help! fox news going crazy about benghazi attack ~ 'requested help three times!'

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19. Thanks for your thoughtful response.

I think the only way the Obama Administration is going to get out of this mess is candor.

The White House needs to tell us what Ambassador Stevens was really doing in Benghazi. If his last meeting with the Turkish Ambassador the evening of the attack was to try to reign in the Libyan fighters and weapons (particularly MANPADs) flowing to Syria, they need to tell us exactly what was said that night and to the local militia leaders who Stevens met with them the afternoon before.

If, however -- as has been surmised by some ex-CIA officers over the past couple of weeks -- the Ambassador was actually facilitating the continued flow of arms and fighters to Syria, the Administration needs to defend that policy. I rather think a large percentage of the American people will rally around him, even if I personally think it's a terrible mistake.

Either way, a lack of candor will sink him, which is exactly what I want to avoid, because Romney will only blindly escalate things into a regional war that will justify turning the US into a Right-wing police state.