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This week, a House Select Committee will begin investigating the thoroughly investigated Benghazi pseudo-scandal. It's sure to be a mountain of political theater, a source of aggravation for liberals, and a pain-in-the-butt for administration officials who are asked to testify or produce documents.

And it's probably good for America.

The Benghazi inquiry is, fundamentally, a throwback to a younger more innocent times in high-stakes congressional conflict when a House Republican majority impeached a president over a small potatoes sex scandal. It was a farce and a distraction, but ultimately nothing about it derailed the basic functioning of the American government or imperiled the welfare of the American people.

By contrast, the Obama-era GOP has generally manifested a much greater degree of seriousness. Rather than harass the White House with nonsense inquiries, they've repeatedly focused on questions of substance — frequently by demanding large public policy concessions as the price to be paid to avoid creating a situation of mass financial chaos by refusing to raise the statutory debt ceiling.

There was something a little silly about those hostage crises, but they were fundamentally serious matters — primarily in the sense that they had serious negative consequences for the world.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Revisionist history.

Clinton was not impeached over a sex scandal.

Benghazi is anything BUT a pseudo scandal.

The media are lying.

Period.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's only complicated because those who f'd up are trying to cover their collective asses.

In truth, it's very simple.

The admin was totally incompetent , people died, they lied about the YT video to give themselves coner, the msm ( mostly ) willingly played along, because they wanted to keep Barry & Michelle in the WH , and they didn't want a mark on Hillary's SecState record.

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Originally posted by kpo:
An interesting argument...

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This week, a House Select Committee will begin investigating the thoroughly investigated Benghazi pseudo-scandal. It's sure to be a mountain of political theater, a source of aggravation for liberals, and a pain-in-the-butt for administration officials who are asked to testify or produce documents.

And it's probably good for America.

The Benghazi inquiry is, fundamentally, a throwback to a younger more innocent times in high-stakes congressional conflict when a House Republican majority impeached a president over a small potatoes sex scandal. It was a farce and a distraction, but ultimately nothing about it derailed the basic functioning of the American government or imperiled the welfare of the American people.

By contrast, the Obama-era GOP has generally manifested a much greater degree of seriousness. Rather than harass the White House with nonsense inquiries, they've repeatedly focused on questions of substance — frequently by demanding large public policy concessions as the price to be paid to avoid creating a situation of mass financial chaos by refusing to raise the statutory debt ceiling.

There was something a little silly about those hostage crises, but they were fundamentally serious matters — primarily in the sense that they had serious negative consequences for the world.

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More:

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5732278/benghazimania-is-good-for-america

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Originally posted by WHOZIT:

Don't worry libos, Barry won't be impeached...and we all know why. He could shoot Biden in the head during the state of the union address and blame it on allergies.

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It's only complicated because those who f'd up are trying to cover their collective asses.

In truth, it's very simple.

The admin was totally incompetent , people died, they lied about the YT video to give themselves coner, the msm ( mostly ) willingly played along, because they wanted to keep Barry & Michelle in the WH , and they didn't want a mark on Hillary's SecState record.

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Each new administration puts in place a new Secretary of State.

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It only made Bill Clinton more popular. The country voted for him to be President

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
The late Amb Stevens asked for more security , from the Sec State.

Hillary denied his request.

She's to blame for that, and a lot more.

And we still don't know why he was even there , in Libya, when all our allies had left the country for the 9/11 anniversary.

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
SO, JSF, is it Hillary's fault, or Obama's? That will at least tell us which one you hate the most.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Sorry, the facts dictate

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Sorry, the facts dictate

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You're not sorry, and facts don't dictate anything, you illiterate dumass.

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The figurative use of dictate, which means to prescribe, indicates the cause-to-effect relationship of that which causes is dictating the following, the effect, and not that the effect dictates or prescribes the cause. The outcome is not the prescription for the action, but the action is the prescription for the outcome, or the causative action is what dictates the resulting outcome.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It wasn't about a video.

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It never was. Colour me NOT shocked.
The Iraq War was never about 9-11 or WMD. OOOoooo!
Is there a pattern here?
Not for partisan pricks, clearly.

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Benghazi always was about 'a video' according to this administration.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Officially?

It wasn't about a video.


http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/court-documents-of
fer-insight-in-to-benghazi-attack/1071/




( shocking, ain't it ?? )

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Originally posted by kpo:

None of this delves deep into his motivations for committing the attack.

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Benghazi always was about 'a video' according to this administration.

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Yes, it was, according to the guy they caught. I'm sorry that yet another fake scandal failed you.

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None of this delves deep into his motivations for committing the attack.

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Over a dozen years of fighting Islamic jihadists and this fool wants to "delve deep" into their "motivations"!

Try ...

They hate us because we're non-Muslim infidels.
They hate us because we have freedom.
They hate our western culture.
They want to kill or convert all of us.

But somehow you missed all it.

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Auraptor makes the point that the absence of a mention of the video in these court documents proves that it wasn't a factor. But the trial is not to determine what motivated the man, it's to determine whether he committed the crime. The only person who knows his motivations is the man himself. Maybe, if he pleads guilty, he'll state why he and his followers did it.

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None of this delves deep into his motivations for committing the attack.

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Over a dozen years of fighting Islamic jihadists and this fool wants to "delve deep" into their "motivations"!

Try ...

They hate us because we're non-Muslim infidels.
They hate us because we have freedom.
They hate our western culture.
They want to kill or convert all of us.

But somehow you missed all it.

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Your list is not very good, but also, you miss the point.

Auraptor makes the point that the absence of a mention of the video in these court documents proves that it wasn't a factor. But the trial is not to determine what motivated the man, it's to determine whether he committed the crime. The only person who knows his motivations is the man himself. Maybe, if he pleads guilty, he'll state why he and his followers did it.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
SO, JSF, is it Hillary's fault, or Obama's? That will at least tell us which one ....

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