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sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)
9. Benghazi is all the local reps talk about
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 10:26 AM
Nov 2012

I tell them that many people have died, many more will die, and they all know the chance they are taking when they go overseas. We all know the risks of being in service, but some are willing to take them. Local reps then talk about how there wasn't enough security and that those killed were begging for more security. I tell them that it must not have been that bad if one of those killed was relaxed enough to get on a gaming site and talk about what was going on while playing a video game.
www.cnn.com/2012/09/14/us/benghazi-victims/index.html
Snip from the link-
"Gianturco wrote that Smith had been under fire before, while posted to Baghdad. When that occurred, he usually broke off his messaging. "We'd freak out and he'd come back OK after a bit," Gianturco wrote. But Tuesday night, after reporting "GUNFIRE," Smith "disconnected and never returned," he added.

A few hours earlier, Smith had posted, "assuming we don't die tonight. We saw one of our 'police' that guard the compound taking pictures," he recounted."


Yes it is sad that people died, but I hate to let reps change history to one that they prefer.

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