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WH official: 'We don’t make decisions ... based on consistency or precedent'...(Drudge Headline)
The Hill via Drudge ^ | 3/28/2010 | Michael O'Brien

Posted on 03/28/2011 1:12:33 PM PDT by GVnana

White House says Libya decision based on 'best interests'

No sense of precedent guided President Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya, administration officials said Monday.

We don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent," said Denis McDonough, the administration's deputy national security adviser, amid an off-camera gaggle of reporters. "We make them based on how we can best advance our interests in the region."

McDonough was speaking hours before President Obama’s speech Monday night on Libya. He explained that there were compelling reasons to get involved in Libya as opposed to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, four other countries in the Middle East where pro-democracy crowds have battled authoritarian governments.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: libya; muslimbrotherhood; obamaforeignpolicy; obamaswar; proislamist
Me and Louis Farrakan in agreement. Who'da thought?
1 posted on 03/28/2011 1:12:35 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: GVnana
We don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent
Truer words have never been spoken. Legal precedent be damned!
2 posted on 03/28/2011 1:16:26 PM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: GVnana

A compelling reason to invade a frigging civil war in a desert..?

We running low on camel $hit and sand...?

What a joke this is.


3 posted on 03/28/2011 1:17:14 PM PDT by mmercier
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To: GVnana
"We make them based on how we can best advance our interests in the region."

Well that's a good start, but what are our interests?

4 posted on 03/28/2011 1:17:30 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Shakey Jake said, " The hippies will never survive!")
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To: GVnana

I would add “logic” to the list of consistency and precedent.


5 posted on 03/28/2011 1:17:29 PM PDT by vrwc1
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To: GVnana

The WH official could have stopped after WE DON’T MAKE DECISIONS.


6 posted on 03/28/2011 1:19:04 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: GVnana
Using logic, we start with these:

And come to this conclusion:


7 posted on 03/28/2011 1:19:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: GVnana
"We don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent,"

A bold half truth that is bad enough without the additional truths the spokesman left out; as in:

"We don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent [or principles other than expediency]"

8 posted on 03/28/2011 1:20:07 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: GVnana
He explained that there were compelling reasons to get involved in Libya as opposed to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria,


9 posted on 03/28/2011 1:23:27 PM PDT by McGruff (Libya. A Wag The Dog scenario designed to prevent a government shutdown?)
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To: GVnana
No sense of precedent guided President Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya, administration officials said Monday.
10 posted on 03/28/2011 1:24:38 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: GVnana

That statement makes it even worse, because their actions to date have one consistency: The WH wants to advance the purposes of Al Queda and the Muslim Brotherhood.


11 posted on 03/28/2011 1:28:05 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: GVnana

That’s your interests not ours. You need to come clean on what the end game is here or you are find yourselves in a heap of trouble.


12 posted on 03/28/2011 1:34:33 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: GVnana

‘We don’t make decisions ... based on consistency or precedent’ —— “instead, we have a giant dart board that we pin issues to and Mr. President throws darts......”


13 posted on 03/28/2011 1:55:35 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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14 posted on 03/28/2011 2:00:54 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: GVnana
"We make them based on how we can best advance our interests in the region."


15 posted on 03/28/2011 2:08:57 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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To: savedbygrace

Barack Hussein Obama’s policies have been consistently PRO-Islamist.


16 posted on 03/28/2011 2:58:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: GVnana

Syria doesn’t have oil; there’s your precedent.


17 posted on 03/28/2011 3:20:53 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The heresy of heresies was common sense - Orwell)
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To: GVnana

Best give them some space. They’re pouring kerosene on themselves.


18 posted on 03/28/2011 5:03:11 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: GVnana

This war is about jobs. Get world war III going and US has to build more weapons for NATO .... Good union jobs.

Do we want more GUNS or BUTTER? This is an economic war. Its a War for JOBS, TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS, and to Get re-elected as he wants to get people back to work with new jobs in the defense industry when all HELL breaks loose.

AXELROD AND OBUMMER have this scripted out to not only destroy the economy when WORLD WAR III erupts but he also knows that he can do anything he wants as he only answers to GEORGE SORO’S.


19 posted on 03/28/2011 5:55:41 PM PDT by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialst States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world or Obamaville USSA.)
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To: Psalm 73
Obama Doctrine = Magic Eight Ball.
Foreign Policy? What Foreign Policy?


20 posted on 03/28/2011 7:22:50 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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