"No one died in Libya"

So some apologist gets trotted out with smoke and mirrors. She has to take I ownership of what falls out of her mouth.
 
Here's what she said verbatim. Where's the lie by Media Matters?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Don't you support knocking off Assad, Bashar Assad?

HILLARY CLINTON: I think given the bloodshed he has spilled, that would be a good outcome, but Americans aren't going to do it. That's not us doing it. In Libya, you had a dictator who had American blood on his hands. Remember, Reagan tried to knock him off, as you recall, because you were working in the Congress -- missed, when he tried. When he said that he was going to track down his people and murder them, the Europeans and the Arabs came to us and said, "You've got to help us."

Because what they feared is what we see in Syria. What they feared was an out-of-control civil war on their shores. Right across the Mediterranean. Right next to Egypt. Right next to the rest of the Middle East. Remember, we had those countries helping us in Afghanistan, in our very big coalition. Now, when somebody that has helped you -- their people have died, they have expended their treasure to help us -- come and say, "This is personal to us, we in Europe, we in the Middle East," is the United States supposed to say, "you know what, that's not our problem?" And they can say to us, "yeah, Afghanistan wasn't our problem either." But that's not the way you work with allies and the way you build coalitions. So what did we do there? We provided our unique abilities and they ran most of the air missions. They were really very much involved in helping to cordon off Libya, and in eventually defeating Gadhafi and his forces.

Now, is Libya perfect? It isn't. But did they have two elections that were free and fair where they voted for moderates? Yes, they did. So, changing from a dictator who has hollowed out your country to something resembling a functioning state, and even hopefully more of a democratic one, doesn't happen overnight. And we've got to continue to support the Libyan people -- to give them a chance -- because otherwise, you see what's happened in Syria, with the consequences of millions of people flooding out of Syria with more than 250,000 people killed, with terrorist groups like ISIS taking up a huge swath of territory, as big as some of the states in that area. So yes, Libya was a different kind of calculation. And we didn't lose a single person. We didn't have a problem in supporting our European and Arab allies in working with NATO. And now we've got to support the Libyan people.

[MSNBC, MSNBC Town Hall, 3/14/16]
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Cwacko is afraid of a site that proves his "gotcha" is unfounded hot air.
The quotes can not be refuted, so a dismissal of the site that carried the quote is all the poor boy has left.
Poor cwacko.
 
such crap from Clinton on Libya..at least 30,000 died between 2011-2014.
It was our war - we made it ours by intervention the same as we did in Iraq, and to a much lessor (but significant) amount in Syria.

There was no impending "humanitarian crisis in Bengazi either; Qaddafi offed safe passage to Egypt if the NTC insurrectionists laid down their gun.

, changing from a dictator who has hollowed out your country to something resembling a functioning state, and even hopefully more of a democratic one, doesn't happen overnight.
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we're over 5 years now -Libya was functional and an allie on the global war on terror under Qaddafi' now it's infested with ISIS
 
christiefan915 said:
Here's what she said verbatim. Where's the lie by Media Matters?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Don't you support knocking off Assad, Bashar Assad?

HILLARY CLINTON: I think given the bloodshed he has spilled, that would be a good outcome, but Americans aren't going to do it. That's not us doing it. In Libya, you had a dictator who had American blood on his hands. Remember, Reagan tried to knock him off, as you recall, because you were working in the Congress -- missed, when he tried. When he said that he was going to track down his people and murder them, the Europeans and the Arabs came to us and said, "You've got to help us."

Because what they feared is what we see in Syria. What they feared was an out-of-control civil war on their shores. Right across the Mediterranean. Right next to Egypt. Right next to the rest of the Middle East. Remember, we had those countries helping us in Afghanistan, in our very big coalition. Now, when somebody that has helped you -- their people have died, they have expended their treasure to help us -- come and say, "This is personal to us, we in Europe, we in the Middle East," is the United States supposed to say, "you know what, that's not our problem?" And they can say to us, "yeah, Afghanistan wasn't our problem either." But that's not the way you work with allies and the way you build coalitions. So what did we do there? We provided our unique abilities and they ran most of the air missions. They were really very much involved in helping to cordon off Libya, and in eventually defeating Gadhafi and his forces.

Now, is Libya perfect? It isn't. But did they have two elections that were free and fair where they voted for moderates? Yes, they did. So, changing from a dictator who has hollowed out your country to something resembling a functioning state, and even hopefully more of a democratic one, doesn't happen overnight. And we've got to continue to support the Libyan people -- to give them a chance -- because otherwise, you see what's happened in Syria, with the consequences of millions of people flooding out of Syria with more than 250,000 people killed, with terrorist groups like ISIS taking up a huge swath of territory, as big as some of the states in that area. So yes, Libya was a different kind of calculation. And we didn't lose a single person. We didn't have a problem in supporting our European and Arab allies in working with NATO. And now we've got to support the Libyan people.

[MSNBC, MSNBC Town Hall, 3/14/16]
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and yet, still a lie.......but, what difference does it make now?.......
 
christiefan915 said:
You can continue to pretend we were talking about Benghazi instead of the 2011 intervention but we all know you're being disingenuous.
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....."WE" weren't talking at all.......the lying bitch running for the Democratic nomination was talking.......and she was talking about Libya......nobody said "excluding the four members of your State Department that were massacred because some Muslims didn't like a movie, did anyone die in Libya?".......last time I checked, Benghazi was in Libya.....you're the one pretending that no one died in Libya......DOES IT REALLY MATTER TO YOU, CHRISPIE?......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
....."WE" weren't talking at all.......the lying bitch running for the Democratic nomination was talking.......and she was talking about Libya......nobody said "excluding the four members of your State Department that were massacred because some Muslims didn't like a movie, did anyone die in Libya?".......last time I checked, Benghazi was in Libya.....you're the one pretending that no one died in Libya......DOES IT REALLY MATTER TO YOU, CHRISPIE?......
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You hang on tight to that misappropriated quote. It's all you got'
 
Pretending the 2011 Intervention ( read regime change/assassination) wasn't fatal for Libyans and Libya as a state is disgusting.
 
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