Barack Obama sends in the CIA to gather information on the Libyan rebels
Amid rumors that the Obama regime is considering supplying the Libyan rebels with weapons and possible training, the Obama regime has ordered the CIA into Libya to determine exactly who these rebels are.
The Obama administration has sent teams of CIA operatives into Libya in a rush to gather intelligence on the identities and capabilities of rebel forces opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, according to U.S. officials
One of the concerns that many Americans share–both on the left and on the right–is the fact that nobody seems to know who these rebels are, and a NATO leader has admitted that there is a “flicker” of al Qaeda and Hezbollah fighters in the mix. If the regime is willing to admit that a “flicker” of terrorist and terrorist sympathizers are part of the insurrection against Gaddafi then we can assume that the actual number is probably higher than just a “flicker.”
This means that while the United States is aiding these rebels that we are also aiding portions of both al Qaeda and Hezbollah and we are now in the process of seriously considering arming these terrorist organizations. What could possibly go wrong here?
Barack Obama rushed into war without even knowing who the rebels were and who we were supporting and only now is he sending in the CIA to find out who the United States is siding with? It seems to me that the United States should have found out who the rebels were BEFORE we committed to helping them achieve their goals.
Barack Obama started a war against Libya when he decided that the United States had a moral obligation to intervene in that country’s civil war and only now that the United States has committed herself to the aid of the rebels have we deemed it necessary to determine who are allies are in this war. With the revelations that we may be supporting, at least partially, al Qaeda and Hezbollah in the war effort, one has to wonder why the hell Barack Obama didn’t find it necessary to find this out beforehand.
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Da horse done left da barn, Barry.
We need to call for immediate presidential elections to fill the current vacancy.
He really has no clue what he is doing, does he?
Well, if we as a country have learned nothing else, we’ve learned that being President of the United States is a little more complex than being a neighborhood organizer.
Exactly! What Barack Obama has learned is that it is much more difficult to be the man that has to make the decisions than it is to sit back and wait for someone else to make the decision and then simply oppose the position that man has taken.
On a side note, I hope that you have seen my recent reply to you on my post about Libya vs Iraq because I was not saying that your comments were not relevant to my post, but was talking to TGY!
Doesn’t matter does it? Do you honestly think Obama would pull support for the rebels when he has already alienated Gadhafi? Obama has just blown this whole situation. If we were to have helped in Libya he blew the golden opportunity when the rebels were outside of Tripoli. And getting involved when the rebels were about to fall, was a mistake. Oh well, what do I know…
He isn’t going to quit now no matter what he finds out, and you are right; if we were going to support the rebels we should have done it when they were closing in on Gadhaffi.
Apparently there are 1,000 rebels and they’re getting crushed. What will Obama do when Kadhafi wipes the floor with them?
Put boots on the ground?
Oh but I thought he promised not to do that?????
I am a pretty piss-poor prognosticator, but I can positively predict one thing for Obama in the future – no mea culpa from the Messiah. (can’t really explain the alliteration, it just sort of happened)
He will double down, just like in the healthcare debate.
I just posted on this. How did this bumbling, goofball buffoon become president? Impeach him and force him to resign. When Dennis Kucinich starts sounding reasonable, you know you messed up somewhere.
Kucinich and now Rangel! Did you ever think you would side with those two?
Politics make strange bedfellows for sure.
You’ve got that right, Bunkerville.
I heard that US and British intelligence have been operating in Libya for more than a month. I don’t recall where I heard this, but they were quoting an “official, but unnamed” source, so it seems that sending in the CIA isn’t a “new” step in this war.
It makes sense to me… after all, who was painting the targets for the Tomahawk missiles the US and UK were lobbing in there?
I heard the same thing somewhere also; the way this admistration avoids the truth is stunning. This is becoming the norm.
True. I’m just surprised that anyone is surprised that we have “sneakers on the ground”, as Shep Smith put it (LOL!).
Of COURSE we have intelligence on the ground. As I said before, who else would have been painting the targets for the Tomahawks? What surprises me is that anyone in the administration, “official and unnamed” or whatever, would even suggest they were there. THAT is incompetence on parade/
So, if the rebels are down to about 1000 fighters, who is going to put boots on the ground. Since Obama got himself into this mess without prior consideration, he’s going to have to make the tough call. If he does nothing, he lost a war. If he does, he puts us in another quagmire, and alienates his base. In other words, he’d better hope those last few rebels pull this out.
He is in a no win situation and he has nobody to blame but himself because he did not think this through at all, he simply did what the UN told him to do.