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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110329:00:33:00

ways, the air campaign is just one part of it. and we will continue to press him. gadhafi has many resources, but if an international coalition stays firm, it is not that expensive to maintain the no fly zone, if the libyan opposition is helped, it will throw him and his cronies off kilter. one certainly hopes that happens, one certainly hopes gadhafi is gone in short order, if gadhafi is not gone and we continue to pull back militarily, that is very dicey for the president to withdraw until we have gotten that moment of clear success, the elimination of gadhafi. back to wolf in d.c. eliot, you re almost certainly right, most people realistically won t believe this is a success from the u.s. standpoint if gadhafi remains in power in tripoli. let s get some more reaction from capitol hill, our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is standing by. what else are you hearing?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110329:00:06:00

think we ll be seeing him backing down and arguing for regime change himself. in a city like cert, he has armed them in the town that the opposition forces went into today and had to flee from, what does the coalition do? will they bomb in their areas if they are in fact just armed civilians and not gadhafi troops? how aligned are the coalition forces on nato to continue bombing in areas around there so they can continue to advance? reporter: they are very heavily reliant on that and they realize the fact that they could not have come this far were it not for those air strikes, but as we have heard many of the opposition leaders say there is one ground rule and that is that

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110329:00:05:00

imagine, with a view to figuring out, okay, i have bought some more time, how can i hold on? what am i going to be able to do here? what can i get away with? can i defeat the civilians? he s already been making the case that if the coalition were to continue its campaign, as was witnessed today outside of his hometown, because gadhafi and his government have handed out so many weapons to tribes loyal to them, he s been counting on these tribes to rise up and face the rebels when they come, that essentially these would be in his words, in the government s words, civilians. so if the coalition were to target these civilians, that would obviously weaken the coalition s position. this is something th for gadhafi, i think we can expect him to feel he s bought some time and we can expect him to do some recalibrating, i don t

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110329:00:10:00

convinced that if we had taken that action three weeks earlier, just declaring a no fly zone, it would have had a similar affect. but the fact is he made a strong case and then he got into the issue of american leadership and emphasis on how america was going to step down. and he mentioned a couple of times that gadhafi must step down. and then he made a very puzzling comment and that was, regime change by force would be a mistake. gadhafi must have been somewhat comforted by that. it was then at least to some degree a counter to the president s statement, gadhafi must go, and if we end up with a situation where gadhafi reclaims power, we could see what we saw after the first gull war, a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110329:00:53:15

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