This is every bit as bad as that scene from Rambo II where John Rambo and the prisoner of war he rescued were waving the extraction chopper down and the higher ups told the pilot to leave them.
"the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
"the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."
Personally, I would wait until I hear a bit more about who is saying what. I think this is far too important of an issue to either be ignored or exploited for political gain. It may be purely coincidental, but all the initial links I saw were from Fox. If there turns out to be gross, criminal negligence at the highest levels, this will be a coup for Fox. If not, I think this will backfire as an attempt to blatantly politicize the tragedy right before the election.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
Personally, I would wait until I hear a bit more about who is saying what. I think this is far too important of an issue to either be ignored or exploited for political gain. It may be purely coincidental, but all the initial links I saw were from Fox. If there turns out to be gross, criminal negligence at the highest levels, this will be a coup for Fox. If not, I think this will backfire as an attempt to blatantly politicize the tragedy right before the election.
The statement came from the twitter account of Jake Tapper, an ABCNews white house correspondent.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
For the record, I do not trust our people in power as far as I can throw them (regardless of party). I've said here before that I wish people would, in judging the actions of their guys, pretend it was done by the other guys. I think we would have a populace that is much more consistent and critical.
That being said, if this is part of an elaborate plot at the highest levels of power (read above the President), you can expect this to get ugly. There will be some unfortunate "accidents" and possibly another "A" word which I will not type. I don't need that kind of heat...
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
"But when things are unfolding very, very quickly, it’s not always easy to know what is really going on on the ground. And to my mind, the really important questions here are about how information was collected. Did the various agencies really coordinate and share intelligence in the way that we had hoped, with the reforms that were made after 9/11?
So there’s a big picture to be examined here. But we don’t have all of the pieces, and I think it’s easy to try and jump to conclusions about what might have happened here. It’s probably better to let the relevant bodies do their work."
Condi's Reasoned Statement on Libya http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...=2k_LMTNLZXc#!
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