Defense Secretary: Libya Did Not Pose Threat to U.S., Was Not ‘Vital National Interest’ to Intervene

Jake, quit stirring the pot! These guys have enough problems without you asking the hard questions for God’s sake!

I am about ready to sign up for the Ron Paul doctrine and get the hell out of everywhere and let what falls, fall and what stands, stand.
To gain influence with the Arabs! Didn’t these guys say “yes, go ahead” and then high tail it out and start criticizing the effort?

Good questions. Next time, can you ask them the definition of ‘war’?
Thanks.

Thanks for asking the hard questions, Jake. Expect a knock from the DOJ or DHS any day now.

Of course the Barack of 2007 didn’t approve of this type of unilateral action. He wasn’t President then. Now of course, it’s a different story and pesky little details like fulfilling legal requirements just aren’t that important anymore.

BTW, you should have reminded Gates that Obama said Saddam Hussein posed no threat either. Time to throw the Obama logic back at the source and start grilling the incompetent strutting bracket king about what he says vs what he does and who is it telling him to do all this? It can’t be Obama, because he’s a lazy unthinker, intellectually stagnant juvenile playing in an adult world.

Excellent report. Keep stirring the pot…cause we don’t know where we are headed and we rely on the press to reveal what our government is really doing.
Much appreciated.

If we’d just adhere to strict rules and regulations regarding the Muslim world’s emigration here to all males under 65, mostly allowed to teach these people in our best colleges and universities.
Something of which they in turn take back to that lost world to figure new and improved ways to eliminate the west by schooling the radicals who they claim they abhor but are doing all their wetwork around the world.
It ends by simply locking them out of the west, and letting them ‘off’ each others instead of us. Then we wouldn’t need to worry about a thing. Also A move that would bankrupt the leaders in that world and then they’d all simply perish on their own through Darwin’s theory.
Instead, we arm them, school them, feed them to fight another day and another day and another day until THEY finally END US, nice preservation strategy..

It is nearly impossible for the Liberal press to resist jumping the gaping hole of Obama’s hypocrisy – and of course, they will try, and, certainly, they will fall into it.

If it weren’t for oil, the middle east in general would not hold the interest or attention of the U.S.
Back after WW2 the real development of the Arab oil fields began. Without the technology and leadership of the US oil majors the oil would still be in the ground today. The US oil companies had a major stake in Aramco and probably other middle east oil companies, but I believe we relinquished our ownership positions. We should never have given up ownership. If we had maintained significant ownership over all the oil in Arabia we could be calling the shots on development and distribution. Maybe our influence would have been a long term stabilizing influence and we would not have the total chaos we have today.

Wow! There is still a synapse of brain energy left in the MSM and it resides in Jake Tapper. He must surely be despised by the administration and the rest of the sheep they call MSM. They all like to pretend to emulate Edward R. Murrow but they can’t carry his jock strap. I don’t think they have the purpose for one.

First let me be very clear: Muammar Gaddafi is a murderer, who has American blood on his hands – one can not forget the Lockerbie bombing…
But, I can’t believe the President did not seek Congressional approval. I can’t believe the President decided that he did not have to address the American people to give his justification for war. This is war and anyone who thinks it is anything else is playing word games.
If Bush had pulled this I am sure Democrats would be screaming for his impeachment and then Sen. Barack Hussein Obama would have be one of the leaders criticizing Presidential abuse of power.

So, if the Leftists are consistent, they’ll start calling for Obama to be impeached. What? It’s a Democrat doing what they attacked George W. Bush for doing?
Nevermind.

Paragraph 5 is really incredible. Basically it’s ok to launch this military operation because the situation “potentially” could lead to lots of refugees that could, again, “potentially” destabilize the already unstable neighboring countries, one of which can probably handle it, while the other is of only marginal interest to the United States.

Don’t worry Syria you’re off the radar screen. According to Hillary, Assad is a “reformer”.

Outrageous nonsense

Since when has the dictator Gadhafi EVER been legitimate?!?
And do you think Obama SHAKING HANDS and sitting down to eat dinner with the “mad dog” Gadhafi helped legitimize him?!? Uh, yeah…

I don’t see how anyone can not see that what we have is a lawless government? From the Executive, too the Legislative, too the Judicial, anyone and everyone of them that supports this illegal action are usurpers of the Constitution and traitors to the United States.
I don’t know how we get out of this mess other than a revolution. Hopefully we can have a peaceful one by electing Ron Paul, who is the only candidate that appears to be uncorrupted. But if that’s not possible, I’m afraid things will have to get ugly.

As far as I’m concerned, Obama has shown cowardice and ineptitude with regard to Libya since he became president. Back in 2009, even The Washington Post pointed out that Obama SHOOK HANDS and ate dinner with the “mad dog” Kadhafi.
Then in 2010, due in part to Barack Hussein Obama saying it would be “far preferable” to release him, Lockerbie bomber Mohamed al-Megrahi received a hero’s welcome when he returned to Libya — this terrorist who killed 270 people, 189 of them Americans.
Then when the former Libyan Justice Minister TOLD THE WORLD last month that KADHAFI PERSONALLY ORDERED the Lockerbie bombing, Obama sat on his hands again!
Forget the Cairo speech (BTW, how’d that work out?!?) And forget all the Obama waffling — which has resulted in the murder of thousands of people fighting for their freedom. And forget the mixed diplomatic signals coming from this Obama gang that can’t shoot straight — “Kadhafi must go,” er, I mean, “Kadhafi can stay.” For Obama, it was all about “baracketology”…and Brazil.
John Podhoretz, speaking on Obama’s “invisibility” during these “times of crises” says it best:
“This is not A time for leadership; this is THE time for leadership.”

So, as long as you define a time frame and select targets, you have not committed an act of war, and therefore, the Constitution nor the Congress apply?
In other words, we are only going to nuke the large cities, 250k pop.+, for one week, because France said so… We’ll tell you all about it when we have time, but only if we have to…
It’s a good thing we are ridding the world of dictators, unions hate competition…..

Is Obama incompetent?!? Is the sky blue? Water wet? Uh, yeah…

The president does not need congressional authority or approval to act militarily in Libya, Iran, Iraq or anywhere else if we are not declaring war. But he better let congress know and sell it to the people if he wants an appropriation for it. John Yoo had a very good piece in the WSJ about this yesterday.

The bigger question is revealed by Gates’ comments on the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. It would have put those at risk – this signifies that they believe it is on our interest for those revolutions to be happening. Keep in mind that Gates and Clinton are both globalists. Now ask yourself – why would we want to protect the destabilization of Egypt and Tunisia? Btw, where are the deposed leaders of those 2 counties. Both in comas how coincidental.
Obama should absolutely be impeached for this unconstituonal act of aggression. Gadaffi is a terrorist – but that does not allow excuse for the US to enter into an illegal war.

So why Libya and not Iran, why Libya and not Syria, so why Libya and not Egypt, why Libya and not Tunesia? I guess what I want to know is what are the criteria for Obama to attack? Everyone knows the mission in Libya is a USA mission with some help from its friends. WHy didn’t Obama ask congress when in the past both Obama and Biden said if Bush goes to war without congressional approval, they will impeach him? Why one set of rules when republican is president and when a democrat is president? WHy is Gitmo good now and bad under Bush? Why do we not see protestors to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Do the libs no longer care about dead civilians and dead USA soldiers? Why were the tortures at gitmo terrible and on the front page of the NY Tmes for 60 straight days but we barely heard about murdered civilians and photos the soldiers took? Personally I would rather be tortured by having a bra on my head then being dead and a soldier holding up my head as a souvenir?

During 2008 campaign, Biden cryptically said: “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking…. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy….I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he’s gonna need help… Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.
TIME FOR THIS ADMIN TO LAY ALL THE CARDS ON THE TABLE!!!

Obama and Clinton meant to say that the President should go to Congress unless THEY were the ones going to war, then it was okay. Bunch of liars and hypocrites.
Obama is worse than Bush, at least with Bush you knew what he was doing. Obama can’t make a decision.
Because of Al Qaeda Bush pushed the Patriot Act on us so DHS & TSA could strip us of our rights and privacy. Now
Obama supports Al Qaeda’s take over of Libya.
Whose side is this idiot on?

I cannot understand even ONE American supporting this OUTRAGE of more war. Did you notice that we’re already financing TWO wars that the Pentagon either CAN’T or WON’T win? They need those tax dollars to keep flowing into their coffers.
MORE WAR while Americans are jobless, homeless, hungry and besieged with the MOST CORRUPT GOVERNMENT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. (in every branch). The FBI and DOJ sit on their thumbs while Wall Street and current/former administrations rob the Treasury, and banks commit bank fraud and foreclosure fraud. The ATF Director himself and DOJ set up a program to sell automatic weapons and AK-47s to the Mexican drug cartels. These guns KILL many people, and Hillary commiserates with Caleron, BLAMING U.S. CITIZENS for guns getting into their hands. NOW AIN’T THAT SWEET!
The U.S. makes Kadaffi look like a saint!

In Obama’s words, Jake will be sitting at the “back of the bus” in the White House Press corps (“corpse” in Obama language).

An economy in shambles.
A foreign policy in tatters.
The Democrat Party broken, having lost 700+ seats.
The crown jewel of his presidency declared unconstitutional with over half the states suing to get out.
Gas, food, clothing prices skyrocketing.
Two endless wars, Afghanistan now with a record death toll.
The Middle East in turmoil and the President throws a Motown concert with his corporate millionaire Democrat pals.
Declares his loyalty to the unions versus the American taxpayer.
Imminent possible nuclear catastrophe.
Peace Prize President has launched War #3 with Libya.

So where is the outcry for the “illegal” war? Why the hell are we still in Afghanistan? Why are we now wasting money in Libya? Do you even know who is running the U.S. these days? The President is just a teleprompter reading puppet who golfs while the world burns. We need to take the country back, it starts with the WhiteHouse and moves on to the Federal Reserve. It starts with a President with nothing to lose and willing to issue Executive Orders to do this.

What Gates says at 7:15 should make every Liberal’s skin crawl. It is exactly what the Cindy Sheehan crowd, BO, & even Hillary Clinton accused Bush of. BTW, Hillary Clinton looks very, very disinterested. I’ve got news for ya’, Hillary; Don’t plan on running for President because no one will vote for you.

Obama needs to produce his birth certificate now… Clearly, he’s not acting on behalf of the American People. He’s acting on behalf of the Zionists and other foreign agents… Obama doesn’t give a damn about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights!

Mike in Costa Masa makes a good point. The president doesn’t have to ask congress before entering into military action. Check the War Powers Act. That said the hypocrisy here is truly unbelievable. Obama, Biden and all the rest of the Dem’s chastised Bush for years over his actions and then they do the same without a plan or clear strategy or even the slightest conversations with congress. If you haven’t figured it yet this administration does as it pleases. The laws of the country are just an obstacle to be ignored.

Funny how the Libby Progressive Socialists of America accused President Bush of starting an illegal war, when President Bush actually had approval of Congress to go to war. Obama made a covert call from his closet at 3:00 a.m. to Gates and told him to turn up the heat. Where are your protests now, Liberals?

Every.
Single.
Last.
Shred of credibility held by the Left went straight to he11 last week.
1) Obama sends us to War #3.
2) Obama then goes on vacation.
3) Obama then hands Soros-dominated Petrobas an oil rig permit. Something we’re not allowed to have.
4) Petrobas can now drill in the Gulf of Mexico. Something we’re not allowed to do.
5) Petrobas then will sell the oil to the US. Because we can’t drill our own.
6) Obama admits the trip to Brazil is to help the economy of Brazil – while completely ignoring our ruined economy.
7) During all this, Obama almost completely ignores the earthquake/nuclear meltdown in Japan, the effects of which have now reached our shores.
I dare – DARE any Liberal to defend this.

That’s the point…the blatant hypocrisy of the left, especially when it comes to the use of military force. They accuse Bush of lying for being wrong, yet it is not lying for Obama no matter how many times he breaks his promises.

Excellent questioning, Jake…but with one big glaring hole: when Secretary Clinton asserted that it was the lack of “unilateral” warfare that made this legal, where was the righteous, demanding follow-up question?
Clinton is asserting that the simle agreement of international partners made this action “legal.” That’s some serious quicksand there as regards the U.S. Constitution, and you should have absolutely called her on it.
This is also a big red flag for all of us, as the only ‘international law’ regarding many things is simply _precedent_. If this action by the administration goes unpunished by the American people, then precedent will indeed have been established that Congres does not have to be consulted before waging warfare.

impeach

Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links So we are giving arms, and aid to Al-Qaeda the very same group that are killing our troops in Afghanistan. I say we Leave Libya Now without any aid at all, and let The outcome be as it will be.
Next we should Start right now Impeachment AGAINST Obama, And I mean to kick out of Office.
Who in the hell does he think he is to Bypass Congress on an act of WAR And yes this is An Act of War.
Just think Give him two more years, and let him get away with this will only embolden him to do more Stupid acts. Obama is Not a leader This Country will Never Never be the same again Because of Obama

Does anyone remember Hillary Clinton getting off the plane in Kosovo dodging bullets while a group of kids stood on the runway waiting for her arrival? It was part of her Presidential Campaign. How do we trust her now?

So this is NOT a Just War…….just like Afghanistan and Iraq are NOT Just Wars.
Christians can NOT support them, it’s only the jews who can wage Unjust wars….
If you’re a Christian, you can NOT support these wars and be a Christian.

If a humanitarian catastrophe engineered by a long-term malevolent dictator requires us to “DO SOMETHING” militarily, what are we doing about North Korea, Iran, Syria, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sudan, etc.? And, seriously, is the basis of our foreign policy now based on what other countries might say about us if we sat it out? Hillary wants to know how we would respond if we sat it out and a massacre ensued, and other nations whined, “Why didn’t the U.S. do something?” Here’s a short response: “Your turn.”

Joe Kidd…you have got to be kidding? If anything, this president showed the courage of his convictions knowing that this could backfire on him …he chose to do what he could to save the rebels from being mass murdered by Gadafi. Nothing more. This could also affect his election but he felt this was more important. You still don’t get this guy…who THINKS…and he did he right thing by getting the coalition to join us and help out financially and militarily. Unlike Bush who pranced into a war saying WE WON after the first offense and here we are 8 yrs later in the same war….we won nothing. He accepts the responsibility of his actions and I applaude him for trying to do something to save lives. Maybe if you saw the picture of the rebels shaking the hand of the pilot they saved and thanking him…you would feel differently? I doubt it….you seem like just another Obama hater. Not objective…just full of hate.

Only 22 more months ’til we evict the Marxist Buffoon from the Oval Office and cancel “Amateur Hour” at the White House.
NOBAMA 2012
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke

They just need more airbases in which to strike out at Iran, this has nothing to do with Libya. The Iranian war will be overwhelming and decisive from all sides. They have too much oil and proximity to Saudi Arabia and Israel to let it go on too long.

Thank you Neo-Cons for supporting and enabling the administration in getting us into this mess! I hope you are also held accountable if this all blows up.
As a staunch defender of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East and our only true ally there, I am concerned the template created here could someday be used by a hostile administration and other countries to side against Israel should she be too aggressive in defending herself against attacks from the West Bank, Gaza or Lebanon.

Hillary, factually there were more nations aligned with Bush at the start of the Iraqi war. As for the refugee problem, I think that’s only an excuse since the population of Libya is only 6 million. Now, you’re picking and choosing wars based on what, I’m not sure. But I am sure that I’m not buying your reasoning. GET OUR SOLDIERS OUT OF THERE AND BRING THEM HOME, ALL FRONTS. Close 3/4ths of our overseas bases while you’re at it.

“INTERNATIONALLY AUTHORIZED INTERVENTION? What?
Secretary of State Clinton still unable to answer a question directly, talked too much:
Tapper asked Clinton, “Why not got to Congress?”
“Well, we would welcome congressional support,” the Secretary said, “but I don’t think that this kind of internationally authorized intervention where we are one of a number of countries participating to enforce a humanitarian mission is the kind of unilateral action that either I or President Obama was speaking of several years ago.”
Use of over 125 Tomahawk Missiles is a bit more than an “intervention”.

Tom’s short reply is the best I’ve seen here

Maybe I am a little late at arriving at this, but this latest misadventure causes me to think that perhaps the term “New World Order” was more than just a catch phrase or piece of rhetoric.

I believe Obama is a willing puppet who does not take his cue from the American people. The same holds true for Congress, which only now — due to complaints from their constituents — has decided to pretend to care about the fact the Constitution has been trashed once again by dragging the US citizenry into another undeclared war.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Pathetic academic bureaucrat Gates, working for pathetic globalist puppet Obama Keenyatta, who works for George Soros and all the others working to destroy the United States. They’re there!

Well Dems, you wanted change! Happy now?

@Phillip: “It’s a good thing we are ridding the world of dictators, unions hate competition…..” lol!
Isn’t it time we restore to our government the checks and balances that used to prevent foolish, costly ventures into American hegemony?
We need to immediately:
1. Knock the executive branch down a couple of pegs [much more really] by stripping it of all usurped, extra-constitutional powers.
2. Eliminate from congress the reign of the “career politician”.
-and-
3. Restore the rule of law to the judicial branch!

Gates is just another psychobabbler. Libya is NO threat to us, but…..we need to destabilize them over there, put in our puppet government, steal their oil with taxpayers paying for the military intervention, etc etc. Obama and his regime are the worst liars in the history of the country. He does what he pleases, forget about Congress, the will of the people, etc. The military industrial complex is a raging parasite and must be fed constantly. Obama, clearly, is the worst president in history, and I wonder what those who voted for him feel now. Hopey changey? How about hopey changey inflationary depression, boys and girls? How about dead GI’s? How about bailouts to banks that caused the depression? How about no jobs unless you work for military contractors? The worst disgrace ever is Obama and there is no wonder why we are universally loathed throughout the world. Keep supporting Obama, folks. Just forget about jobs for your children.

Realize people who is running the government now! One World Government Liberals! Their mission is to control the world! They justify this, and convince you that they are doing good by telling you it is for the people of whatever nation they are trying to control. Realize this, it’s all about them gaining power and keeping that power…they can’t do it on their own, they have to use the u.s. government and tax money to do this…Can you believe it? Now this bunch is having our U.S. government fund our enemy, Al Queda, in Libya. What a shame for all the people that have died after 9/11…All I can say is keep voting REPUBLICAN…until we get rid of the hypocrits in the White House, we will never have peace…

Dear Fellow American Citizens,
Do not worry yourselves about details like the Constitution, military deaths, 3 wars, and a $14 TRILLION national debt. Obama got on his polycom a few weeks ago and took his orders directly from Goldman Sachs, JPM, Buffet, the Fed, and GE. They used to meet in person but no need to since he is mere property now. This current adventure is at their bidding in order to aid: FX trading, commodities derivatives, oil futures or distract from the Fed balance sheet implosion, $150 Billion in monthly treasury borrowings, dumping more toxic bankster assets on the taxpayers, etc. It is the Central Banking cabal that controls the US as well as our major allies in Europe. Welcome to the new feudal economy. And to you fools who think that Obama and 90% of Congress is not serving the Bankstas; how much proof do you need? This idiot just started a war and sided with al-Qaeda backed militants in Lybia – all while on vacation!

The facade of a our Republic in the face of a Banking Cartel giving orders to the US Senate who were not even consulted as a body formally to go to WAR! The 4th war if one obviously includes Pakistan.
Whose foreign policy is this… ! Israel’s and their Lobby… the CFR/Aspen Institute et al. ?!! Not even these… a Banking Cartel runs our country and it is racist from top to bottom. Fill in the blank if you dare.
Even the Marxist written UN Charter forbids involvement in internnal affairs of a country.
What was at issue here was the Intelligence Agency Mosaad/CIA/MI6 planning a cascade of “rovolutions” in the Middle East and when a sovereign country took action against our special forces… defending itself… no matter what one thinks of the leader… and threatened to defeat those trumped up freedom fighters for the Banking Cartel’s world government plans.
This all through their ladies of the knight above… send in massive ‘support for the weak poor people of Libya! Everyone knows what this is… the changing of the glob to bring all countries under the Cartel complete power.
Idiots… you assert a difference between political parties? Between the present Banking Cartel occupant of the White House?
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BUSH OR “Obama” … they were both put in power by the Banking Cartel’s racist group who assign wars like other people shop.
Look at Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson… on and on and on… go back a gereration and then another… same group… . And they are not Jewish!
This is not even an issue of our Constitution any longer and obvious Treason… nor even the complete emasculation of the United States Senate who are being blackmailed literally… by the CIA/Mossad if needed… it now is an issue of our vary humanity as Americans.
Will we allow a cabal to take our dear country and suppress and destroy Liberty’s good name for a very long time and turn its creative light forever dim?
There are no parties.
No left or right except the trumped up Marxism/Zionism dynamic run before us daily and not just in the “news,’ but from the churches that are now infiltrated too.
One would think the Book of Revelation was the core of Christianity! Instead of its call to individuals… to positively expand our spiritual lives in VOLUNTARY service to humanity.
But that… does not carry water for our “ally,’ in the Middle East… that is our FED, Bank of England Overlords.
Wake!

Being that both President Obama and Secretary Clinton will never come out and admit the fact that they are total, thorough and complete hypocrites, thank you Mr. Tapper for the information that points to the obvious.
It makes one wonder if either Obama or Clinton are capable of winning a primary.

“B” commented on the hundreds of thousands of U.S. military deaths and mutilations. Israel manufactured the sophisticated IED’s planted on military vehicles in Iraq and blown up via remote control (Israeli commanders were working alongside American commanders).
The Pentagon has KNOWINGLY poisoned troops with Depleted Uranium in every war since Bush Sr – in their weapons, bullets, tanks, and other equipment. They’ve poisoned the air with DU in Iraq, Afghanistan, and NOW in Libya.
The DU shortens the lifespan of our EXPENDABLE TROOPS – no retirement, no trained weapons experts when the NWO gets ready to confiscate the guns congress is so keen on removing.
The Pentagon JCS should be court-martialed for knowingly perpetrating these crimes against humanity.

One question: Why didn’t we [the United States] press the Arab League to establish the no-fly zone. With all of the fighter jets and othere armaments that the U.S. alone has sold to these countries, they have more than enough military resources to have conducted this operation on their own. It is their brothers that are under the gun of Qaddafi, and since there was no imminent threat to the United States – then, why are we there? “Obummer” has screwed-the-goose on this one, and it will bury him in 2012! Once again, the United states plays “world policeman.”

How dare Gates says this in contradiction with his boss’s vision? Remember that now Al Quaeda is already involved and they are actively helping and fighting with the rebels? Of cause, Obama and Clinton have to find some “national” justification to “intervene”. The big question is what kind of outcome would Obama and Clinton is expecting or planning for? This is very tricky and very fishy to me.

Republicant’s or Taxocrats, no matter who gets in office it is the same game different team. War, war, war, war. Billions spent to save the oil industry and enrich Lockheed Martin, Haliburton while many are unemployed, under-employed and the infrastructure collapses. I’m not sure the founding fathers intended for the military industrial complex and a central bank to run this country – because they are.

The lunatics are in charge.

Under Obama’s limited vision, we are just another country listed on the roster of the U.N. membership plaque. No better, no worse, no more exceptional that Qatar. Take that Founding Fathers.

OF COURSE obama had NO AUTHORITY to send ANYONE to Libya….An impeachable offense. We can no longer ALLOW this muslim terrorist to RENT our WhiteHouse…He has to be out BEFORE 2012! And THEN, put on trial.

used to dismiss David Geffen’s allegation that the Clintons are the greatest liars he has ever encountered and they can stare at you and lie at you just like that. I considered it a Gay Man’s Tall Tale. Now we know that even gays like Geffen can tell the truth as it is, plain simple and unadulterated, most especially if they talk about it out of experience, the best and the most expensive teacher. Hillarry, it is quite obvious now, is a serial liar. Her tales of Bosnia were not a “misspeak,” it dawns on me now.. She did it to win the primary and to embellish her vacuous exploits. Putin is quite right that headless people should not be heads of state. That bonzai dictator of North Korea had the reason to advice her to stick to her shopping sprees. Hillary does not care if our children are sent to this kiknd of unnecessary war. She is pro-choice in the first place. I think she completely lost her head after that Monica Lewinsky drama that, by quirk of fate, turned her into an overnight martyr. Now she is parroting her husband’s fallacy of “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” True to his campaign slogan, President Barack Hussein Obama should stop this drama. Hillary should be dismissed as secretary of state and replaced with Secretary Gates. Send her to the kitchen to bake cakes.

So I guess he will pay the American people back for the money it cost to lob 130 missiles at the sand box. And the jet that got shot down by the rebels along with all the fuel,ships etc.

Send the LITTLE PUNK called seotorro to Libya…WITHOUT AMMO! They are ALREADY stomping on a dummy of him…Let’s give them the REAL dummy!!!

Some of these comments are just amazing! People, give up your jobs and start writing fiction! You could very well produce a best seller!

No one is mentioning this lightweight reporter or who owns and who loans to… ABC.
We already voted my friends… remember the great supposed flood of new blood that were going to set things straight in the Senate and Congress?
The last group that is… for it never happens and never will .
I know the anger of the Tea Party on that first day that people went to State Capitals with little organization in anger over the Banking Cartel’s.. steeling… of a trillion without any oversight… that was Fall of 2008.
NOW IT IS CLEAR THAT THE TEA PARTY… WAS AN INTELLIGENCE FRONT AT ITS CORE AT LEAST… TO BLEED OFF TENSION INTO ZIONISM AND THOSE GOALS TO BE USED BY THE BANKING CARTEL FOR THE PRE-PLANNEDD ‘REVOLUTIONS.’
CUT AND BAKE… STRAIGHT FROM THE CIA/FBI MOSSAD.
What is Homeland Security really for? The Suppression of a future resistance in the USA.
Supprised the “American” Left is silent?
The Spigot was turned off.
They never were anything but whor.. of a Banking Cartel run… like any propaganda element… and that especially includes the environmental movement shoved down the collective throats of our children for the last 25 years in our UN directed schools. (imprintation centers)… environmentalism’s real purpose was to make children think in terms of being members of the world… rather than Americans … or individuals.
IF you think the ballot box will help you are so naive that one does not know where to start.
We need patriots still in the FBI and CIA to rat on this Cabal… that runs our country in our names… the trials in public start after. These are capital offenses. Morrally so corrupt that no negative words cover it.
We are talking not just about the events before us now but WW 1 and WW 11, the Cold War, Korea, Viet Nam… the dropping of the bombs on Japan when they were defeated to emotionally bring in the UN. The firebombing of Germany as a ritual at. The Mysterious slowing and then stopping of the armies of the West at the gates of Berlin in WW11 to allow the Soviets to take “Eastern Europe.”
An entity… name it if you dare… runs our and every Western government on Earth… it must be torn our root and branch.

Hillary looked like a bobblehead when Secretary Gates was talking.

Humanitarian missions get US soldiers killed. Blackhawk Down is an example. And in Libya, what is our excuse?
Barry will attempt to charm words Monday night but he will rely on the teleprompter [paid Soros think tank for ideas] to sell the waste of defense dollars on a patch of desert in North Africa.
If we have ammo, let’s ship it to Afganistan where it might do some good.

I’ll bet Obama sits around the camp fire with GW bragging and teheeing and tahahahaing about what each did to screw up the economy in their efforts to impose socialistic mechanisms upon the American people unknowingly. Neith one is really Democrat or Republican, they’re both out for the same destruction of The United States of America.

See all the Drudgies are out in force writing their nonsense. How hard is it to understand that Obama didn’t create this wave of reform and discontent in the Middle East, but he is just trying to ensure the wave keeps going, and channel it in the U.S. interest. It’s a balancing act, and it makes perfect sense. There are no guarantees here how it will turn out, but it makes sense to use diplomacy and legitmate force to attempt to shape outcomes in the region.

Too bad you wimped out this morning and didn’t ask what about “authorization” from the UN that allowed a President to make war on another nation? I guess Hil is so intimidating she scared your pants off.

Gates proved he’s not his own man, he’s turned ‘obmacrat’. At least we know what Hillary is. Gates statement is perhaps the most baseless, I’ve ever read…what a dope..

The ONLY answer is to vote TEA PARTY in 2012 Even the GOP is lame and uninformed on these matters.

According to the UK papers Obama is fighting in support of al quida in Libya. Guess we know where this presidents allegences lie.

I happen to think this is exactly what Obama wants. he would love to drain our military of resources. Obama talked about green energy being our Sputnik moment. Well, if you completely block off ALL access to oil in the middle east, America will have no choice but to make green energy, Obama will not allow our natural resources to be used. I think Obama would just as much have Iran control the entire middle east. Cut off our oil supplies, pull ALL of our troops out, let Israel be ELIMINATED. Heck, the middle east has been a sore spot forever, this may be the only chance in a million to sever ALL ties to the middle east once and for all. Strategically, I feel this is the plan.

Gates is right Libya posed no credible threat to the United States as a country. In fact if you look at statistics more americans are killed by mexican nationals whose presence in our country is supported by the Mexican Government. Mexico is actually a greater national security threat to the United States than Libya is. This fact and Obama’s refusal to get congressional approval for his action in Libya puts him in direct
violation of the war powers act. This makes Obama no more than a terrorist himself.

Will our country last until the 2012 election? That is the big question.

It’s funny because I wonder what would happen in the U.S. if a million or so people with AK47′s, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, trucks with mounted guns and tanks going down the street in Washington DC starting to shoot at the police and trying to force the President out of power would result in. I bet Obama would order the killing of these people. But is that not what we are in Libya for. They are not just protestors, but instead armed rebels and Al Quada.

Say, why hasn’t Desiree Farouk painted her hands red and gone into a congressional hearing to get right in Hilary’s face the way she did Condi’s, while a fawing left wing, Bush-Deranged media nodded like bobblehead dolls? Could it be that the left’s opposition to “war” was merely a political move designed to destroy a president win an election? Nahhhh….the hypocricy would be unbelievable!

What else can one expect from a person who stood by her unfaithful, impeached, liar, enabler of terrorism husband. What else can one expect from a person who is not even a citizen of this great country and attended numerous flag burning events and called our military nasty names.—–past time for impeachment—

Obama lied, people died. Swim in it dems.

Take an ACORN Community Agitator from the streets of Chicago; tutor the man until he masters the skill of reading a programmed text from a teleprompter; a man congenitally imbued to view America as the greatest evil in the world; a man fanatically intent on the re-distribution of America’s wealth; a man who for more than 20yrs was willingly injected with the incendiary and venomous rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright’s church; a man who has publically declared his intent to cripple America’s energy sector; a man who has demonstrated a consistent bias in favor of the Muslim venue; a man with an oft expressed contempt for our Constitution, calling it “fundamentally flawed”; a man who has repeatedly demonstrated a deeply ingrained characteristic aversion to confronting serious issues; and, install him in the Presidency of the United States, and you’re destined to suffer the international humiliation, and domestic morass into which America is currently submerged. Greg Neubeck

What kind of crap am I reading? This is an international thing…well this “international thing” is coming right out of my pocket…and right now…this country is broke.
We have heard reports that the supposed “freedom fighters”…nice generic term to sooth the minds of those on the fence about this, could be AlQaeda!!! WHAT…we might be giving them weapons so they can go into Afghanistan and kill our soldiers.
People…there is something seriously wrong with this picture. First…this man needs to go to Congress before he gets his hands in my pocket. Second…we are a sovereign country. We are not run by the UN…and I don’t want to be…nor do most Americans.
2012 can’t come soon enough and I hope we have the intelligence to recognize the evil when it spews from his mouth…freedom fighters my foot!

Why is there so much hesitation to start impeachment proceedings on OBAMA? Could it be the media is still unwavering? Are they owned and bought by George Soros? Time to get your weapons and ammo ready as these thugs will be coming after us soon. Tunesia, Egypt, Libya, UK, and soon to be US. Mark my words

Lorenzo @ 3:31 p.m.,
I didn’t vote for the current poseur in the White House.
Knew long before he was elected he was a cipher who was a certifiable enemy of America.
Believe we need regime change immediately in our country, before the Marxist megalomaniac in the White House and his thugocracy continue further down their U.S.-destroying road.

The majority of Americans are not buying their spins nor their lies.
The GOP better get moving on removing Obama, Biden, and now Hillary or this one is going to explode in their faces and never go away.

THE WORLD IS ON FIRE IN THE “NON-INTEGRATING GAP” COUNTRIES
This article explains the Pentagon plan for war against the “non-integrating” countries to complete their NWO. Our military is a TOOL for the globalist agenda.
There’s a recent article entitled YES THEY WILL (Fire on You). It’s just a matter of time before that actually happens.
In the meantime, there are thousands of FOREIGN TROOPS in this country while U.S. troops are in Libya, Iraq & Iran, and a very large contingent of Chinese troops on our southern border in Mexico waiting for martial law and a New Madrid earthquake from the HAARP machine during FEMA’s “drill” May 15-20. The illuminati have threatened it.

United Nation regulations/orders/directives and/or laws do NOT SUPERCEDE the US Constitution nor US LAW – PERIOD!
I demand Obama be removed from office. He has gone over the edge!

Constitution? What Constitution?

These very people raised their hands and swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. They have failed to keep their oaths. They must be removed for treason.

Did George Soros, give his permission?

I remember open borders, Juan McShame, telling us all that obama is a good man and that we have nothing to fear from an obama presidency….

OBAMASPUTNIK is exactly right. THAT is the intention….cutting off oil to the U.S. is the final goal as told to Pastor Lindsey WILLIAMS, who was a pastor at the Alaska Oil Pipeline.
THEN, when the U.S. is starving and destitute we’ll BEG for a NWO takeover. They will then open up 4 oil fields in the US at $200 per barrel costing them $16.
We are kept in PERPETUAL WAR over oil despite the fact that the US is full of it, but again they don’t want ANY competition from Saudi, and they’ve murdered hundreds of people who created free energy technology. Much of it lies in the U.S.Patent Office under the old farce “NATIONAL SECURITY”.

Obama = Clintons = Gore = Kerry = Biden = Pelosi = Reid = any liberal – it doesn’t matter who is or might have been in office – the push for a new world government, with the U.S. made a mediocre province at best, is the goal. The basic ABC’s : stop obamAgenda – obamaBinge – obamaCare.

I gotta say, the best part is that according to Hillary, using aircraft to kill is bad, but shooting people dead is A-OK! Awesome, problem solved over here…

Obama had no authority to cause a war. It is a war and before long our men will be killed over there for nothing! We are almost bankrupt thanks to this idiot president. When 2012 comes only complete fools will vote for this inexperienced flower child, that apparently just wants to drive us into complete bankruptcy!!! He and Soros.

Where is the LIBERAL (ooopppssss progressive) OUTRAGE?
Figgures!

“Posted by: Lone Gunman | Mar 27, 2011 5:54:17 PM
“Where is the LIBERAL (ooopppssss progressive) OUTRAGE?
“Figgures!”
- – - -
They’re huddled somewhere, with Democrats and liberals, ripping the “Dissent is Patriotic” from their Priuses, Volvos, SUVs of all makes, Chevy Volts, Acuras, etc.
Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton could not be reached for comment.

Where’s the outrage from left? Where is code pink and Cindy sheehan? As Pat Buchanan said the Junior Varsity Team is running this operation. That is what happens when you elect a Community Organizer for POTUS. Shocking to see that the Leader of the Free Word is now France’s Sarkozy

It’s obvious that Hillary is taking the 3AM phone calls. Ok Liberals who voted for our Community Organizer in Chief. . . Any of you brave enough to admit here and now that you wish Hillary had won?

Hope… Change….
There is change all right: Bush attacked Iraq claiming WMD’s, Obama attacked Libya claiming… nothing, for a change.
There is hope all right: the great hope that the oil companies would get more profits after grabbing the Libyan oil.

Apparently many do not realize that the Obama regime is in no way constrained by the Constitution and thus surely not by existing laws or precedents. You people simply do not realize that 1) Obama is MUCH smarter than you; 2) Obama is inherently MUCH more benevolent than you; and 3) if you disagree, it is simply your inherent racism showing through. Although he has never held as much responsibility as a hot dog vendor, Obama is so intelligent, benevolent and adored that it simply does not matter. The humble and decent G. Bush is the reason for anything that may be going wrong now or in the future. Get with it!

Ron Paul for President in 2012. The only way to STOP this madness that’s draining the blood from the best of the US and get our own house in order.

Where do you suppose all the displaced people will end up? On the run, large, involuntarily displaced populations are never good.

this is a pretty weak argument by Secretary Gates. The coalition the US had for Iraq involved many more nations. Political cover is all this is. And I ain’t buying it.

Barack read to us:
U.S. Involvement in Libya Action Would Last ‘Days, Not Weeks’
Delusional.
Arrogant.
Ignorant.
Violent.

No wonder Farrakhan is so upset. Obami threw his pal Qaddafi under the bus. To distract the American people from focusing on the unemployment numbers. Also that he cannot get a government budget passed. His health care plan is unconstitutional. He is the idiot savant in chief that has to be the answer.

Given Gates’ admission, open and shut. Impeach Obama. And SOS Clinton. And Joe Biden.
Kaddhafi’s thing with tents clues you in. Desert-dwellers are very resourceful, have to be. After Obama goes on TV to address the nation and puts his face publicly on Libya, Kaddhafi will make his move.
And if cornered — from his perspective — Kaddhafi and enough of his true-blue followers will torch all of Tripoli.

Gate’s said “no imminent threat to US ”
Read here,
1 – Gadafi allowed 30.000 + Chinese engineers
They WERE NOT making toys with lead paint.
They WERE DRILLING HOLES in the ground
for Black Gold and they took off before the
3rd War started. That’s ease to understand.
DO NOT Forget Libya is the back yard of
EU, and Gadafi DID NOT get permission
from EU. Now He got to pay the price …
He did the same mistake as Sadam.
2. – Musslem Bruthers could not get in with
Gadafi there. So now they can Roam Freely
And Do as they wish.
OH BY THE WAY Sec. Gates said too that
We NEVER DONE THIS THING ON THE FLY.
That Mean WAR.
ANY MORE DILUSION or QUESTION ???

there was a time when we promoted peace and prosperity in this country, now we are up to our ears in war and debt.

Obama would have done better by sending a delegation led by Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright to negotiate with Khaddafi. That way he may have avoided being sucked in by British and French neo-imperialism into this wasteful expenditure of already scarce resources.
We will all be better served if he simply saves us the cost of yet another Obama Speech.

Gates will have to be fired for telling the truth.

It is now official, Obama & Holder, are the worst thing that has ever happaned to positive race relation in our history. They are BAD people

Impeach for treason. We do not have a mercenary army at the beck and call of the Unelected UN Elite. Impeach, Impeach, Impeach. Gates knows, that is why he is being very clear no US involvement was justified.
Who is John Galt?

its not Rep or Dem both parties sux! Bush and Obama took us to wars over lies! whats new…

Why are U.S. pilots bombing and killing Libyan soldiers who have done nothing to us?
Soldiers who are simply doing their sworn duty to protect their country from an insurgency which they were told was backed by al-Qaida and supported by Western powers after their oil.
Since this is a Middle Eastern problem, why doesn’t Egypt, which has a 450,000 man army, and has received billions from us in military aid roll into Benghazi and protect their brethren from being killed by fellow Muslims?

IMPEACH !!!!

The same people we are now protecting in eastern Libya are said to be some of the same people who go and do their “jihad” in Iraq and Afghanistan, AGAINST our soldiers.
Can this be true?
if so, wow! We have truly entered the looking-glass world.

The problem comes from a media that won’t report on what is actually happening in society. We are facing serious problems in our everyday lives from high food prices to high gas prices. We’ve entered into a 3rd war. Terrorism is a greater fear than it ever was. Our children our bullied in school….it’s happening to my 5 year old grandson. I’m ready to start home schooling my grandchildren to protect them from your dysfunctional society!

Please stop criticising the president, he has an NCAA tournament to focus on, lol

And the anti-war liberals are where?
. . . crickets chirping.

I am baffled by the response to this by my fellow “conservatives.” What’s wrong with you people? This is possibly the first thing Obama has done right. I’m just disappointed that he’s not taking it more seriously.
You people DO remember that Reagan bombed Qadaffi too, right? And in that case it was in retaliation for a terrorist attack that didn’t even involve Libya.
Am I the only one who remembers recent history?

“From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli….” (From the Marine Corps Hymn.)
The Barbary Pirates, based in Tripoli, were attacking U.S. shipping in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. President Thomas Jefferson sent the U.S.S. Constitution to retaliate. The ship bombarded Tripoli and then landed the Marines, who took care of business. Problem solved.
There was no declaration of war. The President does not require a declaration of war unless he wants to launch an overt attack against a non-belligerent nation. He is authorized, and required by his oath of office, to act as commander-in-chief of the armed forces to protect and defend the United States and her interests.
Qadhaffi has been killing Americans via his terrorist network for decades. This is not theory. He has admitted it and bragged about it. Most recently he welcomed home the ape who masterminded the Lockerbie attack, thumbing his nose at us once again.
It is time for President Obama to stop pussyfooting around and KILL Moammar Qadhaffi. Finish the job that Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II were unwilling or unable to accomplish.
I think Obama may be the worst President since Andrew Johnson, but he is doing the right thing here. Or he would be if he’d take it more seriously. Target Qadhaffi personally! I honestly don’t understand why we’re so squeamish about targeting heads of state. Most of them would kill our President in a splintered second if they could. Cut off the serpents head and the body will die.

It should be abundantly clear to everyone that the Constitution has become a meaningless document. The American federal government and world globalist elites are determined to run this country into the ground, scrap its sovereignty, and create a planet of new debt slaves. And the world goes round and round. Time to wake up and smell the cordite.

1) This action without any consultation with Congress, is clearly unconstitutional
2) For those naysayers who state that oil is a primary motivator to act with a condescending, arrogant, disgusted tone – how would they like an America without oil? Really now!
3) If Congress was really against this unconstitutional act of war, then they can still defund it. It would mean that they would have to take a stand on the record – a stand that polarized groups of the electorate could hold them accountable for – for better or worse.
4) Back to 1 – why consult with foreign entities and a UN that lacks credibility or efficacy and launching these acts of war while on vacation in Rio – first time that I can remember a President doing so – this demonstrates a perhaps dangerous precedent and further reduction in America’s sovereign status. It clearly subjects our own interests to a committee of other countries, who have not hesitated to act in their own self interest over that of America in the past.
5) Why can’t reporters, report beyond the superficial acts and provide more indepth, educational content in their articles?

Look at the map of the middle east….OUR TROOPS are being SURROUNDED, and OBAMA IS ALLOWING IT…He is doing it INTENTIONALLY@!

This is another war for oil. Like the Libertarians have been saying all along: Bush and Obama are no different. People should stop bickering about it.

Thank you Gates. So what your saying is that it is in the elitists best interest, and don’t you dare say it was just Clinton’s desire! Obama will not be distancing himself from this as last time I checked he was President, not Clinton. Furthermore, it is absolutely not in the best interest of the US for Gates to blab this out, but nonetheless we were not expecting patriotism from Gates either. And excuse me Hillary, but where do you get off stating you “welcome dialogue with the CONGRESS”??? Your sorry, you know that, really sorry.

Barry Hussein O’Bama is guilty of ignoring Lesson 1b of Commander-in-Chief 101.
Choose your Battles wisely.
But what do you expect from someone who didn’t do well in school.

It is a train wreck and pure hypocrisy…losing all semblance of respect as a country…taking us right down the karmic track…shameful

“were attacking U.S. shipping in the Atlantic and Mediterranean”
Not that I’m a Qui-daffy fan, but when Jefferson bombarded Tripoli, US Commerce was under direct physical attack.
If you’re going to go after every country that sponsers terrorism, then let’s wipe them all off the map in alphabetical order, and sleep better at night.
Since we’re already in two wars, I think we should have let some of the other countries get live fire practice, and we should have stayed out of it. Of course we all know this is all about the oil. Remember Rwanda? Million people or so dead? No oil? Who cares!

DUH!!! Just like a liberal Democrat, no common sense whatsoever, and all talk, no action, just like always.
No one’s a threat to the U.S. until something happens. The Axis in WWII was not a threat to the U.S. until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Al Qaeda was not a threat until they let off that first bomb, and they weren’t enough of a threat until AFTER some 3000 people suffered under a couple burning and collapsing buildings and then finally died.
That’s how Democrats and liberals love to think in their selfishness. Let others suffer under their oppression so long as we can turn a blind eye, for the sake of peace you know. Well the oppressed don’t have peace you liberals in your self-righteousness.
Then you liberals go around saying, they’re no threat. Yeah, I guess Democrats and liberals need a certain number of U.S. citizens to die before something is considered a threat to them. Obviously 3000 wasn’t enough with the shear number of them opposing the war even after 911. That number, of course, grew over the next couple years as the liberal propaganda machines like this news station and others were working over-time to ensure that Bush looked like he was handling the war horribly, and that we the electorate believed that Al Qaeda wasn’t all that bad.