Cheney: Benghazi ‘one of the worst incidents that I can recall’

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21. How about "Aide: Reagan Left Marines Vulnerable in Beirut"

Published January 30, 2006 (Associated Press)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183262,00.html

<<A former defense secretary for Ronald Reagan says he implored the president to put Marines serving in Beirut in a safer position before terrorists attacked them in 1983, killing 241 servicemen.

"I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission," Caspar Weinberger says in an oral history project capturing the views of former Reagan administration officials."

..."They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull's-eye," Weinberger said. "I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position.">>