Obama Vows Military Action Against Gadhafi: No-Fly Zone a Go, Ground Forces a No
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Editor’s note: this post originally contained live video of the president’s press conference. It has been replaced with a relevant story.
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — President Barack Obama demanded Friday that Moammar Gadhafi halt all military attacks against civilians and said that if the Libyan leader did not stand down the United States would join in military action against him.
Still, Obama also said the United States “is not going to deploy ground troops into Libya.”
In a brief appearance at the White House, Obama said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would travel to Paris on Saturday to join in a meeting of allies called to discuss next steps in Libya, where Gadhafi has launched a brutal crackdown against rebels trying to end his 42-year reign.
Obama’s remarks came less than 24 hours after the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize military action to prevent the killing of civilians by Libyan forces.
There should be no doubt about Gadhafi’s intentions “because he has made them clear,” Obama said. “Just yesterday, speaking of the city of Benghazi, a city of roughly 700,000, he threatened ‘we will have no mercy and no pity.’ No mercy on his own citizens.”
The president has been criticized by U.S. lawmakers and others for not moving more forcefully while Gadhafi has regrouped in recent days and taken the offensive against the rebels. Obama said the United States and other nations have imposed sanctions on Libya, frozen assets of the leader and delivered humanitarian supplies to bordering countries to help ease the plight of thousands fleeing the fighting.
“Now, once more, Moammar Gadhafi has a choice,” Obama said, listing what he said were non-negotiable conditions laid out by the U.N. Security Council.
“If Gadhafi does not comply, the international community will impose consequences, and the resolution will be enforced through military action,” Obama said.
Obama did not specify what responsibilities would fall to the United States if military action is carried out against Gadhafi, but officials have said previously that American forces would help enforce a no-fly zone to prevent the Libyan leader from using his air force to bomb civilians.
The president made no reference to a Libya’s declaration of an immediate cease-fire on Friday – a statement that a rebel spokesman said was fiction.
Instead, Obama listed a series of demands for Gadhafi, including the halting of all attacks against civilians, a stop to military action against Benghazi and other cities and permission for humanitarian supplies to reach the civilian population of the country.
“Let me be clear, these terms are not negotiable,” he said.
“Our goal is focused, our cause is just, and our coalition is strong,” the president said.
He emphasized that the United States was not acting alone but in concert with Britain, France and Arab countries he did not name.
“Change in the region will not and cannot be imposed by the United States or any foreign power. Ultimately, it will be driven by the people of the Arab world,” he said.
The uprising against Gadhafi is only one of many struggles being played out in the region as long-time autocratic regimes come under pressure. Protests in Tunisia and Egypt have led to the ouster of long-time rulers, and there have been demonstrations in Yemen, Jordan and Bahrain. Protests erupted in at least three parts of Syria during the day Friday, according to state television and other source
Earlier, Clinton told reporters that Gadhafi must make “a very clear set of decisions” to halt violence against anti-government rebels.
Clinton said the U.S. had seen the reports of a cease-fire by the Libyan government, but she added that the American government was not going to be “impressed by words.” She said the immediate objective of any intervention was to halt the violence against civilians, but insisted that the “final result of any negotiation would have to be the decision by Col. Gadhafi to leave.”
The U.S. has ships and warplanes within striking distance of Libya, including submarines and surface ships armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles. If military action were to proceed, a first step likely would involve attacks on Libyan air defenses, including radar and surface-to-air missile sites along its Mediterranean coastline. That would allow aircraft enforcing a no-fly zone to maneuver with impunity.
The nearest U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, was far to the east, in the Arabian Sea supporting air operations in Afghanistan. The Pentagon gave no indication that substantial additional firepower was being moved toward Libya, even as it focused on providing humanitarian relief in stricken northern Japan.
According to a report from Reuters, However, the U.S. Navy has already announced plans to send more ships to the area:
The United States will deploy additional amphibious ships to the Mediterranean, the military said on Friday, as part of the Obama administration’s plans for responding to ongoing violence in Libya.
The USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group will deploy on March 23 “ahead of its original schedule in order to relieve units from the USS Kearsarge (Amphibious Ready Group) currently positioned in the Mediterranean Sea,” it said in a statement.
Britain, France and NATO were holding emergency meetings Friday on using military force to enforce a no-fly zone. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance was “completing its planning to be ready to take appropriate action in support of the U.N. resolution as part of the broad international effort.”
Officials announced that the leaders of Britain, France and Germany and the chiefs of the United Nations and Arab League would join other world leaders for an emergency summit on Libya in Paris on Saturday.
Obama’s remarks came less than 24 hours after the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize military action to prevent the killing of civilians by Libyan forces.
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dizzyinthedark
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:38pmAll is going as planned–his plan unfortunately.
He knows what he is doing and proud of it.
Yes, it’s true, this man speaks out of both sides of his mouth–remind you of someone?
Yes, he will say one thing but do another–remind you of someone?
He catches flies mid-air, flies buzz around his mouth–do we need to be hit over the head in order to know just who resides in his soul?
In the first day of meeting with his people and the cameras were rolling, who was he winking at?–was this a signal that the biggest scam is now in place and up and running?
He has two names–why?
Why spend so much $$ in laywer fees to keep under wraps your personal papers–who does this unless they have something to hide?
One day he says he’s a muslim, then he says he’s a Christian–which is it?
His wife has never been proud of America, but now she is–why?
He led with ‘hope and change’, but did they know what that meant?
He said, “Judge me by the people I surround myself with.”–well we all know who comes and goes in the WH, we all know the czars and their links to shady characters.
Why spend $$ we don’t have now to go to Libya? To lose more of our military perhaps?
I’ll leave the judging for Jesus, but what I will state is this flaccid, weak, man/child has the audacity of hope to change America alright and he wants to go down in history as the president that destoryed America.
IMPEACH HIM NOW!
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:11pmYes, you said it well. But Impeachment is time consuming and costly. We have to vote him out! We need to find living voters that are too lazy to go to the polls to outvote all the dead people that cast ballots for the leftwing idiots.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:17pmBe careful, you’re starting to sound like me – cynical.
Impeach Obama !
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:51pmYep, this destructive prez would love to “get rid of” more of our soldiers, and another war would take care of that alright. Even if it’s a limited “war”, it would take money and soldiers we don’t have to spare.
We need our military home to do border patrol here and help us defend ourselves against uncle sam.
Report Post »Goohuman
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:38pmSo we take the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda over the cross-dressing colonel. Great.
Just one question, Mr President. When will our soldiers be putting their lives on the line for US protection and NOT FOR POLITICAL ISSUES?!
Screw LYBIA! If we go there it should only be to take over because they pose a realistic physical threat to us.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:35pmToo bad Reagan missed in ‘86.
Report Post »Tayster
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:35pmI wish I would’ve started a drinking game with how many times he would say “clear” in that speech.
Report Post »common-sense
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:31pmIt looks like this president is going finally stand up to a tyrant, unfortunately he is backing the Al-Qaeda backed rebels.
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:31pmGot pic but no sound.
Report Post »Well this most likely because everytime I hear this demon speak, MY spirit shudders.
Let’s go all out on Islam. Declare war on all nations where Islam is the main religion. Just do a spread bombing. I get so sick of this shi- I could just spit. This demon Obama is destroying this nation.
chips1
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:21pmI’m womdering if the agreement to reduce our nucular stockpile had a specific manner in how that was to be accomplished..”
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:31pmOblahblah comes across as being weak … very very weak.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:29pmsounds like he’s talking about the useless uinons
Report Post »brenan999
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:27pmdidn’t Biden say Obama needed a 9/11 moment?? well here it is for him to capitalize on and stay in past 2012!!
SUCK!!!
Report Post »Steven63
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:22pmAnybody notice how the U.N. votes for this action and U.S. assets are immediately enlisted to bomb them? No vote or debate by our own Congress…?? Does anybody get this? Does anybody else see how we are being sucked into a one-world government without so much as a whimper against it?
Yeah, yeah. I know American idol is on…
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:32pmAll this is is another prime opportunity for Obama to further deplete the resources of the USA in the hopes of executing CHANGE along the lines of pan Leninism.
We should stay the hell out of Libya and let them negotiate their own circumstances.
We don’t need their oil….never did.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:22pmThat’s one reason he is in Brazil when he made the announcement. We can’t get him from here. Had he pulled that s*** while here in the States, I feel that some of us might have just risen up in spite of ourselves.
My opinion? Get our men and women HOME NOW from overseas and put them on our borders and working within our own country to get rid of the people here who hate AMERICA so much. They can help us ship them all out to the other countries they seem to love so much!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:21pmAll part of the radicals plan: re read “ Storm” Manuel co authored by Timothy “ van ” Jones back in his Oakland days.
Report Post »Personally, IMHO we should NOT become involved.
SpotoGo_Denny
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:21pmThere’s the President… absent as always.
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:18pmI eagerly await his comments. I am hoping he advocates for military action. Because then I can go to all those idiots on the left and ask them to respond as to why Libya is okay, but Iraq was not.
Oh, I expect to get the same bull they have been spouting about Bush lied…and I always follow that with whether they read the law passed by congress authorizing force, and the reasons behind it.
You can’t say military action in Libya is okay because of wanting to protect Libyans from a brutal dictator, and then say you do not support action in Iraq which protected Iraqis from a brutal dictator.
Control the message…
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:49pmBill…Please don’t tell me you expect logical coherent thoughtful reason from a liberal..Their tiny little brains are not capable of that function. All they are able to do is spout feel good crap and regurgitate whatever mindless slogan their Union overloards write down for them.
Report Post »Harry Palm
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:17pmNo thanks…I quit believing anything our habitual liar-in-chief says along time ago!!
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:17pmIt is a VIOLATION of the US Constitution – for Obama to be sitting on the Security Council for The United Nations.
No sitting US president can be involved with any governing authority that would affect the sovereignty of The United States of America.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:52pmWe know,but that’s such a technicality in his world.
Report Post »Moocephus
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:57pmThank you for pointing that out. Of course his cronies would say he was just advising them. Besides nothing
Report Post »GdavidH
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:17pmHe will come to the podium as soon as the game is over.
Report Post »Priorities people!
Tayster
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:16pmWait a second….aren’t they expecting him in Brazil?
Maybe he’s doing a Mayor Quimby “live” from the White House set on a beach.
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:10pmyeah, samba contest of something…
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:16pmI’ll just wait and read the comments.
Report Post »Moocephus
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:08pmStability in this region should fall on nations OF THIS REGION. Dependence on anything from oil to q-tips from this region should be nixed. If the “FREE-MARKET” wants to affect change stop buying your cloth and your oil from the middle east. DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:17pmNew slogan for the TEA Party? I like that!
Report Post »Pezman
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:19pmI agree with you. Sadly it’s mercenaries “From the region” who he shipped in to help put down the rebellion. I’m not staying to watch. This is likely to be just another showing of “The Adventures of Barack Munchausen.”
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:09pmdear god, we keep making terrible decisions in this country.
believe in that 2012 prophacy stuff..you know , the mayan, hopi predictions????..well, we will probably be the first destroyed due to stupidity, the powers that be wil look at us and say …stupid sheep. i hope the nion people go first, right after the white house folks..as an individual, i dont’ know how to take a stand. nobody seems to care.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:07pmOh, Jesus! Help this nation. Please do something that will get Obama’s attention. House of Reps, begin impeachment proceedings. The petition to impeach is already going around!
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:26pmNah, just full metal coat.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:52pmJesus is the only hope we have left. It is painfully obvious the American people have lost the will to stand up for themselves. Make your peace with God while you can. The boy president will dither while our country is allowed to slip into the annals of history.
Report Post »SeasonOfReason
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:22pmThis Jesus character seems pretty ineffectual. Maybe you should try Zeus or Mithra.
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:02pmThe idiot is going to talk. Maybe he changed is picks in the NCAA.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:09pmLike we gave a rat’s rosterium when he made his first picks!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:09pmI‘m so happy that I still have my 46 year old black and white TV for Obummer’s speeches. The best part is that it’s broken!!!
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:02pmWait for it…..wait for it…..wait……
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:36pmBoy! That was…….expected?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:07pmWhile I would NEVER want ground troops … why would you tip your hand and take them off the table … don’t you use whatever you can … in negotiations ??? Not good community organizing.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:00pmWe all waited for this moment, oh ya first he needs to take a stand. So I guess we need to depend on the UK to stand up. Not the man child.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:10pmIf he’s been all over the world apologizing for America already, why this?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:08pmWhy would you take anything off the table? .. even though I would never want ground troops .. why would you take it off the table? You don’t SHOW YOUR HAND.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:52pmI will give you a quote and you see if you can guess which “great” American said it.
Your four choices for each question are:
President Barack Obama,
Former Vice President Dan Quayle,
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, or
Former President George W. Bush.
Here we go!………
1) “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel ‘s.”
2) “I’ve now been in 57 states I think one left to go.”
3) “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.”
4) “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about. It it it would cost about the same as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to. It. It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I‘m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”
5) “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”
6) “I bowled a 129. It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something.”
7) “Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court Justice. The members of our highest court are granted life
tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”
8) “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or Inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.”
9) “It was . Interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian wheeling and dealing.”
10) “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
Each of these goofy quotes are from President Barack Obama who can’t utter a word without referring to a teleprompter… .even when talking to a 6th grade class!!!
And people actually voted for him! Amazing!
Report Post »AnOregonian
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:55pmShowing your hand worked do well for Jimmy Carter……….
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:35pm@Showtime,
That was priceless, thank you.
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:45pm‘SHOWTIME’…..I passed your post around..thanks!!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:54pmNo thanks .
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:59pmWe need to stay out. We should have obstained from vote and let other countries do it. You are just gonna get more crazy muslim bombers that want to kill US for this, Good job.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:04pmNo, thanks!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:05pmPass …
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:06pmShow
Report Post »are you still on this site
taskmaster78
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:07pmWhat is it, is he playing ball or getting his bag packed for the next well deserved vacation? I‘d guess the teleprompter is on the blink and without it he just can’t do the speech. See even Clinton knows he’s without direction.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:07pmHe is going to send a SEIU official to deal with the Libya situation
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:09pmHis mouth is moving, lies are falling out like like Pig Squirt from the south end of a north bound hog.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:11pmHe has to be “fashionably late.” Wonder why he didn’t preempt Glenn Beck?!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:13pm@sissykatz
Report Post »Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:06pm
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Yep. I still have time to make snotty remarks about him before he begins.
Citizen
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:13pmIraq had a tyrant who kills his own people – everyone is still freaking out about us bieng there.
Libya has a tyrant who kills his own people – learn anything ?
Report Post »Guardian99
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:13pmBHO…Graffitti on the walls of American History
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:14pmWhat is happening in Libya is the way it should happen…the people are taking back their country. We have NO right to interfere in a military fashion.
We are ONLY interfering in order to protect the flow of oil and (once again) hide in the shadows and try to steer the new government to our way of thinking…thru bribes and promises which will do more harm than good to the USA.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:15pmPretty cats, Robert.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:21pm@SHOW
Isn’t he going to RIO? I bet he wants to get on with this weeks vacations.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:31pmLike all speeches he said nothing of value,
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:44pm“Rebels” rise up and take arms to an oppressive Government.
“Rebels” take over major cities and declare independence.
Government armies massacre the Rebels
“Rebels” ask UN for no fly zone and help
UN votes to intervene and protect the Rebels…
Not talking Libya…Imagine this happening here in the USA….Think bad BO will support the rebels and UN intervention? I don’t. What’s the difference?
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:48pmWe go? We are infidels! We don’t go? We are infidels! We ignore altogether? We are infidels! We give them our country to live in? We are infidels!….hmmmm? see the trend people?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:50pm“All attacksss againssst sssiviliansss mussst ssstop.” Ya hear me, Qaddafi?!
“A POTENTIAL for mass murder?” Hahaha. You are such a wuss, O’bum! Your show of force is really a show of farce. BTW, those NY Times reporters will not be released now. That is what we will have gained with this move, Chief Idiot.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:55pmPresent!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:01pmWill you please stop saying the Red Roach is going on vacation! Please understand, he is meeting with OTHER COMMIES in Latin America. We are being surrounded by an ever-growing coalition of commie nations, who will send their operatives, jihadist buddies, drugs and other typical commie trade across the Mexican border. How does that sound to you?
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:09pmBush’s fault… err, ummm let me be clear…. err…ummm… cash for clunkers?
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:25pmRobert Gates, said let me be clear, this means bombings to Lybia. This could cost us 9 billion or more. I wonder how this looks to Obamas base, with his peace prize and all. Not sure if there is an old for food scandle there that would prevent help from the UN, France and Germany
Report Post »exdem
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:38pmLets watch how State Tv spins this one!!
Report Post »M-O-O-N Spells Moon
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:44pmRemember that without the aid of France during our own revolution we probably would not have beaten back the British. There are precedents for a more powerful nation stepping in and helping rebels establish a new nation. The nice thing is that the new government is fairly obligated to be nice to the nations that helped them get established. There, in a nutshell, is the reasoning behind why the US should get involved. Unfortunately, our president has waited so long that we have very little credibility being there at all and the rebels are angry enough with our lack of support that they are more likely to join the throngs of people who hate the US.
Report Post »Words are not enough, Mr. President. Your campaign speeches do not change the course of human events around the world, contrary to your expectations.
arx
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:53pmHis incompetence is beyond belief. Why only now? Why on earth say “no ground troops”??? Even a grade school kid knows not to tell his opponent where he will stop. This is stupidity at a dangerous level. I cannot believe this man child is president of this once great country.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:55pmGreat news for the Muslim Brotherhood- ‘we will not supply ground troops’…We will just use our technology to take Gadaffi out, so they can take over….Americans pay so, the Jihad can win. Clever.
Report Post »They set it up perfectly, so we will be the ‘bad’ guys who helped ‘late’….Helped ‘save’ civilians who were ramped up by the Brotherhood….Next stop, Bahrain, then Yemen…..After all it‘s all so they can have ’democracy’, then after we do the dirty work, they can all become States of Iran….LOL…all because of the ‘Coalition” of the UN which is the NWO…
Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:58pmI always support the men and women serving in our military, but I don’t trust this bunch in control one bit. I wouldn’t trust them with GI Joe dolls, much less real men and women.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:08pm“In a brief appearance at the White House, Obama said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would travel to Paris on Saturday to join in a meeting of allies called to discuss next steps in Libya,” ……This seems to be the problem with this guy…,he’s a part-time president and resident
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:33pmIt begins…Obama’s Vietnam!
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:48pmDid you notice how red his eyes were in this video? Didn’t look right to me. I guess all the “deceiving” is getting to him. I know it’s getting to me.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:14pmLet me be clear! You do not dip your toes into the well of war and expect to pull your foot out with all your toes still there!!!!
Report Post »Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:40pmhmmm, what kind of message says we won’t send in ground troops? a hollow threat? I bet Quadafi calls his bluff, then we see what kind of C-I-C this man child really is? Does he have the bottle, as the Brits would say?
Report Post »heyjms
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 6:57pmSo the man that campaigned to end the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan is now moving to start a new war with Libya. I guess it will be G.W. faults that we will now have 3 wars…..
Report Post »IntrepidSI
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:14pmSo when we freed thousands of women in Afghanistan, we were wrong.
When we stopped the rape rooms in Iraq, we were wrong.
Any action in Iraq, despite the victories in human rights, was simply “Blood for Oil”
But only when there is a Republican in the White House.
And of course our plan of action is? Do we remove Khadafi? Anyone? Anyone?
Report Post »No, we learned that going in and winning the war is easy. Losing the peace, even easier.
smartypoop
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:41pmNo. This is not our business. He should have stepped up the first day, supported the uprising, pooped on Gadaffi but made it clear that we could not be involved in a third war.
Report Post »The same conditions exist for getting into this conflict that existed in Iraq, yet the progressives burned Bush in effigy. The progressives are strangely quiet now. All they will say is that its good he took his time to think about it. Progressive pretzel logic!
mill
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:55pmobama is a dim witted donkey’s butt.
We can’t even win in Afghanistan, iraq etc..why take on another “we can’t win” area of the world??? we need our people home on the southern border…oh wait we don’t have a problem there obama says..another lie
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:01pmcan we expect code pink dier ins at democrat congressional offices now?
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:31pmBarry best be watching out.
Homies Jeremia Wright and Louie Farrahkan mights be talking smack at him if tries to put the fives on ol’ bro Moammar.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:11amWow, it seems as if the Blaze has a hate-fest going against me. So far they have censored every one of my comments I posted earlier including the one for this thread. Funny how this did NOT start happening to me until the new hire from Huffpo came on board. In hindsight… her hire was a bad bad bad move! YOU DON’T HIRE A WOLF TO GUARD THE CHICKEN HOUSE!
Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
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thepatriotdave
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:16amAlmost forgot…
Obama has sent word to Qaddafi that this time Obam is serious. The note said…”if you don’t stop killing people right now, I will force you to play a game of B-ball against me and play a round of Golf”. That scared the you-know-what out of the Libyan leader. Media is reporting that the note shook him so bad that he has stopped taking his one baby-aspirin per day! Phew, another crisis averted.
Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
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Devil Dog 7175
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:34amYou will do this or I will send you an AWFUL letter, it will contain many insults and make you SOOOO angry. If that does not work, I will FART in your general direction!
Report Post »Gimme a break, If the Euros and Sand fleas want this so bad, let them get their hands dirty this time. Not that the Moron dose’nt need a good ass beating but its getting harder to do it being ham strung and only using your one hand to fight with. You want to end the problem? Turn us loose and let us fight a WAR! Not this PC bull S**t that keeps us involved for years trying to win the “hearts and minds” of the people. We are no longer feared, and that is what keeps these third world litter boxes popping up. Cut off financial aid to about 80% of the ones we send to, and if they squeal, STOMP THEIR ASSES.
exdem
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 11:12amThis speach reminded me of a little boy clumping around in his daddy’s shoes, trying to act like a grownup.
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