Anyone remember the mess tent bombing in Mosul?

[ProSense]

Since the Beruit barracks bombing is being mentioned, it's a good time to remember the dining tent bombing in Iraq.

First....

Cheney slams Obama over Benghazi: ‘We were always ready on 9/11?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022815670

Beyond the absurdity of that claim, there was this, among many, incidents.

Attack on U.S. base kills 22 at mess tent / Mosul bombing one of deadliest against Americans since war began

2004-12-22 04:00:00 PDT Baghdad -- A powerful explosion tore through a mess tent at a U.S. military base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul during Tuesday's lunchtime rush, killing at least 22 people and wounding 66, including U.S. and Iraqi soldiers and civilian contractors.

Fifteen U.S. troops were among the dead, military officials said, making the attack one of the deadliest single attacks against Americans in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003.

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Tuesday's attack caught soldiers at one of their most vulnerable points. Military dining facilities are often soft-sided tents, and meals are one of the few times that troops congregate in large groups. The facility in Mosul was equipped to seat several hundred soldiers, who usually remove their helmets and flak jackets and rest their guns on the floor while they eat.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Attack-on-U-S-base-kills-22-at-mess-tent-Mosul-2627746.php

Romney Adviser: Libya Attack Never Would Have Happened Under Romney

Benjy Sarlin

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Williamson served as an official under President George W. Bush. Numerous deadly attacks on diplomatic compounds in countries like Pakistan, Yemen and Syria took place during the Bush administration. When countries around the world were engulfed in protests over Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, the Bush administration condemned the material as “unacceptable” even as it repeated the United States’s dedication to free speech.

The United Nations, where Williamson served as a diplomat, suffered a massive attack in 2003 when a truck bomb in Iraq killed 22 people including the U.N.’s top envoy to the country at the organization’s headquarters. The international body withdrew nearly its entire staff from the country for several years.

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-adviser-under-president-romney-libya-attack-never-would-have-happened.php

The thin line between bravado and delusion
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021341541

More details:

19 August 2003 – The top United Nations envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was killed today when terrorists blew up the UN headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 14 others and injuring dozens more in what Secretary-General Kofi Annan denounced as an inexcusable "act of unprovoked and murderous violence."

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Among others killed were Rick Hooper of the United States, Ranillo Buenaventura and Marilyn Manuel of the Philippines, Jean-Selim Kanaan of Egypt and Fiona Watson of the United Kingdom. In addition, the Programme Coordinator for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Iraq, Christopher Klein-Beekman, also died. He was a 32-year-old Canadian who was the agency’s Officer-in-Charge in the country at the time of his death. “The people of Iraq have suffered an enormous loss today,” UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=8023

Richard Hooper, 40, of the U.N., Expert in Politics of the Mideast

Richard M. Hooper, an American official of the United Nations who specialized in the Middle East, died in the bomb attack last Tuesday on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, the United Nations said on Friday. He was 40.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/world/richard-hooper-40-of-the-un-expert-in-politics-of-the-mideast.html

U.S. Embassy & Consulate Attacks Under George W. Bush (Facebook Graphic)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022827356

Dear Useless Republicans, please STFU on Benghazi
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022815985

[Buzz Clik]

1. We get it, and the knuckledraggers don't give a damn.

Hypocrisy comes as naturally to the GOP as breathing.

*cough,cough*familyvalues*sputterhackspit*

[JEB]

2. This whole Benghazi phony outrage

reminds me of the Terri Schiavo affair. GOP over reach that most people find distasteful.

[Lugnut]

3. I will never forget it.

My 30 year old cousin was one of the fifteen soldiers who were killed that day.

[ProSense]

4. Sorry to hear that.

Belated condolences.

[Lugnut]

5. Thank you.

It was a terrible time for our family. Paul left behind a 29 year old widow. I danced at their wedding four months earlier.