You just can’t make this stuff up.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted today that Libya posed no threat to the United States and was not vital to US interests.

If that’s true then why aren’t we in Sudan?
This administration doesn’t make any sense.
ABC News reported:

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country.

On “This Week,” ABC News’ Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Gates, “Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?”

“No, no,” Gates said in a joint appearance with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “It was not — it was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest and it was an interest for all of the reasons Secretary Clinton talked about. The engagement of the Arabs, the engagement of the Europeans, the general humanitarian question that was at stake,” he said.

Gates explained that there was more at stake, however. “There was another piece of this though, that certainly was a consideration. You’ve had revolutions on both the East and the West of Libya,” he said, emphasizing the potential wave of refugees from Libya could have destabilized Tunisia and Egypt.

 

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  1. #1 March 27, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    Robert commented:

    “the engagement of the arabs, the engagement of the europeans”

    Yes. These are perfectly legitimate reason to bomb a country. Of course.

  2. #2 March 27, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    MrGoodWench commented:

    So our troops are just hitmen for alqaeda errr…. er…..BP ..errrr…UK in Libya ???

  3. #3 March 27, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    muckdog commented:

    Yeah, it sounds even crazier when they try to make sense of it themselves.

  4. #4 March 27, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    Trialdog commented:

    Nope. Wouldn’t want to destabilize the Islamic revolutions in Egypt or Tunisia.

  5. #5 March 27, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Ma commented:

    Not mention the fact of news reports that we are adiing bin laden and his terrorist associates. What do we constantly shot ourselves in foreign policy by backing a bad pony? Those in power and prior should be prosecuted and their salaries and benes both future and current given over to the US Treasury. Hold a special federal referudum on these incompetents!! on this “fake”war plus the two in Iraq and Afgan. Or deduct their pay/benes from the foreign adi we give thse bastards and go into debt for.

  6. #6 March 27, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    Realisticman commented:

    My opinion is that I think that the REAL KIller(s) is not Quadaffi …………..

  7. #7 March 27, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    Ma commented:

    Congress and el presidentia should only conduct govt business for one month out of the year so they don’t harm and screw us regular citizens or FU the rest of the world. It’s okay to vote present when you are an empty suit and affirmative action darling of the left without having to prove you are even a legit US citizen.

  8. #8 March 27, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    wanumba commented:

    Shall we remind them all that President Bush managed bloodless “regime change” in South Sudan by a cessation of hostilities, a PEACE AGREEMENT and popular VOTE?
    The years of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have included A LOT of people to people training and close personal guidance in local community governance, regional and national political organization, voter registrations and organized elections.

    Obama is just enabling chaos devoid of any American traditional leadership in freedom, democracy, local people empowerment and actual justice. Ghaddafi is our enemy and so is the Muslim Brotherhood. Throwing our weight around just enables one of those two enemies to prevail, at our expense. In Libya, the enemy of our enemy is not our friend.

    One can believe Obama with his 20 years of Wright and Farrakhan displaying what he freely choses, has his private agenda, that ultimately doesn’t include the likes of Pelosi and Hillary, but they think they’re too clever to be fooled or used.

  9. #9 March 27, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    Josh commented:

    I wouldn’t doubt that this R2P thing with Samantha Powers is a pretext for an attack on Israel. I could see Obama possibly going to the UN Security Council and declaring that Israel is guilty of crimes against humanity as well as portraying them as aggressors against the Palestinians. Obama sees Israel, Great Britain, and the US as colonialists. Obama is an anti colonialists.

    It wouldn’t surprise me to see him push for a no fly zone over there in Israel, while giving away the land to Palestinians. The leftist media is not reporting the escalation in rocket attacks by Palestinians.

  10. #10 March 27, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    Big L commented:

    How ’bout everyone focussing on ObamaNoCare and the ruination of the country by these twits.
    Just scroll onthe headlines on GP and see whatwe should be focussed one. This is more Axel/Jarrett distracting the people. More a shell game.. Don’t fall for it.
    We need to clean out some of the ones we just elected too. They aren’t doing squat.

  11. #11 March 27, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    ck commented:

    K-daffy is a hindrance to the new caliphate. Therefore Barry must take him out. Syria and Iran are the backbone of the new caliphate, they will be protected at all costs. Barry got his way in Egypt, now if he can get Libya and Baharain to fall to the caliphate, he and Soros will be well on their way to destroying the west.

  12. #12 March 27, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    squeaky commented:

    [Under fire dictator Muammar Gaddafi is portraying Western military intervention in Libya as a religious crusade in a bid to get “all Islamic armies” to defend him against the “Christian” West.]
    http://www.barnabasfund.org/US/News/News-analysis/Gaddafi-stirs-up-Islamists-against-Christian-forces.html

  13. #13 March 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    LMcKevitt commented:

    ” the potential wave of refugees from Libya could have destabilized Tunisia and Egypt.”

    Did I read this correctly? They’re worried about refugees destabilizing other nations? How come nobody cares about refugees destabilizing Arizona and New Mexico?

  14. #14 March 27, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    i for one am thouroughly convinced Obama only did whatever he did to
    cover his partner Qaddafi’s butt.. just you wait, the truth always reveals
    itself, always.. i juts hope & pray future generations, that’s if we survive
    the IslaMarxists NWO plans for US/West, don’t have to pay the price ala:
    Saddam maddaS.. *sigh*

    ==

  15. #15 March 27, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    lol, heard a caravan of about 20 vehicles was seen departing from the
    Qadaffi compound, 4 towns were taken/retaken by democracy forces,
    they are on their way to Sirte, Qaddafi’s home-town so to speak..

    ==

  16. #17 March 27, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    Scott commented:

    Gates makes a great quisling…Refugees de-stabilizing Egypt…Gates, your President already did that by forcing Mubarak to step down. That horse already left the barn Mr. Gates.

  17. #18 March 27, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    heck, you should see the Libyan “refugees” flowing into Italy..

    my guess is they’re Qaddafi & sons mercenaries jumping ship (also been
    reports they’re joining the opposition like rats off a sinking ship), didn’t see
    a single women either (although they’re supposedly safe, yeah right)..

    ==

  18. #19 March 28, 2011 at 9:09 am

    oldguy commented:

    The reason we are bombing Libya is Qaddafi called Hillary a wrinkled old ho.

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