The Benghazi Affair And The Nomination Of Chuck Hagel

By Catherine Haig – bonjublog.com

Senator McCain is stomping the Congress pavement over what he claims is a “massive cover up” of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.  This is a massive hunk of crap being spewed by the Senator who had everything to do non-commitment to helping out any of our foreign embassies when they literally asked for help prior to what happened on that day.  Perhaps we should look into the Senator’s former long term lodging when he was a Prisoner of War in Saigon where it is military gossip that in order to save his own skin, McCain threw his own soldiers under the bus to gain favor with the Viet Cong during the Viet Nam war.

Instead of blaming then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton for not paying attention to every piece of mail or wire that comes into the State Department during her tenure in that position; Congress and Senators like McCain should be asking themselves why they refused to give any of our foreign embassies or ambassador’s the time of day let alone military support or ammunition when asked.

Republican Senator’s like McCain are quick to blame Clinton and other Democrats especially President Obama for their shirking of duty when it came to protecting the Libyan embassy against what happened on that fateful day. However  it is not for the lack of trying that the White House had prompted the 112th Congress to act before the Benghazi strike on our Libyan Embassy that September day in 2012. These Republican Congress and House representative are shamelessly wagging fingers when it was THEM that held up any assistance to that region for months!

I particularly find this reactionary BS galling on the part of Senator McCain and to say that he is LYING is just the tip of the iceberg. As a writer and commentator on political events since 2009, I have been continually amazed at these insane accusations and ridiculous antics from the GOP that continues to escalate instead of dissipate especially in the 113th Congress where HOUSE members dominate Democrats.  Speaker of the House, John Boehner continues to amaze people around the country with his outright disgust at being in the same room with our elected official, twice nominated POTUS Barack H Obama. This slight has gone on for too long and is so racist I can barely contain myself when writing even in this forum.

The amount of disgusting outright insane accusations from the right winged conservative WHITE Enclave in America is nothing short of disgusting racism collected by the mass hysteria of small white men afraid they are losing their hold on what they claim is “their inalienable rights”. Having the right to own an assault weapon to go hunting deer is NOT an INALIENABLE RIGHT unless you are CIA and a hired gun and even then you have no right to own an assault weapon.  The 2nd Amendment “right to bear arms” did not go further than a pistol or rifle in it’s era but our founding fathers did not foresee that some gun nut or runner would be selling weapons of mass destruction to numb nuts who want to destroy the world for a crazy religion that no one respects.

Since the murders of 27 people; 20 of them children between the ages of 6 and 7 years in Newtown, CT; there have been a thousand murders by illegal guns and our congress is not taking the responsibly of maintaining and controlling the safeguards already in place with respect to gun control in America. We are out of control and when it came to assisting our own Ambassador and members of our military who guard him and the embassy in Benghazi; there were also no such controls in place. This is the fault of Congress who continued to “DO NOTHING’ even when asked by those embassies who feared an riot by local Arabs and especially when the WHITE HOUSE asked them to act; congress did nothing.

The time to do nothing is gone. Going forward we as a people in a country who is quickly loosing a battle we can afford to win must stand up and STOP BEING COMPLACENT. We have to remove the Republican TEA PARTY idiots in charge of the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES by any means necessary and I do mean this sincerely.  If that means getting rid of states in our “union” then so be it after all; when Obama was re elected those same states were threatening to leave anyway. Let’s make it easy for them to go since they are all Southern States perhaps we can decided to give all the south back to Mexico and draw the United States as a close above the MASON/DIXON LINE.

If you think I’m kidding; I’m not. I am for bleeding dry these Tea Party Not Sees once and for all and if that means cutting up the USA to do so – so be it. I’m sick of the non compromising GOP members who identify as Tea Party and how dare the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Boehner refuse to speak to the representative of the 99% – our own President Obama; an elected official.

Vice President Joe Biden said it best in his debate against Republican congressman PAUL RYAN; “if you have nothing to offer and you are here to obstruct progress YOU NEED TO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!” I paraphrase but I remember that he said that and he said that with a laugh on his lips and a twinkle in his eye because our VP might be a lot of things to a lot of folks but he is a true Irishman and stood up against MALARKY and BS in the face of Romney/Ryan blimp of a wave that lost them that election.

Our Congress must be held accountable for many problems that have resulted as a backlash to their ranks and not to the intended victims – the Democrats or Obama’s Administration.

Lastly, it was fine and dandy when Chuck Hagel was nominated for another position by a Republican President but when Obama did the same thing and crossed party lines there is an uproar ON THE PART OF REPUBLICANS?

PEOPLE – IF YOU BELIEVE NOTHING ELSE – BELIEVE ME WHEN I WRITE THIS – THERE IS NOTHING MORE FRIGHTENING THAN OLD WHITE MEN WITH A LITTLE BIT OF POWER WHO STAND IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY – WE MUST ENSURE THEY NOT SEE REIGN ENDS SOON.

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McCain claims ‘massive cover-up’ on Benghazi

By  | The Ticket – 1 hr 28 mins ago

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(NBC)

While discussing the contentious confirmation hearings for defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, things got a bit heated on Sunday’s “Meet The Press” when Sen. John McCain referred to the lack of information from the White House surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi as a “massive cover-up.”

“There are so many answers we don’t know,” McCain told host David Gregory. “We’ve had two movies about getting bin Laden and we don’t even know who the people were who were evacuated from the consulate the day after the [Benghazi] attack. So there are many, many questions. So we’ve had a massive cover-up on the part of the administration.”

Gregory then pressed McCain on what the Arizona senator meant by “a massive cover-up.”

“I’m asking you, do you care whether four Americans died?” McCain said. “And shouldn’t people be held accountable for the fact that four Americans died?”

“Well, what you said was the cover-up–a cover-up of what?” Gregory asked.

“Of the information concerning the deaths of four brave Americans,” McCain replied. “The information has not been forthcoming. You obviously believe that it has. I know that it hasn’t. And I’ll be glad to send you a list of the questions that have not been answered, including ‘What did the president do and who did he talk to the night of the attack on Benghazi?'”

McCain continued: “Why did the president for two weeks, for two weeks during the heat of the campaign continue to say he didn’t know whether it was a terrorist attack or not? Is it because it interfered with the line ‘Al Qaeda has [been] decimated’? And ‘everything’s fine in that in that part of the world’? Maybe. We don’t know. But we need the answers. Then we’ll reach conclusions. But we have not received the answers. And that’s a fact.”

Earlier, the former Republican presidential nominee said he expects Hagel to be confirmed as defense secretary even though he doesn’t plan to vote for him.

“I don’t believe he is qualified,” McCain said. “But I don’t believe that we should hold up his nomination any further.”

 

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