Posted on 03/29/2011 1:22:59 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(CBS News)- Sen. John McCain continued to press President Barack Obama for a more forceful strategy to remove Muammar Qaddafi from power in Libya, saying that the U.S. should be willing to use "any means" necessary to accomplish that goal and comparing the current strategy of limited air power combined with diplomatic pressure to the post-Gulf War strategy in Iraq that kept Saddam Hussein in power.
Mr. Obama laid out his case for intervention Monday night, saying that he authorized the use of missile and airstrikes in an international military action to protect civilians from a "massacre."
However, while the U.S. policy calls for the departure of Qaddafi from power, the president said the U.S. would not be willing to pursue deeper military involvement, such as sending in ground troops, to make that happen.
Instead, the U.S. would support the continued coalition-led no-fly zone in addition to economic sanctions and other diplomatic tools to increase pressure on Qaddafi.
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STFU McLame.
Would’ve been better had McPain been so gung-ho during the last presidential election.
Then he and Obomber should go over there and personally take him out.
>> the U.S. should be willing to use “any means” necessary to accomplish that goal
Send Meghan over to be his seventy third wife, John. That ought to do it. ((shudder))
We should ask Hugh Hefner to extend an invitation to Daffy to come to a party at the Playboy Mansion... then nail him there.
McCain is senile
When McCain and Obama are on the same side, its time to run for the hills.
When McCain and Obama are on the same side, its time to run for the hills.
So. McLame is parroting Øbammie. Go figure.
The real question is.. What does Meghan think?
Hmmmm?
Maybe we are better off that General McCain never became President McCain.
These two morons were on the same side during the 2008 campaign.
McCain said then that Obama wouldn’t be a bad president. And Obama agreed.
Qaddafi is clearly not a nice person. But McCain has no business declaring that Qaddafi should be removed from power without explaining why, without explaining his plan to replace him, without explaining why he is supporting Al-Qaeda directly or indirectly, and without explaining what national interests of ours is threatened. Our national interests were not threatened last month, or, for that matter 40 years ago?
I keep wondering if he was braiwashed at the HH.
Take out the European oil assets in country, and he becomes meaningless. He will be taken out then.
I tried. I sent money to Hayworth. I tried. You just can’t overcome a state with a majority of Nimrods.
Me thinks they've always been on the same side.
One is fast, the other is half fast.
Will nobody rid us of this meddlesome old fool?
LOL....I can relate to that, though I think we had some union shenanigans here.
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