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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
Mon May 20, 2013, 10:20 PM May 2013

Poll: Americans angry about Benghazi can't find it on a map

41 percent of Republicans believe Benghazi is the worst political scandal in American history, but nearly half don't know where it is.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/05/13/Poll-Americans-angry-about-Benghazi-cant-find-it-on-a-map/7321368469022/#ixzz2TtCsOjkX
Sen. James Inhofe said in an interview that, “Of all the great cover-ups in history -- the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate, all the rest of them -- this ... is going to go down as most egregious cover-up in American history." He further suggested President Obama could be impeached over it.

PPP put that question to voters. 41 percent of Republicans say they consider this to be the "biggest political scandal in American history" compared to only 43 percent who disagree. Only 10 percent of Democrats and 20 percent of independents agreed.

Of the 41 percent of Republicans who consider Benghazi to be the worst political scandal in American history, 39 percent are unaware that Benghazi is located in Libya. 10 percent said it's in Egypt, 9 percent in Iran, 6 percent in Cuba, 5 percent in Syria, 4 percent in Iraq, and 1 percent each in North Korea and Liberia, with 4 percent unwilling to venture a guess.

Cuba??? 6 percent of these angry inches said Cuba!!!

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Poll: Americans angry about Benghazi can't find it on a map (Original Post) lunasun May 2013 OP
I wonder if there had been a ground war, instead of just a "kinetic military action", jakeXT May 2013 #1
Considering all the news that broke last week, agentS May 2013 #2
Not to mention Egypt... Aristus May 2013 #4
Fools! Everyone knows it's in India. pscot May 2013 #3
K&R! Rhiannon12866 May 2013 #5

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
1. I wonder if there had been a ground war, instead of just a "kinetic military action",
Mon May 20, 2013, 10:34 PM
May 2013

more people would know about Libya's geography?

Or are people not familiar with Kirkuk, Fallujah, Tikrit, Baghdad and Basra?

agentS

(1,325 posts)
2. Considering all the news that broke last week,
Mon May 20, 2013, 10:44 PM
May 2013

Republicans need to spend less time staring down Obama and throwing fake shit on walls, and more time gazing at something we in the reality-based community call a 'Map'.
While they're at it, they'll learn WHERE Syria and Iran are!

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