BREAKING, SOS Clinton calls for Qadaffi to stop

[nadinbrzezinski]

this behavior.

Per BBC, no link yet

[lonestarnot]

1. Yes and on another thread re the rumor, I mentioned the same thing.

[Hosnon]

2. AJE read the written statement. nt.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Too many critical stories

so I do what I can... and monitoring Nile TV on the Potomac re Wisconsin, so I use BBC for my portal to the world.

[Hosnon]

7. Just confirming. This is an amazing movement. nt.

[DJ13]

4. I see a strongly worded letter headed his way in the near future

[Abq_Sarah]

10. Followed by

A shake of the finger and the words, naughty, naughty!

Seriously, at this point Gaddafi is toast. The only thing he's concerned about is looting as much money as he can and finding a safe place to hole up.

[notesdev]

14. If it gets really bad

she'll un-"friend" him on FaceBook...

[spanone]

17. libya is not an ally of the u.s. we really have little sway other than threatening violence

[LeftishBrit]

5. Gadaffi is vile. Even by the standards of vile people.

I hope this is the end for him. But it won't bring some brave and innocent people back.

[Ken Burch]

6. by "this behavior", did HRC mean Qadaffi's brutal repression of the protests

or the protests themselves?

Is there ANY good reason for HRC to use weasel words about Libya at all?

Shouldn't we be explicitly glad that Qadaffi's probably going to be overthrown?

It's not like we HAVE to be neutral on THAT one, for Gawwwwd's sake....

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yes

[lonestarnot]

9. reference current genocide.

[snagglepuss]

11. Her using "behavior" to describe the butchery that is taking place is worse

that saying nothing at all. It is morally repugnant. The Admin seems to be as tone deaf regarding events in Libya as they were in Egypt.

[Pirate Smile]

12. Chuck Todd tweeted that we are desperately trying to get US citizens out of there.

[azurnoir]

13. Yeah I'm sure Muammar will snap right in to line cause Hillary says so

nice of her to mouth the words, seems the US government is quite good at that lately

[AlabamaLibrul]

15. Only a week and several hundred dead bodies late. She's been super busy. n/t

[Poboy]

19. Its a federal holiday!

[tekisui]

16. It is time to call for him to step down.

[Desertrose]

18. Hell yes. Finally. After 500+ body count (unconfirmed of course).nt

[spanone]

20. brian williams just reported there are reports that qaddafi has fled

[PufPuf23]

21. Ms. Clinton started as my #9 (last) Democratic choice,

I trusted POTUS Obama.

Colonel Qadaffi has been more a cooperator to the USA and EU since the "War on Terror" was declared post 9-11.

I voted for POTUS Obama because I did not want HRC in government.

Tha USA has been supporting anti-democratic regimes and they are falling like dominos for good cause.

The WH is on a political tight-rope.

I agree that the violence should be stopped immediately.

SOS Clinton has been slow on Libya as has POTUS Obama, probably because the Libyan status quo was comfortable for the USA and NATO.

Now is time to make lemonade out of lemons.

[robdogbucky]

22. Arab League will convene and

the British rep just urged the UN to convene the Security Council on this, otherwise the UN is a joke.

Essentially he said the no-fly zone worked as a strategy in Bosnia and he thought that would be a start.

He seemed to think that the UN could mobilize quickly enough to make a difference in events unfolding quickly in Lybia right now. I don't think they can, but some movement by the UN for the record may be all they can do, even if it is too little, too late.

Ironic if it is the Arab League that gets something done, no?

A few more defections from the regime by their diplomats are reported, the flying to Malta by two Lybian military makes it an international issue now, per the current official being interviewed. The relationship between Italy and Lybia is apparently a sticking point, as Ghaddafi apparently is a bud with Berlusconi and there is a recent treaty of cooperation.

Lybian refugee camps are being hastily set up in.....wait for it....Tunisia. Egyptian pizzas to Madison, Tunisians building refugee camps for beleaguered Lybians, harsh words from Foggy Bottom.


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