Rice: Wish We Were Perfect

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7. I recall it was the Egyptian media which first reported 'protests' about an 'anti-Muslim' movie

from truthout: http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17644-benghazi-the-selective-memory-of-republicans-and-the-media

Before the Obama administration had issued any findings whatsoever regarding the potential cause of the attacks, protestors were on international television demonstrating and screaming about this obscure video that practically no one had even heard of before and had been re-released just a few weeks prior. So, when the people on the ground who are actually doing the protesting are telling you that the reason they are protesting is because of some anti-Muslim video, then why would the U.S. Government NOT believe them.

As reporting at the time revealed, it was the protestors themselves who first stated that the reason they were angry and demonstrating was because of the anti-Muslim video (and might I say that the media ran with it) so why is it being conveniently forgotten that the “facts on the ground” (as our military lovers like to say) showed a completely different view of the attacks and the reason behind them than what would later come out?