Posted on 03/24/2016 12:17:26 PM PDT by Trumpinator
In fact, not only was the Western coalition not limiting its missions to the remit of the U.N. Security Council resolutions, but it also actively chose not to enforce them. Resolution 1970 was supposed to prohibit arms transfers to either side of the war in Libya, and NATO officials claimed repeatedly that this was not occurring. On April 19, 2011, a brigadier general stated, “No violation of the arms embargo has been reported.” Three weeks later, on May 13, a wing commander admitted, “I have no information about arms being moved across any of the borders around Libya.” In fact, Egypt and Qatar were shipping advanced weapons to rebel groups the whole time, with the blessing of the Obama administration, while Western intelligence and military forces provided battlefield intelligence, logistics, and training support.
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Gadaffi had his wings clipped by our invasion of Iraq. He was cooperating with us. Also, Egypt’s Mubarak was an ALLY of the United States.
Obama deposed both of them.
Regime change?
Two questions:
1. Why?
2. Change to which regime?
It was a theft.
Hillary Clinton had her personal spy ring going there so she could find out where the wealth was.
The dirty little thief used our military to steal for her.
Vote Hillary - the Mother of ISIS and Libyan War Goddess.
I suspect money was changing hands too... Wouldn’t surprise me if most of Congress wasn’t in on it... giving ‘speeches’ - ‘selling books’... milking the ME for cash.
I suspect money was changing hands too... Wouldn’t surprise me if most of Congress wasn’t in on it... giving ‘speeches’ - ‘selling books’... milking the ME for cash.
We’re hated over there... and some of that hatred’s been ‘earned’.
Mubarak and Ghadaffi were both very much needed in that region and were both, for the most part, playing along with our objectives. Ghadffi even warned that we needed him - he said without him, the extremists would begin surging. Needless to say, he was very right and Obama and Hillary destabilized an entire region in less than a year - endangering us all.
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