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Re: as Democrats Leave the Room
Posted by **murray** on Sep 20, 2013 at 1:09:17 PM:
In Reply to: Re: as Democrats Leave the Room posted by **BlackMonk** on Sep 20, 2013 at 11:56:15 AM:
***Benghazi Victims' Parents Assail the Administration for Lies, Lack of Information
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***Parents of two of the Americans killed in Benghazi, Libya, last year testified today before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Before these parents testified, however, most of the Democrats on the committee had left the room, refusing to even listen to these grieving parents. Only two Democratic members remained in the room.
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***Patricia Smith, mother of slain U.S. Foreign Service information officer Sean Smith, testified that she met with President Obama, Vice President Biden, and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the day the four Americans’ bodies were returned to American soil. Smith says that the three and other senior administration officials lied to her about the cause of the attack.
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***“I was told a few things,” Smith told the remaining members of the committee, “and they were all lies. Obama, and Hillary, and Panetta, and Biden, and Susan [Rice] all came up to me at the casket ceremony. Every one of them came up to, gave me a big hug. And I asked them ‘What happened? Please tell me.’ And every one of them says, ‘It was the video.’ And we all know that it wasn’t the video. Even at at time they knew it wasn’t the video. So they all lied to me.”
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***Smith also said that all of the officials said that they would “check up” on what happened and get back to her. To date, she has heard from none of them.
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***“I don’t count,” Smith said, “the people of America don’t count. The only thing that counts is their own selves, and their own jobs.”
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***Charles Woods, father of slain Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, also testified. In his soft-spoken voice, Woods also leveled grave criticisms at the Obama administration.
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***“It’s been over a year since four brave Americans were tragically killed in Benghazi,” Woods said. “And after one year we know very few answers. We’ve been asking for the last year. We don’t know much more than we did a year ago.
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***“Two of my heroes while growing up were John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King,” Woods said. “Rev. King made the statement, that ‘Justice delayed is justice denied.’ It’s been over a year. We have no justice. We have very few truthful answers that have been provided.”
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** That walkout was AN unbelievably callous and cowardly thing to do...
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**To brush off parents who are still begging for answers a year later?
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**And you can't even grant them the courtesy of listening to what they have to say?
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** Thoroughly disgusting behavior...
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*How many Republicans left the room?
I honestly don't know... But I'd be just as disgusted if they did not give those parents the courtesy of hearing what they had to say... I can't think of people more deserving of their time and attention right off the bat..Followup Messages:
- Re: as Democrats Leave the Room - **BlackMonk** - Sep 20, 2013 at 2:35:32 PM
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