John Bolton’s Libya Solution — Assassinate Gadhafi
- Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:19am by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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George W. Bush’s former diplomat to the UN and possible presidential contender John Bolton has a solution to the ongoing crisis in Libya: assassinate Libya’s dictator, Moammar Gadhafi.
Speaking at Republican Rep. Steve King’s Conservative Principles Conference in Des Moines, Iowa yesterday, Bolton told a crowd of 600 conservative activists: “Our military has a wonderful euphemism called ‘national command authority.‘ It’s a legitimate military target. In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi is the national command authority. I think that’s the answer right there.”
He later elaborated on what he meant. In an interview with The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, Bolton said, “I think he’s a legitimate target.”
Here’s Grove, reporting on his conversation with Bolton:
“I think he’s a legitimate target,” the white-mustachioed Bolton told me after his speech. “That’s what Reagan did in 1986″—when U.S. jets bombed Gaddafi’s residence in Tripoli, killing his young daughter, in response to a lethal terrorist bombing in Germany—”and that would end the regime right there. He has murdered innocent American civilians. He has never faced responsibility for it. So I don’t have any hesitation in saying that.”
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Bolton said he supports killing Gaddafi even though great uncertainty exists about who or what might replace him, including elements of al Qaeda who reportedly have been aiding Libya’s ragtag band of anti-Gaddafi rebels.
If Libya’s dictator is in fact terminated, the fear is that a leadership vacuum could emerge in that country that Islamists may fill. But Bolton is still willing to take the risk of doing away with Gadhafi: “This is a rare case of Gaddafi on the one hand, the unknown on the other—and I’d pick the unknown.”
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Comments (142)
Baikonur
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:08pmWhat an odd man Bolton is.
Report Post »Glenn Edward Cahill
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 3:30pmOdd? unless clear speak is odd which is what this country is in such need of, than I am not quite sure what you are referring to as Bolten being a odd man. Here is a man with more clarity than this entire current administration. This Country needs more John Bolten’s and his clear speak.
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 8:35pm@GLENN EDWARD CAHILL
Report Post »You don‘t wear a 70’s porn moustache like Boulten does do you? This country has fallen because of backward ‘thinkers’ like him.
Sinista MACE
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:06pmOh, you mean like they did Yitzach Rabin and Anwar Sadat?
Islamists were enraged by Sadat’s Sinai treaty with Israel.
They killed Rabin because of his attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict with the Oslo Accords.
What‘s wrong with the US supporting dictators as long as they don’t try to make peace with Israel?
As soon as they try to make peace with Israel, in any substantial form, they are ASSASINATED and character assassinated by the international community…
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 8:00pmI think a Jew killed Rabin.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:17amAnd?
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 3:43pmJust pointing out that many Jews aren’t interested in peace. Israel and Palestine deserve one another.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:31pmCase and point, Soros.
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:04pmI can…right off…think of several targets besides gadhafi..right here at home. I am surprise some people are still standing..
Report Post »mingfurecon
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:03pmLibya is a sideshow while our dear leader continues his assault on American way of life. Trump just may be able to upset the works if he can make some people take serious notice of his question.
Report Post »With the socialist democrat element pushing hard, our dear leader may have to resort to the ‘reforms’
made famous by Mao. The violent rhetoric on the left is an indication that there are numerous factions in the private and public sector willing to throw down with those that oppose them.
chips1
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 9:39pm“Obama’s a pimp. It was Brazini all along”
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:00pmAssassination is illegal under international law.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:53pmSince when has that ever stopped anyone?
Report Post »JustaThought
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 3:55pmOK … so we don’t assassinate him. Instead we do the humanitarian thing and treat him for severe mental illness by first drilling a large 50 caliber size hole in his head to let the demons out. And call it a surgical extinction … I mean … extraction.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:19amCall it what you want, I call it illegal.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:56amWhat goes around,comes around…Don’t tempt the UN into rule by assasination
Report Post »Brontefan
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:55amIf you don’t take him out.. innocent Americans will die later on. He will come after us–but not our military.
Report Post »Katayno
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:55amIs Bolton using psychology? WIll Qaddafi leave to save is hide….clearly he is NOT afraid of Obama.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:50amWhy? Can we Prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Gadhafi was “ personally ” involved with the “ Locherbie ” terrorist attack or any other violent act against our Republic, not to my satisfaction we haven’t . Therefore Mr. Bolton, me thinks you are a globialist, and I’ve no use for you.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:54amJohn Robert Bolton, former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, member American Enterprise institute ( globalist think tank), and all around sold out one world governance proponent, gee let’s put him in the white house, NOT!
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:44amI agree – the old rat needs to be assassinated. But lets do it very quietly.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:43amBolton prefers the unknown. What does he think this is–The Price is Right where if he picks what’s behind Door #3 the worst that can happen is he gets a lifetime supply of Kibbles & Bits?
Let’s try something else: We kill Gaddhafi and he becomes a martyr to his side, his cohorts being willing to fight with greater fervency and brutality. We feared that happening if we killed Hitler, so we never sent in a team.
Our side has no clue what it’s doing, and what might happen in any of the possible outcomes. But Obow sent us there anyway, and even the Pubs in Congress have given tacit approval with their silence.
No good can come from this.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:51am“No good can come from this.”
Except, you know, less Libyan people die.
Report Post »Uriel
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:56amRight! So if it turns out we’ve made the wrong choice — Instead of getting an Al Qaeda or Muslim Brotherhood run government that will piece itself together across the Arab world to create a new Caliphate, …. we just get a descending “Waah, wah, waaaaaah.” sound effect from backstage.
BTW, I think you’re thinking of “Let’s Make a Deal”; not “Price is Right”. But the “Waah, wah, waaaaah.” that I’m imagining is definitely the one from “Price is Right”.
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 1:15pmA lot of good can come out of this. Let them kill each other until they run out of bodies. This is such a joke.
We can get anyone, anytime, anywhere, including you, Soros. Let the ragheads kill each other across the Middle East. Take our troops and assetts and fortify Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen.
After they are a little weakened, blow Iran off the face of the earth and then hit Turkey and Pakistan with everything we got in Afganiland, Turmeniland and elsewhere. The rest are diversions from the big play coming.
Wake up folks and be ready to feed the pigs here in America. Just like the crap Mexicans, we also got the crap ******* and Africans. Paid for by our U.S tax dollars.
Sickening!
Report Post »tinydd
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:42amI‘ll donate for the 50Cal bullet and Sniper’s time.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:40amI thought we would have figured it out by now. If you go into a Country, only go in if they attack you first.
And If they are a Islamic Country, kill everyone. Burn it to the ground. The end.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:49pmGlass Parking Lot
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:39amIs that Gadhafi or a picture of old aunt Erma.
Report Post »glennisright.com
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:37amBolton always makaes a lot of sense.
http://www.glennisright.com
Report Post »MaggieRose
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:35amJohn Bolton rocks…
Lt Col Allen West 2012, John Bolton Secretary of State! Dream team…
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:28pm@MAGGIEROSE~~~ Right on!!!!
Report Post »sarg356
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:35amcertainly would be a start.
Report Post »Richard Compton
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:33amIf your going try to assassinate Quaddafi just make damn sure you get the job done the first time! If need be overkill is acceptable failure is not an option. The last thing you want is for him to survive an attempt, rising from out of the desert with his thumbs in his ears wagging his hand at us saying “Nan nan nan nan na you missed me!”
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:32amPredator
Report Post »Daffy and his son
Cost effective
drhunt
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:32amCertainly, an ultimatum can be given to Gadhafi, much like Bush gave Saddam and his sons, prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. But whom of us here believe that The Incompetent One has the huevos to issue such a statement? Gadhafi has few friends in the world, with the possible exception of Hugo Chavez. Negotiate a deal to send him to Venezuela…I hear it’s beautiful there this time of year.
Report Post »Uriel
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:31am“This is a rare case of Gaddafi on the one hand, the unknown on the other—and I’d pick the unknown.”
I love Bolton, but he’s wrong on that score. The “unknown” in this case isn’t totally “unknown”; an d it has the potential to be far more dangerous than Gadaffi alone.
Revenge is nice; but why now? It’s been 20-something years, the dish only gets colder.
Report Post »sarg356
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:37amI don’t think it matters.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:29amAhh…a voice of reason!!
Report Post »George Bush‘s war didn’t get Saddam. A good old fashioned bounty did. Same should be done here.
quicker
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:07pmReally;I think it was US TROOPS that got him and pulled out of his hole in the ground.At least he knew differance between his backside and a hole in the Ground
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:54pmShows what you know. US troops were just aimlessly wandering about without a clue as to where Saddam was, until someone interested in the 25 million dollar bounty pointed out his hiding hole. Just like we haven’t been able to find Bin Laden after ALL THESE YEARS.
Report Post »hud
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:41pmYeah, but it hasn’t gotten bin Laden.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:26amBut that’s not the American way. Historically we’ve prefer to torment the object of the hit then secretly stir up the violence so someone else will kill them. That preserves our warped sense of innocence.
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:05pmI’m all for torture of the enemy. Infact, I will volunteer my time and energy to do so. If torture means getting information and saving American lives…DO it…
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:47pmJust carpet bomb Libya and afterwards turn it into a glass barking lot..
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 4:41pmI can’t stand Bolton – http://wp.me/pYLB7-Nx
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:25amWhile I don’t agree with the views of Moammar Gadhafi, I respect him because he too has a gall bladder.
Report Post »May Our Lord comfort his family if we actually take him out. he will be missed….by someone I guess.
(Now I’ll be one of the wonderful people in here, and tasteful too.)
Stoic one
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:44pmSo if one does not have a gall bladder, then you have no respect for them?
just asking…….
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 2:08pmGall bladder? I got mine!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 8:18pmHe should be killed & let’s move on .
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 5:31pmTed, am I expendable – I don’t have a gall bladder?
Report Post »Katayno
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:24amTwenty years late…but better late than never.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:34amWhat are you doing, Bolton?!
We’nre not Constitutionally allowed to be there! Obama must be impeached and tried for treason!
Nothing we’re doing in Libya is legitimate!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:46amThe main difference between the time of Reagan and the Obama administration is the fact that under Reagan’s watch, Quaddafi sanctioned the usage of force via terrorism against America and her own allies.
Under Obama, the force is sanctioned via the UN, and we have no directed threats against us, just against the rebels and Al Quada who have joined with them.
This is one principle of Chaos Theory, eliminate Quaddafi, and one event will cascade into the unknown as we wait to find out who will finally succeed him and actually hold onto the reigns of power while keeping themselves alive.
Then again, maybe that is what the administration wants.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:49amyea great idea…
While we are at it, lets go kill every other single dictator in the World.
This is getting really old where we think we have the moral authority to assassinate who ever we deem a thorn in our side.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:09pmWhether Gaddafi is removed by his own people or by us, the result will be the same. The Muslim Brotherhood is waiting to take control of one more Arab country. There is no possibility that a democratic election will ever take place there. Guns and violence will be used to “vote”, and the radicals certainly will win that election. To speculate about removing Gaddafi is a waste of time.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 12:37pmIf nothing else (and really there’s PLENTY else) statements like this qualify him for entering the 2012 presidential race. (I can taste the popcorn already) :)
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 1:54pm@ A DOCTOR…………constitution monstitution we are part of the UN now—— they’re all we need to justify our actions now not some silly founding document!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Makes one sick does it not ???????
Report Post »redneck
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 1:56pmWhat’s good for the goose is good for the gander?
Bad move going public with such a comment that to assassinate Libya’s dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, creates the solution to Muslim Brotherhood quest to world order. Especially when Libya isn’t a vital interest, so they say.
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 2:22pmThe only trouble with Bolten is he is to damn honest.
Easy John easy,people don’t want to know what you really do,you guys have never told us the truth so far,don’t start now………………………………just do it.
Report Post »docvet
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 2:47pmYeah, let’s chalk up one more country for the Caliphate. Gadhafi is nuts, but now it is clearer that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I hope we don’t have to deal with violence in the U.S. because we might have to watch the foreign missles cross our coasts/borders since we are attacking our own people.
BTW, did anyone notice that when the UN told Obama to kick in, he said “Aye,Aye, sir”, I will have the military there by morning and I will take care of any objections in the U.S. (as soon as I get back from Brazil). The sheeple will do what they are told (thus the speach on Monday).
Report Post »123gone
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 3:26pmRESTOREHOPE – Removing Gaddafi by his own people or by us is NOT the same thing!
The people of Libya have the right to remove their own leader anyway they wish, but we have no right to do it for them.
Our POTUS has illegally involved the American people in a war on another Sovereign Nation without prior approval of the Congress in violation of our Constitution.
When did the people of the United States vote to be subservient to the will of the United Nations?
We are supposed to be a Nation of Laws – This POTUS has exceeded his authority under those laws and put our troops in harms way.
Congress should demand his immediate resignation or commence impeachment proceedings.
NO – the end does Not justify the means!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 4:27pmFrom the net: In 1976, President Ford issued Executive Order 11905 to clarify U.S. foreign intelligence activities. The order was enacted in response to the post-Watergate revelations that the CIA had staged multiple attempts on the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
In a section of the order labeled “Restrictions on Intelligence Activities,” Ford outlawed political assassination: Section 5(g), entitled “Prohibition on Assassination,” states: “No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 4:46pmI disagree with bolton….why allow the radicals take over…..at least he is our bastard..
Report Post »onthegulf
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 6:16pmThe USA has been donating millions of dollars to the Republic of Georgia (see articles below), but today the Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia donated $1 million dollars to Japan relief. I have no problems with peopleor countries donating money to Japan’s relief, but the article should have stated that Georgia is donating money that it received from the USA to Japan.
I am disappointed that the USA supports Republic of Georgia at all. On August 7, 2008, Georgia’s President, Mikhail Saakashvili was attacking the Republic of South Ossetia. During the evening, Saakashvili announced a ceasefire. After everyone (women, children and other civilians) went to sleep, Saakashvili orded the attacks to resume, using illegal cluster (grad) munitions. Unlike what coalition forces are doing in Libya, Saakashvili was targeting civilian homes, schools, hospitals, and civilians attempting to leave the conflict area. Saakashvili continues to receive support from the USA. Senator John McCain supported Saakashvili’s attack from the very begining. McCain was also awarded a medal by Saakashvili. During that war, McCain was on CNN and made a statement, Today I talked to Misha and told him, “Today, we are all Georgians”.
Saakashvili should have been brought up on war crimes, but instead, received more support from the USA and other Western countries. He stated this attack during the opening of the Olympics in Japan. Two days after the Saakashvili’s attack, Russia intervened and ran the Georgian killer forces from South Ossetia, then bombed various military targets in Georgia, which were supporting the massive attack on South Ossetia. Immediately, humanitarian aid was being sent to Georgia, while South Ossetia was ignored by the international community. In Western news, it was broadcasted that Russia attacked Georgia. It was later reported by the Independent European Commission, that Georgia indeed initiated the war. If it was not for Russia’s intervention, Saakashvili would have succeded in his goal to wipe out the Ossetian population.
Georgia does have a contingency of soldiers in Afghanistan, but Saakashvili sent them there to better his chances of becoming a NATO member. In my opinion Saakashvili and McCain wanted to move us back to the Cold War era with Russia.
Saakashvili is not running a true democracy. In 2007 and 2009, there were protests in Georgia calling for Saakashvili to step down. 100′s of thousands of people participated. The protesters were beaten, gassed, and subjected to high frequency sound blasters.
Just like Gadhafi must go, so should Saakashvili.
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 7:16pmI thought Boulton believes in God? Thou shall not kill. One more thing. Shave off that cheesy moustache. You look like a 70′s porn star.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 7:58pmI‘m afraid that John Bolton’s “unknown” is the inevitable.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 9:53pm@123gone
I guess I didn’t make my point clear enough. No, getting rid of Gaddifi by either his own people or by us is NOT the same thing. That is not what I meant. What I was referring to is what his eventual removal (by any means) would mean for Libya.
I was not condoning the US doing the deed at all. I, too, do not think we should be involved in their revolution. It is a no-win situation. If Gaddafi stays in power, the Libyan people will suffer greatly. If the rebels win, al Qaeda will make make the Libyan people suffer greatly. We cannot control what happens either way. Obama should have kept his progressive nose out of it.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:01am“I think he’s a legitimate target.”
———————————————
Hell yes!
Killing another human is not as easy as it is in the movies, but with Gaddafi I would bet there would be NO shortage of volunteers to take the shot.
http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 11:46am123gone…so you must believe bush should have been impeached also?
Report Post »123gone
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:40pmGINSBERG – Did Bush run off half-cocked without involving Congress? Did Bush put US armed forces under the command of the UN? Did Bush ever attack another Sovereign Nation by his own initiative? There are issues to consider on both sides in any act of war, but no POTUS has the right to decide by himself when to commit US armed forces in combat where there is no immediate threat to the US. This POTUS disregarded the law and acted as if the Military was for his private use – This is wrong!
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