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A friend-of-a-friend posted this on his Facebook
call me uninformed, but who are these guys and what did Obama do to them?
BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)would be my guess
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The 4 dead in Benghazi?
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)If you don't care about them, that's your business.
garybeck
(9,942 posts)I asked why I should care.
seriously, I was just trying to figure out what the picture was about, so I asked.
this guy on FB has a habit of posting stupid republican crap that infuriates me, so I was just wondering what this one was about.
spanone
(135,877 posts)pkdu
(3,977 posts)Hint: rhymes with Lyin.
garybeck
(9,942 posts)we'll see what happens.
but i gotta take a break from this and get some work done
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)who were killed in Libya. Whoever posted that on Facebook is following the crap from Fox News. This is really disgraceful.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Ask your "friend": if he's so concerned about these people, what are their names? And has the GOP House continually blocked requests for increased funding for the additional embassy security that may have saved them?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)all the people that bush abandoned on 9/11
all the pictures of the people bush abandoned in Iraq
all the people bush abandoned in Afghanistan
all the people bush abandoned during Katrina
that should only total up to about ... 10,000
garybeck
(9,942 posts)BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)when a car-bomber drove into their 'barracks' building in the middle of the night.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)J. Christopher Stevens, was an American diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from June 2012 to September 11, 2012.[3][4] Stevens was killed by terrorists when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked on September 11, 2012: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Stevens_%28diplomat%29
Sean Smith, was an Information Management Officer with the United States Foreign Service who was killed during the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Smith_%28diplomat%29
The other two men were also killed that same day,
sorry I do not know their names.
garybeck
(9,942 posts)for answering my question
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Glen Doherty, Doherty served as a Navy SEAL including tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. After leaving the Navy, he worked for a private security company in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kenya and Libya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Doherty#Glen_Doherty
Winchester native Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL, among victims of Libya attack
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/09/13/winchester-native-one-four-americans-killed-libya-consulate-attack-benghazi/85pjpmEnsiSRkKWs0th28J/story.html
AND
Tyrone Woods, served 20 years of honorable service in the U.S. Navy before joining State Department Diplomatic Security[192] as a U.S. embassy security personnel...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Doherty#Tyrone_S._Woods
Lots of info below
Attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_the_U.S._diplomatic_mission_in_Benghazi
nolabear
(41,991 posts)both of whom have done a nice and reasoned job of debunking that. They don't whitewash, just state the facts as we know them for now.