05-07-2014, 11:47 AM
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in a van by the river
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Originally Posted by Robbie
I told you what I heard the talking heads saying on CNN a few days ago when a guy from the military was before Congress.
I am also going by what I heard on CBS News radio (they do hourly news updates) where they said that Congress was being told by the CIA people on the ground in Libya that they were told by the White House to stand down.
Do I know the "truth" of what really happened. No. Do you. HELL NO. The White House is still redacting documents to Congress on the whole matter.
If you turn out to be correct then good.
But in the end...the attack went on for hours. The U.S. had forces that could have gotten there and stopped it. They were told not to.
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Here you go again repeating the same thing that I already disproved. You are going right back to claiming there was a stand down order. No amout of proof will even be enough to prove you are wrong..
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But testimony from military leadership said otherwise. In his congressional testimony on February 7, 2013, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that after he informed the president about the attack in Benghazi, Obama "at that point directed both myself and General Dempsey to do everything we needed to do to try to protect lives there." The Associated Press reported that Panetta ordered Marine anti-terrorism teams in Europe to prepare to deploy to Libya, and ordered other special forces teams to prepare to deploy to a European staging base.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey similarly testified that the military "reacted quickly once notified of the attacks" and "deployed a Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team to Tripoli while a second team prepared to deploy."
But the units were unable to reach Libya until well after the attack ended due to time and distance constraints.
Peters' claim that there was a "stand down" order sent to American forces stationed in Tripoli during the attack has been debunked repeatedly, even by Fox News itself.
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The former commander of a four-member Army Special Forces unit in Tripoli, Libya, denied Wednesday that he was told to stand down during last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
In a closed-door session with the House Armed Services Committee, Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson said his commanders told him to remain in the capital of Tripoli to defend Americans in the event of additional attacks and to help survivors being evacuated from Benghazi.
"Contrary to news reports, Gibson was not ordered to 'stand down' by higher command authorities in response to his understandable desire to lead a group of three other special forces soldiers to Benghazi," th
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from my post.. https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=20078120&postcount=131 |
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