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Barack Obama: We think it's for the people of Libya to decide who the head of their country is, not for the United States to do that.

On the recordApril 21, 2011
We think it's for the people of Libya to decide who the head of their country is, not for the United States to do that.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney

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