there works. they are not sure that is going to happen. again, as you say, traces of radio active iodine in spinach, milk, tap water. trace amounts. geraldo: so spinach and milk, still selling those in stores with the trace amounts of radiation? they are moving against that, okay. they are stopping, geraldo, the sale of that and they are warning people about the water supply as well. but again, it is down to miniscule trace there s. this also, geraldo, as the huge humanitarian effort goes on the media here has been critical of the government. they have been too distracted as well map perhaps they should have been with a nuclear crisis but now that there is a little bit of stablization of the crisis more attention being paid to the half a million survivors that desperately need food, fuel, water, medical supplies, you name it in the earthquake zone, geraldo.
with pretty good precision. there it is. day break in tripoli. operation odyssey dome is well underway. and stay with fox news channel for more on this developing story out of libya. now back to geraldo at large already in progress. regime. and i m hopeful that the mission will end soon and protection of the civilians two things. protect them from the air strikes and protect them from qaddafi. as far as qaddafi is there he is a serious danger for the civilians. geraldo: are you saying that the limited objective of preventing qaddafi air strikes and protecting the libyan civilians is enough? or do you want the coalition to work to remove moammar qaddafi from power? that is exactly what i said. when qaddafi is still around
ambassador john bolton. the former u.n. ambassador for the united states. he made the point that the united states should be in lead although it is our intention apparently to turn it over to our command over to a nonu.s. official and the second point you were about to make, mr. ambassador, just prior to the commercial break? the point the president, our president has been making is that this mission is to protect innocent libyan civilians but also making the point for the last month that the principal threat to innocent libyan civilians is moammar qaddafi. what is it that says the military mission should result in him staying in power? there may be a political objective to change the machine. i think this is the prescription for real confusion in the near future. geraldo: it may be the prescription, mr. ambassador, i believe with what little i know that it could be the prescription for mission creep. today we want to protect the civilians injuries tomorrow we want to kill qaddafi
an actual strategy for victory and hasn t taken the time to ex-be plain the concept of victory and the interests that the u.s. has in libya which i think there are many. more of something that we have gotten into by a set of circumstances that we haven t even attempted to control. geraldo: congressman nunez, you know, just sitting here watching this operation, you know, when the war begins everybody gets psyched up and juiced and everybody wants to be patriotic and support the effort. the reason i opposed it is because i thought it was a tar baby it would be difficult to extract ourselves from once we got in there. also watching all of the action how much do all the cruz missiles cost? $1 million, $2 million a pop? who is paying for the fuel all the jets flying off the deck of the aircraft carrier. that is why i wanted other nations to lead the effort. what about that? what about the cost considerations? what happens if the u.s. plane
how many times the international community called on qaddafi to end the violence against his own people and take demonstrable steps to end the agress. aggression. through is succeeding time period there was no evidence that he intended to do so despite various claims that were made. geraldo: continuing with our special two hour report on the commencement of hostilities in libya. british planes, american planes, french planes all involved. 114 cruz missiles launched against 20 different sites along the libyan north coast. a very vigorous beginning to what i m sure will be a long and very difficult situation, however, ebullient we may feel now with the successes of our forces. let s go to the aforementioned ambassador john bolton.