone, in what Barry "Almighty" has finally admitted was a "terrorist attack," the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya and a nearby safe house were attacked and Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other embassy personnel were killed. There were no Marines stationed at the consulate or at the main U.S. embassy in Tripoli, despite the fact that Libya was in political transition after a revolt that overthrew dictator Muammar Gaddafi last October. The FBI is investigating the attack in Benghazi and the State Department announced yesterday that a 4-person investigating committee would review and write a report about the terrorist attack. Whoopee!
It was during a Capitol Hill press conference on Friday that Mr. Boehner was asked, "Speaker Boehner, do you think Congress should investigate why there were no Marines at our diplomatic posts in Libya and who made that decision?" To which our fine, upstanding Speaker replied, "I suspect that part of the investigation underway will take a look at that. While we typically have Marine detachments at our embassies, that isn’t always the case when it comes to our consulates." Adding, "And so I’m sure there will be a review of that and a discussion about whether that’s wise going forward." he said. I wish I was as confident about that as Mr. Boehner seems to be.
And I'm sure that those of us who care about such matters were more than just little pissed when Barry's dim bulb of a U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, was heard to say that there were no Marines in either Tripoli or Benghazi prior to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate there. According to news reports, Stevens had feared he was on an Al-Qaeda hit list. "There are not Marines in every facility. That depends on the circumstances. That depends on the requirements," this moron, Rice said on Sept. 16. "Our presence in Tripoli, as in Benghazi, is relatively new, as you will recall. We’ve been back post-revolution only for a matter of months." How did this moron get her job?
For the first time, on Thursday, the administration was finally able to bring itself to describe Benghazi as an actual "terrorist attack," after previously blaming some obscure anti-Islamic film that hardly anyone saw, as prompting what they intially described as being a "spontaneous" protest. "It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack," said everybody's favorite imbecile, White House Press Secretary Jay "I ain't Got The Brains Of An Ice Cube" Carney. I guess he felt the need to add, "Our embassy was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of American officials. That is self-evident." If this isn't a case of the blind leading the stupid, I don't know what is.
When asked a day earlier during the White House briefing who decided that no Marines would protect U.S. diplomatic posts in Libya, Carney naturally referred the question to the State Department. "I think security at diplomatic facilities is overseen by and run by the State Department, so I’d refer you to them about how decisions are made and what the allocation of resources was in Benghazi and elsewhere. I think they’re the best people to answer that question," Carney said. This is nothing more than a blatant stalling tactic. And if this White House doesn't want to be forthcoming, which is usually the case with these people, then they should be forced to provide answers.
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