RonPaulFanInGA
06-25-2011, 01:36 AM
http://abcnews.go.com/International/house-libya-vote-smell-victory-moammar-gadhafi/story?id=13925246
It had the sound of a victory celebration: Machine guns rat-a-tat-tatting in the air. Crowds of young supporters swathed in Moammar Gadhafi green celebrating, cheering.
"What's the news," I ask one young man with a machine gun slung over his shoulder.
"Gadhafi has won!" he tells me emphatically.
It did not take long for news from the U.S. House of Representatives to make its way here to Green Square in the heart of Tripoli. By a vote of 295-123 the House voted down a measure that would have given President Obama the authority to continue the U.S. military operations in Libya.
What the jubilant crowd in Green Square did not understand is that the vote by the House is not binding and will not become law because it is certain to be defeated in the Senate.
But that will not take away the huge of boost of morale the vote has given Gadhafi's supporters. As they see it from here, it is evidence that the NATO coalition fracturing. The incentive to hang in and wait out the bombing campaign just got a lot sweeter.
It was not meant to be like this.
It had the sound of a victory celebration: Machine guns rat-a-tat-tatting in the air. Crowds of young supporters swathed in Moammar Gadhafi green celebrating, cheering.
"What's the news," I ask one young man with a machine gun slung over his shoulder.
"Gadhafi has won!" he tells me emphatically.
It did not take long for news from the U.S. House of Representatives to make its way here to Green Square in the heart of Tripoli. By a vote of 295-123 the House voted down a measure that would have given President Obama the authority to continue the U.S. military operations in Libya.
What the jubilant crowd in Green Square did not understand is that the vote by the House is not binding and will not become law because it is certain to be defeated in the Senate.
But that will not take away the huge of boost of morale the vote has given Gadhafi's supporters. As they see it from here, it is evidence that the NATO coalition fracturing. The incentive to hang in and wait out the bombing campaign just got a lot sweeter.
It was not meant to be like this.