When Bush was President Progressives complained bitterly about the Iraq war. When challenged on their opposition, they said dissent was patriotic. Some Conservatives would say that the Left supports Saddam (many actually did). Progressives would cry foul and claim you were questioning their patriotism. Well fast forward to 2011 and times have changed.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Jamaican Foreign Minister Kenneth Baugh, St. Kitts and Nevis Deputy Prime Minister Sam Condor. At the press conference she was asked about opposition in Congress to the Libya war. Hillary answered and accused those who oppose the war of being unpatriotic and traitors.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, again, I am going to be testifying tomorrow at great length, probably longer than anyone cares to listen about all of these issues – Brad’s question, your question I’m sure will be fodder for the testimony. But I have to take issue with your underlying premise. I think that there is very clear progress being made in the organization and the operational ability of the opposition, the Transitional National Council, the military efforts on the ground. I don’t think there’s any doubt in anyone’s mind that Qadhafi and the people around him have their backs against the wall. The kind of support that we saw forthcoming for the Libyan opposition at the recent Libyan Contact Group meeting in Abu Dhabi was very heartening. Money is flowing, other support is available.
So I know we live in a hyper-information-centric world right now, and March seems like it’s a decade ago, but by my calendar, it’s only months. And in those months, we have seen an international coalition come together unprecedented between not only NATO, but Arab nations, the Arab League, and the United Nations. This is something that I don’t think anyone could have predicted, but it is a very strong signal as to what the world expects to have happen, and I say with all respect that the Congress is certainly free to raise any questions or objections, and I’m sure I will hear that tomorrow when I testify.
But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you on Qadhafi’s side or are you on the side of the aspirations of the Libyan people and the international coalition that has been created to support them? For the Obama Administration, the answer to that question is very easy.
So who’s side are Americans like me on? You really want to go there Hillary? Look who you and Barack Hussein Obama’s side you are on in Libya.
A new report from two French think tanks concludes that jihadists have played a predominant role in the eastern-Libyan rebellion against the rule of Moammar Qaddafi, and that “true democrats” represent only a minority in the rebellion. The report, furthermore, calls into question the justifications given for Western military intervention in Libya, arguing that they are largely based on media exaggerations and “outright disinformation.”
The sponsors of the report are the Paris-based International Center for Research and Study on Terrorism and Aide to Victims of Terrorism (CIRET-AVT) and the French Center for Research on Intelligence (CF2R). The organizations sent a six-member expert mission to Libya to evaluate the situation and consult with representatives on both sides of the conflict. From March 31 to April 6, the mission visited the Libyan capital of Tripoli and the region of Tripolitania; from April 19 to April 25, it visited the rebel capital of Benghazi and the surrounding Cyrenaica region in eastern Libya.
he report identifies four factions among the members of the eastern Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC). Apart from a minority of “true democrats,” the other three factions comprise partisans of a restoration of the monarchy that was overthrown by Qaddafi in 1969, Islamic extremists seeking the establishment of an Islamic state, and former fixtures of the Qaddafi regime who defected to the rebels for opportunistic or other reasons.
There is a clear overlap between the Islamists and the monarchists, inasmuch as the deposed King Idris I was himself the head of the Senussi brotherhood, which the authors describe as “an anti-Western Muslim sect that practices an austere and conservative form of Islam.” The monarchists are thus, more precisely, “monarchists-fundamentalists.”
Read the rest: Al-Qaeda and the Libyan Rebellion
So who am I backing? Well Hillary, I do lean towards Qaddafi. He gave up his WMDs, compensated the victims of Pan Am 103 and was helping us against Al-Qaeda. You, Obama and the “International Community” are backing Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. You are supporting the same people who attacked us on 9/11. You were Senator of NY on the day of the attack. You pretended that you cared for the families that lost love ones. Can you look at them in the eye now? Can you explain why you back the people who killed their loved ones?
Obama and Hillary are the unpatriotic traitors. They are assisting Islamic forces to take over Libya. Them and their supporters are the traitors.
Tags: Arab Spring, Hillary Clinton, Libyan War, Popular Uprising
