Father of Slain SEAL: Who Made the Decision Not to Save My Son?

[Core Imposter]

Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, reveals details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the publically broadcast memorial service for the slain Americans at Andrews Air Force Base only days after the attack.

“When [Obama] came over to our little area” at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry.’”

Woods says that shaking President Obama’s hands at his son’s memorial service was “like shaking hands with a dead fish.”


Woods continues: “Apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help. My son wasn’t even there. He was at a safe house about a mile away. He got the distress call; he heard them crying for help; that’s why he and Glen risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation. And I’m sure that wasn’t the only one received that distress call—you know, come save our lives … I’m sure that other people in the military, in the State Department, in the White House, received that same call that he would receive.

Woods says he was told by military officials that the military could have "come above [the area] and completely carpeted area," and therefore saved the officials in Benghazi, Libya. But that someone gave the command for the American military not to save the lives of the Americans under attack.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/father-slain-seal-who-made-decision-not-save-my-son_657782.html

Which video was Obama more concerned with, the one referenced here when Americans were being slaughtered, or the one he apologized for at the UN?

 

[Lord Chambers]

If I can't swear then there's no point to this post.

 

[Cutlass]

Actually, all of the leading military officers in the US advised that they did not have enough information to act until it was over.

 

[Agent327]

I see only one thing to discuss here: how many blogs/rants are you gonna spam in The Chamber MisterCooper?

 

[Core Imposter]

Actually, all of the leading military officers in the US advised that they did not have enough information to act until it was over.

Yes, this is what Panetta said. "You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on, without having some real-time information about what's taking place,"

I'd fire the man the instant that statement was made. The president has totally politicized the state department and military. The objective now is not to serve and protect. The objective is to avoid doing anything that might incur risk. Risk of reputation.

When we have people at risk, when the ambassador is at risk, when our territory is at risk, when our prestige and reputation is at risk, and you don't have real-time information then what you do is insert recon forces to get it.

Words do not exist that could express the distain I feel for Obama, Clinton, and Panetta.

 

[Cutlass]

So you think throwing in troops when you do not know what they will be facing is the smart way to go about things? GW Bush must be your favorite person ever.

 

[Core Imposter]

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ng-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQQLNtUa

This is the most disgraceful thing that has happened in our nation's history.

At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours -- enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ng-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQQeo8QF

Obama just left them out there to die.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Is it possible that just making random, crazy stuff up about a guy for four years lessens the impact of the one thing you could probably run with?

So thank Alex Jones, Dinesh D'Souza, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, etc.

 

[Agent327]

This is the most disgraceful thing that has happened in our nation's history.

I agree. It's way worse than Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. And the Civil War. WW I and II. Way worse.

Obama just left them out there to die.

Who told you?

 

[Bakspatel]

This is the most disgraceful thing that has happened in our nation's history.

Definitely way worse than the killing and expelling the native Indians, slavery, racism, concentration camps for Japanese, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's after the second gulf war or Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Seriously, the USA has done way worse things in the past. And probably a whole bunch more (even worse) stuff that will never come out.

This is still quite a (terrible) recent event so there are always more rumours than facts around. It would be better to wait until clear facts become known.

 

[warpus]

This is the most disgraceful thing that has happened in our nation's history.

Here's some reading material for you, should you have some time to go through it

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Obama just left them out there to die.

Yeah, that needed a post all of it's own.

Obama left them to die. Obama killed Osama Bin Laden.

 

[Formaldehyde]

The father of a highly paid mercenary who should have never deserted his post protecting the ambassador is a far-right partisan who is trying to turn his death into a political football? What a surprise.

 

[JollyRoger]

Was it not his son's responsibility to accept Jesus Christ?

 

[Patroklos]

Actually, all of the leading military officers in the US advised that they did not have enough information to act until it was over.

Which is what they have to say. I would believe them if they were not all watching a live video feed from an overhead drone for hours. Somehow decisions were made before live video feeds, god knows how.

I don't think it has anything to do with couldn't, but more with wouldn't. The culture these days is the avoid risk at any cost, and to push every decision to the highest echelon possible to avoid responsibility. The result being the loss of all initiative.

That culture is not the fault of Obama, its just perpetuated by him. Its been in the works and in force for decades.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Fortunately, those who run the military and are familiar with the facts as they are known at the time typically have vastly more experience and judgment than some low-level officers. It is all-too-easy to play Monday morning quarterback while even claiming the ambassador was killed in a convoy when he wasn't.

 

[MobBoss]

Actually, all of the leading military officers in the US advised that they did not have enough information to act until it was over.

Thats the party line.

Isnt it part of the militarys job to put boots on the ground and go find out whats going on? I was always told you dont sit and wait if there is a call for help/assistance because at that point time means lives.

The father of a highly paid mercenary who should have never deserted his post protecting the ambassador is a far-right partisan who is trying to turn his death into a political football? What a surprise.

You have a decided lack of understanding what words actually mean.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Based on your comment, I think you have that backwards as usual. What words did I misuse above?

And I find it quite revealing that you both almost never criticize the military no matter what it does, but here you both are doing so because you think it will help you advance your own quite obvious "political football".

 

[Lord of Elves]

Soldier dies in the line of duty, more on these unprecedented events later.

 

[Ajidica]

On the scale of "Whoops, that wasn't supposed to happen: US Government Edition" this is pretty minor. It isn't like we infected an entire group of people with Syphallis without their knowledge, or overthrew a South American government.