Question for Obama / Clinton Supporters

The State Department budget is not part of the defense/military budget.

My mind is made up... Your ignorance is showing...

Aside from coddling Israel more and threatening to engage our troops in Syria and Iran, What is Romney's Foreign policy and how exactly does it differ from Obama's.

Please try to refrain any reference to "apologizing for America".

The state dept uses military personnel for security at it's "missions" in foreign countries. If the budget cuts to defense are realized, then the persons doing such job would be limited. Resulting in the state dept budget going up as to having to hire Private securtity forces to conduct the same job.

The security guys killed in Benghazi were ex-military I thought.

According to USA Today, Yahoo , and others it was a military force that was not prepared for the #s of
terrorists that raided the compound.

Martin Ent Inc wrote: But you guys want less defense/military spending.
Make upyour mind.

We certainly do not want to cut the budget for security of those civilians working on our behalf in dangerous missions, unlike the republicans.

It is certainly shameful for the House GOP to be grandstanding and politicizing the deaths in that tragedy while at the same time ignoring their own culpability in those deaths. Likewise for Romney to be using those deaths for political gain even though the mother of the slain ex-SEAL has requested that he not use that individual's name on behalf of his campaign.

And why was it "not prepared"?...But the request for more personnel was turned down because of GOTP budget cuts to the STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGET....

Let me know when you have something relevant besides irrelevant right-wing talking-points...

Secretary for international programs Charlene Lamb, in Nordstrom’s view, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi “artificially low,” according to a memo for Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... hazi-post/

Boy, facts are stubborn things....

U.S. officer got no reply to requests for more security in Benghazi

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. security officer twice asked his State Department superiors for more security agents for the American mission in Benghazi months before an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, but he got no response.

The officer, Eric Nordstrom, who was based in Tripoli until about two months before the September attack, said a State Department official, Charlene Lamb, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi "artificially low," according to a memo summarizing his comments to a congressional committee that was obtained by Reuters.

Nordstrom also argued for more U.S. security in Libya by citing a chronology of over 200 security incidents there from militia gunfights to bomb attacks between June 2011 and July 2012. Forty-eight of the incidents were in Benghazi.

A brief summary of Nordstrom's October 1 interview with the Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was contained in a memo prepared by the committee's minority Democratic staff.

A leading Republican on the committee probing the attack, Representative Jason Chaffetz, told Reuters Tuesday he thought security decisions U.S. officials made for the Benghazi mission had turned out to be "deadly" ones.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-officer-got-no ... 39222.html

Jay Carney didn't sound like he was having a good day explaining for Benghazi.