Dick Cheney: Benghazi ‘One Of The Worst Incidences I Can Recall In My Career’

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11. Really, Dick?!1 Worse than '83 when RAYGUN kept Marines weapons unloaded & 241 service were killed?!

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Looking up the thread on the Beirut bombing. And CHEENEE was right in the middle of the 241 dead.



Segami’s thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022824473

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[font size=5]‘Why Were Republicans SILENT When REAGAN'S ‘BENGHAZI’ KILLED 241 American Servicemen’?[/font]

Benghazi wasn’t the scandal that the conservative right tried to make it out to be. Unfortunately, the Democratic president didn’t engage in a big cover-up, and the Republicans trying to score political points by shouting “Benghazi, Benghazi!” are rapidly becoming irrelevant. In the fact of that, it should be pointed out that this amount of supposed outrage is completely hypocritical. One way to illustrate this is using the Beirut Barracks Bombing of 1983, which occurred during, and was the fault of, the Reagan administration. The following (above) image, which has been shared quite a bit recently, is referring to it:

The image isn’t entirely correct. Only 220 United States Marines were killed. The remaining casualties consisted of 18 killed sailors and three soldiers, for a total of 241 servicemen. Yet other than that small error, what the image claims is true — it was President Reagan’s fault that incident occurred. In fact, the official investigation and subsequent Department of Defense report found chain-of-command errors and placed fault on the Reagan administration, as well. The Marines had been stationed there as part of an international peacekeeping venture:

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