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FACT CHECK: How President Obama's Libya speech claims fit the facts [They don't]
AP ^ | March 20 2011 | WOODWARD and LARDNER

Posted on 03/29/2011 12:06:12 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

In transferring command and control to NATO, the U.S. is turning the reins over to an organization dominated by the U.S., both militarily and politically. In essence, the U.S. runs the show that is taking over running the show.

And the rapid advance of rebels in recent days strongly suggests they are not merely benefiting from military aid in a defensive crouch, but rather using the multinational force in some fashion -- coordinated or not -- to advance an offensive.

Here is a look at some of Obama's assertions in his address to the nation Monday, and how they compare with the facts:

(Excerpt) Read more at abcactionnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats4alqaeda; dnc4alqaeda; libya; obama; obama4alqaeda
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FACT CHECK: Obama Is Full Of Crap.
1 posted on 03/29/2011 12:06:18 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Dude is an idiot savant.


2 posted on 03/29/2011 12:23:59 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

FACT: Without Congressional approval this war is illegal and Obama should be impeached. But since the plastic banana GOP goof balls and gutless “Tea Party Darlings” have been beaten into submission by this lawless regime, Obama is free to get away with high crimes and misdemeanors at will.


3 posted on 03/29/2011 12:27:58 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: Vendome
Dude is an idiot savant.

Minus the savant.

4 posted on 03/29/2011 12:35:46 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Savage on Obama speech
5 posted on 03/29/2011 12:40:55 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (I agree with Louis Farrakhan. Who The Hell Is Obama!?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Obamao used the Bill Clinton excuse.

Because he could.


6 posted on 03/29/2011 12:44:32 AM PDT by Carley (WISCONSIN STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

is Zero supporting uprisings only of Shiite against Sunni ?


7 posted on 03/29/2011 12:51:27 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: Berlin_Freeper

bttt


8 posted on 03/29/2011 1:06:32 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are costing a fortune, but at least we can claim that our national security is at stake; now we’re expending further huge sums in a conflict that doesn’t concern us one way or the other. For a Marxist flack who lives in the world of Far Left thought and rhetoric, and at a time when the average American is struggling to make ends meet, Our president sure likes to spend taxpayer cash.


9 posted on 03/29/2011 1:28:28 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Zer0's support for the interventionist foreign policy that yesterday's Senator Obama would have objected to -- especially in the case of sending bombers over a Muslim oil-exporting country -- proves how phony he is.

Only the junior-college professor president would believe Libya and Egypt would have anything to do with democracy.

Just another Obummer speech that said essentially nothing of substance.

There was not one mention of Congress.

So he's in way over his head and has no clue what his position should be.

Libya - obama speech2

10 posted on 03/29/2011 2:24:58 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Obama: “I firmly believe that when innocent people are being brutalized; when someone like Qaddafi threatens a bloodbath that could destabilize an entire region. . .”

Sounds awful but Obama should read the papers once in a while. There are goatherds killing each other every day from the Ivory Coast to Pakistan. The region has been “destabilized” since before Obama was born.

11 posted on 03/29/2011 2:31:25 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I only watched a small part of it and listened to a little more on the Mark Levin show, but I think Obama came across as mad, aggressive, and defensive.

He seemed P.O.’d that he was criticized and that his timing and motives were under question. He seemed put out that he had to give a speech and actually attempt to justify his actions.

After all - he won.

It is now the duty of the rabble to worship him.
How dare we, any of us, question him?


12 posted on 03/29/2011 2:37:27 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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Obama: “I firmly believe that when innocent people are being brutalized; when someone like Qaddafi threatens a bloodbath that could destabilize an entire region.....

Then we will probaly see him sending Tomahawks, fighter planes and troops to Detroit, Chicago, Dearbornistan.....


13 posted on 03/29/2011 2:47:18 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: Iron Munro; vette6387; unkus; MamaDearest; freekitty; GingisK; flat; sheik yerbouty; Nachum; ...

Sound more like a wannabe dictator having a tantrum to you? Meanwhile, the eunuch Boehner and the House is looking for their spine and guts. How about We The People being told the truth for a change? How about some in-depth investigations into this Regime and exposures while we still have one or two freedoms left?


14 posted on 03/29/2011 2:47:42 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Wow, this clown Obama loves to play the Dems are the saviors for those being brutalized. Well,the Khymer Rouge sure did mass slaughtering of some 125,000 Chams while John Kerry and his VVAW pals threw their medals away if they served. Those who had not-lied about it. Why not go back in history a bit. We have lost nearly every country we have propped up. Look at South America. Look at the Phillipines, Okinawa, etc.


15 posted on 03/29/2011 2:58:00 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Berlin_Freeper

AP? AP?!

Hell is freezing over. I really can’t believe this.

You know, there really must be no birth certificate or something. The dems are abandoning their Messiah, and I think it’s because the worried he’s going down.

Trump is bringing it on and Hillary is waiting offstage. Everything tells me the Dems are all lined up along the fence, waiting to see which way the chips are going to fall so they can all jump to the winning side, yelling, “See? I always had your back”.

But something is brewing, people. I don’t know what it is, but it’s coming.


16 posted on 03/29/2011 2:59:00 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wellity Wellity Wellity.....

The MSM is turning on commander clueless.


17 posted on 03/29/2011 3:21:47 AM PDT by mylife
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To: Iron Munro

The asshole kept thumping(not aggressively, but like he was letting his limp wrists thud on the lectern in purposely to accent his points) the lectern while he was looking all calm and measured.

Passive aggressive behavior


18 posted on 03/29/2011 3:33:08 AM PDT by mylife
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To: Berlin_Freeper

19 posted on 03/29/2011 3:34:37 AM PDT by mylife
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To: Berlin_Freeper

When Iranians rose up Obama said “Iran is a sovereign nation, we can’t interfere with the affairs of a sovereign nation. Ultimately it will be a matter for their people to decide”

Before that, in Egypt, Barry could not contain his enthusiasm to throw our Allie, Mubarak under the bus.


20 posted on 03/29/2011 3:45:14 AM PDT by mylife
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