MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said military action being taken against Libya is justified.
NewsRadio 830 WCCO’s Bruce Hagevik Reports
“Well, you have here a madman (Moammar Gadhafi) who’s basically been starving his country and bombing his own people. And so that is why we stood with the rest of the world,” said the Minnesota Democrat.
Klobuchar said the international involvement in the bombing raids differs from Iraq and Afghanistan in that the U.S. is not alone.
She said the U.S. could not have acted without international involvement.
“This time we just simply, one, can’t afford it; two, need to work with the rest of the world so that they are participating,” said Klobuchar.
She said President Obama has made it clear the U.S. will not be using ground troops so that makes it very unlikely there would be long-term involvement.
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She has just lost my vote!
Good. Now I feel a whole lot better about intervening in Libya’s civil war, even though we “can’t afford it”. Thanks Amy.
She supports Obama’s illegal war of oppression. She has shown her Zionist stripes.
Isn’t this another regime change? Did Klobuchar agree with President Bush when we went into Iraq? I know Gadhafi is a bad person, but isn’t this a civil war? We don’t know who these rebels are do we and maybe they will be worse than Gadhafi? What about the genocide in Rwanda. Protests and killings in Audi Arabia? Bharian? Yemin?
THIS is why we have people homeless, starving, and going without medical care in our own country…too busy spending our money on everyone elses business!
This just goes to show you just how hypocritical she is. When her”D”(democrat) is in office, it’s o.k..
All these politicians are the same: war, war, war and welfare, welfare, welfare.
We don’t work for the U.N. and it ain’t our oil
Why is she for attack libya and not the othere nations killing thier people
Sorry, Klobucher, but the U.S. was hardly “alone” when it invaded Iraq in 2003. I count about 39 nations in the Iraq coalition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Force_-_Iraq#List_of_nations_in_the_coalition
So really, how does your rationale for bombing Libya differ from the bombing of Iraq?
Phid it is too bad that Bruce Hagevik didn’t ask that question of her, but that would be a liberal putting a liberal on the spot!
There’s a huge price to pay for democracy. The people of Libya, including the royal family has begged the world to stop this dictator from killing innocent civilians. Last I read, 57% of the American people approved of military action. Senator Klobuchar is a great American, more than I can say about you nay-sayers.
I must be a bad American then because Im a nay sayer, oh by the way my service to this Great Nation rules me out, Ive been in that Region of the World!
Ghadafi is just as ruthless and horrible as Suddam Hussein was. You can’t look at the same pill and call it something different.
Thank you for serving. 😉
Hey Jake, do you want to write the check for “democracy”? I’m not sure what polls you are hearing 57% support from, but you may want to do a little more serious fact-checking before you spew your “nay-sayer” rhetoric on those of us who have been paying attention to the real truth and are damned sick and tired of our money being wasted on situations we have no legitimate right being involved in. And, just out of curiosity, what is it that – in your opinion – makes Amy Klobuchar such a great American? There are a lot of us who would love to hear a truly well reasoned response to that one!
the Royal Family of Lybia asked The free World for HELP ! Now we haven’t sent any troops or firepower to Lybia we voted with our UN brothers and sisters to step in and help the citizens of Lybia who don’t agree with Qudafia as for Amy Klobuchar being a Great American we are all Great Americans even you Ben
Klobuchar will suppoert anything obama does she is just a sheep
Jake you are right democracy has a price, but you didn’t answer my question about why are we not concerned about Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bharian and Rwanda? We are very selective it seems about who is being killed? Polls of any kind can be misleading. It depends on how the question was asked and who they asked. If you want a certain outcome, poll takers can get it. Have any of you ever been called. I have not and I vote in every election. Who do they call? Jake many polls last year showed that people did not favor Obamacare, but we got it!!
wow at least she isn’t a lemmer like ALL rebublicans following BUSH and the almighty dollar
The late Senator Wellstone swam against the stream, I hate democrats but I did vote for him once.
Our nice Amy is going to support our nice President, right or wrong. Wonder what Keith Ellison and Al are going to say.
We must thank our brothers & sisters in China for lending us the money to pay for intervening in Libya’s civil war!
All I know is we better come back with some effin oil this time!
I leave a very sheltered life in the burbs—what is a lemmer?
Ellison will support Obama 100%. Al may sound out but he will fall in line also.