Political Quotes

“Madam President, over the last 2 weeks, we have seen a deepening divide between the White House and Congress over Libya. It is a clash that was completely avoidable but also counterproductive. First, for the life of me, I do not understand why this administration did not bring this issue to the Congress from the outset. In the early days of the Libyan rebellion, the President should have come to the Congress, informed us that an armed rebellion had arisen against Libya's anti-American, criminal dictator; that the rebels were asking for our assistance in establishing a no-fly zone over Libyan air space so they could take care of the dictator themselves; and that with our support, he intended to work with our allies to establish such a no-fly zone. If this President had done this, I believe he would have found support here and Qadhafi would have been gone a long time ago. But instead, this administration waited. While it did, Qadhafi reestablished momentum and began to carry out a new level of atrocities unprecedented even by his murderous standards. And then, only with the Qadhafi mercenaries on the outskirts of Benghazi threatening to massacre thousands of innocent civilians, did the United States finally agree to participate. But even that was botched. First, we ceded most of the operation over to our NATO allies. God bless them for trying, but they do not have the military capability to finish the job.…”