Joni Ernst 'afraid of a Benghazi 2.0' in Afghanistan

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Monday said she fears that the situation at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, could turn more deadly as chaos has erupted as people look to flee the country now under Taliban control.

"Absolutely, I'm afraid of a Benghazi 2.0. I think that this is something that many of us have worried about for weeks now as we have watched this scene deteriorate in Afghanistan," the Republican said during an appearance on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt's program. "Well, to me, our embassy personnel being safe means they have been safely evacuated from the country, they're out of the reach of the Taliban, and not to mention the thousands and thousands of Afghans and other people that supported us in our mission in Afghanistan."

Ernst's Benghazi reference harkens back to the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya where members of an Islamic militant group killed four Americans and injured a handful of others.

Republicans launched a wide-ranging investigation into the attack and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the months that followed and used the episode as a political cudgel against her as she ran for president in 2016.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ernst-afraid-of-a-benghazi-2-0-in-afghanistan/ar-AANnJBc

Senator you're fooling no one. You're hoping for another Benghazi.

[UTUSN]

1. For sure she means the Wingnut endless demagoguing *about* Benghazi

[BannonsLiver]

2. Is afraid a new synonym for hope?

Piss off, Joni.

[Baked Potato]

3. She means she's praying for Benghazi 2.0. Nt

[marble falls]

4. She needs to get that bread bag out of her snow boot and pull it over her head.

[zonemaster]

6. Hey - my mom used to fit me out that way!

Worked pretty well, actually. Those boots always developed leaks.

We both must be of a certain age, or older...

[marble falls]

9. Ernst tried to say her mother was poor they wore bread bags for snow boots and man did she ...

... get 'bagged' over it. She was trying to co-opt one of her mother's memories as her own and didn't get the nuance of the bread bag. I knew then she was a silver spoon baby, not a bread bag baby.

https://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/20/joni-ernst-rebuttal.html

"At one point Sen. Ernst wanted to paint herself as one of the common folk by pointing out that used to wear bread bags to school on her feet because she only had one pair of shoes. Ernst said, “You see, growing up I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry, but I was never embarrassed because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags over their feet.”"

[Champp]

5. Why not FEAR Beirut Marine Barracks II ? That was a huge G.O.P. cockup

I guess Joni don't want to go any where near the truth of this Republican death fiasco.

Ronald Reagan and his Republican Administration slept through all the warnings on this attack, and because of their negligence hundreds died

WIKIPEDIA (you can find hundreds of other articles)
Early on a Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings

[Botany]

7. So will Sen. Ernst work to make sure that Iowa welcomes a # of refugees from Afghanistan?

I doubt it. Especially women and girls. (Although young boys don't do real well with Afghani men either.)


Sadly although Jodi's "afraid of a Benghazi 2.0" is pure bullshit but the brain dead people who listen
to right wing con man and propaganda people like Hugh Hewitt will think they are hearing real news
based on facts. Right wing misinformation is a real cancer on America.

[WHITT]

8. Eh, Joni

'Benghazi' was the CIA utilizing a fake U.S. Mission as a Black Site to transship weapons that would be used against those that launched the attack. Talk about your completely different ballpark...

[yellowcanine]

10. And the Flog the Dead Horse Award goes to Joni Ernst!

Is there any event that that the Republicans will not bring up Benghazi?

[keithbvadu2]

14. I don't think the republicans brought up Benghazi when Trump killed four of our troops in Niger.

I don't think the republicans brought up Benghazi when Trump killed four of our troops in Niger.

Our military requested more resources for Niger mission(s) but the Trump administration refused them.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-trump-niger-20171019-story.html

[Vinca]

11. They can't use the attack that Biden pulled out on the spur of the moment because their

lord and savior, the orange one, created the plan and made BFFs of the Taliban. So it's back to Hillary references . . . booga, booga, booga.

[ecstatic]

12. they are such clowns.

Really? That's her concern after 600,000 Americans are DEAD due to trump & his rethug enablers?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

13. She is a disingenuous piece of shit !

I feel bad for the people of Iowa who have to put up with her garbage brain.

[applegrove]

15. Ernst do you mean Jan6 six that kilked double Benghazi? 5 at first and

then 4 suicides?

[Polybius]

16. I thought neo-cons went extinct when Trump took over the Republican Party

Looks like they came back.