Posted on 04/20/2015 6:07:08 AM PDT by Nextrush
"We have prevented the worst outcome in Libya" Senator John McCain-April 2011
You're seeing the story of the 'migrants' crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Southern Europe today and the immediate reason why they are doing it.
There's chaos in Libya right now including the presence of Islamic State and its ususal methods of dealing with its enemies including those who are not Muslims.
What the media will not talk about but others already are were the policies that brought Libya to where it is today, the same policies used to a lesser extent in Syria with the same result.
The United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage laid it down loud and clear on BBC's Sunday Politics show:
"The fanaticism of (former French president) Sarkozy and Cameron to bomb Libya-and what they've done is to completely destabilize Libya, to turn it into a country with much savagery, to turn it into a place where for Christians this situation is virtually impossible. We ought to be honest and admit we have directly caused this problem."
In his column for the "Mail on Sunday" journalist Peter Hitchens wrote:
"David Cameron's irresponsible and ignorant intervention in Libya (which alone should be enough to ensure he never holds responsible office again) is now causing one of the greatest human upheavals of modern times.
A wave of human misery is now heading to Europe-and eventually to Britain-from the fiery chaos of post-Cameron Libya.
In one week, at least 10,000 migrants have been ferried to Italy by greedy criminal traffickers.......
I can see no obvious solution to this. IT REMINDS ME OF THE GREAT ILLEGAL MIGRATION OF LATIN AMERICANS THAT UTTERLY TRANSFORMED THE USA IN THE 1990'S, AND CONTINUES TO DO SO......"
The intervention in Libya has other co-conspirators as we well know, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. Lets not forget the Republican foreign policy muddlers and meddlers as well like John McCain and Lindsey (I want to run for president) Graham.
From the archives of CNN on April 22, 2011.
"Libyan opposition leaders received a major morale boost Friday when a top US senator made a surprise visit to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi and urged greater American involvement in the bloody campaign to oust strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
The visit from Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, came a day after the United States said it was deploying predator drones to Libya........
'We have prevented the worst outcome in Libya' McCain told reporters. "Now we need to increase our support to that the Libyan people can achieve the only satisfactory outcome to this mass protest for universal rights--the end of Gadhafi's rule and the beginning of a peaceful and inclusive transition to democracy that will benefit all Libyans.'"
In August of 2011 Hillary Clinton was defending US policy speaking of the use of "smart power" to change things in Libya and Syria.
The "father of the glorious Cuban revolution" Fidel Castro has claimed (no doubt his Iranian friends told him this) that the Israeli agents of the Mossad are behind Islamic State.
But I would say the current mess is clearly in the court of all the interventionist forces in Libya and Syria ranging from Obama to Clinton to McCain and Graham here in the US, along with the European nations, the Saudis and all the other Arab interveners who are part of the COALITION THAT CREATED THE ISLAMIC STATE.
The coalition was described by Hillary Clinton in her August 16, 2011 speech at the National Defense University:
"I think this is smart power, where it is not just brute force, it is not just unilateralism....it is being smart enough to say you know what we want a bunch of people singing out of the same hymn book and we want them singing a song of universal freedom, human rights, democracy, everything we have stood for and pioneered over 235 years."
Our Uniparty Corporatist political leaders who are subservient to Big Business and Big Banks have dished out a policy in Libya and Syria that has led to mass killings of Christians and other enemies of the Islamic State and now a tide of human misery washing up on the shores of southern Europe.
At least people in the UK have a non-Uniparty third party option (UKIP) that does not have this interventionist attitude in our major parties that has led to this human misery.
We have the technology to see the insanity.....
Great post...!!
McCain and Graham are just as responsible as Obama.
“In one week, at least 10,000 migrants have been ferried to Italy by greedy criminal traffickers.......”
Was it just last month ISIS said they’re coming for Italy? Italy was sure a nice country.
Back in 1992 I was face to face with her holding my daughter in my arms and she was acting just like that.
Somebody better stop him before he gets alot of people killed.
I wouldn’t let that degenerate criminal psychopath within 100 feet of my children.
Why? Don't tell me you were going to vote for her.
I remember turning on the news one morning during Qaddafi’s overthrow and seeing McCain strolling around Benghazi. First I asked what’s a Benghazi? Next I asked why is he there?
If I am not mistaken Malta has stopped accepting people from Libya.
I did what I did in 1992 and it sure doesn’t mean I agree with her or Bill.
I think it was a ‘learning experience’ and I can’t change any problems she has with alcohol or whatever and Bill has with you know what.
The next morning I joined a protest holding a banner as Bill jogged by 15 feet away and then I lost him. Bill made a quick dash to the street corner across from me to talk to a blonde television reporter.
I’m sober today and thank God for that.....
The answer would be Obama because he destabilized the country by instigating a rebellion against Gadaffi.
I saw a tweet yesterday saying they accepted 30 or so from an Italian coast guard boat.
But they are too small to handle this mess......
Why did Hillary Clinton have to have her own private, secret intelligence gathering operation in Libya while she was Secretary of State?
The United States spends billions of dollars a year on several government intelligence gathering agencies. Hillary couldn’t use them? She didn’t trust them? She thought she could do better?
Hillary had some questions about Libya that she needed answers to.
These questions would raise some eyebrows in the US intelligence agencies if she asked them.
“Where is Qadaffi’s fortune?”
“Who would be willing to kill Qadaffi?”
We overthrew Qadaffi so that Hillary and Soros and Obama could get a cut of his fortune.
There’s the reason why nobody can talk to the CIA employees that were in Benghazi.
Since when do Hillary and Obama give a fig about Libya and protecting military secrets?
They are desperately protecting their own criminal hides.
He, along with all the Euro leaders like Cameron who followed him on Iran recently lobbying US Senators, the Republican interventionists like McCain and Graham, the Saudi Al-Quaeda forces and lets not forget Hillary as well among others.
No, I wasn’t.
It was a bit of a scouting mission ahead of my participation in a protest the next morning.
Turns out while Bill and Al Gore were handshaking the loyal Dems across the street, Hillary came over to where we were surrounded by Secret Service wanting us all to show our hands (tough for me holding my child).
See Post #15 for more.
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