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Inside the White House-Congress Meeting on Libya (Obama Spox: U.S. involvement "days not weeks")
The Cable, Foreign Policy ^
| Friday, March 18, 2011
| Josh Rogin
Posted on 03/18/2011 6:46:21 PM PDT by kristinn
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The other lawmakers in attendance (beside Sen. Richard Lugar R-IN) were Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-TX), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Rep. Buck McKeon (R-NY), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), and Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA).
Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough held a conference call with top Congressional staffers on Friday afternoon where he emphasized Obama's "deep respect for Congress in all of these matters," and gave a read out of the White House meeting. A recording of the call was provided to The Cable.
"The president expects the preponderance of our involvement to last a matter of days, not weeks," McDonough said.
"At the front end of this effort, the United States will contribute our unique capabilities to neutralize air defenses and military equipment that threatens civilians and civilian-populated areas to enable ongoing enforcement operations led by our partners," he said. "We will then enable and support other countries to enforce the no-fly zone...with us in a support role.... It will not be an open ended effort by the United States."
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NATO, which is organizing command and control of the no-fly zone, enforcement of the arms embargo, and humanitarian assistance operations, could finished their planning as early as today, McDonough said. He also confirmed that in addition to the no-fly zone and the "no-drive zone," planning is ongoing for a "no-sail zone," which would allow greater enforcement of the arms embargo authorized by the new U.N. resolution.
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To: kristinn
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posted on
03/18/2011 10:48:56 PM PDT
by
keat
To: kristinn
US readying plans to enforce Libya no-fly zoneSen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he believes President Barack Obama has authority to commit U.S. forces to participate in the no-fly zone without congressional approval.
But he said he hopes Congress will bless the move once it takes place.
Thanks, Linseed! /s
42
posted on
03/18/2011 10:50:19 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
To: cripplecreek
Congress didn’t declare war then, either. When the Constituion is ignored, bad things happen.
To: JSteff
Bill Clinton thought his war on Yugoslavia where he successfully cleared out a predominantly Christian region and turned it into like 5 different islam countries. Way to go Bill.
Wow...I thought I was the only one in the world to be against this war..thanks. I feel better. No sarc here. Now the muslims we saved are killing and invading all Christians land. Yep. Way to go indeed.
44
posted on
03/18/2011 11:25:21 PM PDT
by
American Dream 246
(Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
And here is our boy-king at the meeting with advisors:
(advisors = the old white balding geezers front and center)
45
posted on
03/19/2011 12:41:10 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
To: kristinn
We have completely surrendered our sovereignty to the UN.
46
posted on
03/19/2011 3:59:40 AM PDT
by
cmj328
To: cmj328
The war monger nobama is OK with putting American soldiers’ lives on the line for his confused, feckless foreign policy. I just heard a liberal moron on CSpan who said he “loved” nobama state “well, this will at least get some of our troops out of Afghanistan.” God help us all. The mentally deficient and confused are in charge...and killing people. Let’s see...we are already involved in two wars that the LIBDIM asshats have a problem with and their great leader, nobama, gets us involved in yet another. Someone should talk to nobama, the Nobel Peace prize recipient and convince him to resign immediately. What confused, ignorant people are “leading”.
47
posted on
03/19/2011 4:35:33 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
To: kristinn
Oh, I get it now. Liberals will tolerate a war to end war. It’s for the children
I have said since the beginning that the Messiah’s salvation would be a war. I thought it would be a war, a real war. He has decided to enter a pissing match and call it a war. It will not qualify
48
posted on
03/19/2011 4:40:44 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
To: spokeshave
Well, that’ll never work, LOL! Everyone knows that Boy King Professional Muslim Agitators are waaaaay more smart than rich, old, white Christian men! ;)
49
posted on
03/19/2011 5:12:54 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: ScottinVA
Given that the election is next year, Obama better hope this adventure is over soon.
50
posted on
03/19/2011 5:33:01 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
To: kristinn; jazusamo
This is what happened at 7:57 am EST the morning you posted this about this little war conference:
Emails show Qadaffi son offered talks , but Clinton ordered top general to ‘not take the call,’...
Fox News ^ | October 6, 2015 | Catherine Herridge & Pamela Browne Posted on â10â/â6â/â2015â â7â:â54â:â18â âPM by jazusamo
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posted on
01/12/2016 12:16:37 AM PST
by
piasa
To: kristinn
On the same day as the Obama war-starting conference ...
MARCH 18, 2011 Fri : (BLUMENTHAL SENDS TO HILLARY CLINTON’S PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNT INFO HE HAD RECEIVED FROM TYLER DRUMHELLER CONTAINING THE IDENTITY OF A HUMINT SOURCE)
-— Benghazi committee, under fire, releases more Clinton emails, Yahoo Political News ^ | 10/9 | Michael Isikoff
Posted on â10â/â9â/â2015â â12â:â24â:â20â âPM by TangledUpInBlue
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MY NOTE : Tyler Drumbeller can’t testify now because he is, conveniently for Hillary, dead.
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posted on
01/12/2016 12:30:18 AM PST
by
piasa
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