Romney, Rumsfeld Say Embassy Attacks Due To 'Weakness?' -- *12* Attacks During Bush Term!

[Journeyman]

8. 5 Ambassadors have been killed by terrorists since 1968 -- 4 under Republican administrations. . .

According to the State Department Office of the Historian, five U.S. ambassadors had been killed in the line of duty by terrorists prior to the killings of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three embassy staffers on Tuesday. Here are their stories.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/141694

The five:

1. John Gordon Mein – August 28, 1968, Guatemala
2. Cleo A. Noel Jr. – March 1, 1973, Sudan
3. Rodger P. Davies – August 19, 1974, Cyprus
4. Francis E. Meloy, Jr. – June 16, 1976, Lebanon
5. Adolph Dubs – February 14, 1979, Afghanistan

Only the first, John Gordon Mein, was killed while a Democrat -- Lyndon Johnson -- sat in the Oval Office. The rest were all killed while Republicans were on watch.

Does this mean anything? Not really. The reasons for the killings were many and varied, and to attribute them to any one political party would be both ludicrous and dishonest. Of course, that doesn't stop Rumsfeld from making his unsupported accusations, as he has a history of being both dishonest and ludicrous.