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[President Mohamed Magarief Libya] …said there were no protesters at the site before the attack, which he noted came in two assaults, first with rocket-propelled grenades on the consulate, then with mortars at a safe house.
…”It’s a pre-planned act of terrorism,” he said, adding that the anti-Islam film had “nothing to do with this attack.”
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said: “What happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, prompted by the video.”
[Obobo at UN:] “There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents. There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy. There is no slander that provides an excuse for people to burn a restaurant in Lebanon, or destroy a school in Tunis, or cause death and destruction in Pakistan.
Also Obobo:
Those in power have to resist the temptation to crack down on dissidents. In hard economic times, countries must be tempted — may be tempted to rally the people around perceived enemies at home and abroad, rather than focusing on the painstaking work of reform.
Moreover, there will always be those that reject human progress, dictators who cling to power, corrupt interests that depend on the status quo, and extremists who fan the flames of hate and division. From Northern Ireland to South Asia, from Africa to the Americas, from the Balkans to the Pacific Rim, we’ve witnesses convulsions that can accompany transitions to a new political order.
At time, the conflicts arise along the fault lines of race or tribe, and often they arise from the difficulties of reconciling tradition and faith with the diversity and interdependence of the modern world. In every country, there are those who find different religious beliefs threatening. In every culture, those who love freedom for themselves must ask themselves how much they’re willing to tolerate freedom for others.
To be fair, also Obobo at UN:
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I wonder what the General Assembly would have done if Obama gave them 24 hours to provide the murderers, or he’d turn their capitols to rubble?
I know what I’d have done and still be in the hospital with a head injury after falling from my chair.
Add this, you duplicitous, two-faced jackass:
There is no speech that justifies mindless appeasement of anti-American violence, declarations of war upon America, and a clear and present danger to the survival of our way of life or our republic as a protector of our natural/God-given rights as friggin’ free human beings. Not even a campaign speech.
“Those who love freedom for themselves must ask themselves how much they’re willing to tolerate freedom for others.”
In many cases the answer is “Very little. Of course! We’re right, so we should be free to be right. You’re wrong, so you should be blocked from being wrong.”
Thus those who support Sharia law think they should be both free to worship Allah while blocking the building of churches and sale of Bibles. We’ve seen it in the antecedents to our culture – ask Jews about their history of living in Christian nations for the last millenia. When the Pilgrims and Puritans came to America, ask what happened to Quakers and Catholics.
But we progressed past that. We have actual freedom. What we see elsewhere is not people seeking freedom. We see people seeking dominance. Dominance is not freedom, it’s just a set of restrictions you happen to agree with and conform to for your advantage and the disadvantage of others.
As President of our country and the Commander in Chief of our military I accept the fact that people are going to call me awful things and I will defend their right to. ???????
Reading that I got cold shivers down my spine!!! Just hearing him say he was the Commander in Chief— (OO)eeek I know it but to hear him say it—brrr
Even in my lifetime, I remember the campaign year before JFK was elected president. TV, magazines and newspapers had countless articles concerning the potential of electing a CATHOLIC! Youda thought it was Henry VIII time all the fuck over again!
Now? It is the risk of electing a MORMAN! Absent Harry “F”. Reid, there ain`t no more problem than there was with JFK being Catholic….
The only time religion has been critical? O-FuckingBOBO! Four years is more than plenty to measure the insanity of electing an Islamist; waaayyy more than plenty!! America ain`t Carthage so my wothless hunch is OBoBo, the RATz, the ProggieBots and the mfcsMedia (…along w their phony Polls…) are gonna find themselves —-walking in fucking salt up to their knobby knees…..
MALA FIDE!
Was this intended irony? Like… those who want to “freedom” to have Sharia for themselves being willing to tolerate others having freedom to not live under it?
This little discussion inspired the cat fight post, above.
Enjoy.
Our people escaped the first wave, to a place they thought was safe, and were then taken out by larger second wave who had intel on their new location.
And Obama apologizes???
And half this country is going to vote for the Marxist Muslim weenie of an unqualified President?
May God help the USA.
Gonorrhea! In Korea!