MYTH: Bush did a better job of protecting our embassies than Obama is doing. DEBUNKED: In September 2012, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer implied that events such as that year’s storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo never happened under George W. Bush. Krauthammer said on Fox News Special Report:So to imply that we somehow had mistreated Muslims, which was the premise of his speech, and how the Iraq war had inflamed the Arab world against us — well, there was no storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo in those days.Actually, U.S. embassies and consulates were attacked thirteen times during the Bush administration. Policymic provides the following list:January 22, 2002-U.S. consulate in Calcutta, India attackedJune 14, 2002-Suicide car bomb detonated outside U.S. consulate in Karachi, PakistanOctober 12, 2002-U.S. consulate in Indonesia attacked during the string of attacks known as the “Bali Bombings”February 28, 20030 U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan attacked againMay 12, 2003-Terrorists storm U.S. compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Nine Americans dieJuly 30, 2004-U.S. embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan attacked by IslamistsDecember 6, 2004-U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia attackedMarch 2, 2006-U.S. consulate in Karachi attacked for a third time. Diplomat David Foy is killedSeptempber 12, 2006-U.S. compound in Damascus, Syria attackedJanuary 12, 2007-Greek terrorists fired a rocket propelled grenade at a U.S. consulate buildingMarch 18, 2008-A mortar was fired at the U.S.embassy in Sana’a, YemenJuly 9, 2008-Four attackers fired on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, TurkeySeptember 17, 2008-Two Americans and 16 people overall died in a second attack on the U.S. embassy in Sana’a
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:12:23 +0000
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