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News/Politics 10-2-12

What’s news today?

This certainly is. This is a shame. These folks did their duty, and govt stupidity prevents them from getting the care they’ve earned. It adds further insult to families who were already struggling financially and emotionally due to long separations. Now some are returning as shells of what they were, and we’re further stressing them and their families with nonsense like this.

And it’s also an example of govt controlled healthcare, and a preview of what’s to come for everyone.

From CNN

“This is Rioux’s life after Afghanistan, where firefights and a roadside bomb blast left him with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

His ears still ring from the explosions. He suffers from vertigo, headaches, insomnia and nightmares. He has terrible anxiety, evident in an interview with CNN — Rioux could hardly sit still, and his memory loss and inability to concentrate meant questions had to be repeated at times.”

“With the war in Iraq over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the VA is sorting through a backlog of more than 860,000 disability claims from American veterans. More than a quarter of those vets — 228,000 — have been waiting for a year or more.

Rioux has been trying to get his disability claim fully processed since January 2011, shortly after he returned from Afghanistan.”

Read more here

That’s nearly 2 years folks. That’s entirely too long. They deserve better. They’ve earned it.

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UPDATE

It. Just. Gets. Worse.

The more we know, the more incompetent the Obama administration looks. We already know they lied repeatedly, now we’re getting answers as to why they lied.

Via The Daily Beast

“Jihadists twice set off explosives at the consulate prior to the incident that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and announced threats on Facebook about escalating attacks on Western targets in the run-up to the 9/11 anniversary, according to whistleblowers reaching out to House Republicans.”

“In the five months leading up to this year’s 9/11 anniversary, there were two bombings on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and increasing threats to and attacks on the Libyan nationals hired to provide security at the U.S. missions in Tripoli and Benghazi.”

“The letter also discloses for the first time a bombing at the U.S. consulate that occurred on April 6, 2012. It says that on that day, two former security guards for the consulate in Benghazi threw homemade improvised explosives over the consulate fence. That incident resulted in no casualties. The Wall Street Journal first reported last month that on June 6 militants detonated an explosive at the perimeter gate of the consulate, blowing a hole through the barrier. The letter to Clinton quotes one source who described the crater as “big enough for forty men to go through.””

Read more here

So it wasn’t the first attack. And this info was kept secret.

Can you say coverup? I knew you could.

Also, the WSJ is reporting that the militants responsible were released from prison during the bombings we orchestrated to overthrow the govt. Nice job there Barry, but you picked the wrong horse.

Sorry, no link, I’m not a subscriber.

9 thoughts on “News/Politics 10-2-12”

  1. They had much more than this in WW II, and they seemed to handle it efficiently. But all of America was at war then. As someone said, America is not at war, the military is.
    America hasn’t been at war since 1945. The 9/11 attack was worse than Pearl Harbor. But I knew that it was different when someone asked, “What can we do?” the answer was, “Go buy something.”

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  2. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece is rather scathing this morning:

    Here’s the summary:

    “The U.S. ignores warnings of a parlous security situation in Benghazi. Nothing happens because nobody is really paying attention, especially in an election year, and because Libya is supposed to be a foreign-policy success. When something does happen, the administration’s concerns for the safety of Americans are subordinated to considerations of Libyan “sovereignty” and the need for “permission.” After the attack the administration blames a video, perhaps because it would be politically inconvenient to note that al Qaeda is far from defeated, and that we are no more popular under Mr. Obama than we were under George W. Bush. Denouncing the video also appeals to the administration’s reflexive habits of blaming America first. Once that story falls apart, it’s time to blame the intel munchkins and move on.

    It was five in the afternoon when Mr. Obama took his 3 a.m. call. He still flubbed it”

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  4. MiM,

    It just gets worse. Here’s more. They’ve pretty much lied about everything from the start.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/barack_obamas_terrorist_attack_cover-up.html

    “It is astounding that what really happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 has been so thoroughly buried by the mainstream media.”

    “Now, I’m confused. Helicopters? Apparently, as the consulate came under attack, the occupants contacted someone (it isn’t specified who), and the Marines were dispatched. The Marines then ran into an ambush when they tried to helicopter to the consulate location from “across the Libyan desert.” Meanwhile, Capt. al-Obeidi said that “it began to rain down on us,” just as his security force was heading out to evacuate the 37 Americans in the ten pickup trucks and sedans they had brought to take the Americans to the airport. Capt. al-Obeidi said that he was “being bombarded by calls from all over the country by Libyan government officials who wanted me to hurry and get them out.””

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  5. Makeitman, thanks for that WSJ link to the Stephens article.

    Obama had time for an American military operation, though, fearing the displeasure of Libyan authorities, he ask Libya to handle the security; the result being the murder of our ambassador and two former Navy Seals.

    Can you imagine how the liberal media would have played such a foreign policy disaster during the Bush administration?

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  7. When several countries that were heretofore stable, and that, if not allies, were at least in dialogue and co-operation with the US, become unstable, and not only uncooperative, but openly and blatantly hostile, or taken over by hostile forces, then it’s time to call a spade a spade.

    It’s called foreign policy failure.

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  8. Failure seems like to weak a term for this incompetence.

    Remember folks, the Obama admin insists they had no prior knowledge of any security concerns or threats. I guess they don’t read Facebook. Or, they’re liars. Liars seems more believable.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-u.s.-embassy-in-libya-asked-for-extra-security-request-denied/article/2509580#.UGsID65TzNW

    ““Based on information provided to the Committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador’s life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and subcommittee chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, wrote Clinton today. They dismissed out-of-hand the suggestion that the attack ever could have been regarded as a spontaneous protest gone awry.

    “In addition, multiple U.S. federal government officials have confirmed to the Committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the U.S. mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi,” Issa and Chaffetz added (my emphasis). “The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in Washington.””

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