Hillary Declares ‘We Did Not Lose a Single American’ in Libya
Hillary Clinton is taking heat for saying that, in Libya, she “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 made this claim during Wednesday’s presidential forum on NBC.
Some would beg to differ, citing the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.
Really? @HillaryClinton said we "didn't lose a single American in Libya". She does know #Benghazi is in Libya right? #NBCNewsForum
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 8, 2016
Politifact investigated Hillary Clinton’s claim, and while deeming it “narrowly accurate,” acknowledges that it is also “so narrowly framed as to be misleading.”
Clinton is correct when she says that no Americans died in the coalition effort to oust Moammar Gadhafi over seven months in 2011, but the direct result of that coalition was a power vacuum in Libya that Islamic extremists have taken advantage of. Ted Bromund, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, told Politifact, “In the forum, Clinton used ‘a very narrow definition, one custom-built to define away any of the larger problems with the Libyan intervention.’”
Exactly. Four Americans died in Libya — including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens — as a result of the power vacuum created under NATO while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. It’s misleading for Hillary Clinton to ignore these deaths when claiming no American lives were lost in Libya. (For more from the author of “Hillary Declares ‘We Did Not Lose a Single American’ in Libya” please click HERE)
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