Dick Cheney: Benghazi ‘One Of The Worst Incidences I Can Recall In My Career’
Former Vice President Dick Cheney weighed in on Benghazi last night, saying the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was “one of the worst incidences” he could recall.
President Obama on Monday defended the actions he and the rest of the Executive Branch took in the days and weeks after the assault that took the lives of four Americans, directly questioning those who claim that he orchestrated a cover-up.
But on Fox News last night, Cheney attacked Obama’s response, claiming (without evidence) that the Obama administration “lied” about Benghazi:
CHENEY: I watched the Benghazi thing with great interest, Sean [Hannity]. I think it’s one of the worst incidences, frankly, that I can recall in my career. It put the whole capability claiming the terrorist problem solved once we got Bin Laden, that Al Qaeda was over with. If they told the truth about Benghazi, that it was a terrorist attack by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, it would destroy the confidence that was the basis of his campaign for re-election.
They lied. They claimed it was because of a demonstration video, that they wouldn’t have to admit it was really all about their incompetence. They ignored repeated warnings from the CIA about the threat. They ignored messages from their own people on the ground that they need more security. They reduced what was already there.
Cheney’s choice of words is interesting, given the numerous security lapses and misleading narratives that took place during his multiple periods in power in Washington. One would think that the former vice president would regard the 9/11 attacks as the “worst incident” that he could recall. Or perhaps the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, in which he and other members of the administration repeatedly misled the American people about Iraq’s WMDs and the war’s difficulty and costs. Or the Abu Gharib prison scandal, in which Iraqis were tortured under the watchful eyes of American soldiers and prompted more and greater attacks on U.S. forces. Or perhaps the thirteen attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds that occurred during the Bush administration’s two terms, in which nearly a dozen Americans died.
full: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/05/14/2007111/dick-cheney-benghazi-one-of-the-worst-incidences-i-can-recall-in-my-career/
Anyone else find it funny how the war millionaire behind "deficits don't matter" and who shot his hunting buddy in the face is trashing Obama over Benghazi?
(On edit) Mwanachi blog " Many Benghazi Critics are Themselves War Criminals "
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Really, Dick?????
Really worked out for you guys in the long run, didn't it, Nancy? 
Where's the outrage there? Obama has one embassy attack happen on his watch. Four people died. The republicans turn into rabid beasts worthy of the Hulk. 
They are SO pissed off that Obama got OBL and made them all look like incompetent morons, that this will be their Waterloo. The irony here is of course they have the gun pointing backward! And I will say this years in advance; this will comeback to haunt them in the 2014 and 2016 elections and beyond. These morons are incapable of shame and that guarantees us many victories down the road.
Play it up Dick Wonderman! You and Pigman are going to have something in common in the future. 
I hear Rummy and KKKarl are opining in about this too! I LOVE IT!
Shoe meet foot! And soon!
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Looking up the thread on the Beirut bombing. And CHEENEE was right in the middle of the 241 dead.
Segami’s thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022824473
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[font size=5]‘Why Were Republicans SILENT When REAGAN'S ‘BENGHAZI’ KILLED 241 American Servicemen’?[/font]
Benghazi wasn’t the scandal that the conservative right tried to make it out to be. Unfortunately, the Democratic president didn’t engage in a big cover-up, and the Republicans trying to score political points by shouting “Benghazi, Benghazi!” are rapidly becoming irrelevant. In the fact of that, it should be pointed out that this amount of supposed outrage is completely hypocritical. One way to illustrate this is using the Beirut Barracks Bombing of 1983, which occurred during, and was the fault of, the Reagan administration. The following (above) image, which has been shared quite a bit recently, is referring to it:
The image isn’t entirely correct. Only 220 United States Marines were killed. The remaining casualties consisted of 18 killed sailors and three soldiers, for a total of 241 servicemen. Yet other than that small error, what the image claims is true — it was President Reagan’s fault that incident occurred. In fact, the official investigation and subsequent Department of Defense report found chain-of-command errors and placed fault on the Reagan administration, as well. The Marines had been stationed there as part of an international peacekeeping venture:
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Sid
I highly doubt Benghazi even gets close to that level.
Two weeks before it happened, I was waiting at a MAC terminal in Dover and got hit up for dinner and $20 by a personable red-headed Navy corpsman assigned to that battalion trying to get back after leave (he didn't have the $10 it would have cost him to leave CONUS on a comfortable overseas hop and I have a soft spot in my heart for gingers).
He called me when he got there three days before the bombing, and he was talking about getting over to the left coast for Christmas (his grandparents lived in NorCal) and maybe think about California when it came to his upcoming duty rotation so we could maybe get together ... but I never heard from him again.
Saw his name listed in the Navy Times later that month, though...he never made it to visit his grandparents for Christmas that year as he was planning. Forever 25 years old.
So, you were White House Chief of Staff during the Nixon years - during Vietnam and the cover-ups in Cambodia. You were a member of Congress between 1978 - 1989, when you took over as SecDef for Bush 41. Lots of stuff happened during those years. Lots of really bad incidents, cover-ups and other mis-conduct by people in the executive branch. Incidents with national implications, that changed the course of history for the worse.
Not to mention all those "little" incidents that happened under your watch - terrorist attacks, outing of CIA assets that crippled National Security, a slew of embassy bombings, torture "justification", the patriot Act and other Constitutionally suspect activities -
So, Benghazi is really the "Worse Incident you can recall in your career". With no respect towards you at all, "sir", I will say to your face - You're a fu**ing psychopathic liar.
Or do you just have Alzheimer's and can't remember anything but the "happy stuff" prior to your last cardiac overhaul.
Haele
The worst thing HE's ever seen????
