House Republicans Cut 300 Mill From U.S. Embassy Security Budget.... How Did Russ Miss This?

[THawk+]

spin baby spin....repubs have voted to cut funding for embassy security....just facts....no matter how many daily caller and brietbart articles you post....it doesnt change what they did.

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[russ1945]

Politics October 11, 2012

Congressman: Libya Security Cut While Vienna Embassy Gained Chevy Volts


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KELLY: Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts
Examining the State Department’s misplaced green priorities
By Rep. Mike Kelly, Special Op-Ed to the Washington Times

In a May 3, 2012, email, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC- 3 airplane for security operations throughout the country.
The subject line of the email, on which slain Ambassador Chris Stevens was copied, read: “Termination of Tripoli DC-3 Support.”
Four days later, on May 7, the State Department authorized the U.S. embassy in Vienna to purchase a $108,000 electric vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts. The purchase was a part of the State Department’s “Energy Efficiency Sweep of Europe” initiative, which included hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on green program expenditures at various U.S. Embassies.
In fact, at a May 10 gala held at the U.S. embassy in Vienna, the ambassador showcased his new Volts and other green investments as part of the U.S. government’s commitment to “climate change solutions.”
The event posting on the embassy website read: “Celebrating the Greening of the Embassy.”
While the embassy in Vienna was going green, the consulate in Benghazi was getting bombed, and little was done to stop it.
Before the terrorist attack that took the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, there were more than 230 security incidents in Libya between June 2011 and July 2012.
Of those attacks, 48 took place in Benghazi, two at the U.S. diplomatic compound and scene of the September 11, 2012, terrorist attacks.
This first attack on the Benghazi compound occurred on April 6, 2012, when two Libyans threw a crude improvised explosive device over the compound wall. Two months later, another IED exploded at the compound, wounding one person and leaving a hole in the perimeter wall large enough for 40 people to run through.
The second attack was linked to the “Brigades of the Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman,” a jihadist, pro-al Qaeda group named after the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The same group was responsible for subsequent attacks on the British ambassador to Libya and the International Committee of the Red Cross, both of which took place in Benghazi just months before the September attack.
While these steady and increasingly violent attacks on western interests mounted, the U.S. State Department repeatedly rejected requests for additional protection measures for our security teams in Libya.
According to Eric Nordstrom, a regional security officer of the U.S. Mission to Libya from September 2011 to July 2012, the State Department not only refused his requests for greater security, but actually reduced the number of Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents assigned to foreign service officers based in Libya. Ironically, as the State Department withdrew security resources, it increased hazard pay for its employees based in Libya by 5 percent.



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[russ1945]

As the article above shows, maybe congress is right in cutting the budget if it includes stupid shit like Chevy Volts for the embassy in Vienna instead of increased security in a muslim hotbed. The good thing is that now we get to see how Hillary rolls and beneath the surface she is right in the same league with Obama. One thing is for sure, she ain't no Bill.

Once again Vit eats the big one as he is reaching for his last straws before his boy goes down in Nov. Oh the humanity.

 

[vitterd]

As the article above shows, maybe congress is right in cutting the budget if it includes stupid shit like Chevy Volts for the embassy in Vienna instead of increased security in a muslim hotbed. The good thing is that now we get to see how Hillary rolls and beneath the surface she is right in the same league with Obama. One thing is for sure, she ain't no Bill.

Once again Vit eats the big one as he is reaching for his last straws before his boy goes down in Nov. Oh the humanity.

your efforts to defend repubs is really pretty scary. You might as well be a robot. You, dave and bfl pull the same shit here everyday.....just repost nonsense from conservative media.

It is really pretty funny that you can watch a repub rep from utah rant and rave about lack of security, while he votes to cut funding for security. And yet, you dont see a thing wrong with it.

When obama is re-elected....i think it will hurt you the most....mostly because you only allow yourself to read conservative lies....you have no clue what the truth is...and you will not be able to accpet the fact that what you believe in....gets rejected again.

 

[russ1945]

One more time

In fact, more House Democrats – 149 of them — voted for the cuts than did House Republicans, of which 147 voted for them.

My God man pull your head out, make the popping sound for once. This cannot be laid at the hands of the Republicans. Vit, you started a thread and had it explode right before your very eyes. Do your homework, read something other than the LSM, and maybe next time you will not be so exposed for being as unprepared as Obama. It must be in the genes.

Your thread says that House Republicans made the cut - 149 to 147 looks like you are just as wrong as ever. You just don't get it and you never will. Obama's magic hat has run out of bunnies, his magic wand is just as impotent as your threads.

 

[vitterd]

One more time

In fact, more House Democrats – 149 of them — voted for the cuts than did House Republicans, of which 147 voted for them.

My God man pull your head out, make the popping sound for once. This cannot be laid at the hands of the Republicans. Vit, you started a thread and had it explode right before your very eyes. Do your homework, read something other than the LSM, and maybe next time you will not be so exposed for being as unprepared as Obama. It must be in the genes.

Your thread says that House Republicans made the cut - 149 to 147 looks like you are just as wrong as ever. You just don't get it and you never will. Obama's magic hat has run out of bunnies, his magic wand is just as impotent as your threads.

who controls the majority in the house.....youre not getting the hypocrisy as usual....What about the repubs in the house that voted for the decrease in funding? Are they somehow not responsible? You first tried to lie and say it was for fiscal 2013 and now we find out they also voted to decrease two other times, years earlier. You cant grandstand and blame dems when you, yourself vote to lower funding for security....the hypocrisy doesnt get any worse.

This is another politically motivated move by repubs. Always looking to score cheap points and the feet of dead americans....it is disgraceful and you fall for it everytime. Have you no shame?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

who controls the majority in the house.....youre not getting the hypocrisy as usual....What about the repubs in the house that voted for the decrease in funding? Are they somehow not responsible? You first tried to lie and say it was for fiscal 2013 and now we find out they also voted to decrease two other times, years earlier. You cant grandstand and blame dems when you, yourself vote to lower funding for security....the hypocrisy doesnt get any worse.

This is another politically motivated move by repubs. Always looking to score cheap points and the feet of dead americans....it is disgraceful and you fall for it everytime. Have you no shame?

Republicans trying to score the feet of dead Americans?

What do you suppose they’re going to do with them there feet?

:monsters-

 

[vitterd]

Republicans trying to score the feet of dead Americans?

What do you suppose they’re going to do with them there feet?

:monsters-

run along dave

 

[russ1945]

Republicans trying to score the feet of dead Americans?

What do you suppose they’re going to do with them there feet?

:monsters-

Vit does not understand that having the majority is not in play here, the vote was what I showed and 2 more democrats voted in favor of the bill than did replublicans. It is too much for him to understand. What did republicans hold a gun to the dems who voted the same way they did. Vit just continues to float around in the deep water with the same kind of life jacket as the rest of the Obamabots. You cannot shame a man who has no pride. I believe it was Rahm Emanuel who said to never let a serious crisis go to waste. Let me see now, is he still a democrat. The Dem's are in deep shit right now and it is all in the way they handled everything, it is all on them.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

run along dave

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[vitterd]

Vit does not understand that having the majority is not in play here, the vote was what I showed and 2 more democrats voted in favor of the bill than did replublicans. It is too much for him to understand. What did republicans hold a gun to the dems who voted the same way they did. Vit just continues to float around in the deep water with the same kind of life jacket as the rest of the Obamabots. You cannot shame a man who has no pride. I believe it was Rahm Emanuel who said to never let a serious crisis go to waste. Let me see now, is he still a democrat. The Dem's are in deep shit right now and it is all in the way they handled everything, it is all on them.

so what about the repubs that voted for this decrease 3 times? Nothing to say about them huh? For once in your life, be your own man....jesus christ are you are party line sheep.....

do you realize that when you talk about me to another poster, without answering questions....that it looks like youre a child? You are in your 60's and you behave like youre 6.

 

[vitterd]

you somehow always make everything a political issue....blame, blame, blame and never take any reponsibility....that is the life of a republican. Sad existence,

 

[russ1945]

What is so funny is that you just don't get it. Your adult Alinsky based replies are laughable to me. On the facts this thread and the whole idea you tried to promote came out flat and in fact dead wrong. You are the party line guy and everyone here knows it but you. What is a sad existence, that would be the existence the unemployed lead, that those on food stamps lead. Obama doesn't get it, and you Obamabots don't either. In the end you threw up a thread and basically called me out. You had it blow up in your face and once again you have no shame. Maybe you should learn to cut and paste, you would be much better served. Stick to things you know like Big Bird. Birds of a feather flock together don't you know. lol