3 Reasons Obama Should Keep His Libya Speech Brief

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I know liberals are not noted for checking links, I spent the time to find the text. The video is :
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/03/25/difference_between_libya_and_iraq_explained.html
You can not tell a liberal Clinton left no surplus or Bush tax cuts does not cost treasury money. To the contrary adds 4.06 %. I can quote the CBO numbers and shut them up for awhile, then they go back to their false beliefs.
I will keep the text handle for the facts, looking up links to go with.
One only had to listen to barry tonight about Libya and then watch the video. Bush did much more to stay out of Iraq and war. In UN resolutions plus Bush had nearly twice the coalition as barry. Dictator in Iraq killed 100,000’s. With both Clintons, Gore, Pelosi, and others thinking Iraq had WMD before Bush was President.
University of Maryland knows which side of their bread is buttered. Democrats live for buying votes.
Too bad we do not know who we are backing in Libya !!!
NATO Nations must all agree. Things can go wrong so easily...

Bill Hedges of MO 9:08PM March 28, 2011

Given that we're the world's largest debtor nation ($14 trillion and rising), spend more than the rest of the world COMBINED on National Security ($1 trillion a year and rising) and find ourselves yet again cost-inefficiently involved in an "intervention" (Libya) while still juggling others, the President has an important opportunity right now to tell the world:
(1) We will be cutting spending dramatically.
(2) We will be calling "Time Out!" indefinitely on future interventions
and wars.
(3) We will gladly rent out, to selected others, our unique military
assets and leadership.
The President recognizes, as all Americans should, that we either change our ways until the national debt is paid off and a surplus begun or we risk sinking rapidly into fiscal chaos and international uselessness. A time out while we cut spending sufficiently and for long enough to eliminate the $14+ trillion dollar debt will be widely accepted by all who are not only wise but who see benefit to keeping our military and assets well fed and exercised at others' expense (renters). The more money we have coming in , the less going out the better. People who have been unwilling to see cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Infrastructure, and so on will be more than willing to see equitable cuts inb them when they see the ax being taken to formerly untouchable National Security, where all outgo has been the case in an exhibition of too easily undertaken military engagements around the world at too great cost in treasure AND blood.
Recognizing our commitments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya, the President will explain that the way he has engaged other countries in paying for and executing the Libyan intervention will hereafter be the model: All in or No go. And for us, the President will say, the costs for anything at all currently under way or to be undertaken militarily will be on a PayGo basis starting right away. No paygo, no go. It's that simple.
The president will recognize, of course, and you should as well, that all Hell will break loose on Capitol Hill and among Military Contractors and their subcontractors the minute all of the foregoing is understood not to be an April Fool's joke. The money, the jobs, the two parties' solvency--an overload of issues and fright for our poor representatives and senators, let alone for those in the industrial-military complex.
Mr. President, I say throw caution to the wind and go for it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life, too, and being the very best president ever is still, in reach!

Ron W. Smith of UT 4:12PM March 28, 2011

I just linked with your source and while reading through it, I laughed until I nearly cried! But after reading, I sat for a moment and simply shook my head as the realization hit me that this truly is what the liberal democrat is all about.
It has been my hypothesis that there is no reasoning with these people at any political level, or in any political arena. This article and articles like it has been, and continues to, prove my hypothesis to thesis.
This would be an excellent essay topic for a college or university student for their Politcal Science class. That is, any typical campus with the exception of a "left-handed" higher education facility like the University of Maryland, where they would, most assuredly, and quite sadly, receive a failing grade!
Good stuff!

Haberdashery of ID 4:07PM March 28, 2011

Since polls show nobody is happy with the way he handled Libya, he is only going on TV to yet again point fingers and explain to the American people while pissing on our heads-that it's really raining Lemonade.

TomW of WA 12:04PM March 28, 2011

“Obama is awesome. He is bombing the crap out of that evil dictator in Libya.”
“So you supported Bush when he went into Iraq, right?”
“Bush is an idiot. Iraq never attacked us and there were no WMDs.”
“Can’t the same be said of Libya?”
“I don’t care. Obama is awesome.”
“Do you realise Gaddafi gave up his nukes only after watching Iraq go down?”
“I don’t care.”
“So this dictator Gaddafi is a pretty evil dude, right?”
“For sure. He is killing his own people and they have no freedom or rights.”
“Didn’t the Iraqi dictator kill his people and deny them freedom and rights?”
“I don’t care. Bush is a buffoon.”
“So, are you upset that Obama didn’t negotiate and just jumped into war?”
“No. What part of ‘dictator’ do you not understand? You cannot reason with these people.”
“Did you feel the same way about Bush and Saddam Hussein?”
“No. Bush rushed into war. Obama thinks before he acts.”
“My labradoodle spends more time deliberating where to lie down than Obama spent on bombing Libya. Did you know Bush got a congressional resolution for Iraq and made the case for a full year and a half after 9/11?”
“I don’t care. Obama is awesome. Besides the UN is in charge this time and the US is not alone.”
“Did you know there were 17 UN resolutions on Iraq? Do you know the Iraq coalition was twice as big as this Libya gang? Do you realise you are making Charlie Sheen seem rational?”
“Winning.”
“Indeed. So, Bush went to war in Iraq for oil. Right?”
“Yes, Bush attacked Iraq over oil. He is a stupid fretboy.”
“Did you know Libya has a ton of oil which almost exclusively goes to Europe and that they desperately want to keep the oil flowing? Do you realise that this actually is a war for oil, only the oil is for the Italians, French, Germans, Spanish and other Europeans?”
“Now you’re just talking nonsense. Those Europeans have windmills. They don’t need oil.”
“I see. Does it concern you that this war is unpaid for? That instead of the leader of the free world you’ve got a patsy for the Arab League and the UN? Are you concerned that your president is spending more time golfing, vacationing and watching college basketball than conferring with his generals?”
“I don’t care. Obama is cool and awesome. His bracket picks were outstanding too.”
“Indeed. So, you must be pretty upset that innocent Libyans are dying from your bombs?”

Bill Hedges of MO 11:58AM March 28, 2011

“No, that’s just the unfortunate part of unseating an evil dictator.”
“So you thought it was OK for Iraqis to die when you bombed there?”
“No, Bush is a baby killer. Bush lied, people died. Halliburton.”
“But didn’t Obama say he’d negotiate with any deranged dictator before attacking? Didn’t he say pre-emption was wrong and he’d never do it? Did he not lie?”
“Obama is only human. He can be wrong without lying, you know.”
“If you renege on a promise, is that not a lie?”
“I don’t care. Cheney, neo-cons, Halliburton, Coke Brothers and Fox news.”
“Bush never said he saw WMD in Iraq only that he believed they were there. So he was wrong, but not a liar. Right?”
“No, Bush lied. I saw it on the news.”
“Really. What news shows do you watch?”
“I watch SNL, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.”
“You do know that those are comedy shows, right?”
“They are very funny, now that you mention it.”
“So Obama is killing civilians in a pre-emptive, unfunded, undeclared war for oil promoted by the dictators of the Arab League along with the UN, in support of some unidentified rebels who he’s never met with, and you are fine with all that?”
“Remind me again what it is about Obama that makes him so awesome.”
“He is a man of peace. Did you know he even got the Nobel peace prize? Just like Morgan Freeman.”
“Oh God”...
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