McCain Supported Giving Military Aid to Gaddafi
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Huffington Post
March 25, 2011
During his 2010 reelection campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) frequently made great sport of his rival, J.D. Hayworth, for Hayworth?s tendency to misstate basic facts about American military history. But now, McCain is in full-on ?we are all Benghazians? mode, and on this morning?s edition of CBS?s ?The Early Show,? McCain made a big deal about how Muammar Gaddafi has ?American blood on his hands.? But over at Salon?s War Room, Justin Elliott finds that there?s ample opportunity for Hayworth to claw back a little bit of his lost pride.
What McCain is apparently forgetting is that, apart from the past few weeks, the last decade has been a period of rapprochement between the United States and Libya. It started with President Bush announcing in 2003 that Gadhafi had agreed to give up his ?weapons of mass destruction? programs. In 2006 Bush removed Libya from the official list of state sponsors of terrorism. In September 2008 Condoleezza Rice traveled to Libya to have talks with Gadhafi. And just a few days before the 2008 presidential election, Bush signed a settlement under which Libya compensated families of victims of Lockerbie and other 80s-era attacks.
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-->Jason Linkins
Huffington Post
March 25, 2011
During his 2010 reelection campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) frequently made great sport of his rival, J.D. Hayworth, for Hayworth?s tendency to misstate basic facts about American military history. But now, McCain is in full-on ?we are all Benghazians? mode, and on this morning?s edition of CBS?s ?The Early Show,? McCain made a big deal about how Muammar Gaddafi has ?American blood on his hands.? But over at Salon?s War Room, Justin Elliott finds that there?s ample opportunity for Hayworth to claw back a little bit of his lost pride.
What McCain is apparently forgetting is that, apart from the past few weeks, the last decade has been a period of rapprochement between the United States and Libya. It started with President Bush announcing in 2003 that Gadhafi had agreed to give up his ?weapons of mass destruction? programs. In 2006 Bush removed Libya from the official list of state sponsors of terrorism. In September 2008 Condoleezza Rice traveled to Libya to have talks with Gadhafi. And just a few days before the 2008 presidential election, Bush signed a settlement under which Libya compensated families of victims of Lockerbie and other 80s-era attacks.
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