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01-29-2015, 08:42 PM
Go Rand!
EXCLUSIVE — RAND PAUL: OBAMA DEFENDED ‘HILLARY’S WAR’ IN LIBYA IN SECRET CAPITOL HILL MEETING WITH GOP
by MATTHEW BOYLE 29 Jan 2015
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tells Breitbart News that President Barack Obama—in a closed-door Capitol Hill luncheon with Republican lawmakers on Sept. 10, 2013—defended Hillary Clinton’s rush to war in Libya by claiming that then dictator Muammar Gaddafi had been planning an imminent attack on his own people in Benghazi. However, new evidence emerging via the Washington Times suggests that wasn’t necessarily true.
The conversation between Paul and the President—which occurred during the luncheon—has never before been revealed to the public. In the meeting, Obama was seeking congressional support for military action in Syria. But Paul questioned the president on why he went along with Clinton’s push for military action against Libya in 2011, in which the Obama administration used military force—without congressional approval—to topple Gaddafi and his regime, despite the fact that Gaddafi had begun cooperating with the West years earlier.
Paul has been a regular and frequent critic of Clinton’s push for war in Libya, saying in interviews with Breitbart News and NBC News’ Meet The Press while on a medical mission trip to Guatemala this past summer—where Paul, a ophthalmologist before his election to the U.S. Senate, performed charity eye surgeries—that Clinton is a “war hawk” and her policies destabilized Libya to the point where terrorists had the upper hand in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. That terrorist attack claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith and security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
Paul hit that theme again in his Thursday interview with Breitbart News, saying Clinton led the U.S. into war with Libya “under false pretenses.”
“What I’ve been saying for over a year now is that Hillary took us to war in Libya under false pretenses,” Paul said. “She claimed there was some sort of imminent threat and that there was going to be some sort of genocide and she sold this war to the Obama administration.”
But Paul has never, until now in this exclusive interview with Breitbart News, revealed the fact that President Obama himself defended “Hillary’s war”—as Paul likes to call the U.S. military intervention in Libya—as necessary. The president believed, based on what Clinton and a few others were telling him, that the people of Benghazi were under imminent threat of attack from Gaddafi’s regime. Essentially, what Paul is revealing here is that the president of the United States himself bought the argument, or “false pretenses,” that Clinton sold him and other senior administration officials about Gaddafi.
Paul said he questioned Obama at the closed-door luncheon on why he went along with Clinton’s push for war against Gaddafi in Libya, and he said the president responded to him by saying that the people of Benghazi—Gaddafi’s own people at the time—were in “imminent” danger of being attacked. Paul noted that he was concerned Obama—who said on the campaign trail while running for president he wouldn’t engage in war without congressional approval unless there was an imminent threat of attack against Americans—considered the belief there was some kind of imminent attack looming against the people Libya, not the people of the United States, as rising to the level of justification for an act of war by his administration without congressional consent…
continues: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/29/exclusive-rand-paul-obama-defended-hillarys-war-in-libya-in-secret-capitol-hill-meeting-with-gop/
(pretty long piece)
EXCLUSIVE — RAND PAUL: OBAMA DEFENDED ‘HILLARY’S WAR’ IN LIBYA IN SECRET CAPITOL HILL MEETING WITH GOP
by MATTHEW BOYLE 29 Jan 2015
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tells Breitbart News that President Barack Obama—in a closed-door Capitol Hill luncheon with Republican lawmakers on Sept. 10, 2013—defended Hillary Clinton’s rush to war in Libya by claiming that then dictator Muammar Gaddafi had been planning an imminent attack on his own people in Benghazi. However, new evidence emerging via the Washington Times suggests that wasn’t necessarily true.
The conversation between Paul and the President—which occurred during the luncheon—has never before been revealed to the public. In the meeting, Obama was seeking congressional support for military action in Syria. But Paul questioned the president on why he went along with Clinton’s push for military action against Libya in 2011, in which the Obama administration used military force—without congressional approval—to topple Gaddafi and his regime, despite the fact that Gaddafi had begun cooperating with the West years earlier.
Paul has been a regular and frequent critic of Clinton’s push for war in Libya, saying in interviews with Breitbart News and NBC News’ Meet The Press while on a medical mission trip to Guatemala this past summer—where Paul, a ophthalmologist before his election to the U.S. Senate, performed charity eye surgeries—that Clinton is a “war hawk” and her policies destabilized Libya to the point where terrorists had the upper hand in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. That terrorist attack claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith and security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
Paul hit that theme again in his Thursday interview with Breitbart News, saying Clinton led the U.S. into war with Libya “under false pretenses.”
“What I’ve been saying for over a year now is that Hillary took us to war in Libya under false pretenses,” Paul said. “She claimed there was some sort of imminent threat and that there was going to be some sort of genocide and she sold this war to the Obama administration.”
But Paul has never, until now in this exclusive interview with Breitbart News, revealed the fact that President Obama himself defended “Hillary’s war”—as Paul likes to call the U.S. military intervention in Libya—as necessary. The president believed, based on what Clinton and a few others were telling him, that the people of Benghazi were under imminent threat of attack from Gaddafi’s regime. Essentially, what Paul is revealing here is that the president of the United States himself bought the argument, or “false pretenses,” that Clinton sold him and other senior administration officials about Gaddafi.
Paul said he questioned Obama at the closed-door luncheon on why he went along with Clinton’s push for war against Gaddafi in Libya, and he said the president responded to him by saying that the people of Benghazi—Gaddafi’s own people at the time—were in “imminent” danger of being attacked. Paul noted that he was concerned Obama—who said on the campaign trail while running for president he wouldn’t engage in war without congressional approval unless there was an imminent threat of attack against Americans—considered the belief there was some kind of imminent attack looming against the people Libya, not the people of the United States, as rising to the level of justification for an act of war by his administration without congressional consent…
continues: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/29/exclusive-rand-paul-obama-defended-hillarys-war-in-libya-in-secret-capitol-hill-meeting-with-gop/
(pretty long piece)