Obama has really boxed these guys into a corner. 

This is just an age-old conservative thing. First Saddam was a voice of reason in Iraq then he was the enemy. They did the same with Mubarak and now they’re doing the same with Gaddafi. It’s hilarious.

Obama did nothing.

@Chudi: Spoken like a true bagger.  We wondered how long it would take.  You can have another ten minutes to figure out a way to give credit to Bush.  We’ll wait right here.

This was an intervention. Interventions by the United States are nothing new, and shouldn’t be to anyone who isn’t ignorant towards the history and foreign policy of the country that they live in. If anything this was an escalation of the means we will use in order to intervene. To compare yet another intervention to wars we fought is  intellectually dishonest. This time instead of just supplying weapons to rebels raising arms against their government, we lend bombs and missiles as well.

This was an intervention. Interventions by the United States are nothing new, and shouldn’t be to anyone who isn’t ignorant towards the history and foreign policy of the country that they live in. If anything this was an escalation of the means we will use in order to intervene. To compare yet another intervention to wars we fought is  intellectually dishonest. This time instead of just supplying weapons to rebels raising arms against their government, we lend bombs and missiles as well.

Obama did do something.  He allowed NATO (which of course is mostly US forces) take the lead on this one.  Other than telling both houses of Congress to F-off he got this right because the Libyans were ready for a change and did most of the fighting.

Nonsense. How does authorizing air strikes that weakened the government equal to doing nothing?

So, he abdicated American leadership in NATO and allowed them to control it even though we provide the vast majority of the resources, both militarily and financially?  He should run on that.  ”I handed NATO leadership to other countries!”

the president does deserve credit, tommy thanks for the bias article though…….no mention of NATO

Not that your post isn’t any less reversionary and nonsensical than his. It was the Bush administration who got Gaddafi to give up his weapons programs. Do you really think there would have been such an intervention if Gaddafi had nukes? That is typically how foreign policy works. Its not divided into term markers where all of the past is magically irrelevant to the present. You partisans are blind to the realities of this world, and selective in your view of American foreign policy and how it operates in a continual pattern, and not a closed party like one where they hit the reset button once a new man takes office. The new leader is still responsible for the actions he authorizes, and credited for them. That doesn’t mean the last 50 years of history is irrelevant or magically gone.

No since we basically run NATO.  He simply used it as a vehicle to support Italy and France who wanted to help the rebels.  If this fits Obama’s style and it works then so be it.  The real test will come when the Libyans settle on what comes next.  Eqypt isn’t looking so hot right now.

Whoever the GOP nominee is should just do America a favor and skip the foreign policy debate.

Damn Republicans USELESS.

President Obama has done more in Foreign Policy in 3 years than GWB in 8.

Republicans are a failure in everything and always will be.

WRONG. Our intervention into Libya had NOTHING to do with Qaddafy rescinding his fledgling nuclear program several years ago. We used NATO to take out Qaddafy because he was getting ready to commit massive genocide of his own people. Go grieve ANOTHER foreign policy success at Fox so called News.

Gaddafi is dead because of armed citizens. Private, armed citizens who overthrew, by force, a government unresponsive, and who increasingly subjugated it’s citizens. Our government is attacking our own 2nd Amendment relentlessly. The correlation should be obvious. An unarmed man is a subject, an armed man is a citizen.  

Tommy Christopher says, “In what is sure to be a parade of Republican figures ignoring or downplaying President Obama’s pitch-perfect handling of dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi,…”

Didn’t Obama say the U.S. would participate in Libya for a “matter of days, not weeks”?  You call that “pitch-perfect handling?  Would you be in favor of this killing had it been under the Bush administration, or would you be leading the parade of whiners?  Also, isn’t it a violation of U.S. law to facilitate the assasination of foreign leaders?

Tommy, can you hear me?

You no doubt think that waterboarding is torture, but think this killing is okay?  Was the U.S. at war with Libya?  Was Libya a threat to the U.S.?

I really couldn’t care less, but the left’s hypocrisy in these matters is disturbing to say the least.

Nothing?!  Obama is the one who started the push with Nato and the Arab League and UN to back the multi-lateral approach.  That’s doing something, in my book.  Behind the scenes he offered logistical and operational resources to further the cause.  Bush was giving blow jobs to Gadaffi which aided BP to get
Scotland to release the Lockerbie bomber.

When did the govt attack the 2nd amendment?  You still have your NRA alloted quota of sixty, right?

Illegally and at a high cost…..still going higher.
Dick-Tater Obama didn’t do anything in the actuall killing of this tyrant….He turned over the reins to NATO.
Now he’s taking all the credit.
What a fool.

But but but didn’t all the righties tell you that Obama was a weak leader??????

Your analogy stinks. When were we allied with Khaddafi?

He’s not?

Pitch perfect?  Only to your dog whistle ears Tommy.  Funny how those same ears don’t quite tune in the anti-semitism from the left.

In the House now…H.R.822…read it. If you need more information let me know!

They said this on Fox news, or are you just parroting rhetoric? Its like that’s your programmed defence mechanism when confronted with disagreement and reason. When did I say this was because Gaddafi giving up nukes? Educate yourself. When irrational state actors have the means and capabilities of lets say nuclear, the west is less inclined to appose them militarily. This is a common historical norm that you would know if you were the slight bit educated. We do not bomb North Korea, we do not bomb Iran. The point that went over your head was that some of you are a blind partisans, and that you are ignorant to basic reason. How that foreign affairs and the world stage is continual, even if people like you have this moronic two sided paradigm ingrained in your skull. Yes, Gaddafi was possibly going to commit genocide. What about Niger? The Congo? Somalia? France intervened in the Ivory Cost, but that’s because they are trying to reassert themselves as a world player. There were other factors at play when deciding to intervene in such a country. You are incredibly ignorant. Just dismiss reality based on the partisan prism that has you by the balls. While some of us continue to know facts and the realities of this world.

WRONG. Our intervention into Libya had EVERYTHING to do with Qaddafy because he was in the way of Soros and Obama (along with his little demons) creating havoc in the Middle-east to bring the world closer to U.N. domination.
You’re and idiot and once the NWO takes over….The “idiots” are the first to be executed.
Don’t believe me?
LQQKY:
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1242/956/Video:_Former_KGB_Official_Explains_Plan_Unfolding_in_America_Right_Now.html

 What is it about all the forms of the word “ILLEGAL” that you liberal misfits don’t understand?

FROM THE ABOVE IDIOTIC POST: “Yes, Gaddafi was possibly going to commit genocide.”

So…it’s ok to go to “not war” on an assumption?
My GAWD, man!!!
Beam me up, Scotty!!!

either shortly before we invaded or after we invaded Iraq, Gadhafi decided to ditch his WMDs and made efforts to fight terrorism, which I think included kicking some Islamist groups out of Libya and capturing “terrorists.”  In exchange, the US sent millions of dollars to Libya in compensation.

READ ALL ABOUT IT:
http://www.nationalgunrights.org/h-r-822-a-trojan-horse/

Are you kidding?!?!?!  In August 2009, John McCain traveled to Tripoli for a personal visit with Gadhafi, and the two discussed delivery of American military equipment to the Libyan dictator. There’s even a video of the introductions with McCain bowing to the dictator.

Bush and Saddam – One Trillion dollars and thousands of US lives.Obama and Qaddafi – One Billion dollars and zero US lives.

I find that surprising, but I’ll take your word for it for now.

Twitter / @John McCain: Late evening with Col. Qad …: “Late evening with Col. Qadhafi at his ‘ranch’ in Libya – interesting meeting with an interesting man.”

Right….and now the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaida are in charge of Libya.  Good show, Obama.

Despite the fact that Libya is now controlled by AlQaida and the Radical Muslim Brotherhood, I agree that at least no American lives were lost.  My biggest complaint with NATO and the US in this whole business of supporting the Arab uprisings is that they had no idea how it would turn out and no control to see that friendly people with genuine democratic aspiration, and not our enemy AlQaida, would end up in charge of the countries.

As far as the US foreign policy is concerned, we would have been better off if we did nothing here in helping either Egypt or Libya.  We will NOT be thanked and end up with something worse than what was.  If those Arabs handled the entire thing themselves, without our help, we may still have ended up the same.  But at least we did not have to assist and PAY for our enemies to take over.

Muammar Gaddafi has been confirmed dead and our leader, President Obama has followed through and effected what the previous administration never did. Our leader, president Obama, also directed Clinton to deliver this ultimatum to Pakistan with assured confrontations but strongly enough for the Pakistan government to realize we mean business. The president is making it clear he is president of everyone in America and proving beyond any shadow of doubt, he has chutzpah! To all the nay Sayers, remember this when y’all spew lies and falsehoods that we do not have  a leader in the president! Especially those running against him!

“Mad Dog of the Desert”…Killed by the French and Rebels…(While Obama takes all the credit)
PAYBACK IS HELL:
Gadhafi Begged for Life in Last Minutes…. 
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gaddafi-death-video-photo/2011/10/20/id/415230?s=al&promo_code=D4DB-1

Whether or not you agree with either Bush or Obama (or neither, as I am getting closer to everyday), there are huge differences between Libya, where there was already a quite large rebellion being waged by its own civilians against Gaddafi, than Iraq, where the suppression was many times worse and any word spoken by anybody against Saddam was met with immediate execution (and the man used chemical weapons to wipe out entire towns, invaded Iran leading to the death of well over a million people, and then invaded Kuwait before we saved them).

I think the world is much much better off without Gaddafi for sure, but when it comes to the worst dictators and suppressive governments of the past twenty years, he doesn’t even break the top ten.

“invaded Kuwait before we saved them”.  But you are talking about Desert Storm – and it was the decision of George H W Bush to not open that can of worms.  George W Bush opened the can of worms despite the fact that the “no fly zone’ was working. 

gaddafi stole the oil money from his people and didn’t care about them. It is best for the people to rise up against the dictator – they then own the outcome.  When Bush went into Iraq - he then owned the outcome.

Well, if I recall, Iraq was going to pay for the war with oil receipts -AND, it would only take a couple months.  That was George W Bush in 2003

Here’s a list of Bush’s lies:

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/22_lies.html

Obama did that when he allowed concealed weapons in US National Parks.

Isn’t the right for a state to allow or disallow the carrying of a concealed weapon in their state – their decision and not that of the federal government?

I thought you Republicans were all for STATES RIGHTS???????

If that is the case, why were the Republicans attacking him for allowing fly overs? 

So, are you saying you actually know how the government of Iraq will turn out?  I don’t think so.  But, you are saying that because you don’t know how the uprising will turn out that you shouldn’t do anything to help the people?

we do know something, and that is we will not be thanked for invading Iraq.

Do you have proof of that?  And, what proof do you have that these aren’t citizens looking for a democratic government?  Probably because your HATE just won’t allow you to be happy as an American and put your HATRED aside as an American for just one day.,

Sorry, but I have to side with VoiceofReason on this one.  It’s kind of like stacking blocks  – the top ones need the foundation of the others.

Are you crazy – or just an unhappy, full of hate republican?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYVWT_kDTsU

Your naivete is stunning.

Well, we’re discussing Obama and Libya.  I know you lefty losers want to dwell on Bush, but we’re talking Obama administration now.

Correction:
Bush didn’t spend a trillion on Saddam and he lost no lives in killing the sonofabitch.
That trillion dollar figure includes Afghanistan and nation building in Iraq and 1000 American lives were not lost in Iraq.
Why do you liberal assholes keep talking without having a CLUE as to what you are saying?
Are you just all stupid or just all f*cked up in the head?
BTW….Lambchop….The “not war” in Libya ain’t over yet. Neither is the cost….in lives and in dollars.
Get a clue.

Go look at the video, little uninformed  girl….and leave the blogging to us adults.
You obviously have nothing to add to the discussion but your whining

Well I must admit, I am shocked. Amazing how politics really does make strange bedfellows, isn’t it? However, you can’t just label this a “conservative thing” like The Reasonable Lib did. Remember, “Uncle Joe” Stalin was a real hero to liberals while he was alive.

Again, congress never passed a resolution and this was purely a NATO driven effort to prevent a massacre of the libyan population to NATO forces by the US according to Obama.

You can’t give Obama much credit here on killing Qaddaffi if his death is not your goal.

Obama had it right.  Credit the Libyan rebel forces on victory, NATO and Sarkozy, and our troops and military leaders for their supporting mission.  

oh im sure the baggars and the obama haterz…u know…insannity hannity..rut limpballs …the screaming jerk wats hes name ..oh yea Dork levine…and others- will find a way to whine and give Clusterfuk Bush credit lololol

would u like a kleenex

would u like a kleenex and an autographed pix of dub-ya

Where can we find that video.

You should really get back to class.  I’d hate to see you repeat the 7th grade…again. 

‘Leading from behind’, a rather smelly business.

I’m with gorgegirl. Where’s your proof that these groups are running Libya? Are you saying that a dictator and murderer of Americans is better in power?

in reply to Qnique:  No. I am not necessarily saying that Kadaffi was better than what will emerge from Libya as in control of the country, but at least we knew what he was and had been working around him.  There will be no working with AlQaida or the Radical Muslims, who, I say, will eventually rule over both Egypt and Libya.

From AEI:  “When we try to ensure an even playing field, we disadvantage liberals
because no other power playing in the sandbox accepts our rules. The
Saudis and Qataris will support the Islamists. Once we might have
counted on Egypt and Tunisia to lobby for reason, but now Egypt also
embraces the Muslim Brotherhood and radical groups, and Tunisia might
also after this week’s elections. President Obama may pride himself on
leading from behind, but if we are not willing to privilege our allies,
then we
are simply behind.

…I worry about civil war. Even if Libyans truly strive for democracy, the
Egyptians and Algerians may have other plans. When vacuums develop in
the Middle East, seldom do the forces of stability triumph, especially
when the West takes a hands-off approach.” 

http://www.aei.org/article/104311?gclid=COWU0rCo_KsCFct-5Qodo01xnQ

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html

Oh yes- you Republicans never want to take responsibility for getting us into these messes- both wars and economic mess because you have “representatives” who don’t represent you but rather Grover Norquist – Jack Abramoff’s best buddy who money laundered for him.  I got it.  In fact, the entire country has HAD it with you.

i am proud of the president and his actions

i am a big supporter of the presidents action plans