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Related: About this forumRightwing lie says Egypt embassy marines denied live ammo per Obama
Wingnuts Falsely Claim Obama Administration Forbade Marines From Carrying Live Ammo :
The Marine Corps has confirmed to Mother Jones that a military blogger's popular conspiracy theory about the embassy attack in Egypt is wrong.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/egypt-embassy-marines-live-ammo
Randi Rhoades says live ammo from Marines standard since the Beirut bombing days, when Reagan denied them live ammo.
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Rightwing lie says Egypt embassy marines denied live ammo per Obama (Original Post)
EVDebs
Sep 2012
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)1. Wait ...
Randi Rhoades says live ammo from Marines standard since the Beirut bombing days, when Reagan denied them live ammo.
Beirut was reagan??? Thought for sure the rightwing media had it right when they said Beirut was during Carter. {sarcasm}
mrJJ
(886 posts)3. Debunked
Wingnuts Falsely Claim Obama Administration Forbade Marines From Carrying Live Ammo
The Marine Corps has confirmed to Mother Jones that a military blogger's popular conspiracy theory about the embassy attack in Egypt is wrong.
Update, Thursday, September 13, 2:30 p.m. PDT: Mother Jones has obtained a memorandum from the Marine Corps' congressional liaison confirming that the Marine guards at the embassy in Egypt were in fact armed with live ammunition, contrary to the anti-Obama conspiracy theory du jour:
The Ambassador did not impose restrictions on weapons or weapons status on the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group (MCESG) detachment. The MCESG Marines in Cairo were allowed to have live ammunition in their weapons. The Ambassador and Regional Security Officer have been completely and appropriately engaged with the security situation. Reports of Marines not being able to have their weapons loaded per direction from the Ambassador are not accurate.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/egypt-embassy-marines-live-ammo
mr_hat
(3,410 posts)2. The Marines officially denied this rumor quickly. >
It's at least a day old now. Dead issue?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)4. And even if true ...
why the hell would rightwing pundits broadcast it?
jeepgypsy
(8 posts)5. pointless argument
CNN reports that Muslim Brotherhood sources have announced their intent to muster a one million-man mob attack against our embassy by this evening. Whether that materializes remains to be seen. Locked-and-loaded or not, an effective defense against that many blood-letting lunatics would take every US Marine on the planet. My prayers are out to the tens of thousands of Americans currently working throughout the Muslim world whose lives are now threatened.