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Obama: Gaddafi death is warning to iron-fist rulers
Yahoo ^ | 10/20/11 | Matt Spetalnick and Laura MacInnis - Reuters

Posted on 10/20/2011 4:55:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hailed Muammar Gaddafi's death on Thursday as a warning to authoritarian leaders across the Middle East that iron-fisted rule "inevitably comes to an end," and as vindication for his cautious strategy toward Libya.

Obama joined U.S. politicians and ordinary Americans in welcoming the demise of Gaddafi, who was for decades regarded as a nemesis of American presidents, and also claimed some of the credit for the Libyan strongman's downfall.

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"This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya," Obama said in the White House Rose Garden.

Obama made clear he considered Gaddafi's death a validation of his "leading from behind" strategy that had drawn criticism at home for casting the United States in a support role in the NATO air assault in Libya. Some of his Republican foes see it as an "Obama doctrine" that abdicates U.S. global leadership.

He also issued a veiled warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other long-entrenched Middle Eastern leaders resisting home-grown democracy movements to take heed of Gaddafi's fate.

"Our leadership at NATO has helped guide our coalition. Without putting a single U.S. service member on the ground, we achieved our objectives, and our NATO mission will soon come to an end," Obama said in a televised statement ..

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STARK WARNING

Obama also touted Gaddafi's death as a stark message to other authoritarian rulers in the Middle East where revolts upended longtime leaders in Egypt and Tunisia this year.

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"For the region, today's events prove once more that the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end," Obama said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaddafi; hypocrisy; illegalassination; illegalwar; imperialism; imperialpresidency; ironfist; libya; middleeast; nobelpeaceprize; obama; obamasfault; rulers; sickkilling; soros; spiketheball; spikingtheball; tyranny; warmonger; warning; warpowers
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1 posted on 10/20/2011 4:55:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Zer0 should spend even more time before the mirror.


2 posted on 10/20/2011 4:55:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NormsRevenge

He should hold that thought and look in the mirror.


3 posted on 10/20/2011 4:55:55 PM PDT by JMS
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To: NormsRevenge

Pay attention Barry


4 posted on 10/20/2011 4:56:39 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: NormsRevenge

Does a U.S. President have the right to authorize killing people without a trial?


5 posted on 10/20/2011 4:57:27 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: NormsRevenge

“cautious”

I think not. But thanks for the propaganda commentary anyway AP.


6 posted on 10/20/2011 4:58:01 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: NormsRevenge

Nobel Peace Prize material.


7 posted on 10/20/2011 4:59:29 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Cain/Rubio?)
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To: JMS

You beat me to it. Great minds think alike.


8 posted on 10/20/2011 4:59:47 PM PDT by taillightchaser (The last hope for America--2012)
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To: NormsRevenge
I never heard of even a partial American operation where they took someone alive and assassinated them without a trial. Obama sure is showing the world change alright.
9 posted on 10/20/2011 4:59:51 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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KInd of hard for a HeLLFiRe to not lock on a suit like this,
especially one full of all them medals!!

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya. Libyan special forces stormed a two-day-old protest encampment in the country's second largest city of Benghazi, clearing the area early Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, said witnesses, as a human rights group estimate scores of people have died ...


10 posted on 10/20/2011 5:00:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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The dictator warns other dictators. LOL

Narcissistic sociopath.


11 posted on 10/20/2011 5:00:41 PM PDT by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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Well if you're worried about iron-fisted dictators, you had better get out of the Democrat Party as fast as you can and become a Tea Partier.

Establishing an iron-fisted dictatorship in the United States is what the Democrat Party is all about.

And remember: Karl Marx himself said that communism/socialism would require an iron-fisted dictatorship for their establishment and implementation.

12 posted on 10/20/2011 5:02:51 PM PDT by Savage Beast (America's best hope is the Left's worst nightmare: Herman Cain!)
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Sayonara, Qaddafi..

You've been Obama-cized.

13 posted on 10/20/2011 5:02:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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14 posted on 10/20/2011 5:03:24 PM PDT by maggief
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I can just picture Obambi’s raised fist while he sits on his girly bike wearing his bicycle bedpan on his head . . . ooooooh! That’ll scare those big bad people!


15 posted on 10/20/2011 5:04:16 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Paladin2

The liberal practice of projection..


16 posted on 10/20/2011 5:04:29 PM PDT by omega4179
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To: NormsRevenge

Obama endorsed supported and fought for the new Libyan Govt.

Said govt. forces and Obama violated numerous International and American laws combined today and in the past :

1907 Hague IV Annex

1949 Geneva Conventions

18 USC § 2441

War Powers Act

Obama and the Libyan Govt. are war criminals .


17 posted on 10/20/2011 5:04:41 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: NormsRevenge

Iron fisted or those who circumvent representative government by ruling ‘administratively’.


18 posted on 10/20/2011 5:05:10 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: JMS

Pot, kettle, black!

That’s not racist, is it?


19 posted on 10/20/2011 5:05:10 PM PDT by loucon
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To: FreedBird

If they attacked us, the POTUS can begin a war.


20 posted on 10/20/2011 5:05:42 PM PDT by omega4179
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