Posted on 10/15/2015 12:19:57 PM PDT by george76
During Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton ... obscures a largely forgotten moment in U.S. diplomacy: a period less than two years earlier when she and the Obama administration were actively cozying up to the “murderous” Gadhafi. “I am very pleased to welcome Minister Gadhafi here to the State Department,” she said, warmly greeting Mutassim Gadhafi, the Libyan dictator’s son and national security adviser, at the State Department in April, 2009. “We deeply value the relationship between the United States and Libya.”
To be sure, the rapprochement with Gadhafi began under President George W. Bush in 2003 when the Libyan dictator agreed to give up his arsenal of chemical weapons — and later to compensate the families of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 189 Americans and for which a former Libyan intelligence agent was convicted by a Scottish court.
But the process accelerated in the early days of Clinton’s tenure at the State Department: Clinton named as her first international energy envoy David Goldwyn, who formerly served as executive director of the U.S.-Libya Business Association, an oil-industry-funded group that was actively lobbying for new U.S. business deals with Gadhafi’s government. In July 2009, Clinton dispatched her assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, to Tripoli, where he met with Musa Kusa, Gadhafi’s foreign minister, and expressed the U.S. “desire to press the relationship forward” with new dialogues on trade, investment and political-military affairs. Feltman even floated the possibility of a meeting between Obama and Gadhafi at the United Nations. (They did meet that month, and shake hands, at a G-8 summit in Italy.)
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the real “start” of Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, when she and other U.S. officials were embracing Gadhafi’s regime, not “tightening the noose.”
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Follow the money.
Benghazi ping.
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Thanks for the ping.
Shall we assume large amount of money were involved? Speeches for one?
How?
Would you please share any links or reference material on this, if you have them?
I guess Qadaffi didn’t make a contribution to the Clinton foundation.
Exactly.
>> Qadaffi didn’t make a contribution to the Clinton foundation.
Yes.
And, let’s face it...Iraq was more stable under Saddam.
If only Kadoffy, Soddom, Mubarak and Asshead were still in control....and instead, if only we had acted properly by vaporizing the Yemenis and Soddies.
Look up World Muthaba.
al Mathaba - Libya’s “Anti-Imperialism Center” a/k/a AIC was founded circa 1982 ...
Recruited, financed, and trained revolutionary terrorists from groups all over the world... European progressives, Italian and Central American communists, American black liberation types, and so on.
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