Cheney Bashes Clinton On Benghazi, Obama On Bin Laden Raid

[CBHagman]

42. Laurence Foley and so many others died in attacks during the Bush-Cheney tenure...

...but the GOP and its media/ideological allies are hammering on Benghazi as though assaults on diplomatic facilities and workers from U.S. and allied missions were never seen until September 11th, 2012. The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon was assassinated in 1976, and the American Embassy in Beirut was bombed more than once during the 1980s.

[url]http://lebanon.usembassy.gov/about_the_embassy.html[/url]

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2367311.stm[/url]

Unfortunately many people either don't know the history, can't be bothered to look it up, and/or just parrot the talking points they get from GOP congressmen and right-wing media.

I've heard various estimates of the number of people killed in attacks on U.S. installations during the time Bush and Cheney were in office. The story below records nearly a hundred fatalities. There are others at the link.

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/13-benghazis-that-occurre_b_3246847.html[/url]

January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.

June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.

October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of "Bali Bombings." No fatalities.

February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.

If you haven't already, you are going to encounter people who will misuse "Four dead in Ohio" to invoke the four men killed in Benghazi. The next time someone does that, ask them if they have heard of any of the above, or of the barracks bombings in 1983, or the multiple attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. People get away with skewing the story because we let the ignorant and the vicious control the story.