To my Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative and Independent friends: we are Americans first and as Americans, we should welcome the investigation to be made by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, no matter where it leads.
For those of us who remember the current events of 1972, which ultimately led to the resignation of a President in the face of certain impeachment, and deservedly so, Republicans screamed witch hunt much like Democrats are screaming now. But as we discovered to our collective horror that such despicable action and activity could be made by one who was sworn to uphold the Constitution, and didn't, we were all satisfied that the Committee did the job it was supposed to do.
Find the truth, wherever it leads.
During the Watergate investigation, we learned new terms like, abuse of power, stonewalling, follow the money, obstruction of justice, and terms that cannot be published in this family-rated site. We also learned that the chief law enforcement officer of our nation actively directed a third-rate burglary from his offices inside the Department of Justice, and that the Counsel to the President acted as a messenger between the burglars and the Chief of Staff to the President, and even to the President himself, all to assure the President's re-election in what was considered a close race in early 1972.
Yes, many laws were broken, but no one died.
What are the supporters of this President afraid of with a similar investigation of a terrible event in our history? That he abused his power? Obstructed justice? Lied for political advantage? Manipulated the truth for his self-serving ego?
Richard Nixon was quoted as saying that the American people had to right to know if their President was a crook. It took some time, but in the end, while he didn't actually steal money or goods, he nearly stole the sanctity of what we all held near and dear: that the idea of the Constitution, you know, the document which makes us who we are, was almost stolen away in the dead of night on June 21, 1972. Or, at least, inside the Oval Office during a conversation that day between the President and his advisors.
Wouldn't this President's supporters want to make certain the same thing did NOT happen between September 11, 2012 and at the point Susan Rice went on the Sunday morning news shows on September 16? Certainly, if the President were misled by someone on his staff or within the Administration, wouldn't even the President want that individual revealed who committed the crime which is now hampering his second term? Wouldn’t we all want to know who gave the order to our military to stand down, leaving an American ambassador and three key members of his team on the field of battle to die a horrible death, with nary a finger lifted to attempt to save them?
Wouldn't that, at this point, be the difference it really makes?
So, who can stand there now, with a straight face and say that Benghazi and Watergate are really any different? Anyone? If you still do, then you either enjoy being lied to by your "government" or you will believe anything blindly which is spoken by Jay Carney, the modern-day Ron Zeigler, who ultimately has destroyed himself and his credibility, by lying for this Administration, much like Zeigler did for Nixon's until August 9, 1974.
Face it, folks. It is time to be honest with ourselves, even if our government isn't honest with us, and admit we were lied to by key members of the Obama Administration, in order to protect individuals who have now caused this second Constitutional crisis in forty years. We have, as we learned by Watergate, the right to believe that our constitutionally elected officers, and that administration, are held to the same standard of law as the rest of us. Otherwise, what is the point?
If the Minority Leader and her minions still wish to abrogate their duties not to serve on the Select Committee that certainly is their right. But, she has no right to prohibit or prevent other sincere individuals of her party from serving their Nation to request to the Speaker to serve, without prejudice, on a Committee, Constitutionally authorized, whose sole purpose is to find the truth, no matter where it leads. Those who do finally serve will show that Country before Party is one of our highest ideals.
Let us end the partisan bickering of an event, which is threatening to irreversibly divide us along party lines, and instead, unite us as Americans to find the truth, no matter where it leads. That really is the American way, isn't it?
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