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Particularly in the societies that are in the throes of exceptional historic transitions such as libya and egypt. there you have forces especially on the extreme religion strife who are competing now with the mainstream islam brotherhood led by people like mohamed morsi and it they are using the -- this clip or video whatever you want to call it, as a pretext in their ongoing conflict to shape the future of societies like egypt and libya and it is -- it is useful for these groups to dump everyth...

That these people have hated us when georg white house and we were in two wars in the middle east. these people have hate us in the 1990s, they hated us in the 1980s. the simple fact is i think the obama administration is sort of making a fool out of itself by blaming this all on a video. the reality is is that this sentiment is wide and deep in the middle east, its particularly wide and deep among activist groups and jihadi groups in the middle east and hell hate us regardless. james burnham on...

Is because the solution for bad speech, hate speech, junk speech, garbage speech, whatever you want to call this is not censorship, its more speech. but censorship is a lot easier for the white house. my own view is im very happy that google didnt take it down not because i want to see the kind of riots that were seeing, but because mature, intelligent people should be able to view this thing and decide for themselves whether it is truly the cause of these riots or whether it is a pretext for th...

But -- where we are going with this, at this point, we still have to get the facts and data. its been three days. >> there have been so rumors that the husband a tipoff or some knowledge that something was happening. obviously, this happened on 9/11. so it has -- you know, added significance for us. was there any idea, any notification to put us on alert? it is my understanding that information was given to the embass necairo about the film and that there could be a backlash as a result of that....

But -- where we are going with this, at this point, we still have to get the facts and data. its been three days. >> there have been so rumors that the husband a tipoff or some knowledge that something was happening. obviously, this happened on 9/11. so it has -- you know, added significance for us. was there any idea, any notification to put us on alert? it is my understanding that information was given to the embass necairo about the film and that there could be a backlash as a result of that....

May be phony, but that is the pretext and it is part of the narrative that we are dealing with tonight. as this crisis is growing. >> why would they have -- why would the united states government have four marines guarding this embassy in libya with the instruction that they should carry no ammunition in their guns? what is this about?! they knew it was september 11. they knew that something was going to happen, if they didnt have specific 48 hours notice. every september 11 -- we are not talkin...

This attack was going to happen? and finally, approved an american diplomatic embassy statement apologizing for the video and condemning it, rather than condemning the violence. then -- >> greta: well -- i -- [overlapping dialogue] >> re-upped the statement and tried to criticize romney for that. >> greta: what i dont understand, whether those 48 hours notice or not, which we have been unable to verify. but the region is a powder keg and we should have known that because there was such a swift r...

This attack was going to happen? and finally, approved an american diplomatic embassy statement apologizing for the video and condemning it, rather than condemning the violence. then -- >> greta: well -- i -- [overlapping dialogue] >> re-upped the statement and tried to criticize romney for that. >> greta: what i dont understand, whether those 48 hours notice or not, which we have been unable to verify. but the region is a powder keg and we should have known that because there was such a swift r...

They said senior diplomatic source, that means american source, not hillary or her people, but from the diplomatic core. i upon suspect what is going on on here is that they have lost one of their own and they are raising hell through this leak, toze why the administration didnt act to protect them. pois because that is what i am here to talk about -- is not so much why the muslims came after us, which are probably retaliation for the killing of one of their al qaeda leaders and september septem...

With. not a blame america first response. >> greta: i wasnt suggesting that. in fact, i do not think, after watching the video i watched, that the people who are now making comments about it watched the same video. thats number 1. i will leech it at that. let people look at the film. but the fact that it was used as a pretext, i agree it was a pretext. but thrs theyre so quick to grab the pretext and to run with it and to protest and to murder because we have such low standing in those areas and...