"The President Was Warned Security Was Lacking, And Did Nothing."

[kpete]

SUN OCT 07, 2012 AT 03:35 PM PDT
"The President Was Warned Security Was Lacking, And Did Nothing."
by Dartagnan

Tomorrow Mitt Romney is set to deliver what is being characterized as an important foreign policy speech to an audience at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. He is expected to draw a "stark contrast" between a Romney foreign policy and that of his would-be predecessor. Exhibit "A" is expected to be the disastrous attack on our installation that resulted in the deaths of so many American personnel.

And he has good grounds to do so.

In fact, prior to the attack on our people, the President himself was specifically warned that placing Americans in an unstable, civil war-torn Middle Eastern country barely existing with a dysfunctional government was a situation ripe for terrorist opportunity.

He ignored the advice, and Americans died as a result.

But the year was 1983. The country was Lebanon, not Libya, and Mr. Romney's would-be predecessor was Ronald Wilson Reagan.

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the rest:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/07/1138116/-The-President-Was-Warned-Security-Was-Lacking-And-Did-Nothing


from the comments:


do not forget this

http://thehill.com/...

Republicans have sought to cut hundreds of millions of dollars slated for security at U.S. embassies and consulates since gaining control of the House in 2011.

Democrats enacted $1.803 billion for embassy security, construction and maintenance for fiscal 2010, when they still controlled the Senate and House. After Republicans took control of the House and picked up six Senate seats, Congress reduced the enacted budget to $1.616 billion in fiscal 2011, and to $1.537 billion for 2012.

The administration requested $1.654 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program for fiscal 2012. House Republicans proposed funding the program at $1.557 billion. Congress eventually enacted $1.591 billion after the Senate weighed in.
For fiscal 2013, the administration requested $2.15 billion in funding for the worldwide security protection program, a larger increase from the previous year. The House countered with a proposal to increase the program to $1.934 billion.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/250237-gop-embassy-security-cuts-draw-democrats-scrutiny

[WCGreen]

1. Then Bad Ass Reagan invaded Grenada to take the minds off of Beruit....

Terrorist attack in Lebanon was on 10/23/1983 and the make shift invasion of Grenada was on 10/25/1983...

It smacks of diverging attention to me.

[still_one]

2. The one good thing reagan did was get the troops out of Lebanon. With the republicans today were in

charge at that time, we would still have troops there

[rgbecker]

3. Funny, I thought you were going to mention the August 6th, 2001 report that there might be hyjacked

airplanes involved.

[underthematrix]

4. Ronald Reagan was an actor . . .

playing a president. He had dementia and they had to feed him his lines on index cards. This is in a book about Nancy Reagan. PBO is the foreign policy guru. Mittnocchio should probably give a foreign policy where he keeps his money, Caymans, Bahamas, Swiss Banks. The fool is looking for another war which he will do everything he can to keep his grandkids from fighting in. He's a coward.