02-23-2017, 06:50 PM
(02-23-2017, 06:14 PM)Dill Wrote: Two quick points, Mike:
1. There is no "either/or" requirement here. Attacks can be both planned and/or develop from protests.
2. I am one of those who still buy the "movie bit" since there is no evidence against it and all evidence is in favor of it, including the testimony of one of the attackers.
"What he did in the period just before the attack has remained unclear. But Mr. Abu Khattala told other Libyans in private conversations during the night of the attack that he was moved to attack the diplomatic mission to take revenge for an insult to Islam in an American-made online video," Times reporter David Kirkpatrick wrote in a story on Khattala on Tuesday. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/khattala-benghazi-video-new-york-times
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/benghazi/#/?chapt=0
3. A final point--whether the attack was planned or not or about the video is only an issue because far-right Republicans were trying to hype a "planned" attack as evidence that Obama's anti terror policy wasn't working, as if the "real" reason for the attack had to be covered--like anyone would care about this distinction except Anti-Obamists.
Why anyone would even go there after Bush sent 4,500 Americans to their deaths in trumped up war is astonishing--until one realizes that the job of the RW noise machine is to do just that---manufacture scandals and keep them running for years. When 7 congressional investigations turn up nothing, that is just more "proof" of how the Clintons get away with everything, get a "free pass" from the press, and are subject to a double standard.
OK I can't argue with someone who can't count.
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