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Proud Liberal Dem

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29. Those are the only things that I've heard so far
Fri Nov 16, 2012, 05:26 PM
Nov 2012

None of which constitute anything remotely close to "high crimes and misdemeanors" though the Republicans set the bar ridiculously low for Democratic Presidents but so ridiculously high for Republican Presidents it's absurd.

My basic position is that if they're going to go after President Obama and/or other members of his Administration over what happened in Benghazi, they need to first go back to the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut under Reagan, 9/11 under Bush II, Iraq under Bush II, and all of the embassy attacks under Bush II and hold Reagan and Bush culpable for all of the deaths. Until they do that and hold all living (and dead) members of previous Administrations accountable for all of the deaths of Americans that occurred under their watch, they need to STFU about what happened in Benghazi.

It was a tragedy and we need to find out what happened so that we can do a better job of preventing such attacks from being successful in the future but there's been nothing advanced so far that suggests the need for a "Watergate-style" commission (which would be more about the GOP's theatrics more than finding out the truth IMHO) to do what House and Senate intelligence committees appear to be quite capably handling at the moment.

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