2 US Embassies sacked. 1 ambassador killed, on 9-11
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Egypt & Libya , embassies stormed, overrun.
Meanwhile...
Obama ignores Israeli PM request to meet, says Letterman more important and appears on radio show with " the Pimp with a Limp.". Pimps are 'women friendly' , right?
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The idea that you can be in a country where most people hate you, but you'll be safe because you're in an 'Embassy' is ridiculous. It's magical thinking, as has been sadly demonstrated.
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Egypt & Libya , embassies stormed, overrun.
Meanwhile...
Obama ignores Israeli PM request to meet, says Letterman more important and appears on radio show with " the Pimp with a Limp.". Pimps are 'women friendly' , right?
Did he REALLY say that Letterman is more important?
Or is that just another one of your fact-free "claims" that you like to throw around like so much monkey shit?
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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More proof that religion is a pox on this world.
And Rappy really, really, reeeeeeaaaaaaly hates Obama. But we knew that.
Note to anyone - Please pity the poor, poor wittle Rappyboy. He's feeling put upon lately, what with all those facts disagreeing with what he believes.
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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Hooray for the Arab Spring: bringing freedom, democracy, and extremeism to a country not nearby, where they can then engage in behavior universally agreed to be uncivilized. Under international law, one does not attack the embassy or consulate of a foreign nation on your soil, ( Under international law, it's not even YOUR own soil anymore.) and it is part of the local government's responsibility to protect same. It's a major mark of international disrespect, and an act of war if anybody wants to pursue that line of argument.
Meanwhile, let's all us Americans organize protests outside Libyan and Egyptian embassies and consulates here in the USA , and see what happens. Watch whose cops and firemen turn out to protect the places.
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And as Romney attempted to use these attacks to gain political points, here's what Rappy had to say about his statements:
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No, that's not worth remembering , in the least. Because it's politicizing an attack on a free country, by Muslim extremists, and... innocent people lost their lives on this day.
I'd like to think some are better than to use a cheap, tacky ploy like this to mark the significance of this day.
Seems not.
Oh, wait - that's not what he said about this attack and the crass attempts to politicize it at all.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Note Romney's self-satisfied smirk as he uses attacks against the U.S. and the deaths of American diplomats to try to score a few political points.
And just yesterday, as these attacks were under way, Romney's foreign policy advisor Robert O'Brien referred to foreign policy experience as nothing more than a "shiny object" used to distract people from what's really important.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Even the GOP isn't getting behind Romney on this one.
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/gop_leaves_mitt_hanging/
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Don’t look to Republican leaders to defend Mitt Romney’s attack on President Obama over protests in the Middle East, even as the candidate repeated his attack this morning. At a hastily arranged press conference, Romney stood by the statement his campaign issued last night, which has come under criticism from liberal pundits and mainstream journalists alike. The generally agnostic political team at NBC news led by Chuck Todd called it “one of the most over-the-top and (it turns out) incorrect attacks of the general-election campaign.”
“I also believe the administration was wrong to put out a statement sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt, instead of condemning their actions,” Romney said this morning. “It’s never too early for the United States government to condemn attacks on Americans.” Actually, there is one time when it’s too early — when the attacks have not yet occurred. Romney today repeated three times that the embassy issued the statement “after their grounds had been breached,” but that’s simply not true. The statement came before protesters had breached the embassy walls, so there was no attack to be condemned. Even Erick Erickson acknowledged as much. As Marc Ambinder noted, the statement was an attempt by those trapped inside the embassy to save their own lives by calming the protests, a point apparently lost on Romney.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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More proof that religion is a pox on this world.
Not just " religion", but radical Islam.
How many Christians went out and killed anyone over Maplethorpe's " art work " ?
How many riots were sparked by the release of a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, The Last Temptation of Christ ?
Zero.
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And Rappy really, really, reeeeeeaaaaaaly hates Obama. But we knew that.
Because, to you , that's all it comes down to. No matter what this amateur does, how many times he jerks around our allies, you look past his incompetence, hell, even look past the fact that 2 US embassies were over run and Americans were killed, and you just write it all off to " hating Obama ", as if that's the ONLY thing that matters from all this.
Unfrakingbelievable.
And Mitt was right, 100%. Who the hell APOLOGIZES for something the US govt had no control over, and for which we ARE NOT SORRY for, in the least ?
The wording of the initial apology by the US govt is not only bizarre, it's down right sad and cowardly.
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"The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims... "
Doesn't matter if this came before, during or after the attack in Libya. It's still ridiculous, beyond reason, to apologize - PERIOD.
We SEE how well this punk ass statement worked, don't we ?
Libya, after we ( foolishly ) supplied them w/ the air power and support needed for them to even WIN their gorram war in the first place, THIS is how they repay our efforts ?
And oh yeah, how's that Arab Spring workin' out for us over in Egypt ?
This is '79, all over again. Hopefully, we can boot out 1 incompetent one termer just like we did then , too.
And Kwickie, I think that, once again, you're barking up the wrong tree.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer called a U.S. response to rioters storming the American embassy in Cairo “disgraceful,” saying that the rioters should “go to hell.”
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Originally posted by Storymark:
More proof that religion is a pox on this world.
Not just " religion", but radical Islam.
How many Christians went out and killed anyone over Maplethorpe's " art work " ?
How many riots were sparked by the release of a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, The Last Temptation of Christ ?
Zero.Quote:
And Rappy really, really, reeeeeeaaaaaaly hates Obama. But we knew that.
Because, to you , that's all it comes down to. No matter what this amateur does, how many times he jerks around our allies, you look past his incompetence, hell, even look past the fact that 2 US embassies were over run and Americans were killed, and you just write it all off to " hating Obama ", as if that's the ONLY thing that matters from all this.
Unfrakingbelievable.
And Mitt was right, 100%. Who the hell APOLOGIZES for something the US govt had no control over, and for which we ARE NOT SORRY for, in the least ?
The wording of the initial apology by the US govt is not only bizarre, it's down right sad and cowardly.Quote:
"The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims... "
Doesn't matter if this came before, during or after the attack in Libya. It's still ridiculous, beyond reason, to apologize - PERIOD.
We SEE how well this punk ass statement worked, don't we ?
Libya, after we ( foolishly ) supplied them w/ the air power and support needed for them to even WIN their gorram war in the first place, THIS is how they repay our efforts ?
And oh yeah, how's that Arab Spring workin' out for us over in Egypt ?
This is '79, all over again. Hopefully, we can boot out 1 incompetent one termer just like we did then , too.
And Kwickie, I think that, once again, you're barking up the wrong tree.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer called a U.S. response to rioters storming the American embassy in Cairo “disgraceful,” saying that the rioters should “go to hell.”
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
I love when you get off on these tirades and tangents, which are utterly ungrounded and unfounded. NOBODY "apologized" for the U.S. I literally have no idea where you even get this shit, other than pulling it straight out of your ass. It's no wonder you're so in love with your two messiahs Romney and Ryan.
Meanwhile, even American conservatives have nothing but disgust for Romney and his bunch. From Andrew Sullivan:
Unfit For Government
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The obvious responsible thing to do when American citizens and public officials are under physical threat abroad and when the details are unknown, and events spiraling, is to stay silent. If the event happens on the day of September 11 and you are a candidate for president and have observed a political truce, all the more reason to wait to allow the facts to emerge. After all, country before party, right? American lives are at stake, yes? An easy call, no?
But that's not what the Romney camp did. What they did was seize on a tweet issued by someone in the US Embassy before the attacks in order to indict the president for "sympathizing" with those who murdered a US ambassador after the attacks. Unfuckingbelievable. Here's the embassy statement from earlier in the day that set off the neocons:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fittNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME