UPDATE: Ignorance of the facts also plays a major role in rightwing agit-prop, so Benghazi is a perfect vehicle for the gasbags:
Was Benghazi Attack on U.S. Consulate an Inside Job?
Oct 29, 2012 1:00 AM EDT
One man gives his harrowing account of the attack on the U.S. Ambassador.
Jamie Dettmer
The Daily Beast
The story of the night America lost its first ambassador since 1979 to violence is like a jigsaw puzzle—the pieces are fitting together slowly and the picture is emerging but is still not complete and might not be for months. In trying to figure out the puzzle, U.S. investigators are not being helped by the lack of reliable information coming from Tripoli. The inquiry that Libyan leaders promised the day after the attack has stalled. Who’s in charge? No one really knows. “That’s a million-dollar question,” admits an adviser to Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushugar.
When one tries to piece together the story of what happened in Benghazi, discrepancies stand out. For one thing, the timing of events given by officials in Washington, Tripoli, and Benghazi don’t quite match.
Who were these attackers? In the immediate aftermath of the assault, Libyan leaders produced startlingly conflicting statements. They blamed the “men of the Gaddafi regime” and al Qaeda in quick succession. Then, after eyewitnesses fingered local extremists, they focused on a Benghazi-based Salafist militia called Ansar al-Sharia, which had been founded after the toppling of Gaddafi.
An email sent on the night of the attack by the State Department to the White House noted that American diplomats in the Libyan capital reported that the militia had “claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.”
Days later, Ansar al-Sharia disavowed responsibility for the attack.
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Well, at least the "Obama is a Muslim" thing GOP right canard is a Fail.
18% believe he's Jewish, only 10% a Muslim.
Guess you can only drone bomb so many Muslims, appoint so many dual loyalist banksters and cave in to Netanyahu without criticising Israel's embargo on Gaza and attacks on Turkish flotillas so many times without people realizing...no Muslim there!
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/10/repeating-the-libya-mistake-in-mali.html
Hillary-Obama are now bent on setting matters right by setting them even more wrong.
Perhaps Romney would do worse; if that's the only defense,there is none.
Reporter Ben Swann, seemingly a Gary Anderson supporter, pointed out on the local Cunningham Show today that Obama has appointed an unopposed president in Yemen, then ordered the banks accounts of possible opponents provisionally frozen if they chose to run against him, all amid the barbarian drone program. Cunningham incoherently used the interview occasion to attack Obama for widespread droning, and thusly killing children and berate the left for its silence on same--- while admitting in the same sentence he favored this comparatively safe method of killing the enemy. I believe the clown must have had an in-sentence flashback of the times he was
calling for carpet bombing Iraq "back to the Stone Age"
between 2003 and 2010.
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