hear on monday and george h. w. bush built a multi-lateral coalition in the persian gulf war and you can be strong, determined, clear about the need for victory and multi-lateral and i think that is what the president needs to recognize. chris: you bring me to the next subject, bill and juan. what should the president tell the american people tomorrow night? what does he need to say. he should listen to nina. so often, good advice. chris: he s at the white house now, taking notes! he has had several failures and it may work more dramatically and quickly than people expect in terms of rolling in qaddafi s forces but the one thing the president has not done is put it in a broader context. why are we there, if it happened in 1993, a popular insurrection against a brutal dictator, people like me may have, good
chris: here s where i m confused. on greta s show, march 7th, the first clip you said we should start the no-fly zone immediately. all she asked was, what should we do about libya and you made no mention of what the president said. you said we should intervene. let me finish, and then you can answer. right away. even if all you were doing was being a good soldier, why on earth would you say i wouldn t have intervened after the president committed u.s. servicemen and women that last week. because, the there s an earlier greta show in february. which is where it all started. and, in february i said, we should find ways to get rid of him, using the kind of strategies that reagan and eisenhower used which was to help freedom-fighters without using american force. that became impossible once the president publicly said, qaddafi must go and she said this is march 7th, four days after the president said, qaddafi must go. and my answer was, in the context of, if he must go you
opportunity an proportion and we should do whatever we can to not have brutal dictators remain in power without the commitment of u.s. ground troops in libya or anyplace else. chris: senator lieberman let me ask you another nuts and bolts question, confusion over the mission. the president says, qaddafi must go. but, the u.n. resolution as you know only calls for protecting civilians. so, what should the u.s. do? how do we back up our rhetoric? do we get qaddafi out and arm the rebels? do u.s. forces, speaker gingrich suggested, at least from the air target qaddafi and his regime? well, it seems to me that the only acceptable way for this to end is for qaddafi to go and in that sense president obama was absolutely right. you know, though the rhetoric surrounding this action of libya, the diplomatic rhetoric, has been confusing at times, i
have gotten qaddafi. chris: some say whatever the president does or doesn t do, are against. you should have played an earlier clip when i was on greta s show in late february and i said we should be for replacing qaddafi without using the u.s. military. now, the president on march 3rd changed the rules of the game. came out publicly and said, qaddafi must go. and so i was citing there, my original position which is if you are not in the lake, don t jump in. once you re in the lake swim like crazy. our goal should the president said qaddafi must go, so our goal should be the defeated of the qaddafi government and replacement of qaddafi as rapidly as possible. ideally by using western air power with arab forces including egyptian and moroccan and other advisors to help with the ground campaign. but, i see no reason for american ground troops to go in put the president positioned us where once the president says he must go we have an obligation as a country to get rid of him.
under the fig leaf, of protecting civilians, support the rebel push west towards sirte and tripoli. you continue doing what it takes to do what the president said had the coalition didn t say nato, there is wiggle room within that u.n. resolution to arm the rebels and provide enough oomph for them to go after qaddafi and the key behind this is the is a multinational lateral effort and he s been criticized for that, the president, but the explosion in syria and bahrain says it should be multi-lateral but that doesn t mean you need to be weak and defensive and give a signal you are not interested in victory and when you read the president s saturday address, it is apologetic and defensive and i m afraid that s what we ll