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Palin: Gaddafi must go
The Hill ^ | 03/24/2011 | Staff

Posted on 03/24/2011 8:07:45 AM PDT by OldDeckHand

On Fox Wednesday night, Sarah Palin said U.S. intervention in Libya will be a failure if Muammar Gaddafi remains in power.

"America will have failed if we turn over command-and-control of this mission, and the mission of ousting Gaddafi is not fulfilled.

It will be failure."

video at link

(Excerpt) Read more at gop12.thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; libya; military; palin; palindoctrine; sarahpalin; us
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Qadaffi is not going to leave just because of a no-fly zone. It will take troops to remove him from power. Is Palin advocating that America put troops on the ground?
1 posted on 03/24/2011 8:07:51 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

I note that she says ‘if we turn over command and control of this mission’. I see nothing about ground troops.


2 posted on 03/24/2011 8:13:48 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: ReneeLynn
"I note that she says ‘if we turn over command and control of this mission’. "

OK. So, her position is that so long as we don't turn over control, then Qadaffi will just leave? Is that her position?

"I see nothing about ground troops."

Right. Neither do I. How do you square that with "Gaddafi must go". How does she suggest that happen?

3 posted on 03/24/2011 8:16:50 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

Palin is full of crap on this one. Foolish statement. But this could mean she is running and looking at it from an establishment standpoint. Dunno.


4 posted on 03/24/2011 8:17:01 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: OldDeckHand

I wonder how the libs feel that Obama’s on the same side as Palin


5 posted on 03/24/2011 8:17:14 AM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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To: OldDeckHand

The title reads like she support the mission. Maybe she does, but here she’s simply stating a fact.


6 posted on 03/24/2011 8:17:42 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: OldDeckHand

The American President said Qadaffi must go. Anything but complete removal from power will be an American failure.
The opposition had momentum and Obama dithered because he does not want to take responsibility for anything, he wants wiggle room!
This is not American leadership. When the American President says you have have to go, you have to go! his words, his words, HIS WORDS!


7 posted on 03/24/2011 8:18:20 AM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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To: OldDeckHand

Mrs. Palin, I’m voting for you anyway, but this Libya issue is a no win scenarion.
It’s Gadaffi vs. al-Qaeda. Whoever wins means we lose.
It would be smart to just drop the whole issue and have no oponion of Libya.


8 posted on 03/24/2011 8:18:20 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama did not learn incompetence; he was born to it.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Apparently, Old****Hand didn’t watch the interview entirely or at least the her main jest....so it would be irrelevant to inform him since his opinion about Palin has already been made up.


9 posted on 03/24/2011 8:18:41 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: OldDeckHand

It won’t (necessarily) take troops to remove Ghadaffi from power. It just needs a lucky hit with a large munition or a paid-off bodyguard.

Ghadaffi is the acme of a “one-hit-wonder”: one hit and you’ll wonder what all the fuss was all about.

Now America has (honorable) issues with deliberately targeting Heads of State, even when they are CinCs of their military forces and wear garish uniforms.

This need not be a problem. A willingness to kack Ghadaffi is something that the Allies bring to the party.


10 posted on 03/24/2011 8:19:45 AM PDT by agere_contra (Whenever a Liberal admits to something: he is covering up something far worse)
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To: OldDeckHand

The mission failed when it was started.


11 posted on 03/24/2011 8:21:00 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (TV.)
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To: OldDeckHand
I can't watch the video here at work but in last night's Greta interview she was commenting on 0bama's initial comments that it was US policy that Qadaffi must go.

Her position was that once 0bama stated that policy it was now the mission and anything less than that objective would make us look weak.

12 posted on 03/24/2011 8:21:31 AM PDT by voteNRA (A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
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Typical response from you. I would expect nothing else. Instead of defending or criticizing Palin's words, you attack the person who POSTED Palin's own words.

I'll remind you of FR posting policy...

"Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts."

Is that simple enough for you?

13 posted on 03/24/2011 8:22:00 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

Sarah never says the words “Gadaffy must go.” That is just the misleading title. She says that if we hand over control of a war to a committee and he stays in power America will have failed.

That is a very different message.


14 posted on 03/24/2011 8:22:32 AM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Anybody advising Palin about Al Qaeda in Libya and Gadaffi’s role of keeping them under control? What’s up with that?


15 posted on 03/24/2011 8:22:59 AM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: ReneeLynn

“I note that she says ‘if we turn over command and control of this mission’. I see nothing about ground troops.”

I don’t know if her position has changed, but 2 weeks ago she was pushing for troops on the ground:

“Certainly a no fly zone,” Palin said. “I hate to say, jeez, more troops on the ground. You know send more of our brave young men and women over there in Libya. When yes, 41 years of Gadhafi. He’s got to go.”

http://www.examiner.com/sarah-palin-in-national/palin-continues-to-push-no-fly-zone-over-libya


16 posted on 03/24/2011 8:24:37 AM PDT by Hawk720
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To: OldDeckHand

The only troops we put on the ground should be there to secure the oil and gas fields.

If we provide the air cover and airstrike power, the Libyan rebels and their arab buddies should do the rest.

Palin is right.

Once we commit ourselves to an achievable goal like removing an anti-American lunatic who is killing his own people and his removal will stablize escalating energy prices, why shouldn’t we do it?


17 posted on 03/24/2011 8:24:46 AM PDT by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: screaminsunshine
The mission failed when it was started.

If "well begun is half-done" then this mission is far from half-done.

18 posted on 03/24/2011 8:25:19 AM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: BuffaloJack

A million “Amens” on that. This is a act of treason which will put another islamic theocracy in place to help surround our only true ally in the region, Israel. We are providing direct military aid to our freaking enemies!


19 posted on 03/24/2011 8:26:08 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: paulycy

“Certainly a no fly zone,” Palin said. “I hate to say, jeez, more troops on the ground. You know send more of our brave young men and women over there in Libya. When yes, 41 years of Gadhafi. He’s got to go.”


20 posted on 03/24/2011 8:26:24 AM PDT by Hawk720
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