that was the president talking about the cost of intervention in libya. here with us is rudy giuliani. has this country been at war in the last ten days? sure we have been at war. we have been bombing targets, what 1,000 targets? we have killed military assets in direction, we have attacked the country. the fact that another country doesn t want us there. yes, we re in a war, yes we re in the middle of a civil war, the president s speech tonight has made things even murkier than they were before. the whole purpose is to clarify our mission, our mission is just internally contradictory, the purpose of our mission is to protect the people of lib yacya. how do you protect the people of libya and not be for regime
need for action. but that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what s right. that was the president talking about the cost of intervention in libya. here with us is rudy giuliani. has this country been at war in the last ten days? sure we have been at war. we have been bombing targets, what 1,000 targets? we have killed military assets in direction, we have attacked the country. the fact that another country doesn t want us there. yes, we re in a war, yes we re in the middle of a civil war, the president s speech tonight has made things even murkier than they were before.
but that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what s right. that was the president talking about the cost of intervention in libya. here with us is rudy giuliani. has this country been at war in the last ten days? sure we have been at war. we have been bombing targets, what 1,000 targets? we have killed military assets in direction, we have attacked the country. the fact that another country doesn t want us there. yes, we re in a war, yes we re in the middle of a civil war, the president s speech tonight has made things even murkier than they were before. the whole purpose is to clarify our mission, our mission is just internally contradictory, the purpose of our mission is to protect the people of
she has more. barbara? wolf, defense secretary robert gates has been saying for days that a no-fly zone over libya amounts to combat. i talked earlier today to a retired naval officer who has actually done it. it s been done before. in the no-fly zone over iraq, u.s. war planes patrolled for over a decade, bombing targets, trying to keep the iraqi military boxed in. retired admiral john nafman commanded piloting flying the missions. it wasn t always easy. in southern iraq we tried to blow up one of these sector operation centers probably ten different times. reporter: then ask nathman about libya. a 1986 bombing led to a u.s. retaliatory strike. nathman flew the lead f-18 fighter jet over libya. u.s. fighters fired missiles.
a backdrop of total war hatred and megalomania immense sums of money and creativity what pumped into promoting this concept. it was a time of senseless massacres and the immolation and destruction of countless cities and towns. millions of tons of bombs were dropped during the conflict in hiroshima the detonation of a single atomic bomb instantly killed sixty to eighty thousand people another fifty thousand died in the following days and weeks. the allied bombing of civilians in world war two is a dark chapter in the west s history but precisely for that reason we must ask why did civilians become bombing targets.