All the Big GOPers do it. They squeal and cry. They feign weak knees. If it's Boehner, there's tears. All over four dead Americans in Libya. They sell the image of helpless Americans, killed by towel-head freaks at the End of the World.
"Benghazi!, Benghazi!!, Benghazi!........." Give 'em the lie that it's terrorism. It's bull but give it to them.
Oh... my God.... And then there's what's real for 1981-2014:
-- Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 - 675 deaths
-- George HW Bush 1989-1993 - 0 deaths (not war zone)
-- Bill Clinton 1993-2001 - 444 deaths
-- George W. Bush 2001-2009 - 3,206 deaths (not war zone)
-- Barack Obama 2009-2014 - 7 deaths
Black Guy's responsible for
0.002% of terrorism losses over the last 24 years.
The Big GOPers' sales pitch aims to a Single Moment conversion. They want Come-To-Jesus where voters believe that Black Guy is weak against terrorism, ineffectual, a loser, and "diminished."
The Benghazi! hoax is their #2 priority, going for national media.
Note that George HW Bush is pegged for zero terrorist attacks during his term in office, 1989-1993. Possibly that says something for promoting a head of the CIA to the presidency. Killings in Egypt and India are not counted for whatever reason.
But Bush43 also removed pressure from organizations such as Hizb Allah and Hamas as he focused on wrecking Saddam Hussein. Saddam had established himself among Sunnis as a secular rival to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and their Salafi co-religionists. People such as Usama bin Laden and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman used that respite to recruit hundreds of new followers.
Black Guy ??? Uh, yeah. He is so daxmned "weak, ineffectual, diminished" that he has lost 7 to terrorism. You can see that sliver if you look close. That's the itty-bitty yellow thing. It counts Boston and Libya.
So please: compare/contrast with the losses for Reagan, Clinton, and Bush43.
Question is, why do the Big Republicans believe that their fictional "Benghazi!' hoax can survive ??? What they are doing is no different from the Birther hoax.
What happened in Libya in 2012 is business as usual. On a smaller scale than most.
Reagan got two U.S. embassies bombed in the same city: Beirut, Lebanon in 1983 and in 1984. 63 dead, then 22. His people were just plain lazy, obsessed with their own careers, reflecting The Gipper's "hands off" approach to management.
Black Guy gets blame for 0.002% of terrorism deaths. Yet the Big GOPers keep on talking about terrorism. That's got to be nuts. Please spread the pie chart around where it'll do the most good.
Details for who/what/where of 1981-2014 terrorism below the orange muffin:
Black Guy came in to office in January, 2009. Immediately he put top priority for counterterrorism to going back to traditional investigation methods.
That means doing lots of dog work: going out and interviewing people, reviewing documents and putting them into computer systems, building walls of face-name-contact information. Black guy ended what had been a dysfunctional minimal-results commitment to torture. Torture did not work. Torture failed. It never worked, except for entertaining psychopaths.
Obama's second priority was getting bin Laden. And when it came down to the assassination attack in Pakistan, Obama chose the riskiest plan on the table. That plan gave Seal Team 6 the chance to seize papers, computers and the like. That choice has paid off big time, one helluva pay-off for the risk which was nothing short of getting into a shooting war on the ground next door to Pakistan's military academy.
Let's see what a disgusting, failed, diminished, disaster Obama has been suppressing terrorism.
-- Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 - Total deaths = 675; per month = 7.4
-- George HW Bush 1989-1993 - Total death = 0
-- Bill Clinton 1993-2001 - Total deaths = 444; per month = 4.6
-- George W. Bush 2001-2009 - Total deaths = 3,075 plus the terror attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq. Count civilian deaths and Bush43's numbers get to more than 100 a month.
-- Barack Obama 2009-2014 - Total deaths = 7; per month = 0.1
Obama is doing much, much better than Reagan or Bush43 or Clinton.
Our security people have gotten better at overseas protection work, somewhat slowly. Together with crippling Al Qaeda, these efforts have reduced casualties at risky locations. In-country hits have also diminished substantially -- the one hit came at Boston.
Anybody up for a summary? Can you take the truth ??? Terrorist Deaths Per Month -- how's that for a statistic?
Consider the presidential performance history from 1981 to 2014:
-- Reagan 1981-1988
1983 - Bombing at United States Embassy in Beirut, April 18, 1983. 63 people killed.
1983 - Beirut barracks bombing, October 23, 1983. 305 people, including 241 US servicemen, are killed by a large truck bomb.
1984 - Twenty-two people were killed and seventy were wounded when another truck bomb exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy annex in Awkar, Lebanon.
1985 - TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver is killed by Hezbollah.
1985 - Achille Lauro hijacking, wheel-chair bound American killed by Palestinian militants.
1985 - US Army Specialist Edward Pimental was murdered by members of the Red Army Faction.
1985 - A car bomb exploded at Rhein-Main Air Base, killing two and wounding eleven.
1986 - Four Americans were killed and five Americans were injured when a bomb exploded aboard TWA Flight 840 as it traveled from Rome to Athens.
1986 - On April 6, a Berlin discotheque bombing killed a Turkish woman and 2 US servicemen and injured 230 people.
1988 - On April 14 at 8 p.m., a car bomb exploded in front of the USO Club in Naples, Italy. Five people died and fifteen were injured.
1988 - Pan Am Flight 103, outbound from London for New York with 259 people aboard, was destroyed by a bomb on December 21, 1988 while over Lockerbie, Scotland. Plus eleven persons on the ground.
1988 - 1990 - Marine Col. Rich Higgins kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Hezbollah
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-- GHW Bush 1989-1992
Presents an argument for promoting CIA Director to President. Nothing big and bad happened during his administration.
Gulf War 1990-1991 had 458 coalition troops killed. 190 from enemy action. Nobody knows how many Iraqis were killed.
Terrorist actions occurred in Egypt and Africa. These are difficult to separate from political actions and are excluded.
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-- Clinton 1993-2000
1993 - World Trade Center bombing, February 26: 6 killed, 1,042 injured.
1995 - Two US diplomats killed in Pakistan, March 8.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing, 168 killed, over 800 injured. April 19.
1996 - Khobar Towers bombed: 19 American servicemen killed.
1998 - US embassies bombed: U.S. Kenya Embassy, 214 killed; U.S. Tanzania Embassy, 11 killed. (Other sources cite 232 dead.)
2000 - USS Cole attacked, 17 U.S. Navy sailors killed, 39 injured.
Rwanda Genocide is excluded. Arguably that was a war. Wars are excluded from this list.
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-- George W. Bush 2001-2008
2001 - September 11, 2001 attacks, 2,997 killed;
2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi.
2002 - Nine people killed by bomb blast near US embassy in Lima - seen as attempt to disrupt forthcoming visit by President George W. Bush.
2002-2006 - Karachi consulate attacks: three separate attacks killed 18 people and injured 87.
2002 - Two Marines shot, one killed in Kuwait.
2003 - Riyadh Compound Bombed, killing 9 Americans, among 35 others.
2003 - Three American diplomats are killed by a roadside bomb targeting their convoy in Gaza.
2004 - Civilians Nick Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq.
2004 - Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr, civilian working in Saudi Arabia, kidnapped and beheaded; five other Americans die in attacks in Saudi Arabia in 2004.
2007 - American embassy attacked in Athens, Greece.
2008 - John Granville, US diplomat, assassinated in Khartoum, Sudan
Other terrorist killing occurred in Africa, India, Indonesia. Without the 9/11 attacks Bush43 has a minimum total of 209 deaths. And that leaves out war, Bush's War in Iraq that killed well over 4,000 during his presidency. This list leaves out wars.
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-- Barack Obama 2009-2014
2012 - US diplomatic facilities at Benghazi, Libya attacked. The ambassador and three other Americans killed.
2013 - Boston Marathon bombed, 3 killed, 183 injured.
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Bush41 had been director of the CIA. He put overseas operations on a war footing early on, responding to Hezbollah threats. His actions were not continued by Clinton or by Bush43.
Reagan had a death total at 7 a month for his average month. Clinton got a 4.4 average month.
Obama is losing what?... 0.1 persons a month from terrorism.
Who is the champion Protector of the Realm ???
Gee, a statistical tie between Bush41 and the Black guy.
See why the one minor event, the outlier is given #2 propaganda rank by the Big GOPers ??? They have to distract the public from the central truth that Obama's management of the White House has kept Americans and all the other people around the world much safer from terrorism.
Sure thing, we can argue about methods. Nobody likes drone strikes. Nobody likes the NSA overreach. But overall, what Obama does works.
That pie chart's not lying.
The one exception is Iraq. We have next to no influence over what is happening there. And we are not sending in another United States occupation force to change that. We have a few nuts, here, sure thing, but certainly not Obama.
The GOP ????? They went over the edge years ago. Fact is, if you're a history buff, Obama is running the country pretty much like Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961. No drama, no tolerance for corruption, no lies. The Big GOPers are so head-screwed that they don't understand that simple fact -- they've got themselves to the point where all they've got is hoaxes.
Like pie? Spread that pie chart around. It's worth more than any thousand words of GOPer bxllshxt. It makes them look silly.