Beyond Impeachment: Obama Treasonous over Benghazi
October 29, 2012 - 12:01 am
Is it treason when you put your own reelection above the good of your country and the lives of its citizens? If so, Barack Obama committed treason in leaving the four Americans to die in Benghazi.
Our Constitution defines it this way: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Aid and comfort to the enemy - what is that?
When you ascribe an action to the protest of a video when it is actuality a planned terror attack by Ansar al-Shariah, an established offshoot of al-Qaeda (if that's not your "enemy," then who) - and you knew that all along, you watched it live without doing anything, and then you told those who wanted to help to "stand down"? Meanwhile, our government may have been conspiring to arm another offshoot of al-Qaeda in Syria.
How much more treasonous can you get? Benedict Arnold was a piker.
Indeed, the discussion of Benghazi has just begun. And don't be surprised if the conversation escalates from impeachment to treason very quickly. In fact, if Obama wins reelection you can bet on it. The cries of treason will be unstoppable. Not even if the mainstream media will be able to deny them.
As Pat Caddell noted, those same media lapdogs have muzzled themselves in an unprecedented manner in this matter, but our Canadian friends at least have some semblance of honor left, writing: "It is undoubtedly worse than [that] Obama simply turned his back on cornered American citizens in a foreign land, knowing undoubtedly they would die. But that Barack did so without any compelling reason-except political-is beyond evil. Only a moral monster would have made that decision when it was within his powers to possibly save them with almost no effort of his own."
Moral monster? Those are extreme words but they fit an extreme situation and are appropriate to the use of the t-word. But it's worse. Many now are trying to figure out the motivation for this behavior - beyond the obvious electoral whoring mentioned above, the need to be seen in a certain manner at a certain moment to be sure the Ohio vote doesn't fall the wrong way.
But is there more than that? Is the treason yet greater? Were Obama and others covering up more than their ineptitude? Just what was Ambassador Stevens doing in Benghazi that day? Why had he left the Libyan capital to meet with the Turkish ambassador on the anniversary of September 11?
Rumors abound. According to Admiral Lyons writing in theWashington Times "...one of Stevens' main missions in Libya was to facilitate the transfer of much of Gadhafi's military equipment, including the deadly SA-7 - portable SAMs - to Islamists and other al Qaeda-affiliated groups fighting the Assad Regime in Syria." In an excellent article, Aaron Klein states that Stevens routinely used our Benghazi consulate (mission) to coordinate the Turkish, Saudi Arabian and Qatari governments' support for insurgencies throughout the Middle East. Further, according to Egyptian security sources, Stevens played a "central role in recruiting Islamic jihadists to fight the Assad Regime in Syria."
Lyons adds, citing a Clare Lopez article at RadicalIslam.org, "...that there were two large warehouse-type buildings associated with our Benghazi mission. During the terrorist attack, the warehouses were probably looted. We do not know what was there and if it was being administrated by our two former Navy SEALs and the CIA operatives who were in Benghazi. Nonetheless, the equipment was going to hardline jihadis."
Do we know that for sure? I certainly don't, although on the face of it sounds like a "Fast & Furious" scandal on a global scale with extraordinary geopolitical implications. But I imagine there are those who do know the truth, or a lot of it, considering the events were being watched in real time.
None of this, of course, exonerates our government in not giving support to our four now dead men in the field.
Many questions remain to be answered. But I do not think I am being excessive in raising the treason accusation. I would be pleased to withdraw it if proven wrong.
