Obama's Fall Gal's
It was confirmed yesterday that Secretary Of State Hilary Clinton will be Stepping down next year. It has been a very tumultuous year for Mrs. Clinton. There was the Arab spring,Syria, and the Benghazi Libya terrorist attacks that left four Americans dead for which she held herself personally responsible. Many saw this mea culpa as her falling on her sword for President Obama.
For Susan Rice, America's UN representative, it has been far worse in a more devastating way. She was trotted out to five Sunday talk shows to spin the Benghazi attack as a "spontaneous reaction" to the widely publicized anti- Islamic video circulating on you tube. Evidence would later emerge that would render those claims dubious at best. The emails and timeline exposed by the state Department and the intelligence services would later show that the attack was likely to have been an coordinated attack by an Al qaida affiliate in Libya. Ms. Rice for all her efforts was contradicted by her own White house. The congressional hearing that followed served as further embarrassment to the State Department.
In 2003 Colin Powell testified before the UN security council regarding Saddam Hussein's WMD program and to make the case for the US led invasion. After the intelligence was later deemed to be erroneous, there were chants from the black left ( redundancy acknowledged) of the black man being used as a scapegoat by Bush and Cheney. Powell was only able repair his image when he endorsed Barack Obama in 2008. There is no such out pouring of sympathy Ms. Rice since this incident and fallout has all but ruined her chances to succeed Mrs. Clinton. For an administration that prides itself on its respect for women, it is not very manly for the President to stand by and watch these women take the fall for the administration. How's that for a war on women?
For Susan Rice, America's UN representative, it has been far worse in a more devastating way. She was trotted out to five Sunday talk shows to spin the Benghazi attack as a "spontaneous reaction" to the widely publicized anti- Islamic video circulating on you tube. Evidence would later emerge that would render those claims dubious at best. The emails and timeline exposed by the state Department and the intelligence services would later show that the attack was likely to have been an coordinated attack by an Al qaida affiliate in Libya. Ms. Rice for all her efforts was contradicted by her own White house. The congressional hearing that followed served as further embarrassment to the State Department.
In 2003 Colin Powell testified before the UN security council regarding Saddam Hussein's WMD program and to make the case for the US led invasion. After the intelligence was later deemed to be erroneous, there were chants from the black left ( redundancy acknowledged) of the black man being used as a scapegoat by Bush and Cheney. Powell was only able repair his image when he endorsed Barack Obama in 2008. There is no such out pouring of sympathy Ms. Rice since this incident and fallout has all but ruined her chances to succeed Mrs. Clinton. For an administration that prides itself on its respect for women, it is not very manly for the President to stand by and watch these women take the fall for the administration. How's that for a war on women?
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