Barack Obama then and now: Interfering in a civil war
During his speech in which he announced he would be running for president Barack Obama had this to say:
It’s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else’s civil war.
He was speaking about the civil war which had broken out in Iraq after the United States disposed of Saddam Hussein. (He also went on to say that he had a plan which would bring home all combat troops by 2008, but that is another story for another post.) Yet here we are a few short years later and what did Barack Obama do when a civil war broke out in Libya? He put American lives in danger in order to “resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else’s civil war.”
He has yet to give the American people a justifiable reason for bombing Libya and his regime has given conflicting and muddled answers when asked what the goal of the mission is; because there is no clear goal there is no exit strategy. Barack Obama rushed into war because the United Nations told him to and we don’t even know who the rebels are that we are supporting; he consulted foreign nations and did not consult the United States Congress. And to top it all off Dear Leader doesn’t even have the courage to call our engagement in Libya what it is–war.
Many of those points sound an awful lot like the criticisms Barack Obama had of President Bush while he was on the campaign trail, while some go well beyond anything that the former president could be accused of doing.
America's Watchtower 
Our involvement in Libya is a huge mistake.
Libya and Iraq are not the same thing!
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You’ve got that right, I can’t believe that we would start a war in which we do not know who the people are that we are supporting.
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Uhm, WE didn’t start anything, the Libyan people started the uprising and WE (NATO) are simply trying to assist them and prevent the Ghadaffi regime from commiting atrocities against its’ own people. You are correct in that we may not know WHO we’re supporting but, suffice it to say, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” seems to be the application here.
So, how about being a journalist and reporting facts instead of doing a really bad job of opining from the Right? (“We would start a war…” PUH-LEEZ!
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Steve. Have you seen the latest posy at Quetioning with Boldness? If what is being reported is not an April Fools joke, things are about to become very ugly.
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I have not, but I will. Thanks for the link.
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NO way Obamas awsome,
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Bush lied, people died!
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I smell a rat. This assclown in his typical perrenial campaign mode fashiom has tried to set this up as a win win for himself. If Gadaffi goes it was his strategy that ushered him out. If he doesnt go it is Natos problem and he unlike the devil George Bush is not in it for regime change.
We have elected a liar a coward and a hypocrite, who cares about one thing and that is getting re-elected.
Say what you want about Bush but no one can doubt his conviction. He believed in his cause so much he was willing to sacrifice his entire party for it.
Like every other policy decision this community agitator makes it is a moviing target always aying to the
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Exactly! Bush really and trully believed that what he was doing was right. You may or may not agree with him but in his heart he was honest. Barack Obama is a politician first and foremost and in his heart he is not an honest man.
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Oops…smart phones can suck, Ill pick up where i left off,
all of Barrys decisions are purely political! He is a walking contradiction. Ever chaning with the political winds. This is why in every crisis whether it be the gulf oil spill, Egypt , Lybia, all of em he is strangely absent for days sometimes weeks.
MAN WHAT A MESS
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Exactly! See above comment!
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This is what happens when someone has no real core beliefs. He has beliefs, all of the leftist, but these give way, like all liberal thought, to the desire to gain and maintain power.
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Ain’t that the truth?! The only belief that Obama has is the desire to hold onto power, that is why his positions are so contradictory. He will say or do whatever it is that he thinks will allow him to remain in power.
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ALL politicians will say or do anything to stay in power…THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF POLICITICS.
Do you play dumb or is it your natural state?
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Hey steve great post again. I think that we as conservatives have known for a long time that Obama is a walking contradiction. The thing that is so frustrating is that the MSM won’t acknowledge this fact. Obama has the media wrapped around his little finger but I think that is why there is an explosion in alternative media like blogs and talk radio.
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Thanks! And you are right; Obama is given this pass in the media and they are unwilling to even mention the fact that Obama’s words and actions do not always match.
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He still hasn’t even told us WHY we’re backing WHO- Obama even admitted it’s not in our national interest!
BUT this war may be the grave of the Obama Administration… he may have really stepped in it this time
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I think he did step in it this time because even the liberals are now beginning to turn on him. I honestly feel that if Hillary decides to challenge him she would have a great chance of beating him.
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Obama’s Libyan Strategery
For those who study history
And military strategy,
A new approach to waging war
In ways that were untried before,
Is rarely seen or heard:
The old ways are preferred.
But in these times of global strife,
With sounds of drum and notes of fife,
A new man joins the hall of fame
Of leaders who receive acclaim,
For strategy in war,
Too brilliant to ignore.
With Hannibal, Napoleon,
And Kahn, the great Mongolian,
With Brennus and with Pericles
With Sun Tzu and Eurybiades,
Our President does share
A real strategic flair.
He joins in war, almost too late,
Makes public his withdrawal date,
Commences action from the air,
Then makes his enemies aware
He’ll not attack on land,
Across the desert sand.
Within just days, perhaps a week,
His reputation and mystique
For managing the world’s affairs
Achieves its peak when he declares
He’ll bomb the rebels too,
For things that they might do.
Perhaps another Nobel Prize
Our friends from Stockholm could reprise,
For excellence in strategy
While waging war on Tripoli.
It’s merited, at worst,
As much as was the first.
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Great points again Steve. Some excellent (and creative) follow-on comments as well! I pray this country’s electorate is not gullible enough to re-elect Obama, but am certain the liberals will attempt to stir their adherents (and the undecided) into such frenzy that it will be a challenge to defeat him. Why do you think the 2011 budget wasn’t passed when there was a democrat majority and it would have been easy? The democrats want to pass the blame for the tough (and correct) decisions onto the Republicans, Tea Party & Conservatives. Had they acted in good faith, they would either be on the hook for doing nothing or be getting assailed for reducing some of their constituents’ precious entitlements.
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Thanks Mark. I also think that Obama will be hard to beat and I think you are 100% right on your reasoning behind the Democrats pushing the budget out until after the elections. Now they have a rallying cry with their base on the budget cuts.
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My biggest issue with Libya is everyone involved has said we don’t know who the rebels are. Now we’re bombing both groups. How retarded is that for foreign policy?
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This really is becoming a huge embarrassment! It is hard to believe that he is really this asinine.
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But we DO know who Ghaddafi is…and trying to eliminate him WITHOUT commiting troops is not unlike Bush’s Legacy War in Iraq, isn’t it? But without the TRILLIONS in costs and the THOUSANDS of body bags…I suspect you prefer the GOP method of conducting war. Off-budget and for no reason…(WMDs anyone? DUH!)
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