Benghazi:
I just emailed my roommate at USAFA, a career (now retired) F15 fighter pilot, a USAFA grad and retired Colonel, USAF, who has operated in the region. Here’s his report:
“The last step in a close-in PGM drop/release is for someone on the ground to laser the target. That was done. Then — no drop. Someone said ‘No’ at the last second.”
WHO SAID “NO”???
(PGMs are smart bombs – Precision Guided Munitions.)
Re-read that: “…the LAST STEP.”
General Ham (AFRICOM) owned ALL AC130 and armed drones in-theater. Ham was relieved that night – by some reports, within 30 sec of his talking with Obama. Admiral Gaouette owned all FA18 in the Med – he was relieved the next day. (And contemporaneous news reports were that the 6th Fleet was offshore Libya at the time – within minutes of flight time to Benghazi.)
WHY were they relieved? WERE attack assets overhead and – LITERALLY AT THE LAST SECOND – were those attack assets denied engagement by whoever replaced an instantly-relieved General Ham?
If those attack assets were not overhead, HOW can the lasing of the target be explained? One of the SEALs, alone, under attack and outgunned, left his machinegun to lase a target under an empty sky?
NO ONE in the entire military would believe that.
If attack assets were not overhead, HOW can the sacking of two flag officers be explained?
I have NEVER been as embarrassed by our entire government as I am today. They are spending ALL DAY on side issues that all can devolve - and have devolved – into he-said-he-said. WHERE ARE ADMIRAL GAOUETTE AND GENERAL HAM?
We WILL NOT KNOW what happened without their testimony.
Does ISSA not get this? How can he not? What is he hiding and why?
But – Ham and Gaouette are CITIZEN SOLDIERS. Their FIRST DUTY is as AMERICAN CITIZENS.
WHERE ARE THEY? WHY have they not spoken-up? WHY has Issa not put them on the stand?
ANYONE relying on a currently-serving general officer or SecDef – BOTH of whom ARE POLITICAL APPOINTEES, or even a recently-retired C-JCS – the MOST POLITICAL OFFICER IN THE ENTIRE COMMAND STRUCTURE – is either abysmally ignorant of the military, does NOT want to know the truth, or is hiding something.
I understand that these two retired officers speaking up could cost them all retirement benefits (though Congress can override that) and that their peer-group as retirees is fellow flag officers, from whom they may ostracize themselves. BUT THEY HAVE A DUTY TO AMERICA that OVERRIDES THEIR PERSONAL COMFORT.
Hell – they USED to be fighting men.
Not to put too fine a point on it: Congress is failing in their oversight role. General Ham and Admiral Gaouette have epically failed in their responsibility to Americans as CITIZEN soldiers.
And of course the Obama administration has been lying about Benghazi since it occurred. But, frankly, most Americans already understand that Obama lies whenever and about whatever he wants, even when it’s not necessary. And Hillary has been called a liar for years – even by Barbara Walters in her 1996 interview, and by CBS News over the ‘we-landed-under-sniper-fire’ fiasco. So no one really expected honesty from the Administration.
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Is this article implying that there were more people on the ground in Benghazi than we have been told? Who marked the target with the laser if it wasn't one of the SEALS?
ReplyDeleteWho marked the target with the laser if it wasn't one of the SEALS?
DeleteThe way I read it is that the SEAL marked it, but he would not have done so considering his predicament, if assets weren't overhead ready to fire.
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HOW can the lasing of the target be explained? One of the SEALs, alone, under attack and outgunned, left his machinegun to lase a target under an empty sky?
NO ONE in the entire military would believe that.
Oh, OK.
DeleteI think they think the American people are so apathetic that if they did stick their necks out that nobody would care and their deaths literally would be for nothing...Look until the gdp wake up it's kind of pointless...I'm fed up too but you and me wouldn't be enough to march on Washington and hang all traitors..I know we are to poor to buy all we would need and to weak to carry it all...
ReplyDeleteIf I chose to lay down my life, it would only be in my belief that I would accomplish something by it, whether a dead tyrant or something that would spurn others on and I'm afraid the latter would not accomplish one iota with the brain-set of the average American today.
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