by Jim » Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:25 am
The best example of the foolish and illegal meddling in the Middle East (and most anywhere else) was seen in 2011 when Obama, completely bypassing Congress in violating both the U.S. Constitution and War Powers Act, attacked a sovereign state, Libya (with a total military strength of 76,000 boots as compared to the U.S. number of 1.5 million), that comprised no threat of any kind to any nation in the world, with the hedge that NATO would get in on the act while he led from behind...millions more EU troops in the deal. Libya's population was 2,000,000 less than that of NYC alone. Though we constantly hear of the 250,000 killed in Syria, essentially not by the U.S. (although no one has the slightest notion of that hear-say death-rate), we've never been told how many Libyans died in Obama's seven-month war, though he said it would be over in days, not weeks. Then-Defense Secretary Gates and -JCC Mullen advised against the “war” (actually shooting fish in a barrel) before Congress, and Gates called it “on the fly” while visiting Russia when Obama gave the order. In other words, there was no actual planning for it, either waging it or cleaning up after the fact. Hillary Clinton and the other two Amazons, Powers and Rice, got “permission” from the UN Security Council. Putin abstained; otherwise, the bloodletting would not have happened. Look at Libya now, a total wreck and training ground for mindless Muslim butchers. At least Bush had the assurance from the best international intelligence agencies, as well as the CIA, that Saddam had WMD before the attack on Iraq. I believe the WMD was moved at night probably to Syria between September 2002 and March 2003. Regarding Libya, the air-action (no-fly zone), the actual stated objective, was achieved in four days. Clinton and Obama were so devoid of knowledge of how the Muslim mind works (or most anything else) that neither should have wandered around unchaperoned, even to the bathroom.