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“The Republicans and Democrats are
wrestling over whether or not there was a ‘stand-down order’ in Benghazi
that prevented firing by some US military assets, that were, I guess,
at the scene, that would have allowed them to protect the diplomats/CIA
station chief and some others back in September 2012 - the Benghazi
incident, that’s the big deal in American politics,” Don DeBar, an
anti-war activist and radio host in New York, said during an interview
with Press TV on Saturday.
US military officers have testified before Congress that there was no
"stand-down order" that held back military assets that might have been
able to prevent two of the four US deaths at a diplomatic outpost and
CIA annex in Benghazi.
The Benghazi issue has become a rallying cry for Republicans, who
have been conducting congressional inquiries and condemning the Obama
administration for its response in the final weeks of Obama's 2012,
condemning its incompetence and cover-up.
“No one, either Republicans who are also claiming that they are going
to sue Obama for extra-constitutional activities, nor the Democrats,
who hold themselves out to the electorate to the people are opposed to
the Americans – the majority of Americans by every measure now – [are
discussing] that there was an illegal war conducted by the president
that destroyed Libya,” DeBar said.
The war’s purpose was to “enable the introduction of AFRICOM [one of
nine Unified Combatant Commands of the United States Armed Forces] --
and through exploitation of Africa -- into the continent of Africa and
also to prevent any secular socialist Muslim state carrying an
independent foreign policy and with money and material from opposing US
interests,” DeBar added.
“It was intended to allow the further penetration and conquest of
both Africa and the Middle East, and it was done illegally. Thousands of
people were killed. Racist propaganda - anti-black, anti-African racist
propaganda was used that resulted in the lynching of the black people
-- this, coming from the United States government headed by a black man
whose father was an African. None of this gets discussed. They discuss
whether or not the guy who got shot could have been not shot, and whose
fault is it. In any event, no one even discusses the fact that he was
the CIA station chief in Libya, and perhaps the people that were there
knew it, and somebody decided to take revenge for what was done to their
country,” he stated.
“The actors themselves are treated as if
they're insane actors - no one probes their motive, because their motive
is to exact some penalty for what was done to their country by the
United States, obviously. No one's talking about any of that,” DeBar
concluded
