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Life Long Dem

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1. Hear that Republicans? "Cartoonish"

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Sun May 12, 2013, 12:10 PM

May 2013

"I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances," he said.

Suggestions that we could have flown a fighter jet over the attackers to "scare them with the noise or something," Gates said, ignored the "number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from [former Libyan leader] Qaddafi's arsenals."

Sounds to me they live in a cartoon.

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