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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (680867)10/24/2012 6:48:58 PM
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csmonitor.com As for Colonel Wood blaming a "White House policy that wanted to ... leave the heavy lifting to others" that "left Al Qaeda better 'established'" in the country: He said no such thing. Not in his prepared remarks. Nor in answering questions from members of Congress.

He did say Al Qaeda was a bigger presence in Libya since the US helped drive out Qaddafi, but he didn't lay the blame for that anywhere in his remarks, certainly not on some "lead from behind" strategy. The US was very much lead from the front in the case of the Iraq war, and Al Qaeda was much better established there after the US invasion and 8-year war than it was under Mr. Hussein. There is no reason, no reason at all, to have expected a different outcome in the case of an invasion of Libya.

The US had been leading from the front in Benghazi with a huge presence of diplomatic and intelligence people.

Woods was upset about security there. He argued that they should have had a lot more American security or they should have pulled out completely. He pointed out that the British consulate in Benghazi had shut and "actually had an MOU with us to leave their weapons and vehicles on our compound there in Benghazi." The Red Cross, too, had pulled out of Benghazi and that worried Wood:

When that occurred, it was apparent to me that we were the last flag flying in Benghazi; we were the last thing on their target list to remove from Benghazi.

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