TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The testimony you didn't hear

BY Dave Ross  on January 24, 2013 @ 6:14 am (Updated: 6:37 am - 1/24/13 )

Yesterday Secretary of State Clinton testified about her response, some members of Congress would say her insufficient response, to the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that left ambassador Chris Stevens and three others dead.

When one senator demanded yet again to know why she didn't immediately identify it as a terrorist attack she demonstrated that she had fully recovered from her concussion.

"The fact is, we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or was it because guys out for a walk one night decided that they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?"

That got punditocracy speculating that her retirement might include some leisure time in Iowa and New Hampshire.

But what most of the coverage ignored was her warning that the chaos in Libya had consequences beyond the attack on the consulate. It also unlocked Muammar Gaddafi's immense arsenal of weapons - weapons that are now flowing throughout the middle east and into areas of North Africa that look a little too much like Afghanistan.

"Because if you look at the size of northern Mali, if you look at the topography it's not only desert it's caves," said Clinton.

Caves in the desert. A tribal culture which hasn't changed much in 2000 years. So while some senators obsess over what happened in Benghazi last September, an identified terrorist group, Al Qaeda in Northern Mali, is busy establishing a new safe haven.

Said, Clinton, "People say to me all the time, 'AQIM hasn't attacked the United States.' Well, before 9/11, 2001 ..."

Say no more.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dave Ross is co-host of The Ross & Burbank Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays 9-Noon) and never too far from the spotlight.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    What difference at this point does it make?"
    January 24, 2013 5:50 am
    A huge one. Your boss lied. Your bosses underlings lied. All of them. But then you are used to lying men, aren't you Rodham, and it's all fine and dandy....as long as they have a "D" after their name. Once again, the hypocrisy of the left is amazing.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    The crazy thing is there was no REASON to lie.
    January 24, 2013 6:35 am
    But, out of some gut instinct, the Wizard of Oz spun a tale that matched his previous talking points.

    The difference, in all deference to Ms. Clinton, is that the official spin trivialized the deaths of Chris Stevens and others. ... And, BTW, provided a bogus 'cover' as to why there was inadequate response to the attack AND why such an attack was not expected on a 9/11 date.

    It ALSO matters that well after Ms. Clinton (and one would presume the president) knew this was a terrorist attack, Ms. Rice was left to repeat again and again the fiction of a riot following an insulting movie clip. .... And the American people expected to believe that, as if we are all children who can't handle the truth.

    .

    Perhaps, Hillary, in your mind it no longer matters WHY those four died. After all, in the great scheme of things we will all be dead in 100 years, so nothing matters in the long run. ... But is DOES MATTER what be the Obama response to any inevitable future terrorist attacks. ... Will we get the truth - or just another spin to fit the narrative???????

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Oh, and BTW
    January 24, 2013 7:08 am
    General Lee could well have said 4 months after Gettysburg of General Picket's charge "what does it matter at this point?".
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    A Clinton lying under oath?
    January 24, 2013 5:53 am
    You can always tell when they point the finger, clench their fists and raise their voices with righteous indignation that the lie detector needles would be bouncing off the chart.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    This is all the Republitards have left
    January 24, 2013 6:15 am
    The Republitards are trying to get the most political gain out of these four deaths that they can.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    And while the Republitards exploit the deaths of these 4 Americans
    January 24, 2013 6:20 am
    they are busy gutting the funding used to protect our embassies overseas. This is why Obama's focus these next 4 years needs to be to annihilate the Republicon party.
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  • NWGUY wrote...
    don't you just love the peaceful terms they use
    January 24, 2013 7:38 am
    annihilate the republicans, gee, who needs meds? I guess if you're a leftist, it's ok to talk about mass murder.
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    And its not even SeattleD's own thought
    January 24, 2013 9:05 am
    he is regurgitating the CBS News Political Director's statement. The one Obama is now trying to distance himself from.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    Gee
    January 24, 2013 6:01 pm
    I thought it was just Boner's word.
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    You really want a 1 Party Government
    January 24, 2013 7:54 am
    Really.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    SeattleD.......
    January 24, 2013 7:58 am
    I struggle to see any effective difference between you posting things like "annihilate the Republicon party" and some of our right wing friends calling other people "libtards", etc.

    Blind partisan extremism is not the hallmark of intelligence or independent thinking. Despising everything red is as nonsensical as despising everything blue.

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  • SeattleD wrote...
    Chuck
    January 24, 2013 6:04 pm
    I don't come here to be sensical, I come here for amusement.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    Al Qaeda has been defeated....they just haven't got the memo yet
    January 24, 2013 6:24 am
    All future attacks will be the result of angry mobs reacting to offensive videos made by intolerant Americans (code for Republicans).

    What difference does it make? Now on to the real enemy...those bitter Americans who continue to cling to their guns and religion.

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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Al Qaida will, tragically, never be defeated.
    January 24, 2013 7:29 am
    Not by the election of a Republican president. Not even by the election of a Republican president, and Republican control of both houses in congress. Definitely not by prioritizing military spending and dispatching armies to every crap hole on the planet. Nor, would the Democrats do any better...(it's just that the Democrats aren't implying that the only reason Al Qaida isn't defeated is that the majority of Americans have recently voted Democrat).

    Al Qaida feeds and flourishes on fear, hatred, desperation, poverty, and perversion of faith. Hatred is alive and well in some of the most affluent countries of the world, let alone the most economically distressed where groups like Al Qaida form, (and reform once thought dispersed). The imbalance between population and natural resources in the middle east ensures continued desperation and poverty, especially when the resources are 49% owned by foreign corporations and 51% owned by royal families. Throughout history, much evil is done by perversion of faith. Doesn't matter whether that perversion results in Aryan death camp workers wearing "God is With Us" on their uniforms, or some impressionable teenage Muslim convinced to become a suicide bomber for the glory of Allah.

    As long as there are fear, hatred, poverty, desperation, and a group of folks willing to capitalize on those forces through the perversion of faith, Al Qaida, (or the same group under another name), will always be with us.

    Sort of related to gun control in the US. The nut jobs just become more dangerous when given more powerful weapons. They are now dangerous enough to threaten, and attack, the US and our interests.

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  • mnpat wrote...
    "Sort of related to gun control in the US.".......
    January 24, 2013 7:53 am
    It could also be said Chuck that our political system has resorted to..."feeds and flourishes on fear, hatred, desperation, poverty, and perversion of faith. "
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  • Shplunker wrote...
    chuck
    January 24, 2013 8:21 am
    "...... feeds and flourishes on fear, hatred, desperation, poverty, and perversion of faith."... sounds like the Liberal Obama voting block to me.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Political Posturing
    January 24, 2013 7:01 am

    What Congress needs to be concentrating on is a BUDGET, cutting spending and bringing down the debt. Todays republicans are like old, broke down toothless dogs, they think that they are barking but really they are squealing and coughing.

    They think they are biting, but really they are gumming you and making you laugh,lol, this do nothing congress is the worst in the history of the U.S., they concentrate on any and everything other than what the American public indicates what is important to them.

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  • maplefish wrote...
    Guru
    January 24, 2013 9:05 am
    How bout the SENATE passing a budget? It's only been 4 YEARS
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    ChiComms take on Tiananmen Square massacre...."Much ado about nothing"
    January 24, 2013 7:10 am
    Hillary's take on Benghazi massacre..."What difference does it make?"
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    Hey, we lied, and we're continuing to reject responsibility for those lies...
    January 24, 2013 8:34 am
    ...what does it matter?

    Meanwhile, many of the same people who attacked our consulate and killed our State Department employees with RPGs, mortars, and machine guns (you know, the kinds you find at "demonstrations" that get out of hand) attacked, kidnapped, and killed Americans and allies in Algeria.

    And Mali? The French are now having to fight terrorists who were TRAINED AND EQUIPPED by the Obama administration.

    But hey, what does it matter?

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  • DesertRez wrote...
    It matters
    January 24, 2013 8:44 am
    Because it shows how big of a disaster Obamas foreign policy is. It matters because they LIED to us because of an upcoming election. I don't care what political persuasion you are, if this is acceptable to you, then you are sheep.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    A generation ago...
    January 24, 2013 8:41 am
    ...we judged the effectiveness or lack thereof of an administration's foreign policy by how many countries were moving towards or away from communism.

    We need to start judging based on how many countries are moving towards or away from radical Islam and/or terrorism.

    Unfortunately the MSM would rather focus the American people on the FLOTUS' hairdo.

    I am beginning to believe that NBC News is being run by the Wizard of Oz...

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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Seattle Native, regarding those litmus tests....
    January 24, 2013 9:03 am
    If we judge foreign policy by the number of nations moving toward or away from communism, or judge it by the number of nations moving toward or away from radical perversions of Islam, are we not then the self-appointed "judge" of the entire world?

    We recoiled in shock when we realized that once freed of abusive dictators many of the countries in North Africa and the middle east did not rush to embrace US style capitalism and democracy. They instead chose social systems that reflected their own economic, social, and philosophical priorities rather than those that prevail in the US.

    We may have failed to realize that for hundreds of millions of people around the world, "freedom" means the ability to choose a theocracy rather than a democracy.

    Should we have aggressively supported the dictators during the Arab Spring? Kept the people subjugated because we can simply buy peace with a dictator but have less control over a self determined nation? History will have an informed opinion. We're in the middle of the Second Act, too soon to know how this particular drama will ultimately play out.

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  • roomtemp wrote...
    "It also unlocked Muammar Gaddafi's immense arsenal of weapons"
    January 24, 2013 9:51 am
    Umm, those were/are OUR WEAPONS Dave. Our oh-so-transparent administration has been arming Arab militants and Mexican drug cartels with real 'assault weapons' while simultaneously trying to disarm law abiding American citizens.

    "What difference at this point does it make?"

    Perhaps that question should be asked of a soldier or someone from Syria or Mali, Secretary Cankles.

    The lies and the arrogance are truly astounding...

    "That got punditocracy speculating that her retirement might include some leisure time in Iowa and New Hampshire."

    Indeed, she's got all the qualities necessary to make a great Fuehrer...

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