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2½ Years Later: Obama Says Libya Still Needs ‘Basic Security’
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 18, 2013 - 11:43 AM | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 10/18/2013 9:40:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai

More than two and a half years after President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Brasilia, Brazil, to reveal that he had unilaterally ordered the U.S. military to intervene in Libya’s civil war in order “to protect Libyan civilians” and enforce “the writ of the international community,” Obama says Libya still needs “a representative and inclusive government” that can provide its people with “basic security.”

“Today I authorized the Armed Forces of the United States to begin a limited military action in Libya in support of an international effort to protect Libyan civilians,” Obama said in his March 19, 2011 speech in Brasilia. “That action has now begun.” …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; brasilia; brazil; libya; obama; waronterror; whatdifdoesitmake
Tell it to the Stevens family, Mr. President. I dare you. (Four more wars?)
1 posted on 10/18/2013 9:40:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

From whom? Us or them?


2 posted on 10/18/2013 10:22:31 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Olog-hai.

They’d have had it by now, but the Obama regime has been buying up billions of rounds of ammo and stockpiling them — somewhere — while concentrating military aid on Latin druglords.


3 posted on 10/18/2013 12:05:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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