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When U.S. soldiers captured Saddam Hussein during the Presidency of George W. Bush, he was taken prisoner, handed over to Iraqi authorities and eventually tried, convicted and executed by them.

But U.S. soldiers didn't capture Gaddafi, did they? He was captured by his own people who turned around and summarily executed him. I don't understand what Obama was supposed to do to prevent that.

But U.S. soldiers didn't capture Gaddafi, did they? He was captured by his own people who turned around and summarily executed him. I don't understand what Obama was supposed to do to prevent that.

Prevention would have come in the form of leaving that country the hell alone and staying out of it. US Drones aided the Muslim Brotherhood Rebels, US Advisors supported the Muslim Brotherhood Rebels, US money and weapons stores 'evened' the odds....we had no business interfering, especially to allow a bunch of Muslim fanatics to secure another sovereign nation from which to continue their Jihad against infidels.

But U.S. soldiers didn't capture Gaddafi, did they? He was captured by his own people who turned around and summarily executed him. I don't understand what Obama was supposed to do to prevent that.

If you'll notice, I did not say anything about preventing it. After all, it's not within our borders and Congress has not passed a Declaration of War, so our military should not be there. /dripping sarc

President Obama made a public statement expressing his approval of the event. No doubt he is thinking back to President Bush numerous times making public statements acknowledging military success and in Obama's heart he thinks that is a good thing to do politically for himself so he can look like he's wearing the big-boy pants.

Since he was publicly speaking, he had the opportunity to express some kind of concern, or perhaps call for an inquiry, regarding the fact that the video shows Gaddafi alive and subdued, then moments later shot. It was with what President Obama did not say wherein the problem lies.

Instead, other people around the world have said these things, beating dear leader to the punch. Now, in terms of the moral high ground, all dear leader can do is doggedly drag his skinny backside up there to utter some better-late-than-never copycat statement, bringing up the rear. Leading through his behind yet again.

Wouldn't it be nice if he was on the right side, morally, just once, and he came out with it without copying off someone else or reading from TOTUS ? Such a fine example he is - just do exactly the opposite of what he would do, and you'll be doing the right thing. IMHO...

I think the point is that he praised them for it. He could have put in at least a perfunctory comment about the rule of law.

We didn’t capture Gaddafi because rather than risk our own troops, we lent our air force to a bunch of thugs who had no respect for the Geneva convention or the rules of war.

I wonder if we could get charged with war crimes for providing air support to war criminals?