Hillary Clinton has been telling this lie for a while and it's staggering in its shamelessness.
Glossing over the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that claimed the lives of four U.S. diplomats, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night claimed that “we did not lose a single American” due to military intervention in Libya.
Speaking at a veterans’ forum hosted by NBC News, the former secretary of state said she stands by the 2011 decision to take action in Libya and that America suffered no casualties.
“When Gadhafi was threatening to massacre his population, I put together a coalition that included NATO, included the Arab League, and we were able to save lives. We did not lose a single American in that action,” she said. “And I think taking action was the right decision. Not taking it and permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would’ve been as dangerous and threatening as what we are now seeing in Syria.”
1. The Gaddafi massacre was itself a lie that was disproven a while back. Far more Libyans ended up dying in Hillary's war. So lives were not saved. The Islamist rebels in Benghazi were saved and they repaid us well.
2. Libya is still in the midst of a civil war
3. The ongoing civil war touched off by Hillary helped lead to the murder of Americans in Benghazi