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Old 05-16-17, 07:21 PM   #2823
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Originally Posted by GT182 View Post
Here's one thing to ponder. And I'm not naming names. I know you can figure that out.

How could you vote for and elect someone that would not and did not protect one of our Ambassadors in a foreign nation and the US personnel that were there to protect him and his staff, when US troops were able told to stand down? And then said person denies responsibility and the POTUS stands behind said person.

If you agree with , and vote for that said person then you are a bigger fool than that said person is.
Here's another thing to ponder.

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With the sounds of gunfire in the distance and occasional tracer bullets flying overhead, the security team was eager to get going. Yet the officer in charge — the chief of base — was telling them to wait because the calls to the militias were not being answered. He and his deputy, who are unnamed, said they didn't want the team mistakenly getting into a firefight with friendly militia forces. Although sending the security squad and all the heavy weaponry from the annex to the mission would leave the annex defenseless, according to the report, the top officials at the annex gave them the green light, according to the testimony.
At 10:05 p.m., 23 minutes after the frantic call from the mission, the annex team was rolling.
Kris Paronto, a former Army ranger, is one of the men who rushed to the compound from the CIA annex to help bring people back. "Thirty minutes we were told to wait," he told Hannity June 28. "Twice the word 'wait' was used. Once the words 'stand down' was used. But to me that's semantics."
Not exactly. The dictionary definition of a stand-down order means your force is no longer on alert or operational. The chief of the annex was adamant that he never told the security team to actually stand down — only to wait. While members of the security team reported hearing the phrase "stand down," the narrative in the GOP report offers no evidence that, contrary to Hannity's claim, the team was told it wasn't going to be sent to help.
More here: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...-stand-down-o/