About a month ago I put up a post
Candidate Obama would demand impeachment of President Obama
In it I argued that Libya was in middle of a civil war and I did not and do not feel we have any business being involved in a civil war especially since was no direct threat to the United States. I noted that not once has Obama honestly described the situation in Libya. Like him or not, Moammar Gaddafi is/was facing an armed insurrection. Obama has referred to the rebels repeatedly as “peaceful protesters” when in fact they are armed revolutionaries.
Yesterday comes more evidence that Barack Obama lied through his teeth about the reason for our involvement.
EVIDENCE IS now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a “bloodbath’’ in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and last rebel stronghold.
But Human Rights Watch has released data on Misurata, the next-biggest city in Libya and scene of protracted fighting, revealing that Moammar Khadafy is not deliberately massacring civilians but rather narrowly targeting the armed rebels who fight against his government.
We haven’t removed Gaddafi and Gaddafi has retaken several cities and has not engaged in any genocide while he has put down the rebellion. It also turns out that Obama lied about misrepresented Gaddafi’s words when he said
For decades, he has demonstrated a willingness to use brute force through his sponsorship of terrorism against the American people as well as others, and through the killings that he has carried out within his own borders. And just yesterday, speaking of the city of Benghazi — a city of roughly 700,000 people — he threatened, and I quote: “We will have no mercy and no pity” — no mercy on his own citizens.
The truth?
Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy’’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away.’’ Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end.’’
There is the strong possibility that our involvement has led to more lives lost than would have happened otherwise. Kuperman notes that had Obama and allies not intervened, the conflict would most likely already have ended.
The best evidence that Khadafy did not plan genocide in Benghazi is that he did not perpetrate it in the other cities he had recaptured either fully or partially — including Zawiya, Misurata, and Ajdabiya, which together have a population greater than Benghazi.
There’s your Obama Doctrine. Misrepresent the situation and prolong the suffering. Exactly what has been achieved?
As someone once said, I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. This is a dumb war and Obama lied us into it. It’s not going to win us more friends.
You have to be an idiot……well, you know the rest by now.
H/T Instpaundit
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