If you're going to shoot, SHOOT, don't talk.
Posted on 03/27/2011 9:29:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations—and possible GOP candidate in 2012—tells Lloyd Grove of his decidedly undiplomatic solution to the crisis in Libya: Assassinate the dictator. Plus, Babak Dehghanpisheh reports from Libya on the rebels' key victory in Ajdabiya. Former ambassador John Bolton, President Bush's decidedly undiplomatic envoy to the United Nations who is considering running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has a decidedly undiplomatic solution to the crisis in Libya: The United States should terminate Muammar Gaddafi with extreme prejudice. Speaking Saturday afternoon in Des Moines, Iowa, at Republican Rep. Steve King's Conservative Principles Conference—a cattle call for presidential prospects in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses—Bolton said: "Our military has a wonderful euphemism called 'national command authority.' It's a legitimate military target. In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi is the national command authority. I think that's the answer right there." The red-meat applause line produced for Bolton, the longest of long-shots in the presidential contest, a rousing ovation from about 600 conservative activists filling up the grand ballroom at the Des Moines Marriott. "I think he's a legitimate target," the white-mustachioed Bolton told me after his speech. "That's what Reagan did in 1986"—when U.S. jets bombed Gaddafi's residence in Tripoli, killing his young daughter, in response to a lethal terrorist bombing in Germany—"and that would end the regime right there. He has murdered innocent American civilians. He has never faced responsibility for it. So I don't have any hesitation in saying that."
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Hell, he won't even go after pirates on the high seas.
Who doesn’t? Only those who believe in honoring and sustaining the law.
I suspect that if Obama ever targeted anyone for assassination or “elimination,” it would be conservative Christian US citizens and patriots.
Bolton is unhinged to “announce” that.
Assassinate mo-mo and the rest of the muzzy leaders would absolutely freak out.
There he goes again, bad boy Bolton. Doesn’t he realize that we don’t target foreign leaders for assignation? Of course aiming a GPS guided Tomahawk missile through a bedroom window is quite OK. Fortunately for us, the no-nonsense Bolon never attended PC School
I would agree with Bolton, if he further said to assassinate the leaders of Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood at the same time, I picture it like when Michael Corleone took care of “all family business.” (With Mullah Omar getting shot in the other eye)
So is “conservative” candidate Bolton now in synch or in league with Samantha Powers and Soros regarding the new globalist “Responsibility to Protect doctrine?
Bolton Plan:
a) whack Muammar.
B) what is b???
One murderous islamist out, another murderous islamist in.
I think they would freek out less if it were a covert operation
Im not saying specifically target him for assassination. Im saying target his whole damn command and control for elimination with extreme prejudice.
The UN said we could!!
Obozo was quick draw McGraw on this one, now he needs to finish it.
He killed over 290 Americans, probaly more, assinate huim.
Execute Qadafi after tribunal, yes. Assassinate, no. If we start down that road we will regret it at our liesure. We are nurturing our own murderers lovingly in prisons all over the nation, and foreign ones in Gitmo are living better lives than our troops. A number of the “rebels” we are supporting now in Libya have, by their own admission, murdered American soldiers after being released from Gitmo. A brutal murderer of innocents in Iran has thumbed his nose at us for decades. Qadafi was useful to us, supported by us, armed by us, until a few short months ago. Now that Hilary has picked another favorite(most likely Al Queda) Quadafi must DIE and right now!
I suppose Obama was right. We are no longer a Christian Nation. Neither are we a nation that lives by rule of law unless it happens to fall in line with our agenda. When it doesn’t suit us to have honor, we put out a national contract on lives we consider expendable. What goes around comes around. What will you think when NATO decides an American doesn’t fit the agenda and is deemed unfit to live?
A Democratic Senator has already stated that Republicans don’t deserve Constitutional rights. The rest might might not be as impossible or as far away from happening as you might think.
If you're going to shoot, SHOOT, don't talk.
I can see Rush being on the top of his list and Sarah Palin
The only covert operations the U.S. Government can manage are the ones that will leave you standing in a gulag wondering WTF????
We do this all the time with Hellfire missiles that kill al Qaeda. Frankly, I’m for both.
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