Rand Paul: “There Is A War On Christianity”

Rand Paul SC Rand Paul: There is a war on Christianity

These remarks were delivered at yesterday’s Faith and Freedom Coalition luncheon in DC.

 

Last year in Pakistan, 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for being a girl and for wanting to go to school.

If you haven’t seen the YouTube videow of Malala being interviewed on national television, speaking out for the education of girls, watch and you will be amazed at her poise and grace.

Malala never met the great Urdu poet Parveen Shakir, who grew up in Pakistan when women could become highly educated and even Prime Minister.
This line from one of Shakir’s poems reminds me of Malala:

“They insist upon evaluating the firefly in daylight. The children of our age, have grown clever.”

Why would anyone want to kill this innocent young girl? Because Malala, in her young life, insisted on exposing the firefly to daylight.

Her “crime,” as seen by the Taliban, is to believe in enlightenment, to believe that out of the darkness a flicker of tolerance can glow and grow to overcome ignorance.

Americans are seen by Pakistanis as infidels and invaders. We will not in a thousand years bring enlightenment to Pakistan, only Pakistan can do that.

When Pakistan begins to police Pakistan better, when girls who long for nothing but freedom and education are embraced — rather than gunned down by murderous thugs — then will progress finally be made.

My heart breaks for Malala and her family. It breaks for all those who suffer under violent oppression in the name of religion. It breaks for those who cannot grow up to be poets and teachers, but mostly it breaks for those who cannot speak without being gunned down by extremists.

I can only hope that the violence done to her will motivate those who believe in both Islam and peace and tolerance to stand unanimously and proclaim this violence does not represent them. That the Taliban does not represent them. That gunning down children in cold blood does not please their God.

The violence and intolerance against girls is also directed toward Christians. It saddens me to see countries that are supposedly our allies persecute Christians.

It angers me to see my tax dollars supporting regimes that put Christians to death for blasphemy against Islam, countries that put to death Muslims who convert to Christianity, and countries who imprison anyone who marries outside their religion.

There is a war on Christianity, not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide.

And your government, or more correctly, you, the taxpayer, are funding it.

You are being taxed to send money to countries that are not only intolerant of Christians but openly hostile. Christians are imprisoned and threatened with death for their beliefs.

In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian, sits on death row. Her crime, according to her, is that she dared to drink from a glass that belonged to a Muslim co-worker.

According to her co-workers, she insulted the Prophet. In our country, we refer to such quibbling as gossip. In Pakistan, if you are a Christian, it can land you on death row.

Recently, in Pakistan, a 12-year-old with Downs syndrome was imprisoned and charged with a death penalty crime for burning the Koran.

After weeks she was released after a local Imam was accused of actually sprinkling pages from an Arabic book into a fire near the little girl.

Dr. Shakil Afridi is not a Christian but his imprisonment by Pakistan is nonetheless an injustice. He was tortured and held without charge for nearly a year.

He was shackled with his hands behind his back for months and he was finally imprisoned, likely for the rest of his life for the crime of helping America get Bin Laden.

How do your leaders respond? 90 % of them voted against my bill that would have put restrictions on this aid.

My bill said that Libya, Egypt, and Pakistan would get no more foreign aid from the US taxpayer unless they turned over the assassins that killed our ambassador, pledged and verified that they CAN and WILL protect our embassies, and in the case of Pakistan they must release Dr. Afridi.

Overwhelmingly, I was voted down. Is it any wonder that Congress has a 10% approval rating? In Egypt, in Pakistan, they burn our flag—I say not one penny more to countries that burn the American flag!

Even when we’ve tried through good intentions to make the world a better place our actions have often backfired.

During the Iraq War, over a quarter-million Iraqi Christians fled Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator but his government was secular and therefore relatively safe for Christians. Christians, however, feared the Shiite government that we helped put in place after Saddam, and they fled in droves.

Where did these Christians go? They headed mostly for Syria, joining the over one million Syrians who have lived as Christians since the time of Christ.

Now, the senate is attempting to arm the rebel forces in syria, many of whom are al quaeda or affiliates.   they do so out of a miguided attempt to stop the violence in syria.

Instead their actions will bring more violence and more persecution of Christians, who have long been protected in Syria.

Before the Arab Spring, Christianity flourished in small outposts, like the Coptic Christians in Egypt. I had hoped that the Arab Spring would bring freedom to long-oppressed people throughout the Middle East, but I fear the Arab Spring is becoming an Arab winter.

Today, Christians in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria are on the run—persecuted or under fire—and yet, we continue to send aid to the folks chasing them.

While they burn the American flag and the mobs chant Death to America, more of your money is sent to these haters of Christianity.

Even if all the atrocities to Christians were not occurring in these countries, we simply don’t have the money to engage in this foolishness. We must borrow the money from China to send it to Pakistan.

While American soldiers spent a decade fighting to liberate Iraq and while American taxpayers have sent roughly $470 million each year in aid, Christians in Iraq are the subjects of what Carl Moeller, president of Open Doors, describes as “religicide.”

Before the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Mosul, a city in Iraq, was home to some 75,000 Christians, but now the number has dropped to around 25,000.

Christian homes are set on fire, bombs are being placed in their cars and Christian families are receiving letters threatening them to leave Iraq or be kidnapped or killed.

American soldiers have also risked their lives for the sake of these countries liberation. Our young men and women have fought for a noble cause but the law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving one.

These countries are not our true allies and no amount of money will make them so. They are not allies of Israel and I fear one day our money and military arms that we have paid for will be used against Israel.

This fight has made me unpopular in Washington but I am willing to risk unpopularity with politicians to do what I am convinced is right.

The new leader of Egypt is Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Recently, he stood by when a radical cleric said a prayer for the destruction of Israel and her supporters in his presence.

Actually, it is worse, he did not just stand by, he was seen to mouth the word “Amen” as the cleric said these words of hatred.

How does your government respond?

The bipartisan consensus in Washington vows to increase Egypt’s funding. The President is currently requesting a billion dollar increase in aid to Egypt.

This is an outrage! It is amazing that so many in Washington fail to see who the real enemies are. We should immediately stop sending F-16’s and tanks to Egypt!

It is clear that American taxpayer dollars are being used to enable a war on Christianity in the Middle East and I believe that must end.

When Pope John Paul II spoke about a “culture of death,” he talked about “a war of the powerful against the weak.”

As Christians, we know we must always stand with the most defenseless. I believe that no civilization can long endure that does not respect life from those not yet born to life’s last breath.

I am the sponsor of a life are conception act in the senate, and I will stand up for unborn children as long as I am privileged to be in office.

These days Christians are often unified in our defense of the not yet born but I exhort you to remember the 19-year-olds who are sent into battle.

War is not a game or a sport and any politician who speaks of pre-emptive war with gleeful bravado should not be leading any nation.

As we sit here, our brave troops risk their lives, serving our country with faithfulness and honor. They endure harsh conditions, loneliness and great danger. I pray for their safe return each day and I pray for an end to the war.

I can recall no utterance of Jesus in favor of war or any acts of aggression. In fact, his message to his disciples was one of non-resistance. I do not believe that means that we don’t defend ourselves.

I believe individuals and countries can and should defend themselves. But I simply can’t imagine Jesus at the head of any army of soldiers and I think as Christians we need to be wary of the doctrine of pre-emptive war.

We must and should stand with our fellow Christians in the Middle East and around the world—but that does not necessarily mean war and it certainly does not mean arming sides in every conflict.

Jesus, himself, reminds us of this in the Sermon on the Mount, when he proclaims, Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Today, we have a culture that accepts the wanton disposal of millions of innocent children, and sends aid to countries that persecute Christians. . . . . I, for one, will not rest until this injustice ends.

As Christians, we understand that the right to life, and freedom of religion, pre-exist all government. These rights are not granted to man by other men, these rights are granted to us by our Creator.

God, help us in these troubling times to make wise decisions, to make moral decisions, and to listen to the voice of God that lives and breathes and resides in us all. Amen.

Unprecedented Corruption: Destroying Ourselves

Chicago White House Unprecedented corruption: destroying ourselves

Americans are seeing levels of corruption in government like never before.  The truths being revealed almost daily highlight a central issue: the importance of integrity in leadership.

Leadership sets the tone and the example.

We’ve been down this road before.  Richard Nixon actively engaged criminality, creating a crisis and destroying confidence in leadership, leading to his resignation.  Bill Clinton’s behavior encouraged staff to behave likewise resulting in criminality, a credibility crisis, and impeachment.

The present state of affairs makes Nixon and Clinton look like amateurs, continuing the shame of seeing executive leadership demonstrate criminal and immoral behavior, leaving youth to conclude that nothing of value matters anymore.

One scandal after another in recent weeks makes this administration look like an international crime syndicate.  Americans should keep in mind that Harry Truman was right in saying that the buck stops at his desk.  Ultimately, the President is responsible, as Obama has stated himself over and over.

The latest outrage involves allegations of criminality in the State Department.  Once again, illegality has apparently been fairly widespread; and when honest government investigators attempted to do their jobs, they were waved off and told to stand down.

This revelation is reminiscent of scandals involving the Secret Service not long ago.  It is another example of government engaging in illegality, covering it up, and then turning on whistleblowers trying to do the right thing.  That spells “police state.”

Working back through time to review this massively deteriorating situation:

>NSA leaks reveal unprecedented domestic surveillance some say far exceeds the original intent of the Patriot Act.  Feds are in bed with 50 communications companies to collect data on citizens.  Creeping fascism.  The Director of National Intelligence is accused of lying under oath.

>The IRS is intentionally harassing conservative groups, infringing constitutional rights, engaging in illegality, and persecuting average citizens with the inappropriate use of FBI and ATF investigators to suppress opposition voices.

>DOJ investigates journalists (Rosen at Fox and hundreds of editors and reporters at the Associated Press.) The Attorney General is now accused of perjury.

>Serial scandals and controversies over the years at DOJ leave the Attorney General looking like a criminal co-conspirator: Black Panthers cut loose after being convicted of felonies, Fast & Furious gun running resulting in hundreds of deaths, subsequent stonewalling of congressional investigators, bungling the Boston Massacre investigation, to name a few.  Whistleblowers again are targeted for persecution and sanction.

>Immigration officials are forced to sue the Administration, alleging that Obama purposefully prevented them from doing their jobs in enforcing standing law.

>EPA officials run roughshod over companies and individuals, installing policies and procedures to enact provisions of global warming mitigation rejected by Congress.

>The EPA releases personal data on 80,000 farmers and livestock operations to environmentalist groups, thus targeting farm families.

>Scandal surrounds Benghazi; leadership is lying to the public, covering up, and attempting to distract attention.

>Another scandal involves the deaths of SEALS in Afghanistan: irregularities, illegalities, lies, and cover up.

>Obama’s Sec. of Health and Human Services illegally asks companies she will regulate to contribute funds to help forward the implementation of ObamaCare.

>Various federal agencies sponsor conferences, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on frivolous events (GSA, IRS, Veterans Affairs for example.)

>Scandals involve fraud and waste throughout the Stimulus spending debacle; green subsidies end in company bankruptcies over and over.

>Obama wages war in Libya without congressional authorization.

>Lies and media manipulation in the wake of Sequestration put public safety at risk.

>Obama makes illegal recess appointments and other moves to circumvent the Constitution and Congress, most notably the effort to install the Dream Act by executive order to achieve immigration reform without legislative action.

This criminal Administration has lost credibility.  The people do not trust Obama.  He never had integrity; and finally, the people have concluded he is unfit to lead.

Heartbreaking reality: the words of Lincoln are coming true . . .

“If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

Character and morality matter, after all.

 

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Video: The REAL Power In Obama’s White House

Ever hear of a company called The Analysis Corporation? No? Neither did most Americans in 2008. This was strange because in 2008, the company netted $65 million dollars and worked for virtually every government agency that had anything remotely to do with intelligence: The NSA, DHS, FBI, and the rest of the alphabet soup of government agencies whose chief goal was to snoop on people who might pose a threat to the government.

So exactly why in early 2008 did The Analysis Corporation find it necessary to “breach” the passport/birth certificate file of Barack Obama? Remember that? Obama, Clinton’s, and McCain’s passport/birth certificate files being “breached,” but only Obama’s being breached “on three separate occasions.” Keep in mind that in 2008, the primary purpose of The Analysis Corporation (they now go by the name of Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc.) was to keep track of terrorists. The breach was chocked up to a “low level” computer operator having fun looking into the passport files and birth certificates of presidential candidates.  We were told he was “disciplined,” although who he was or what this entailed was never made clear. We wouldn’t find out until much later that someone who holds a very high position in the Obama administration today—John Brennan—headed this “terrorist tracking” company.

When Obama won the election in 2008, the mainstream media quietly forgot about this incident. “Birthers,” as the Left has styled those who care about following the “natural born” requirement of the U.S. Constitution for President, quietly filed this fact away as it became clear that Obama’s grammar school records in Indonesia clearly identified him as an Indonesian citizen. We kept this in mind as Obama refused to provide for a full three years his long-form birth certificate. We kept this fact in mind when virtually everyone who had even a modicum of computer knowledge clearly saw that the long-form PDF birth certificate released on April 27, 2011 was not only a forgery, but a bad forgery—verified by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse investigation.

But a new twist came in this Obama-Brennan relationship.

John Brennan almost from Day One became the de facto Commander-in-Chief as he took over the drone program, when he oversaw literally dozens of secret warswhen he virtually ran the White Housethis unbelievably while Brennan was simply a homeland security and terrorism advisor!

According to the recently published book Benghazi: The Definitive Report,  John Brennan, aside from having the authority to murder American citizens as head of the drone program, has been waging a series of secret wars in North Africa and the Middle East against Al Qaeda and Al-Qaeda-linked groups. How secret? So secret that he and his minions at JSOC, Joint Special Operations Command, operated not only outside the purview of Congress, but outside the purview of the Pentagon and the CIA! Former CIA head David Petraeus wasn’t even aware of Brennan’s secret wars!

According to Benghazi: The Definitive Report, the attack on the Benghazi consulate had nothing to do with, as we were told, an amateurish anti-Muslim YouTube video leading to a “protest turned violent,” but was retaliation for John Brennan’s JSOC attacks on the Libya-based terrorist group Ansar al-Sharia.

If that isn’t shocking enough, Brennan, as an almost de facto President of the United States, was secretly meeting with heads of state! According to top secret cables recently released by Wikileaks, Brennan in 2009 met with none other than the King of Saudi Arabia and then-President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh! And these are just the heads of state that we know of!

Why was Brennan, then a low-level advisor to Barack Hussein Obama, secretly meeting with heads of state? Under what authority was (and probably still is) John Brennan waging secret wars in North Africa and the Middle East? Was this the real reason for the attack on the Benghazi consulate, as Benghazi: The Definitive Report makes clear? Does the intel that came out yesterday that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was murdered via lethal injection after a failed kidnapping attempt make sense in light of Brennan’s illegal involvement in Libya and attack of Ansar al-Sharia?

According to an “exclusive” by the Washington Times yesterday:

According to a March 14 posting on an al Qaeda-linked website, Dhu-al-Bajadin stated that Stevens was given a lethal injection that was overlooked during the autopsy. The “plan was based on abduction and exchange of high-level prisoners,” the terrorist wrote on the prominent jihadist Web forum Ansar al-Mujahideen Network. “However, the operation took another turn, for a reason God only knows, when one of the members of the jihadist cell improvised and followed Plan B.”

Western Journalism reported on this months ago while the mainstream media was still playing pin the tail on the YouTube video! We went further in identifying the “high-level” prisoner as being none other than the Blind Sheikh, the “helpless elderly man” as Obama’s buddy in Egypt (Mohammed Morsi) likes to refer to him as.

Make no bones about it: John Brennan, not Barack Obama, is the real power in the White House. And when calls for a House Select Committee to investigate what really happened in Benghazi are finally answered, we will find John Owen Brennan’s fingerprints all over it.

Whistleblower Exclusive: Benghazi Cover-up Proxy Battle With War With Iran

The immediate concern for the Obama administration after the attack in Benghazi was to cover up the connection with Iran and Syria to Ansar al Sharia and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), according to my Benghazi whistleblower source. The attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, was not a terrorist attack; it was a nation-state attack, an escalation of war, and an opening of a new front in the tit for tat conflict with Iran (and by extension their proxy partner Russia) that is now being fought in Syria.

For anyone who thinks that Americans will be told that Benghazi was a nation-state attack by ex-CIA chief David Petraeus in the near future, they are in for a disappointment. He is part of the problem and has been for years. He sold his soul for shiny medals and financial perks and circuses long ago—and as his record shows, he will roll over again and again. Recall how Petraeus fell into lock-step rank-and-file with President Obama and Hillary Clinton when he joined them in falsely misleading America before the 2012 elections by blaming an “out-of-control demonstration prompted by a Youtube video” for the Benghazi attack. He’s as dirty as they are.

In addition, tell me please: how can a man who sends troops to war, on multiple deployments, with duffle bags full of medications, under suicidal and unwinnable polices like catch and release and COIN, while watching the military suicide numbers soar (22 a day or one every 65 minutes) have a conscience or any sense of right and wrong? To be fair, that question includes the morally bankrupt Congress, particularly the long serving members who have allowed these policies that are destroying America’s military to continue unabated for years through the Bush and Obama administrations. As I previously reported, Petraeus is getting off easy for simply apologizing about sex. Take the scales off your eyes, and stop idolizing this gravely flawed, evil man with blood on his hands—the “celebrated General,” as some media types call him. By their fruits you shall know them. Indeed, we know that David Petraeus and his fruits are rotten to the core—unless Petraeus finds his soul, finds a conscience, and makes a deal in exchange for criminal leniency, he will keep toeing the line.

Moreover, freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is correct. You can’t trust the Republicans either. As I reported, the Republican Committee in their Benghazi Interim report already rolled over when they shockingly confirmed the administration’s dishonest story that no one was denied help during the Benghazi attack. As their report states: “No U.S. government element refused or denied requests for emergency assistance during the crisis (page 15),” which as previously reported was a lie (and here’s why.) The Republicans have yet to explain why they were wrong when they backed up the Obama-Clinton regime’s latest falsehood, and thus far have refused to answer my queries. Everyone makes mistakes, but at least have the decency to admit it and explain what happened.

Therefore, it is up to us, you and I, and all the brave whistleblowers and journalists who at great risk must reveal the truth of Benghazi. “What difference does it make?” declared Hillary Clinton during the Foreign Relations Committee hearings—a big one because the truth of Benghazi affects not only America’s future but the entire world.

Here we go.

Let’s break it down. Remember the pictures of the three suspects that the FBI released in relation to the Benghazi attack on May 1? One of my sources with direct information on Benghazi informed me that of those three terrorists, the one on the right is a Yemeni national who was part of the jihadist group Ansar al Sharia. Ansar Al Sharia, according to Saudi intelligence, is backed, funded, and directed by Iran. They are enemies of the Saudis and are trained by Iran’s Quods forces.

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Normally, if the FBI is trying to track down bad guys who are possibly involved in something like a terrorist attack that killed Americans, the FBI offers some sort of reward for any information that will lead to their arrest. Notice how that did not happen with the men in Benghazi? Where’s the incentive for anyone to cooperate? As my source explained, “The game was given away when they gave that picture out. They did the same thing with the Boston Marathon bombers—played dumb, even though we now know they knew who these guys were all along. They are doing the same thing with the Benghazi guys. Saudi intelligence and Western intelligence agencies are very aware of who they are.”

It was these Iranian-backed men in the FBI photos, Ansar al Sharia, who went to Benghazi to build up a militia and radicalized some locals. As my source explained, “when you have an Iranian funded group sent into Benghazi to radicalize the locals that means you are in a proxy battle with the war in Iran.” Why? That’s a two part answer.

First, do you think Iran was happy when seven Iranian Red Crescent workers were kidnapped by gunmen in Benghazi on July 31, 2012? Recall how these Red Crescent workers (equivalent to the Red Cross) were still held captive during the Benghazi attack, were released less than a month after, and were flown out of the Benghazi Benina International Airport. These weren’t your typical aid workers handing out food and supplies. According to my source, they were taken off the streets because they were probing the gunrunning operation into Syria when someone picked them up.

Next, it’s been well documented that the Saudis have been heavily involved in everything in Benghazi and Libya in general, the Muslim Brotherhood in the region, as well as supplying arms to the rebels in Syria to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad—with US assistance despite the line drawn by Russia.

Who else was in Benghazi? A faction of AQIM Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb backed by Syria. Syria, like Iran, was in Benghazi. What was going on in Syria? There was gunrunning and arms smuggling from Libya through Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan into Syria as well as bringing in fighters to engage in a war with Syrian President Assad—the backdoor to Iran.

Meanwhile, shortly after the Benghazi attacks, reports of secret meetings with Obama’s chief advisor, Valerie Jarrett, with representatives of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Qatar regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program that had been going on before the Benghazi attack began to widely surface. The Obama administration wanted to announce a breakthrough agreement in Iran’s nuclear standoff— a diplomatic victory to ensure his reelection. While the Obama administration denied these reports, my source confirmed they are true. “The Iranians played them.”

Because the attack in Benghazi was a nation-state attack, with the 2012 elections coming up, the Obama-Clinton regime did not want American voters to know that, thanks to their under-handed policies of gunrunning into Syria to overthrow Assad with the Saudis, America was in a proxy war with Iran (and by extension their proxy partner Russia.) Do you think American voters would have re-elected President Obama had they known that America is about to be pulled into another major conflict?

Nine months later, the administration still doesn’t want the public to know the truth about Benghazi, which is why (as the Associated Press reported last week) despite the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) identifying five men who might be responsible for the attack, no arrests have been made. “The men remain at large while the FBI gathers evidence”—the same FBI that the Obama-Clinton regime denied access to Benghazi for almost a month after the attack— the perfect way to thwart evidence collection and skew official conclusions as previously reported and documented here.

This is also why President Obama, last week during his speech at Ft. McNair’s National Defense University in Washington, called the attack in Benghazi a “localized” threat. Obviously, he doesn’t want you to see the bigger picture (that is literally unfolding in the Middle East before your eyes as you read this) that his administration is responsible for, the so-called Arab Spring.

What is happening is that America is in the final stages of the run up to the next major military conflict coming up in the Middle East. But unlike Iraq and Afghanistan or the smaller operations in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, Syria won’t implode; it will explode and spread throughout the region in an epic, bloody, deadly Sunni-Shiite conflict. Christians, people of all faiths, and non-believers will be persecuted if not outright slaughtered. Think Islamic Caliphate time.

The security and existence of Israel will also be in jeopardy. As Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz recently warned, Israel must prepare for a three-front war, presumably having to defend themselves from Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. Already, sectarian violence is flaring up in Lebanon and Syria. On top of Iran’s nuclear program, Israel will have to defend herself from Syria’s massive weapons arsenal that includes “advanced anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ship missiles and surface- to-air missiles. Syria also has large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, advanced artillery as well as the other components of a large conventional military force,” reports Caroline Glick. In addition, Israel could also become the target of the weapons that went missing from Libya and Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s vast weapons arsenal that the Obama-Clinton funded rebels looted from Gaddafi’s warehouses that includes the most advanced Russian surface-to air missiles (SA-24s that are easily launched from a person’s shoulder or a truck bed that can take down low-flying military and commercial aircraft.)

I repeat. massive bloodbath ahead; genocide and ethnic cleansing draws near if Obama’s underhanded policies are not stopped. As Time Magazine reported from Libya, this magnified nightmare awaits the troops:

“Stockpiles of old Soviet artillery shells and land mines gave Iraqis enough car bombs, roadside bombs and suicide vests to run an eight-year insurgency that has killed thousands of Americans and many tens of thousands of Iraqis. “If you just take one of these, you have a car bomb,” [Tom Bouckaert of Human Right’s Watchduring an interview in Libya] says, pointing to a box containing 130-mm antitank shells. There are hundreds more stacked in the same room.

A nearby sandy lot holds thousands more antipersonnel and antitank mines, with trip-wire triggers to rig booby traps already available nearby. Hundreds of such stockpiles have been located across Libya. Human Rights Watch found some 60 weapons warehouses in the eastern city of Ajdabiyah alone, all of them looted. “The storage facilities we found in Iraq were minuscule compared to what we’re finding here,” says Bouckaert (emphasis mine).”

One can’t help but ask: what did the Obama-Clinton regime think would happen when they funded al Qaeda rebels to topple Gaddafi? Either they are dangerously stupid, or this is what they wanted to happen considering they have been gearing up for the next stop (Syria) for well over a year now. As previously reported, the State Department will not provide an inventory or location of the weapons recovered in Libya as part of the MANPAD weapons recovery program that Hillary Clinton funded using $40 million in taxpayer money.

Are you awake yet? Is it becoming clear now? I repeat: according to my source, Benghazi was a nation-state attack—not simply a terrorist attack. There has been a U.S. proxy war with Iran since Benghazi. It is heating up by the day.

Look, events are confirming my source’s accuracy. Iranian soldiers and Hezbollah are fighting for Assad in Syria—even the State department had to recently, finally admit this.

Ding! Ding! Russian soldiers and the Syrian Army are fighting the Syrian rebels.

Cannibalism alert! A Syrian rebel, Al Hamad, a Sunni, with a sectarian hatred of Alawite Muslims (that would include Shiites and all other “infidels”), cuts out the heart and lung of a Syrian soldier and eats it.

Now do you understand why Russian President Vladimir Putin recently kept Secretary of State John Kerry waiting for three hours? You know the world is upside down when Putin rightfully distrusts the truth-challenged Kerry, who already betrayed his own country and the troops during Vietnam. Moreover, Putin has been warning for over a year of the “catastrophic” consequences that would befall if the West and Arab nations persist with their military intervention in Syria, which will lead to war with Iran. Obviously, Putin does not want the Muslim Brotherhood on his doorstep either. Would you? Incidentally, the FBI denied my Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on John Kerry prior to his Secretary of State confirmation. As previously reported, Kerry participated in the Benghazi cover-up as well.

Still not awake or retreating into denial? Think about this. Could the Saudis, without the U.S./NATO intervention, have overthrown Assad by arming the Syrian rebels alone to install the Muslim Brotherhood and expand their reach? No; if the Saudis could have accomplished that, Assad would have been gone months if not over a year ago. The Saudis need U.S./NATO intervention. Do not be deceived. As reported here, the same applied for Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Col. Muammar Gaddafi in Libya—two leaders who had banned the Muslim Brotherhood in their countries. Are you awake yet?

Remember, when the Benghazi nation-state attack that killed four Americans happened, America was in the final weeks of the 2012 presidential election cycle. A proxy war with Iran could not be known to the public. It was unacceptable for Americans to know that at any time, troops could be sent into Syria, which will explode into Iran. This is the reason why the Obama-Clinton regime pulled out this obscure Youtube video as the chief culprit to blame for the attack in Benghazi— a YouTube video that doesn’t appear anywhere in their infamous “Talking points” that were repeatedly edited to deceive Americans. The Youtube video was intended to distract the public’s attention on what is really going on in the Middle East. It worked. Indeed, under a heavy fog of deception, Obama was reelected.

Hillary Clinton and the cover-up

If you don’t address the Iranian and Syrian connection to the nation-state attack in Benghazi, you can’t get to the Clintons. Hillary’s starring role is definitely in the Benghazi cover-up because nine months later, it still has not been “officially” confirmed whether Ambassador Christopher Stevens was wearing his State Department hat or his CIA hat at the time he was murdered. What is undeniable is that Hillary was one of the first top administration officials to publicly and falsely blame the Youtube video. She, with President Obama, appeared in a paid advertisement costing $70,000 to disavow the Youtube video that aired in Pakistan. She lied to Tyrone Woods’ father about the death of his son. Her State Department self-investigation, the Advisory Review Board (ARB), blamed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and a lack of funding for the Benghazi attack to conceal the truth. Hillary’s friends, Admiral Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who headed the ARB, didn’t bother to interview the Turkish Counsel General (who Ambassador Stevens last saw before he was killed)—neither have the Republicans thus far. Pickering finally admitted on NBC’s Meet the Press what I and others, like Doug Hagmann, have been reporting for months: that the ARB was a rigged travesty. As Pickering put it, “The Accountability Review Board was there to look at the question of security. We did not examine talking points after the fact. It was not in our remit (emphasis mine).” Indeed, a lot was not in Pickering’s remit.

The next time someone, be it in the media, President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, or members of Congress like the insufferable Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.S.), say the U.S. needs to overthrow Syrian President Assad for humanitarian purposes, ask them what they think will happen next. Are they really so stupid to actually believe that freedom, democracy, unicorns, peace, and lollipops will take over Syria after Assad is removed; or will another vacuum be created for the Muslim Brotherhood to fill? A vacuum that will be filled by massive bloodshed, ethnic cleansing, and genocide that could set the entire region on fire with American and NATO troops being dragged in to serve the interests of someone else who is using America’s military might to create the United States of Islam. You already can see it happening in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.

Wake up, America. Wake up the useful idiots now. The Obama administration has picked a fight with Iran and Russia in Syria that could trigger World War III. It intensified with the Obama-Clinton regime’s gunrunning out of Libya into Syria. As the WSJ reported, Hillary’s State Department provided the “diplomatic cover” in Benghazi. Do not be deceived. Benghazi was a nation-state attack.

By their fruits, you shall know them.

You have been warned.

Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers With Info Devastating To Clinton And Obama

Hillary Clinton 9 SC Ex Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama

More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon.

These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law.

According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the scandal, including details about what really transpired in Benghazi that are potentially devastating to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in two areas — what Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi and the pressure put on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and therefore responsible for Libya, not to act to protect jeopardized U.S. personnel.

Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.

Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”

Read More at PJ Media . By Roger L. Simon.