Benghazi petition

Benghazi petition:

This is what I've been waiting for.  Below is an e-letter that I received saying that Congressman Steve Stockman is petitioning Congress to hold hearings on the travesty that occurred in Benghazi, Libya.  I'll do whatever small part I can do to see to it that this administration is not allowed to get away with thinking they'll just let time be used to allow the incident to die on the vine:

Dear Jack:

Four Americans were left to die in Benghazi, Libya.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refused to send help.

And now the biggest cover–up imaginable is underway to protect Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency; a cover–up including obstruction, witness tampering, intimidation and an all–out campaign to hide the full truth from the American people.

You see, you won't hear this straight talk from most politicians in Washington, DC – but I'm different.

My name is Congressman Steve Stockman and I need your help. I won't stop until the American people and the families of those who died in Benghazi have been told the truth about this horrible tragedy – and those who are responsible are brought to justice.

And Jack, I'm starting with Hillary Clinton.

That's why I'm writing to you today. You see, I've joined with Stop Hillary PAC to gather millions of petition signatures to pressure Congress into holding full and open hearings on the Benghazi tragedy.

Jack, I've filed a discharge petition with the House of Representatives forcing an up or down vote on authorizing a full committee hearing.

If I can get 218 Congressional Republicans to back me (a majority of the House), we will break through the D.C. stonewall and there will finally be a vote on creating a Select Committee to investigate Benghazi.

Then FINALLY, we will know, on the record, just who is trying to obstruct the investigation into Obama, Hillary and their roles in Benghazi.

But I need your help.

Are you ready to stand up to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama today? If you're ready to hold Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama accountable, please sign our petition demanding Congress hold hearings and "Come Clean on Benghazi."

Some facts are now clear: When our diplomatic mission came under attack from an Al Qaeda–led mob of terrorists in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration shamefully chose to abandon our Ambassador and three other Americans– leaving them to die.

But other facts are still unclear: Why are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton trying to cover up the crimes in Benghazi? Why did Obama and Hillary refuse to send help? Why did Obama and Hillary apologize to the terrorists for offending them? And even worse, why are Democrats in Congress now intimidating the witnesses and obstructing an investigation?

The victim's families deserve answers.

Benghazi

Benghazi

Our illustrious former Secretary of State asked the question in a very defensive, belligerent way of a Congressional Inquiry Committee, “At this point in time, what difference does it make?”  That’s a little like a person driving drunk and killing someone asking the same question.  The victims of their negligence are all dead so what else is there to think about?      

The real scandal of Benghazi is not that the people that carried out the attack on our embassy in Libya were not taken into custody.  The scandal is that the State Department put the Ambassador and his aides into a completely indefensible position.  When someone is thrown into a shark infested sea and he/she is killed by them we don’t look for the sharks that killed the person.  We bring to account whoever it was that threw the person there. 

Ambassador Stevens made four urgent appeals to the State Department for security to be beefed up at the embassy according to Fox News Investigative Reporter Catherine Herridge.  The latest appeal was made just weeks before when Ambassador Stevens sent a dispatch that 10 different militia groups and an Al Qaeda training camp were active in the area and that the embassy could not sustain an organized attack.  And appeals that were made for assistance the night of the attack were totally ignored.  Air time from Tripoli to Benghazi, from which aid could have come, is 49 minutes.   The Navy Seals were killed by mortar fire seven hours after the attack began.  

The atmosphere in Benghazi was so hostile that Britain pulled its diplomatic personnel out.  The Red Cross evacuated their people too.  We didn’t because it would have exposed the false narrative, that the administration was trying to promote, that it successfully rendered Al Qaeda a nonthreatening force in the area.  That notion was to help President Obama’s reelection bid and caused the Presidential Election soon
to be held to be another element in the formula that brought about the demise of Ambassador Stevens, Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith and Naval Seals Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.  The administration gambled with the lives of these people and lost.  I wonder if State Secretary Hillary Clinton would have asked her same question if Chelsea had been put in such an untenable position. 

Senator McCain

Senator McCain

Could there ever be a better time for Senator McCain to button his lip – both with Egypt and with Syria?  How could the situation in Egypt be ever more complicated for the administration?  We have a duly elected president in Egypt deposed by the army because he decided once elected that he’d impose an Islamist Theocratic form of government that’s totally rejected by a very large part of the electorate.  We can’t call it a coup because that would require us to withhold financial support from the only entity that’s friendly to us – the Egyptian army.  Senator McCain is calling for us to withhold that aid.  The leadership of the Egyptian army has pledged to bring about an election to install a new president.  And because they are in the process of establishing a true democratic government it’s not a coup in the classic sense, where the army takes over and establishes itself as the ruling body.  This is not the time for a loose cannon from the United States to be urging the administration to be acting precipitously about how we should be reacting to what’s happening there.  The past election showed that the largest faction in the country is the Muslim Brotherhood.  The trick is going to be to find only candidates that will not only accommodate people from that group but also be a president for all the people of Egypt and not someone cut from the same cloth as Morsi.  He jailed more reporters in the year he was in power than Mubarak did in the thirty years he was in charge (Doctor Charles Krauthammer, Fox News 7/8/13).    

About a month ago Senator McCain was urging that a no fly zone should be established over Syria.  He surely had to be one of the rarest of people in government in both parties that thought that was a good idea.  President Bashar al-Sarrad has been committing the most atrocious crimes against his own people, including having babies murdered right in front of their parents.   But what can we or any other nation other than Russia do about it?  And they don’t have the will.  Syria and Russia have mutually beneficial trade agreements, to the point where it could be considered that they have an unspoken defense pact.  For us to establish a no-fly zone could involve us in a serious international crisis.  Another thing we have to be concerned about is the talk about arming the rebels.  The rebel forces are more and more coming under the control of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.  Do we really want to put arms in their hands that might eventually be aimed at us?

Early in the time that it looked like we were going to be getting involved in the fighting in Libya I was one of the people who wrote to pundits asking them to urge the administration not to be getting involved in the turmoil there.  We knew the devil we had with Khadafy and he was pretty well tamed starting with when President Reagan almost bumped him off
after the Pan Am bombing.   We didn’t know who would be replacing him.  But we did know the entire area was infested with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.  We are in no better a position with Libya today than before we first got started. And if we never got involved, Ambassador Chris Stevens and his aides would still be alive today.