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1. Benghazi wasn't a terrorist attack on a "consulate" over a group of people pissed about some video. If you pay any attention to anything other than the government news networks you will find that it was a CIA front. Everyone there outside of 2 or 3 people were CIA. It's admitted Stevens was there to meet with foreign officials reguarding the transfer of weapons. Many non-US government officials have come out saying Stevens was a gun runner. The ex-Seal who was killed went on record via mainstream news that he was there to track weapons long before the incident. His father says he was there working for the CIA.
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I never believed this attack was a "mob of angry people". Personally, I don't even consider this a terrorist attack - this was a military attack.
I don't care if this was an Embassy or a CIA front; Nearly every embassy we have across the globe is involved in intelligence and espionage. This is nothing new.
What's your point here? That the government is telling us lies about this? I don't believe they are. This was a real embassy, which doubled as a CIA front, which us just like any other US embassy in the world... And it was attacked by terrorists. The President of the United States cannot come out and say "Opps, you caught us, this was really a CIA operation".
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2. Bush appointed the Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association to run FEMA. How was he qualified for the position again? He wasn't, it was give your(or someone's) buddy a job day.
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But you say apples and I say.... Something different. I had never heard of this man until you mentioned him, and nor am I a huge supporter of Bush... But you claim this guy was just the "Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association". He was an attorney who ran for Congress, and had been working as the General Counsel for FEMA when he was nominated to run it. He also ran the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Integration Center, the National Disaster Medical System, and the Nuclear Incident Response Team.
Sounds pretty qualified to me.
Was he "Bush's buddy". Sure was. He helped to run Bush's Presidential campaign.
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As far as their intentions and what do they know? Do you honestly believe they would be allowed to even get near such a position without being informed of things prior to that you and I likely don't won't to know about? Why has no President tried to investigate or preosecute prior Presidents?
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Why would a sitting President go after a former President? He would either be demonized as going after the opposition party, or attacking "someone on his own team".
This assumes any President has ever done anything illegal to begin with. (I bet you each and every one of them has, but catching, having proof, AND being able to sell it to the US public would too difficult.)
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Review each department? lol The reason they won;t let someone like Ron Paul get near the Presidency is because he would not only review but eliminate most departments. They want people who won't stir the pot. A yes man.
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I see now - You are behind Ron Paul. Because "He would be different if he was President". Sure thing. How many times have we heard this before?
This is what I was talking about earlier - Ron Paul couldn't shut down those agencies. He would walk into the Oval Office, pretend he has swagger, only to discover the agency he is trying to shut down spends billions of dollars in dozens of states, and the Congressmen and Senators from those states will make everything he does for the next four years pure hell - every single appointment, every single press release the Oval Office makes - will be shot down or at a standstill. And that's the tip of the ice berg... Imagine the political might and clout that would rain down on the Oval Office - not to mention the businesses that would loose out if such an agency is shut down.
Now multiple that times ten agencies that Ron Paul would shut down... Ron Paul would never get anything done.