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Obama: ‘Days Are Numbered’ for Gadhafi’s Government

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Posted on Mar 30, 2011
White House / Pete Souza

President Obama holds forth about Libya at the National Defense University on Monday.

President Obama continued with his Convince America About Libya Tour on Tuesday, granting interviews to CBS, ABC and NBC to discuss U.S. intervention in the North African nation while pointing out that “each country in this region is different.”  —KA

Bloomberg:

The “noose has tightened” around Qaddafi as “people around him are starting to recognize that their options are limited and their days are numbered,” Obama said on the “CBS Evening News,” one of three interviews he gave to broadcast networks yesterday.

“We’ve got to ratchet up our diplomatic and our political pressure on him,” Obama said. “So that at some point he makes a decision to leave.”

Obama’s network interviews follow a March 28 nationally televised address in which he said the U.S. committed its armed forces to a United Nations-backed mission in Libya to protect civilians from troops loyal to Qaddafi, who has been battling opposition groups for control of the country.

In the interviews with the news shows on ABC and NBC, along with CBS, Obama said the criteria he outlined for military involvement in Libya cannot be compared with the situation in Syria, another site of anti-government protests, or elsewhere in a region that has been swept by anti-government protests.

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By denk, March 31, 2011 at 11:20 am Link to this comment

morristhewise,
*Attractive women in Tripoli or Benghazi have the most to lose if their cities are
overwhelmed by battle weary conquerors.  Homely women are seen as worthless
and spared the indignity of rape, but they are often executed.  An immediate
ceasefire must be declared before the victorious army gets its reward. *

morris the *wise*
the sheeples are so gullible
the us [usual suspects] dont even bother to change their scripts coz it works every time buahahaha

http://tinyurl.com/2f2nabh

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By MK Ultra, March 31, 2011 at 8:50 am Link to this comment

Qaddafi: ‘Days Are Numbered’ for Obama’s Government

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By PatrickHenry, March 30, 2011 at 8:14 pm Link to this comment

I’m suprised Gadaffi’s lasted this long.

When the whole worlds on your ass it can become a very small place.

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By joentokyo, March 30, 2011 at 7:44 pm Link to this comment

Everyone’s days are numbered.

With Bush we had hail to the thief, but hail to the cipher doesn’t work.

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By Birch, March 30, 2011 at 6:45 pm Link to this comment

Maybe the headline should read: “Obama’s Days are Numbered!”
Because this is just Bush deja bs all over again.

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By morristhewise, March 30, 2011 at 5:14 pm Link to this comment

Attractive women in Tripoli or Benghazi have the most to lose if their cities are
overwhelmed by battle weary conquerors.  Homely women are seen as worthless
and spared the indignity of rape, but they are often executed.  An immediate
ceasefire must be declared before the victorious army gets its reward.

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By fearnotruth, March 30, 2011 at 1:27 pm Link to this comment

RE: ...belated revenge for Lockerbie?

maybe for public consumption - e.g. http://tinyurl.com/4khkm4l

LOCKERBIE DIARY: GADHAFFI, FALL GUY FOR CIA DRUG RUNNING

March 6th, 2011  
By Susan Lindauer, Former U.S. Asset covering Iraq and Libya

For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103,
known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax
County, Virginia.

His life-time of privilege and protection, gratis of high flyers in U.S.
Intelligence, has been a reward for silence on the CIA’s involvement in drug
trafficking in Lebanon during the 1980s.

As sources go, I was more than a casual observer. From May 1995 until March
2003, I performed as a back channel to Tripoli and Baghdad, supervised by my
CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, who claimed from day one to know the origins
of the Lockerbie conspiracy and the identity of the terrorists.
http://issuepedia.org/1998-12-04_Susan_Lindauer_Deposition
He swore that no Libyan participated in the attack.

Armed with that assurance, our team started talks with Libya’s diplomats for
the Lockerbie Trial, and I attended over 150 meetings at the Libyan Embassy in
New York. After the hand over of Libya’s two accused men, our team engaged
in a concerted fight to gain permission for Dr. Fuisz to give a deposition about
his primary knowledge of the conspiracy, during the Lockerbie Trial. In a
surprise twist, the U.S. Federal Judge in Alexandria, Virginia imposed a double
seal on a crucial portion of Dr. Fuisz’s deposition. The double seal can only be
opened by a Scottish Judge. In my opinion, that should be a priority, as
testimony hidden by the double seal maps out the whole Lockerbie conspiracy.
Most significantly, it identifies 11 terrorists involved in the attack. Dr. Fuisz’s
testimony could put the whole matter to rest forever.

There’s good reason for my confidence. Much to my surprise, during the
Lockerbie talks, Dr. Fuisz’s allegations of CIA opium running in Lebanon
received unusual corroboration. One day, as I left the office of Senator Carol
Moseley-Braun on my lunch break, an older spook caught up with me in front
of the U.S. Supreme Court. From out of nowhere, he stepped in my path and
invited me to lunch. With extraordinary candor, he debriefed me as to what
motivated the CIA’s actions. I remember it as one battle-hardened old spook
sharing the perils of fieldwork with a gung ho young Asset, anxious to get
started on great adventures.

[...]

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By berniem, March 30, 2011 at 1:22 pm Link to this comment

Wouid the same were true for our own! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!

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By Salome, March 30, 2011 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
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Is this really about a humanitarian effort, or is it belated revenge for Lockerbie?

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By samosamo, March 30, 2011 at 12:38 pm Link to this comment

****************

 

Could it be that Libya was targeted last fall when the M$M
reported that gas would go to $3.75 a gallon by summer time?
Now that is speculation.

And why is it taking the u.s. led nato forces to long to get old
gadhafi? Superior weapons and unfettered military tactics, makes
me think gadhafi is hiding something of immense value that the
u.s. decided it needs other than it just being another military
action that is only to be sustained and not lost or won. Quite a
well worn out u.s. strategy.

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By fearnotruth, March 30, 2011 at 11:43 am Link to this comment

RE: Hoping that each side will destroy each other.

Voilà!  Just for you, rico, old buddy - the Hope and Change POTUS delivers:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=23985

Depleted uranium: a strange way to protect Libyan civilians

By David Wilson
Global Research, March 27, 2011


In the first 24 hours of the Libyan attack, US B-2s dropped forty-five 2,000-
pound bombs. These massive bombs, along with the Cruise missiles launched
from British and French planes and ships, all contained depleted uranium (DU)
warheads.

“[uranium tipped missiles] fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way… I
would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people.” Marion Falk,
chemical physicist (retd), Lawrence Livermore Lab, California, USA

[...]

11,000 US soldiers dead from DU poisoning
by Bob Nichols
Global Research, February 27, 2005
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=443

[...]

Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau,
executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “...a
special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted
uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing
scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.”

Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of
our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the
cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being
revealed.”

He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War),
of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on
Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means
that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of
permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last
century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.

[...]

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By rico, suave, March 30, 2011 at 8:36 am Link to this comment

Just figured it out. This is the Iran/Iraq war all over again: Just enough NATO/US support for the rebels (read Iraq) to keep them in it, but not enough to beat Gaddafi (read Iran). Hoping that each side will destroy each other.

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By Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, March 30, 2011 at 8:24 am Link to this comment

President Obama developed a precise and correct policy on Libya, and is cogently explaining his position. http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/03/obama’s-speech-on-libya/

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By MaxShields, March 30, 2011 at 7:17 am Link to this comment

How on earth can a President look people in the eye (ok on TV with prompter moving) and talk about saving lives!!??

Look at the innocent people, many children, that this and the last administration have killed. This is beyond hypocracy…it’s insanity.

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By fearnotruth, March 30, 2011 at 4:05 am Link to this comment

image says it all - flanked by Imperial standards, complete with eagle finials

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By Dave24, March 30, 2011 at 3:46 am Link to this comment

The no-fly-zone has international support.
Supposed international funding.
Shared international responsibility in terms of militaristic implementation.

Preventing Libyan forces from bombing cities or penetrating homes is one thing;
but fueling a military response (via the rebels themselves ) is another.

The moment we arm the rebels, train the rebels, and/or direct the rebels, it
becomes a full-fledged war, arbitrarily led by the United States.

This whole thing will devolve into endless insanity.

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By Steve E, March 30, 2011 at 3:43 am Link to this comment

I wonder if Obama will run out of BS by 2012. Hail the Chief.

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By TDoff, March 30, 2011 at 2:13 am Link to this comment

OMG, Obama has hired Sarah’s speechwriters!

‘Each nation is different’. ‘Days are numbered’.
‘Noose has tightened’. ‘Options are limited’.
‘Got to ratchet up’.
Right out of the Palin playbook.
Guess he’s gonna save ‘Africa is an island’ for later.

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By TDoff, March 30, 2011 at 1:38 am Link to this comment

In a shrewd counter-move late last night, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi resigned his ‘Colonel-ship’, declared himself a civilian, and asked for NATO protection as one of the Libyan civilians they are attempting to keep from harm.

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