Muammar Qaddafi’s goal is obvious: If he goes down, he wants to bring Libya with him. He wants the day he falls to be remembered as a day of bloodshed, not of joy. His fighter jets are firing on protesters and a new report says he has ordered the destruction of his country’s oil facilities, which would eliminate 75 to 90 percent of the next government's revenue and make the world feel his pain as oil prices skyrocket. It is time for the U.S. to step in.
President Obama finally made a statement yesterday about the uprising in Libya, saying the violence is “outrageous and unacceptable” and that the government had a “strong responsibility to refrain from violence.” As for a response, no specifics were offered beyond: “We are reviewing a variety of options with our international partners..."
President Obama should have called for Qaddafi’s resignation days ago. If Hosni Mubarak qualified as a leader unworthy of office, then Qaddafi surely does as well. Yet, in the speech, Qaddafi’s name was not even mentioned. The Obama administration has made improving the image of the U.S. a top objective of its foreign policy but its failure to decisively side with the people dying for the rights we cherish is tarnishing it. It is time to unequivocally stand in favor of the Libyan revolution. [more...]
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News reports state that the Libyan Rebels are supported by the Al Qaida, The Muslim Brotherhood and some of the same jihadists that were doing their best to kill our armed forces in Iraq. The only real question that needs to be answered is why Barack Hussein Obama would join in supporting these groups?
Is Gaddafi a bad guy? Absolutely. But is there a very, very real chance that the groups supporting the Rebels may pose far more danger to Americans than Gaddafi did? Absolutely.
Barack Hussein Obama did not get approval from Congress, nor did he get the approval of the American People to go into Libya.
It's easy to see why the UN backed such a move, just as it's easy to see why France did. The real question is, why did Barack Hussein Obama? And whose interests is Obama really looking out for? The interests of the American people or the interests of Radical Islam? That's the real question, and the only one that really matters...
Theresa Fleming
MomsForAmerica.com
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