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BlueStreak

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11. What difference does any of this make, even if Obama never called it a terrorist attack?

Reply to Segami (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:34 PM

Oct 2012

Obviously Obama DID call it such the day after and the second day after. But what if he hadn't used those words? What difference would that make? This is the GOP idea of an important foreign policy difference?

Wow.

Instead of arguing about when Obama said those words (which is beyond dispute), the media ought to be asking what Romney would have done differently. Would he have send the marines or Cruise missiles into Libya? Would he have "rounded up a bunch of ragheads" and shot them? What is the point here?

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GOP MEATHEAD Peter King UPSET Obama �WAITED 4 MINUTES� To Call Libya Attack An �Act Of Terror� [View all] Segami Oct 2012 OP

At least he didn't finish reading "My Hungry Goat." (nt) JaneQPublic Oct 2012 #1

Are they trying to make our heads explode? n/t factsarenotfair Oct 2012 #2

Dog I hate that mutt tk2kewl Oct 2012 #3

Conservatives are pro-war. They love war. They just refuse to fight in any of the wars themselves. LovePeacock Oct 2012 #4

Peter king is a total ass...pretty much in line with the rest of the far-right wing of the GOP. nt. OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #14

So is the king saying any killing is an act of terror?? Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #5

King is following the Romney playbook... pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #6

4 minutes? Paul Ryan could have climbed 5 mountains in that time aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #7

Or feed a thousand homeless people with two loaves of bread and a single fish...and then... Segami Oct 2012 #9

LOL! City Lights Oct 2012 #8

Diplomacy, Decorum, Gravitas, Statecraft maxsolomon Oct 2012 #10

What difference does any of this make, even if Obama never called it a terrorist attack? BlueStreak Oct 2012 #11

Its a smoke screen to put Obama on 'D' and give cover to Mitt's empty-shell positions. Segami Oct 2012 #12

Doesn't seem to be working. It *might* work better if it were true. BlueStreak Oct 2012 #15

Do they really want to go there? NightOwwl Oct 2012 #13