Washington, Oct. 15 (ANI): Several prominent Republicans have attacked the Obama administration over its shifting explanations for the attack on the American consulate in Libya.
They said that President Barack Obama had committed the same sort of intelligence mistakes as former President George W. Bush did in his handling of the war in Iraq.
"I have seen this movie before," Senator Lindsey Graham said, regarding whether the White House had been too quick to assume that al Qaeda was on the run.
"I went to Iraq in 2004 and everybody told me things are going fine, this is just a few dead-enders. Iraq was falling apart, and you couldn't get the truth from the Bush administration," he added.
"The Middle East is falling apart, and they're trying to spin what happened in Libya because the truth of the matter is, al Qaeda is alive and well, and counter-attacking," the Huffington Post quoted, Graham as saying.
According to the report, Republican Repu Darrell Issa, whose oversight and government reform committee held a hearing on the Benghazi raid, echoed the theme later in a program.
"This is not very Republican, if you will, but when President George W. Bush went aboard an aircraft carrier and said, 'Mission Accomplished', I listened, rightfully so, to people saying, look, but there are still problems, and they're still dying," Issa said.
"And quite frankly, things got worse in many ways after that famous statement," Issa added.
"We're going through a 'Mission Accomplished' moment," Issa continued.
"Eleven years after September 11, Americans were attacked on September 11 by terrorists who pre-planned to kill Americans. That happened. And we can't be in denial, particularly when there are compounds all over the Middle East that need to be legitimately protected at a level that security professionals ask for," he added. (ANI)
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