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“I just want to emphasize to the American people, because of the extraordinary capabilities and valor of our men and women in uniform, we have already saved lives [in Libya],” Obama said on Tuesday. “In Benghazi, a city of 700,000 people, you had the prospect of [Muammar] Qaddafi’s forces carrying out his orders to show no mercy,” the president said. “That could have resulted in catastrophe in that town. Qaddafi’s forces have pulled back because of this timely intervention.
“Obviously,” Obama said, “there are always risks involved in this kind of operation, but for us to be able to structure something where we bring our unique capabilities to bear, to fulfill a mission that is supported by the international community against somebody who was about to direct his armed forces against his people in the most vicious of ways, is something that I think the American people, and certainly our American military, should be proud of.”
Britain’s Daily Mail reported yesterday that six Libyan villagers are in the hospital after being shot by U.S. soldiers charged with rescuing the American pilots whose plane had crashed in a field outside Benghazi. “A handful of locals who had come to greet the pilots were hit – among them a young boy who may have to have a leg amputated because of injuries caused by a bullet wound,” the Daily Mail reported.
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And Obama said the U.S. this week will be pulling back from its dominant role in the international campaign aimed at preventing Gadhafi from attacking civilians. In international attacks early Wednesday, missiles from F-15 fighter jets destroyed Gadhafi missile sites around Tripoli. In two cities where pro-Gadhafi troops have besieged civilians, the international force struck a government ammunition depot outside Misrata and other planes hit ground forces outside Ajdabiya, officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information. Residents in Misrata said coalition attacks forced government troops to withdraw tanks there.
Obama was asked in an interview with the Spanish-language network Univision if a land invasion would be out of the question in the event air strikes fail to dislodge Gadhafi from power. Obama replied that it was "absolutely" out of the question. Asked what the exit strategy is, he didn't lay out a vision for ending the international action, but rather said: "The exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense that we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment."
"We'll still be in a support role, we'll still be providing jamming, and intelligence and other assets that are unique to us, but this is an international effort that's designed to accomplish the goals that were set out in the Security Council resolution," Obama said. Obama had said last week that he had no intention of sending ground combat troops into Libya, and his statements in the interview served to reinforce that point.
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Leadership?
We have very different definition of that word.
BTW exactly who are we turning this over to? Who on earth wants to control this hot potato? And why, if Obama is doing such a good job, does he want to turn it over?
Yeah, great leadership. He has Obama to thank for only having one leg, considering thats a civilian child , and that and the other civilians shot were locals trying to help, Obama has probably conducted a war crime already just a few days into it. Then again children don't matter to the US government, after the half a million killed due to the Iraq sanctions.Britain’s Daily Mail reported yesterday that six Libyan villagers are in the hospital after being shot by U.S. soldiers charged with rescuing the American pilots whose plane had crashed in a field outside Benghazi. “A handful of locals who had come to greet the pilots were hit – among them a young boy who may have to have a leg amputated because of injuries caused by a bullet wound,” the Daily Mail reported.
Gotta "Protect those Civilians." Wink Wink. Oil aint got nothing to do with this War. Wink Wink. What a scam.