"Here is what happened under President Bush's watch.....you have a short or selctive memory."
Lmao. Ironic that some yahoo copy/pasting screed from Democratic Underground admonishes his fellow Americans for a short memory, when he clearly doesn't remember them himself. I remember almost everyone one of them because I was paying attention when they happened. Fill in the blank time, to separate the buckwheat from the obfuscatory ********.
June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.
12 Pakistanis killed. 0 Americans killed/injured. In other words, a failed attack
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Truck bomb kills 17.
9 Americans died. This facility was privately owned, and not under US Gov't security in shape, form or fashion. Not US soil, not US controlled.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
Two Pakistani guards. 0 Americans killed/injured. In other words, a failed attack.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan
Suicide bomber kills two.
Two Uzbeks killed. 0 Americans killed/injured. In other words, a failed attack.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.
5 Saudis killed. 0 Americans killed/injured. In other words, a failed attack
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.
This is the attack that killed David Foy, an administrative officer. 3 Pakistani killed, 52 injured. It happened not at the consulate, but at a nearby Marriott hotel. Successful attack, but not on US soil.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
One Syrian killed, 13 Syrians wounded. 0 Americans killed/injured. In other words, a failed attack.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
In other words, a failed attack.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
Three Turkish policemen killed. 0 Americans killed/injured. In other words, a failed attack.
March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls' school instead.
In other words, a failed attack.
September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.
0 Americans killed/injured. In other words, a failed attack
So, 11 attacks, lots of dead folks, but only 1 American, who was killed at a hotel. But notice how it leads, by omissions, the reader to the reasonable conclusion that scores of Americans died under similar circumstances as the Benghazi attack. Which, as you can see, is clearly inaccurate. Another way of saying that is that it's a bald-faced, goddamned, ************* lie, told by a bald-faced, goddamned, ************* liar (NOT the member who posted it here, who is at worst a plagiarist, as all he did was copy and paste it from another site, blissfully unaware it was a bald-faced, goddamned, ************* lie, is probably a wonderful human being, and is welcome to go hunting with me anytime he wants). Whoever wrote that is someone who puts their politics on pretty much the same level that the terrorists in those incidents put their religion.
There were 0 Americans killed by foreign terrorist on US soil from 9/11/01 to 9/11/13. IIRC, that is the longest period since the Phenom Pen attack in 1971(ish) that such a statement can be made. That's not because G.W. Bush was so great, and the attack in Benghazi wasn't successful because Obama sucks donkey dicks. I sat through through too many embassy security briefings back when I had "U.S. Army" written on my shirt to think that. A lot of dedicated intel & security people made that happen. A lot of them were not even Americans. Several of those non-Americans gave their lives protecting Americans. There was also a **** load of luck involved.
Again, this is all obfuscation anyway. The reason Benghazi is a story is not that an attack happened, or even that it was the first successful such attack in over decade. What makes it a story is:
- They were screaming for help and were denied any.
- And this is the really significant one, this **** was covered up because there was an election less than 2 months away, and crowing "I killed Bin Laden" rings hollow when Al Qaeda just greased the ambassador to the country you recently helped overthrow.
If you aren't pissed off about this, then you should ask yourself "am I putting my politics ahead of my country?".
To reiterate, the fact that a terrorists finally got through again isn't the issue; they eventually will score a success here and there. That means other terror attacks are not an apt comparison. This was a deliberate cover up, driven by political desire. If you want an apt comparison, think Watergate. Although, again,
0 Americans killed/injured there, so I'm not sure that is such a great comparison, either. I'm sure of this, however: somewhere, Jimmy Carter is laughing his ******* ass off.