Clinton: US ready to aid to Libyan opposition

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

Clinton: US ready to aid to Libyan opposition
By BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press © 2011 The Associated Press
Feb. 27, 2011, 10:29AM
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. is "reaching out" to Libyans trying to organize a post-Moammar Gadhafi government and is "ready and prepared to offer any type of assistance."

Two senators say the Obama administration should recognize a provisional government that seems to be taking shape in Libya's eastern half and offer military aid.

Clinton told reporters traveling with her to Geneva for a U.N. meeting Monday on Libya that "we are just at the beginning of what will follow Gadhafi."

She didn't say whether the U.S. might provide military aid. She also didn't mention the provisional government, but just referred to "many different Libyans who are attempting to organize in the East."



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Clinton offers 'any kind of assistance' to Libyans

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"I think it is way to soon to tell how this is going to play out we are going to be ready and prepared to offer any kind of assistance that anyone wishes to have from the US," Clinton told reporters.

She also called on the Libyan regime to "call off the mercenaries," referring to the government-hired troops said to be mowing down Libyans by the hundreds in a bid to prop up the government.

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"First we have to see the end of his regime and with no further bloodshed," she continued, noting Washington is eager for his ouster "as soon as possible."

"We want him to leave."



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[Lasher]

1. Maybe we should pull our mercenaries out of Iraq

and send them to Lybia to fight Gadhafi's mercenaries.

[maddezmom]

2. I'm hoping the only assistance we give is humanitarian

[joshcryer]

3. Same.

[swilton]

5. Exactly

How does she define assistance.

[TheLastMohican]

7. Grab the oil rigs

while they can still serve US econonmy.

[Lasher]

6. No military, and any humanitarian aid needs to be paid for by reductions elsewhere.

We shouldn't have a cap on federal employee wage increases unless we have a similar cap on total foreign aid. We shouldn't gut a US home heating assistance program while we're giving $336.25 annually per person in foreign aid to Israel. We shouldn't be wasting $11 billion every year in Iraq and Afghanistan for foreign aid alone, when we 'can't afford' our 'unsustainable' social programs.

If Lybia needs money from the US, take it out of that $1.8 billion we're giving Egypt every year. And we shouldn't give Lybia one dime more than they get from countries we borrow money from.

Charity begins at home.

[dipsydoodle]

8. ditto

Anything else could cause future issues.

[Faygo Kid]

4. We're in or we're not: No GHW Bush waffling that just gets people killed.

We DON'T need to make empty promises of assistance, like Poppy did to the Kurds, and got them slaughtered. If we are in, we are in to take him down. If not, shut up.