Sorry Congressman Cummings, you were lied to by your Secretary of Defense.

America has an air base in Aviano, Italy.

Commercial flight time between Aviano, Italy to Benghazi, Libya…2hrs, 6mins.

An FA-18E/F (max speed 1,181mph) could have been over Benghazi in 1 hour…

Doherty and Woods were killed 7 hours after Washington was notified of an attack.

Please don’t try to tell the American public it would take an American fighter pilot 6 hours to finish his coffee, gear up, and take off in his $66.9million aircraft.

(And, fyi, those ‘unarmed’ surveillance craft don’t take 6 hours to arm, either!)

The Accountability Review Board’s 39 page unclassified report is a joke.

A bad joke.

No specific mention of who was interviewed, merely (pg 29) ’…the Board interviewed over 100 individuals…’ (Janitors? Food handlers? No names, no positions noted.)

No specific mention of the role a military presence could have played, merely (pg 37) ‘…not enough time for armed military assets to have made a difference…’

Really? The attack lasted 8 hours. Intel sources told Fox News there were military assets available, including F-18′s, AC-130′s, and armed drones. None deployed.

Not enough time? The report says (pg 27/28) on the next day, the evac C-17 took 3-1/4 hrs flight time to get survivors from Libya to Germany!

We have bases and ships in and around North Africa, we can fly to Germany in 3 hours, but ‘not enough time’ to get military assets in and around Libya…to Benghazi, Libya?

This ARB report is worse than a joke…it’s an insult.

Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty deserve better.

Nixon was driven from office because of a 3rd rate burglary.

The magnitude of this Obama-Clinton-Benghazi travesty screams for a reckoning.

Reader Carlos G. protests that Obama’s hands were tied by international protocol, that violating a sovereign nation’s airspace was not a viable option.

Really? Deploying killer drones over other sovereign nations is no big deal…?

So Obama violating Pakistan’s airspace to kill Osama bin Laden is okay, but violating Libyan airspace to protect Americans being attacked is wrong?

Please…

For those so desperate to protect Clinton and Obama, could you AT LEAST bring out 1 legitimate argument in their defense?

Spec-Ops personnel dropped in right next to a Pakistani military training center, in order to double-tap bin Laden (and everyone else in his compound, come to that).

Dozens (if not hundreds) of arguably innocent civilians are collateral damage every day a suspected terrorist driving by them in a BMW is drone-killed with Hellfire missiles.

And some would have us believe ‘honoring airspace’ justified letting Americans die…?

3 senior State Department officials who survived Benghazi attacks on Sept 11, 2012 will testify before Congress Wednesday, and it won’t be good for Hillary Clinton & Obama.

Obama’s administration is setting the mood, refusing to affirm their credibility. You can expect the media long knives to come out any minute now, to savage the witnesses.

Media darlings Obama and Clinton will be protected. As the expected onslaught rages, ask yourself…who risks more than career officials, putting their careers on the line?

They survived Benghazi, while Obama and Clinton slept through their ’3am call’.

Question: where are the heroic military figures who could put the lie to Obama’s claim that ‘everything that could be done was being done’? Isn’t there at least one leader who will step forward and show the same courage as these Benghazi State Dept officials?

Military leaders know assets were immediately available…planes, drones, spec-ops.

They know why assets weren’t deployed, and who denied assistance to Americans in dire need. For them not to come forward over the last 8 months is a cowardly disgrace.

Isn’t there at least one active U. S. Marine commander with the guts to come forward?

How is it bravery can exist when bullets are flying…but not when politicians are lying?

The first priority of government is to protect its citizens. Obama and Clinton violated that priority, and violated the sacred trust their office demands of its holder.

Nixon was relentlessly vilified by the mainstream media for covering up a petty, bungled burglary…not even a hang-nail was suffered. Yet, in Benghazi four Americans died, an Obama-led chorus of lies, deception, and obstruction ensued…and the media yawns?

Americans deserve better.

…if Democrats weren’t in power.

Yes Megan R., Texas is pumping 2 million barrels of oil a day. At it’s present rate of $95 per barrel, that means $190 million every day…before you add natural gas pumped.

400,000 workers are employed in the industry. Average annual salary – $100k…

…that’s $40 billion paid out to energy workers, who spread it through local economies.

California is sitting on 15 billion gallons of shale oil in the Monterey formation alone.

Anyone who says California can’t drill it’s way to economic well-being is a liar or a fool.

California could cut it’s unemployment rate in half…

California could virtually eliminate it’s billion dollar budget deficits…

…if California politicians opened it’s energy policy to boost oil and gas output.

Doubts? Read this Wall Street Journal article on Texas vs California.

Even an entrenched welfare recipient understands the effect a boost in state tax revenues would have on the state’s government-serviced entitlement programs.

Why don’t Democrats…?

Sort of…

Blaming most of the gun violence in Mexico on the U.S.A., Fast&Furious-in-Chief says he’ll do everything he can to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

(To the best of our knowledge, his cartel-arming Attorney General is still at large…)

File this under ‘Believe it or not’…

A U.S. official admits spy satellites ‘…picked up clear photographic evidence of trucks being loaded at (Syrian) chemical weapons storage sites outside of Damascus…”

But they never tracked where the trucks went!

Really?

We’re supposed to be spying – not monitoring for chemical spills…

Would they have us believe the National Security Agency is moonlighting for OSHA?

The UN Human Rights office says force-feeding Gitmo detainees is ‘torture’.

We couldn’t agree more…please stop this inhumane treatment immediately.

Force terrorists to stay alive? The gall of some nations…!!

(Wouldn’t it be great if the UN Human Rights office would label American taxpayer dollars funding the U.N.’s existence as ‘torture’!??!)

The detention facility at Guantanamo holds the most dangerous of terror detainees.

Aided by their lawyers, about 100 of them have gone on a hunger strike. It seems their objective is for the U.S. to close the Guantanamo facility, which is…problematic.

BlueCollar suggests a simple solution, that should warm the heart of any Democrat.

Close the terror detainee’s Quran (Islamic holy book), place in a covered box, alongside their prayer rug, and all other religious items that may be used on a daily basis.

Place the terror detainee’s food tray on the lid of the box, thus keeping it closed.

Allow only the terror detainee, or their lawyer, access to remove the food tray, allowing them to open the box in order to get to their holy book, prayer rug, etc.

The Left praises Pro-Choice – this solution provides a multiple-choice opportunity.

They can choose to lift off the food tray, choose to eat or not eat the food that’s on the tray, choose to access their religious items…and choose a starvation death if they want.

So now, let the Left, the lawyers (but I repeat myself), and their terrorist friends…

…CHOOSE…to their heart’s content.

And, if they choose a starvation death, just look at it as a very, very late-term abortion.

The Left should have no problem with that concept…