Benghazi Lives Matter

Donald Trump during his acceptance speech talked about Hillary Clinton and her record while U.S. Secretary of State. Trump said:

America is far less safe and the world is far less stable than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America’s foreign policy. I am certain it is a decision he truly regrets.

Her bad instincts and her bad judgment, something pointed out by Bernie Sanders are what caused the disasters unfolding today. Let’s review the record.

In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map. Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq had seen a big reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was somewhat under control.

After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region and the entire world. Libya is in ruins, and our ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos. Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the West. After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before.

This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction and terrorism and weakness. [Emphasis added]

President Obama and Hillary Clinton blame YouTube video for Benghazi Terrorist attack as the coffins of Ambassador Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and two CIA operatives, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALs arrive from Benghazi:

In a Washington Times op-ed titled “When the power of condescension fades: The old order fades and the minions of the media can’t figure it out” notes:

Some of the Democrats in the media and without seem to be all heart. They’re worried that the Republicans are ruining their convention in Cleveland. They say so at every opportunity.

Chris Matthews of MSNBC, afflicted with tingling-leg disease — he apparently caught it watching Barack Obama spin his magic from the stump — was particularly upset from listening to a mother’s tale of pain and woe over losing her son Sean at Benghazi.

Patricia Smith, the heartbroken mother, stunned the audience in the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland Monday night with her indictment of Hillary Clinton for her reckless endangerment of diplomats in her charge as secretary of State.

“For all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all the cynicism the tragedy in Benghazi has brought upon America,” she said, with tears streaming down her face, “I blame Hillary Clinton. I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son.”

This was in fact tough stuff, the most dramatic moment so far in the week’s proceedings. Poor Chris was left beside himself with wrath and woe, all but blistering his microphone with high dudgeon. He excoriated Mrs. Smith for voicing “this accusation that somehow Hillary Clinton had anything to do with the deaths of [Ambassador] Chris Stevens and the three other victims.

“I don’t understand why the Republicans would choose to put this on primetime television when they have such wonderful stories of American heroism to speak to the American people. I think it was wrong. I don’t care what ‘that woman’ up there, the mother, has felt. Her emotions are her own.” [Emphasis added]

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Trump went on to say:

But Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy. The problems we face now — poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad — will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them. A change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.

Perhaps what Chris Mathews is missing that the American people are looking for a change in leadership who will produce a change in outcomes.

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