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Re: Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait...
Good points, Mr. Speaker.. though I'd be curious how Newt responds to his own questions
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Newt Gingrich blasted the decision to attack Libya Sunday afternoon as “opportunistic amateurism without planning or professionalism.”
“It is impossible to make sense of the standard for intervention in Libya except opportunism and news media publicity,” Gingrich said in a statement to POLITICO, his first public comments since President Barack Obama gave the go-ahead order on Saturday.
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Iran and North Korea pose “vastly bigger threats” to American national interests, he argued. There are other countries in Africa where strongmen brutalize civilians, including Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
“Mugabe has killed more people, the Sudanese dictatorship has killed more people, there are a lot of bad dictators doing bad things,” Gingrich said.
The former House speaker, and all-but-declared Republican presidential candidate, raised four questions that he wants answers to:
• “What is the Obama standard [for deciding to intervene]?”
• “What is success?”
• “What are we prepared to do to achieve that success?”
• “What supplemental is the president prepared to ask for to pay for all this?”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz1HMj6RqUq
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