Barack Obama actually said...

"Our military action is in support of an international mandate from the Security Council that specifically focuses on the humanitarian threat posed by Colonel Gadhafi to his people. I also have stated ..."

"The use of force is not our first choice, and it's not a choice that I make lightly. But we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy."

"I believe that in the Americas today, there are no senior partners and there are no junior partners, there are equal partners."

"With decades of experience, there's so much Latin America can now share."