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Townhall
Libya and Lies
by Thomas Sowell
Oct 23, 2012
It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was
"offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to
deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man
not deceived the public about?
Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term in
office? This was followed by the first trillion dollar deficit ever,
under any President of the United States -- followed by trillion dollar
deficits in every year of the Obama administration.
Remember his pledge to have a "transparent" government that would post
its legislative proposals on the Internet several days before Congress
was to vote on them, so that everybody would know what was happening?
This was followed by an ObamaCare bill so huge and passed so fast that
even members of Congress did not have time to read it.
Remember his claims that previous administrations had arrogantly
interfered in the internal affairs of other nations -- and then his
demands that Israel stop building settlements and give away land
outside its 1967 borders, as a precondition to peace talks with the
Palestinians, on whom there were no preconditions?
As for what happened in Libya, the Obama administration says that there
is an "investigation" under way. An "on-going investigation" sounds so
much better than "stonewalling" to get past election day. But you can
bet the rent money that this "investigation" will not be completed
before election day. And whatever the investigation says after the
election will be irrelevant.
The events unfolding in Benghazi on the tragic night of September 11th
were being relayed to the State Department as the attacks were going
on, "in real time," as they say. So the idea that the Obama
administration now has to carry out a time-consuming "investigation" to
find out what those events were, when the information was immediately
available at the time, is a little much.
Read the rest of the articles at Townhall
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