Registered Voter Wrote:
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> Well, it is good to see that Obama is getting the
> "Bush treatment" now by some of the press...
>
> FACT CHECK: How Obama's Libya claims fit the
> facts
>
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5
> iFWACvAYca3zjwTnnLh1JG8l2Rtw?docId=f1839ff6dd0e426
> 5b2952651c972f4a5
> ...OBAMA: "Some nations may be able to turn a
> blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The
> United States of America is different. And as
> president, I refused to wait for the images of
> slaughter and mass graves before taking action."
>
> THE FACTS: Mass violence against civilians has
> also been escalating elsewhere, without any U.S.
> military intervention anticipated.
>
> More than 1 million people have fled the Ivory
> Coast, where the U.N. says forces loyal to the
> incumbent leader, Laurent Gbagbo, have used heavy
> weapons against the population and more than 460
> killings have been confirmed of supporters of the
> internationally recognized president, Alassane
> Ouattara.
>
> The Obama administration says Gbagbo and Gadhafi
> have both lost their legitimacy to rule. But only
> one is under attack from the U.S.
>
> Presidents typically pick their fights according
> to the crisis and circumstances at hand, not any
> consistent doctrine about when to use force in one
> place and not another. They have been criticized
> for doing so — by Obama himself.
>
> In his pre-presidential book "The Audacity of
> Hope," Obama said the U.S. will lack international
> legitimacy if it intervenes militarily "without a
> well-articulated strategy that the public supports
> and the world understands."
>
> He questioned: "Why invade Iraq and not North
> Korea or Burma? Why intervene in Bosnia and not
> Darfur?"
>
> Now, such questions are coming at him.
>
> Sorry, but his hypocrisy has gone leaps and bounds
> over the heads of his predecessors. He makes Kerry
> look like an amateur when it comes to flip flops.
I hate to be the "I told ya so" guy, but Obama has proven himself pathetically inexperienced and a impotent joke on the world stage.
Hopefully the damage can be minmized and an adult can take over in 2012.
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