At Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Benghazi hearings on Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told Clinton that he would have fired her as Secretary of State had he been president at the time of the attacks because of her responsibility in the matter. "The people who make judgment errors need to be replaced, fired and no longer in a position to make judgment calls," Paul told her. "Had I been president at the time and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi ... I would have relieved you of your post. I think it's inexcusable."
Ambassador Stevens had asked for additional security in the weeks prior to the attack due to what he called a "security vacuum" in Libya. On August 2nd, Stevens requested "protective detail bodyguard" personnel because the area was "unpredictable, volatile and violent." Then the administration failed to protect Stevens and his staff when 125 to 150 gunmen descended upon the diplomatic compound with AK-47s, machine guns, hand grenades, and gun trucks sporting mounted artillery.
Clinton defended the Obama Administration's response to the Benghazi attack by trying to look forward to the future instead of rehashing the poor response to the September 11-12 attacks. "What difference, at this point, does it make?" she said at the hearing. "It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again."
Rand Paul's point was that it does make a difference how the administration responded to the crisis because there were "human errors" which are "judgment errors." Therefore, Paul argued, the humans who make judgment errors need to be replaced so that they cannot continue to make these same kinds of bad judgment calls. Paul blamed Obama and Clinton's poor leadership for the deaths in Benghazi. "Not to know of the requests for securities really I think cost these people their lives. Their lives could have been saved had someone been more available." He concluded that he is glad at least Clinton is accepting responsibility, unlike others in the administration.
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Comments: 14
have you ever thought that the American people WANT and DESERVE the truth for a refreshing change...
Disclaimer: I've never voted for or donated money to Obama.
Ms. Clinton showed great restraint in not saying, "Because, you neutron-brained nincompoop, you and your TEA-Twit friends rejected even the minimalist budget the Administration proposed, and left the Department of State with damned near no money at all for security. Aside from WWII restrictions on our ability to act, we had nothing effective with which to act... idiot!"
Okay,
If that is how we should deal with such unintentional screwups which lead to tragic events in foreign countries, then I would ask, how should we have dealt with the deliberate war instituted by the combat invasion of Iraq on orders of President G.W. Bush and backed up by his Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice . An invasion and war which resulted in the criminal deaths of 4,424 Americans ??? A number which is more than 1000 times the number of those who unfortunately were killed in Libya)
Somehow, it seems to me that Rand Paul is excessively wrongheaded in his reasoning, but that's okay, since he is, his father's son and like father, like son.
Now to the ridiculous question Senator Paul posed to Madam Secretary Clinton. A question which had no bearing nor relationship to the subject of the Congressional Benghazi Hearings. That being, Senator Paul wanted to know why weapons are/were being purchased by the State Department from Libya and sent to Turkey where the weapons are then being secretly provided to the rebel army in Syria.
Although Senator Paul admitted that he had no specific information, no factual proof and no documentation of any kind to support his question (ridiculous charges) he still posed the question in front of the whole world on national television. His only source for his idiotic question, was that he had heard or read something in the some unspecified news reporting (could not remember) which hinted that such unauthorized dealings might be taking place.
In posing such a ridiculous question, it would appear that Senator Paul is living in a world of delusional conspiracies and anti government theories which are/were created by far rightwing political pundits. Both by radio and television entertainers who perform their acts before an audience of anti government and paranoid type vunerable individuals. Pundits who get paid to continuously stir the pot of paranoia among people who are mentally unable to think for themselves. (Rand Paul appearantly being one of those people)
Further, and more importantly, the utter stupidity he displayed while on live television, he not only embarrassed himself, but the whole of the America people, the government of the United States and Congress in particular, before both our enemies and our allies throughout the world.
Inasmuch, I have a very serious question to ask myself, that being, How in the Hell does a man with an obvious deficiency in normal reasoning, such as Rand Paul displays, ever get elected to the elite position of U.S. Senator ?
If he Truly cared, he'd have demanded to know exactly what happened, exactly WHAT she was "taking full responsibility" for...and where in HELL the survivors are, and why.
Rand Paul had the guts to say what was on his mind
So that's what you supposedly deep grieving Teapublicans call idiot behavior.