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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (678166)	10/10/2012 12:17:18 AM
From: PROLIFE	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1584303

Lara Logan Claims Obama is Influenced by Taliban Apologists October 9, 2012 By Daniel Greenfield I won’t claim to know what is going on in Lara Logan’s head and how her recovery has been progressing or even whether her new comments have anything to do with what happened to her, but right now she is one of the very few international correspondents to actually be bucking the trend on Afghanistan. Most of the media wanted Obama to pull out of Afghanistan immediately or close to it. The coverage of his initial surge ranged from the unfriendly to hostile, without actually crossing all the way into Republican territory. Since then the media has mainly buried coverage of the crisis and refused to draw the crucial connections. Now the media is prepared to give Obama his fake Mission Accomplished moment in Afghanistan without calling him on a lost war and the 1,500 lives on his watch. Lara Logan has broken with the crowd and that’s not unprecedented in her career. Her latest statements suggests that she’s speaking out about reports that she is unable to file. Eleven years later, “they” still hate us, now more than ever, Logan told the crowd. The Taliban and al-Qaida have not been vanquished, she added. They’re coming back. “I chose this subject because, one, I can’t stand, that there is a major lie being propagated . . .” Logan declared in her native South African accent. “There is this narrative coming out of Washington for the last two years,” Logan said. It is driven in part by “Taliban apologists,” who claim “they are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder Taliban,” she added sarcastically. “It’s such nonsense!” The lie is that America’s military might has tamed the Taliban. This goes directly against Obama’s narrative that victory has been won and the Afghans will be ready to take over in 2014. Every working reporter in the area knows it’s a complete lie but it’s a lie that’s integral to Obama’s campaign. More dangerously, and we don’t have access to a transcript of Logan’s remarks, she appears to be suggesting that Obama is being influenced by Taliban apologists. For the moment, Afghanistan has not become a campaign issue. Romney doesn’t really want to touch it and polls show most Americans want to pull out. Nobody is calling Obama on the 1,500 dead in his failed surge. No one wants to talk about what really happened, because that’s too close to admitting defeat. Lara Logan is trying to open up a conversation that the country needs to have, but that no one in the political establishment wants to have. Logan even called for retribution for the recent terrorist killings of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other officials. The event is a harbinger of our vulnerability, she said. Logan hopes that America will “exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it.”… frontpagemag.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (678166)	10/10/2012 9:43:22 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584303

Obama out and out lied BREAKING: State Department "There Was NO Protest In Benghazi" Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Just broadcast on ABC News. The State Department is admitting the truth in advance of their congressional testimony tomorrow. Jonathan Karl reports they are now saying there was never any protest in Benghazi, instead it was an unprecedented attack on an American mission. In other words (Karl didn't say this but I am) the President lied to America. If you cannot see video below click here. UPDATE: The AP has added their report: AP adds: The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The revelation came as new documents suggested internal disagreement over appropriate levels of security before the attack, which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S… But asked about the administration’s initial – and since retracted – explanation linking the violence to protests over an anti-Muslim video circulating on the Internet, one official said, “That was not our conclusion.” He called it a question for “others” to answer, without specifying. So if the State Department said there was never was a protest, and the intelligence community says there never was a protest...where did that story about the attack being caused by a protest about a you tube video getting out of control come from?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (678166)	10/11/2012 12:09:50 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1584303

Romney now reaping troop support 2:1 over Obama No wonder some political opposition was making it harder for U.S. troops to vote next month. A new poll by the Military Times finds members of the American military going overwhelmingly for Republican Mitt Romney two-to-one over their current Democrat commander-in-chief. According to the widely-read newspaper, the professional core of the U.S. military strongly supports Romney based on two top criteria: character and the economy. Even for a hardened Chicago machine pol, the results have to sting, given the number of photo ops and other efforts invested in wooing the troops by Obama, his wife, vice president and his wife. When the last troops returned from Iraq, Obama even had Michelle give them a speech in addition to his. A key element of Obama's standard fundraiser speeches involves noting how he ended the war in Iraq, although the schedule was set by the previous administration, and how he's exiting Afghanistan according to his publicly announced schedule. Results of the newspaper's survey are based on answers from 3,100 military who participated as readers in a secure online poll by the Military Times. · If the election was held today, which candidate would they vote for? Romney 66%, Obama 26%. · Which candidate has your best interests at heart? Romney 55%, Obama 24%. (Four percent said both and 16% said neither.) · Which candidate do you believe is sincere about his stated policy positions? Romney 49%, Obama 24%. · What's the most important issue for you in deciding how you will vote? The economy: Overall 41%, Romney 48%, Obama 23%. (The Afghan war was way down in single digits, along with party affiliation.) · The candidate's character was the troops' second most important criteria in casting their vote, drawing 26% overall. · The present commander-in-chief's handling of the defense budget (and the massive pending cuts) was given the lowest rating of fair/poor by 62%. His handling of the war in Afghanistan got the same lowest rating from 57%, while 53% similarly disapproved of Obama's repeal of the Don't Ask-Don't Tell policy on gays in the military. · Fifty percent said Obama performed fair/poorly on handling military pay and benefits. · Fully 57% say they will vote this year by absentee ballot, 47% in person. In a major policy address Monday, Romney outlined a more aggressive style of diplomacy than what he called Obama's passive brand. Romney also vowed to stop the massive cuts in defense spending planned under the Obama administration, decrying the drift of American military might down to levels of decades ago. He maintained that overwhelming strength deters aggression. "America must have confidence in our cause," the Republican nominee said, "clarity in our purpose and resolve in our might. No friend of America will question our commitment to support them. "No enemy that attacks America will question our resolve to defeat them. No one anywhere, friend or foe, will doubt America’s capability to back up our words." The next Romney-Obama debate on Oct. 16 will focus on foreign affairs in a townhall format. The final set-to on Oct. 22 will use the same segmented format as last week's first debate and deal with both domestic and foreign topics.