Clinton on Qaddafi: "We came, we saw, he died"

cbsnews ^ | October 20, 2011 | staff

[BarnacleCenturion]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed.

"We came, we saw, he died," she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi's death by an aide in between formal interviews.

Clinton was in Tripoli earlier this week for talks with leaders of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC).

The reporter asked if Qaddafi's death had anything to do with her surprise visit to show support for the Libyan people.

"No," she replied, before rolling her eyes and saying "I'm sure it did" with a chuckle.

[bert]

Cassius? Brutus?

Paging the good senators. Clean up on aisle 3 please

[Night Hides Not]

Hillary’s claiming the moral high ground, because Qaddafy wasn’t waterboarded.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

At the end of the day, this Gaddafi murder is not going to go down well for either Obama, Clinton and the Democrat Party. Gaddafi, low life murderer that he was, would have been worth tons more taken alive. In fact, he was captured alive and then murdered, either by design or by crazed Muslim terrorists who feared what an alive Gaddafi in captivity would reveal. The same goes for the killing of OBL. Our special forces could have just as well wounded OBL and captured him alive. Methinks, the old adage applies here. Dead men speak no tales!!! When I look back at the GW Bush mantra of nabbing KSM & Saddam Hussein alive for information feed and the Obama mantra of killing OBL & Gaddafi so they would not talk, I get nervous from head to toe!!! Shades of Hitler and Stalin, kill all the enemies that can devulge your real purposes!!! Winston Churchill nixed an active effort to kill Hitler, because he was worried that making Hitler a victim of British agent slaughter would only enrage the Greman public. So....the really serious attempts at taking Hitler out came from inside the German military. America, stay vigilant and beware, Obama is not in our corner, IMHO!!! Libya will go to the Muslim Brotherhood just as Egypt has. There is no democracy in the Middle East other then Israel. And....as soon as our military departs Iraq, Iran will move in and create a slave state for its greater use and purpose. And....you folks will find that “our” POTUS Obama has rendered quite loyal service and devotion to the enemies of these United States!!!

[misterwhite]

"We came, we saw, he died," she joked"

I thought we were there to enforce a no-fly zone to protect Libyan civilians.

[B212]

Yes, I had the same thought....folks, who rejoice over the repugnant side of life, should excise caution....there is a thin line between foreign adversaries, and domestic political opponents....

[NFHale]

Psycopath is the correct word for her, indeed.

Cold, calculating, psychopathic, and just plain malevolent.

In other words, a typical democrat politician.

[swain_forkbeard]

I served with Julius Caesar. I knew Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was a friend of mine. Madame Secretary, you’re no Julius Caesar.

[SumProVita]

“The death of a person may be necessary, but it is never a joke.”

I very much agree. I don’t understand why anyone might be surprised at what springs forth from Hillary. The content of her character is quite evident at times...emerging from her mouth. She is a true leftist enamored of Alinsky and horribly Off-the-mark in her basic philosophy of life.

[Shannon]

Just watched the video. Her response is creepy. The last word to come to mind would be “statesmanlike”.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

It doesn’t get more gauche than this.

The bitch should resign.

[Don Corleone]

"We came, we saw, he died,"

Using the Royal "WE" I guess.

[OldNavyVet]

Is forensic evidence avaliable?

[windsorknot]

Hillary on Bill: He saw, he conquered, he came.

[SMARTY]

No one, of course, talks about JFK offing Diem and his brother!!

[Third Person]

Professional wrestlers have more class.

[trisham]

Good heavens. Is she insane?

[lucid discourse]

It doesn’t seem gracious or graceful

[pyx]

I have no illusions about the fact that Muammar el-Qaddafi was a BAD GUY. However, I found the first-hand observations about Libya made by former British MI5 Agent Annie Machon at ChicagoNow.com quite interesting;

QUOTE They’ve had free education, free health, they could study abroad. When they got married they got a certain amount of money. So they were rather the envy of many other citizens of African countries. Now, of course, since NATO’s humanitarian intervention the infrastructure of their country has been bombed back to the Stone Age. They will not have the same quality of life. Women probably will not have the same degree of emancipation under any new transitional government. The national wealth is probably going to be siphoned off by Western corporations. Perhaps the standard of living in Libya might have been slightly higher than it perhaps is now in America and the UK with the recession, UNQUOTE she said.

[Tribune7]

These people are sick.

[MinuteGal]

"Vini, Vidi, Vici"

"We came, we saw, he died."

Tsk, tsk, Hillary. Don't you know Caesar Bill's wife must be above reproach?

Leni