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kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:44 PM Oct 2012

On Libya: Two things were going on at the same time and it was difficult to distinguish the

at first. So the real question is why does it really matter? We had people killed by armed gunmen during a very dangerous time in Libya. Now really good questions should be asked about our security of our embassies and why there wasn't more protection..I think that is legitimate. But what you call the attack is irrelevant to me because suppose those men had been killed by protestors? Then what? The looming issue is embassy security and I think that the record will show that the GOP in Congress refused to give budget increases requested by the Secretary and forced a cut in security staff at embassies. I am trying to locate actual, confirmed information about this issue.

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