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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:21 AM
To: H
Subject: Re: "H: Option: no-fly zone over Libya. David Owen proposes. Sid"
"Not much -- unconfirmed reports. Though helos firing seems more plausible."
On to War
It took three more weeks, but on March 17, 2011, Secretary Clinton got her wish for a "no-fly zone" approved by the UN Security Council, acting under the military authority of Chapter Seven of the UN Charter. The vote was ten in favor, zero against, and five abstentions.
The five abstentions were: Brazil, Russia, India, China and Germany; Russia and China, which as permanent members could have vetoed the motion, complained later that they were deceived as to the real purpose of the "no-fly zone," not realizing that it was a pretext for another "regime change," which involved slaughtering much of the Libyan army before driving Gaddafi from power.
When Gaddafi was captured in his home town of Sirte on Oct. 20, 2011, he was tortured with a knife, which was used to sodomize him. Then he was murdered. When Clinton was notified of Gaddafi's demise, she declared, "we came, we saw, he died" -- and clapped her hands in undisguised glee.
It turned out, however, that Gaddafi was right that many of his adversaries in the east were radical jihadists and terrorists, a truth that Clinton learned when U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. personnel were slain by attackers in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
Clinton's deception around the Libyan "no-fly zone" -- as a gateway to yet another brutal U.S.-backed "regime change" -- also helped poison U.S. relations with Russia and China, which balked at similar U.S. demands for a "safe zone" inside Syria, an idea that Clinton has advocated both as Secretary of State and as a presidential candidate.
In other words, Clinton is no more honest about big things than small, just as the Bible passage foretold, except now the fate of the world may hang in the balance.
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