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The lying happened after the dying.

I think the underlying reason for the continued lying is that this is the logical endpoint of his policy towards the muslim world as set forth in his Cairo speech. Apologize. That's the policy. His embassy in Cairo did the same regarding the video. They preemptively apologized for freedom of expression. Obama went to the UN and actually said the future should't belong to people who insult islam. The future should belong to exactly the people who would insult idiotic sets of beliefs held true without evidence. In a world of WMD our future in fact depends on marginalizing those types of people, regardless of religion, but these days particularly islam should be singled out for abuse as it deserves such abuse.