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Ron Paul: No, I don't think it's clear to anybody, because the Congress hasn't even discussed it, so we certainly wouldn't know.…

On the recordMarch 20, 2011
No, I don't think it's clear to anybody, because the Congress hasn't even discussed it, so we certainly wouldn't know. But getting the authority from the U.N. to go into Libya for humanitarian reasons, it doesn't say very much. There's a lot of militarism going on there, and I don't know how much humanitarianism is going on.
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Ron Paul expresses skepticism about the clarity and authority of the U.S. mission in Libya, questioning the humanitarian justification.

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