Seven U.S. Embassies And Consulates Were Attacked Under George W. Bush

If Drauthammer says something about politics, you could get rich betting that it is a lie.

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September 14, 2012
CHELSEA RUDMAN

During the September 13 edition of Fox News' Special Report, as images related to the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo played, Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer said: "What we're seeing on the screen is the meltdown, the collapse of the Obama policy on the Muslim world." He continued:

KRAUTHAMMER: The irony is that it began in Cairo, in the same place where the speech he made at the beginning of his presidency in which he said he wanted a new beginning with mutual respect, implying that under other presidents, particularly Bush, there was a lack of mutual respect, which was an insult to the United States, which had gone to war six times in the last 20 years on behalf of oppressed Muslims in Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

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.

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But Seven U.S. Embassies And Consulates Were Attacked Under George W. Bush

2002: U.S. Consulate In Karachi, Pakistan, Attacked; 10 Killed, 51 Injured. From a June 15, 2002, Chicago Tribune article:

Police cordoned off a large area around the U.S. Consulate late Friday and began combing through the carnage and debris for clues after a car explosion killed at least 10 people, injured 51 others and left Pakistan's largest city bleeding from yet another terrorist atrocity.

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2004: U.S. Embassy Bombed In Uzbekistan. From a July 31, 2004, Los Angeles Times article:

Suicide bombers on Friday struck the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Uzbekistan, killing two local guards and injuring at least nine others in the second wave of attacks this year against a key U.S. ally during the war in Afghanistan.

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2004: Gunmen Stormed U.S. Consulate In Saudi Arabia. From a December 6, 2004, New York Times article:

A group of attackers stormed the American Consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jidda today, using explosives at the gates to breach the outer wall and enter the compound, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement. At least eight people were killed in the incident, in which guards and Saudi security forces confronted the group, according to the ministry and news agencies.

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2006: Armed Men Attacked U.S. Embassy In Syria. -----

2007: Grenade Launched Into U.S. Embassy In Athens. -----

2008: Rioters Set Fire To U.S. Embassy In Serbia. -----

2008: Ten People Killed In Bombings At U.S. Embassy In Yemen. -----

And Attacks On Embassies And Consulates Happened Under Other Previous Presidents, including Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton