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Probably not. Fox News didn't feed this information to the low-information bigots.
Further evidence that the Republican "outrage" is purely political.
And no, it wasn't the same the other way around. Democrats did not politicize the embassy attacks or try to attack Bush for them - before anyone tries a hand at the false equivalency card.
US Embassies & consulates attacked under Bush:
June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Truck bomb kills 17.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan
Suicide bomber kills two.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls' school instead.
September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.
The University of Maryland database also lists 64 attacks on American diplomatic targets during the George W. Bush administration, including car bombs at the US embassy in Yemen and armed attackers assaulting a US consulate in Saudi Arabia.
SCE2AUX2: Wrong again, you low-information fool. Obama called the attacks "acts of terror" the very next morning after the attacks. Romney was proven wrong on this at the debates. Get with the program.
Obama is the most: Show us any evidence that Obama altered Petraeus' reports. BTW, you've already made it clear in past questions that you hate Obama because of his race, so your opinions are invalid.
sister_: No, and neither did Obama. He called it an act of terror. And if Obama did blame a video, what does that mean exactly? Is that a crime? A scandal? You're scraping at the bottom of the barrel for anything.
Nikki: Why is that any different? People were killed (including Americans). US sovereignty was violated.
Two Lanes: "And you never hear of a republican calling liberals names or whining about MSNBC at every turn."
Probably the biggest lie told all year. Republicans & Conservatives call Liberals names and whine about MSNBC ALL THE TIME.
Trapped In The Wall: "Did George Bush ever have a CIA fire team on the ground, Marine quick reaction team only a few hours away on an airbase that was ready to support the SEALs trapped in the embassy, and then tell all of them not to do anything? Obama did. "
A complete LIE on your part. Obama NEVER told Marines not to act. You're a liar, and I invite you to provide a source showing that Obama gave an order for Marines not to intervene. You are a liar, and you hate facts almost as much as you hate Obama.
Ollicopter: Protests in reaction to the video occurred during the same day of the attacks - it's reasonable to make that mistake. Besides, why would that be a scandal whether Obama blamed the video or not? How is that a crime? You're an absolute clown.
SCE2AUX2: "No, YOU are the one who is wrong, you mendacious turd. Obama was referring to "acts of terror" IN GENERAL. NOT Benghazi."
He used the term "acts of terror" in a speech directly about Benghazi. Clearly that shows he implied that Benghazi was an act of terror. You hate facts.
But here's the thing - whether he blamed the video or not, how is that a crime or an impeachable offense? There is no proof it was deliberate. Many people thought the video was to blame because of the confusion over the fact that the attacks & protests of the video occurred on the very same day.
You are one low-information clown.
Trapped in The Wall: I read the entire article. I saw nowhere in the article it backing your claim that Obama told Marines not to protect the consulate. You just made that up. Again, I will repeat it - YOU ARE A LIAR.
Show me anywhere in that article that verifies your claims.
sister_: "Obama actually did blame a film for 2 weeks. He got his GF Rice to do the same plus his Press Secretary and others in the administration. You're the only person who seems to think it didn't happen."
No, you're just in the Republican bubble. The same bubble that told you Romney would win in a landslide. Many people don't side with your lies. Whether Obama blamed a film or not is irrelevant, because the allegation from the right that it was a crime/cover-up worthy of impeachment. Reporting faulty intelligence is not a crime. And mark my words, Republicans will come up short to find anything.
Paul: I don't see what your implications are - your videos say that the State Department knew of attacks while they were happening. A CIA security team was sent, but they were too late. Nothing you stated was a crime.
Trapped in The Wall: You wouldn't do anything, you coward. You're angry because I proved you to be a LIAR.
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I have never seen so many straw man attacks in my entire life!!! Trapped in a wall, the Teams got there in 25 min from the attack. - According to the timeline, the first call for help from the consulate was received at the CIAâs nearby Benghazi headquarters â referred to as a diplomatic annex by U.S. officials â at around 9:40 p.m., which is when the attack began.
âFewer than 25 minutes later, a security team left the annex for the mission,â said the timeline, which added that the group spent about 25 minutes trying to take out militants firing heavy weapons as it fought its way to the walled compound and then entered it under heavy fire.
At 11:11 p.m., according to the timeline, an unmanned surveillance drone arrived over the complex while the CIA security team, which comprised about six officers, rounded up the approximately 30 staff members on the consulate premises and prepared to move them to the annex. The security team at that point had recovered Smithâs body but had been unable to locate Stevens, who local Libyan guards had spirited out a backdoor to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead from smoke inhalation.
The CIA security team and the mission staff drove out of the consulate under fire and returned to the annex, which had come under sporadic small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/01/3078450/us-says-cia-sent-security-team.html#storylink=cpy
That's your article that is supposed to prove Obama did nothing
What is so stupid about these allegations is that Obama would have absolutely nothing to gain if he did hold back a rescue. Unless there is soon going to be a wild conspiracy theory cooked up.
I have never seen so many straw man attacks in my entire life!!! Trapped in a wall, the Teams got there in 25 min from the attack. - According to the timeline, the first call for help from the consulate was received at the CIAâs nearby Benghazi headquarters â referred to as a diplomatic annex by U.S. officials â at around 9:40 p.m., which is when the attack began.
âFewer than 25 minutes later, a security team left the annex for the mission,â said the timeline, which added that the group spent about 25 minutes trying to take out militants firing heavy weapons as it fought its way to the walled compound and then entered it under heavy fire.
At 11:11 p.m., according to the timeline, an unmanned surveillance drone arrived over the complex while the CIA security team, which comprised about six officers, rounded up the approximately 30 staff members on the consulate premises and prepared to move them to the annex. The security team at that point had recovered Smithâs body but had been unable to locate Stevens, who local Libyan guards had spirited out a backdoor to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead from smoke inhalation.
The CIA security team and the mission staff drove out of the consulate under fire and returned to the annex, which had come under sporadic small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/01/3078450/us-says-cia-sent-security-team.html#storylink=cpy
That's your article that is supposed to prove Obama did nothing
What is so stupid about these allegations is that Obama would have absolutely nothing to gain if he did hold back a rescue. Unless there is soon going to be a wild conspiracy theory cooked up.
Attention Toronto Locals! (or Ontario residents) Best time to visit ?
Mieah
Hi. I am planning a trip to Toronto with my mom and I wanted to know what's a good time of the year to visit. I am trying to convince her to move to Ontario (preferably Southern Ont) She thinks Canada is cold and snowy all year round and I'm trying to show her that it's not like that. I wanted to go in April maybe late March, but it might be still a little cold. I personally love Canada. And also, what are some good places to visit when going to Toronto ? Thanks.
Answer
Toronto in summer is hot. REALLY hot. And tropically humid too.
That's due to southern Ontario being bordered by three of the Great Lakes.
All that water gets steamy in summer, and so does southern Ontario including Toronto.
Especially Toronto: it's a port city on the shore of one of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario.
How hot is hot? By July 17th 2012, Toronto had issued 8 heat alerts:
Link - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-breaks-weather-record-as-temperatures-top-36c/article4422462/
Remember that we're metric, so our temperatures are in Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
36.2°C = 97 F. On top of which is the humidity that makes it feel even hotter.
For pretty much all of last summer, Toronto was hotter & steamier than Los Angeles.
So plan your visit for June or July, not March or April.
That way your mom will have absolute proof Canada's NOT cold & snowy all year long.
Things to do? Toronto is the 4th biggest city in North America. And it shows:
Over 9,000 restaurants serving food from everywhere around the world.
2,000 pieces of fine art on display in public buildings & civic centres,
150 monuments and pieces of public art,
125 public museums & art galleries. (like the Royal Ontario Museum & Art Gallery of Ontario.)
80+ annual cultural events, including Caribana & Nuit Blanche,
75+ annual film festivals, including the world-famous Toronto International Film Festival,
Over 5 dozen shopping malls including Toronto's famous glass-ceiling Eaton Centre,
50+ ballet and dance companies,
Dozens of movie theatres,
6 opera companies,
3rd largest theatre district in the English-speaking world with 90 separate venues,
2 symphony orchestras,
And the Toronto Zoo too.
Plus hundreds of bars and nightclubs for the grown-ups to go have fun at.
(Including North America's biggest club, The Guverment that holds up to 10 thousand people.)
There's 1,500 parks and 8,000 hectares (20,000 acres) of parklands, including the scenic Rosedale Valley, Scarborough Bluffs and more.
Link - http://www.toronto.ca/parks/trails/discover.htm
Plus 195 km (121 miles) of bike trails and pedestrian paths.
Toronto's on the shore of Lake Huron, so of course there's beaches:
Link - http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2011/07/the_top_five_beaches_in_toronto/
The Toronto PATH is like nothing you or your mom will have ever seen before.
PATH is 28 km (17 miles) of pedestrian tunnels underneath downtown Toronto.
It's like a giant mall with 1,200 stores and holds the Guinness World Record for world's largest underground shopping complex:
Link - http://www.torontopath.com/view/Virtual-Tours-of-the-PATH.aspx
(It's also a super handy way to get around downtown in bad weather.)
The CN Tower is a must-see tourist attraction:
Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ffjDqybWeE&feature=related
(Also check out Youtube videos of the CN Tower Edgewalk. Expensive, crazy scary, but fun.)
The Entertainment District is popular:
Link - http://torontoed.com/
So is Toronto's very own castle, Casa Loma:
Link - http://www.casaloma.org/
Harbourfront Centre is popular:
Link - http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/summer/
So is the biggest roller coaster amusement park in the country, Canada's Wonderland:
Link - http://www.canadaswonderland.com/
Plus Wild Water Kingdom:
Link - http://wildwaterkingdom.com/
And some people like just riding around on Toronto's street cars and subway trains.
Toronto is known as 'the city of neighbourhoods' and some of them are tourist attractions.
The TTC, Toronto's public transit system, is a great way to explore them.
There's also the Toronto Islands, with lots to see and do and ferries that run every few minutes.
The main freeway that passes through Toronto is the 401. At one point, it's 24 lanes wide.
And it's the busiest highway in all of North America, by the way.
I've met people that visited Toronto just to crank up the tunes on their car stereo and drive it.
A two hour drive north of Toronto is Muskoka, referred to as 'Ontario's cottage country'.
It's 2500 square miles with 1600 lakes, plus waterfalls and cliffs and where people from Toronto and all over Ontario get away from it all to get back to nature in summer.
Nearby is the city of Parry Sound, and Lake Huron's Georgian Bay.
Georgian Bay has the Thirty Thousand Islands, the largest freshwater island archipelago on Earth.
It's a great place to visit in summer if you guys are into boating at all.
Just Google 'Toronto tourism' for more ideas.
And look up some Youtube videos of Toronto to show her what it looks like.
Hope that help and good luck.
But if you do come in June or July, pack shorts and t-shirts. You'll need them.
Toronto in summer is hot. REALLY hot. And tropically humid too.
That's due to southern Ontario being bordered by three of the Great Lakes.
All that water gets steamy in summer, and so does southern Ontario including Toronto.
Especially Toronto: it's a port city on the shore of one of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario.
How hot is hot? By July 17th 2012, Toronto had issued 8 heat alerts:
Link - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-breaks-weather-record-as-temperatures-top-36c/article4422462/
Remember that we're metric, so our temperatures are in Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
36.2°C = 97 F. On top of which is the humidity that makes it feel even hotter.
For pretty much all of last summer, Toronto was hotter & steamier than Los Angeles.
So plan your visit for June or July, not March or April.
That way your mom will have absolute proof Canada's NOT cold & snowy all year long.
Things to do? Toronto is the 4th biggest city in North America. And it shows:
Over 9,000 restaurants serving food from everywhere around the world.
2,000 pieces of fine art on display in public buildings & civic centres,
150 monuments and pieces of public art,
125 public museums & art galleries. (like the Royal Ontario Museum & Art Gallery of Ontario.)
80+ annual cultural events, including Caribana & Nuit Blanche,
75+ annual film festivals, including the world-famous Toronto International Film Festival,
Over 5 dozen shopping malls including Toronto's famous glass-ceiling Eaton Centre,
50+ ballet and dance companies,
Dozens of movie theatres,
6 opera companies,
3rd largest theatre district in the English-speaking world with 90 separate venues,
2 symphony orchestras,
And the Toronto Zoo too.
Plus hundreds of bars and nightclubs for the grown-ups to go have fun at.
(Including North America's biggest club, The Guverment that holds up to 10 thousand people.)
There's 1,500 parks and 8,000 hectares (20,000 acres) of parklands, including the scenic Rosedale Valley, Scarborough Bluffs and more.
Link - http://www.toronto.ca/parks/trails/discover.htm
Plus 195 km (121 miles) of bike trails and pedestrian paths.
Toronto's on the shore of Lake Huron, so of course there's beaches:
Link - http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2011/07/the_top_five_beaches_in_toronto/
The Toronto PATH is like nothing you or your mom will have ever seen before.
PATH is 28 km (17 miles) of pedestrian tunnels underneath downtown Toronto.
It's like a giant mall with 1,200 stores and holds the Guinness World Record for world's largest underground shopping complex:
Link - http://www.torontopath.com/view/Virtual-Tours-of-the-PATH.aspx
(It's also a super handy way to get around downtown in bad weather.)
The CN Tower is a must-see tourist attraction:
Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ffjDqybWeE&feature=related
(Also check out Youtube videos of the CN Tower Edgewalk. Expensive, crazy scary, but fun.)
The Entertainment District is popular:
Link - http://torontoed.com/
So is Toronto's very own castle, Casa Loma:
Link - http://www.casaloma.org/
Harbourfront Centre is popular:
Link - http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/summer/
So is the biggest roller coaster amusement park in the country, Canada's Wonderland:
Link - http://www.canadaswonderland.com/
Plus Wild Water Kingdom:
Link - http://wildwaterkingdom.com/
And some people like just riding around on Toronto's street cars and subway trains.
Toronto is known as 'the city of neighbourhoods' and some of them are tourist attractions.
The TTC, Toronto's public transit system, is a great way to explore them.
There's also the Toronto Islands, with lots to see and do and ferries that run every few minutes.
The main freeway that passes through Toronto is the 401. At one point, it's 24 lanes wide.
And it's the busiest highway in all of North America, by the way.
I've met people that visited Toronto just to crank up the tunes on their car stereo and drive it.
A two hour drive north of Toronto is Muskoka, referred to as 'Ontario's cottage country'.
It's 2500 square miles with 1600 lakes, plus waterfalls and cliffs and where people from Toronto and all over Ontario get away from it all to get back to nature in summer.
Nearby is the city of Parry Sound, and Lake Huron's Georgian Bay.
Georgian Bay has the Thirty Thousand Islands, the largest freshwater island archipelago on Earth.
It's a great place to visit in summer if you guys are into boating at all.
Just Google 'Toronto tourism' for more ideas.
And look up some Youtube videos of Toronto to show her what it looks like.
Hope that help and good luck.
But if you do come in June or July, pack shorts and t-shirts. You'll need them.
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