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2012-09-17 Africa North

BREAKING: Video Purports To Show US Ambassador Dragged From Benghazi Consulate

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Posted by Besoeker 2012-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Arabs sure know how not to employ calm.

Posted by Cretinous Humongous 2012-09-17 03:36|| 2012-09-17 03:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The piece says the story is developing; however, recent history would indicate this is a mob in a frenzy with thoughts of Allen and murder on their minds. Fallujah bridge, Mogadishu (dragging and abusing the corpses of our guys), Lara Logan, our own troops caught in remote outpost attacks come to mind also. There's a pattern of violence, torture, and abuse of the alive as well as the dead by our enemy.

We have not really gone primitive on the jihadists and released our dogs of war. We do have that in us. Well, maybe the second battle of Fallujah did get serious--something like 50-60% of the buildings in Fallajuh were leveled often with terrorists in them. Probably should have leveled them all with carpet bombing first and then mopped up whatever was left over--if there was anything.

I'm listening to our idiot Ambassador Susan Rice who is pitching the administration line that it was the movie that caused the murder of Stevens. As long as we have idiots like this and the people who appointed her and a complicit press, we won't do anything until someone loses a city to the religion of death.

The Japanese took few prisoners--they viewed surrender as dishonor. They often beat to death or beheaded prisoners on death marches. Our Marines took the lesson seriously. They burned and blew them out of their caves and they took no prisoners.

We are still playing nice and make friends. Woe is the day for the islamists (or whatever the PC term of the day is) when we lose our patience and decide to do differently.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-09-17 08:40|| 2012-09-17 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Hilary said they were carrying him to the hospital.

Posted by Iblis 2012-09-17 09:28|| 2012-09-17 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Woe is the day... when we lose our patience

"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden

Posted by M. Murcek 2012-09-17 10:58|| 2012-09-17 10:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I wondered why they had cell phones in their hands when I saw the first two pictures. It seemed they were for pictures, not for calling for first aid.

Posted by Sgt.D.T. 2012-09-17 12:12|| 2012-09-17 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 "pitching the administration line that it was the movie that caused the murder of Stevens."

Something doesn't make sense here. Why the repeated and vehemant claims that this (and the other attacks) were spontaneous mob reactions to the movie when they OBVIOUSLY were not? I feel like there must be some underlying motive for the storytelling, that it cannot just be knee-jerk lying (well, I guess it could be but ...) - could there be some kind of diplo-BS going on in order to try to protect the less extreme (MB) elements from their even more wacko flanks?

Posted by Glenmore 2012-09-17 12:12|| 2012-09-17 12:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, Occam's Razor. I'd say kneejerk lying seems most likely.

Posted by M. Murcek 2012-09-17 12:29|| 2012-09-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#8 What is in the movie? A reporter asked that of the Lybian cut throats and they said they never saw the movie. Jihad means these people are to hate other people who are non muslim or muslim of a different stripe. To watch the Obama admin twist itself into all sorts of contortions for Mohammedans is a pitiful sight to behold.

Posted by Slomogum Juns3730 2012-09-17 13:25|| 2012-09-17 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 Sgt. D.T., I saw the phone in the guy's mouth and thought the same thing.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-09-17 13:32|| 2012-09-17 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Movie or not it is unAmerican to suppress free speech. This is not the America I knew when I was a kid and I can't stand it anymore. I'm so sick of hearing about this movie I could puke. The problem is we've been meddling in these countries for decades and before us it was the British and the French. It was all about oil, of course and they sure didn't mind taking our money. But now it's time we develop our own resources or else learn to do with less. Then we can get the hell out of all of the Arab countries and leave them to their own devices. If we don't have embassies in their countries we won't have any more scenes like this one in Benghazi. If they still wanna sell us their oil, fine. If they don't let them eat it. No more foreign aid. No more jizya. If they make trouble for us hit them back hard. If they make trouble for each other, let them. That should be fun to watch.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2012-09-17 13:44|| 2012-09-17 13:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Woe is the day for the ~~islamists~~ Leftists (or whatever the PC term of the day is) when we lose our patience and decide to do differently.

I'm just waiting for the day, especially for the Left.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2012-09-17 14:52|| 2012-09-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I watched most of the movie trailer. It's basically a live-action cartoon. And not even very insulting of Mohommed. He's portrayed as sort of cool and sexy, yet still buffoonish. Think Plan 9 crossed with a (modern, not-funny) SNL skit.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2012-09-17 16:53|| 2012-09-17 16:53|| Front Page Top

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