it s difficult to strategize about the entire region. every country in the middle east poses its own challenges, has its own dynamics, i guarantee you there s nobody in the state of israel that would like to see moammar gadhafi stay in office for another minute much less another day. you have a great intelligence service. any indication he s actually trying to plot an exit strategy, phone calls from loyalists around to friends in the arab world, what should i do? any evidence he s doing anything but be defiant? not that we would know of but we would not regret his passing the scene of the middle east. in egypt again, we would welcome the emergence of a democracy and said we ve been the only democracy in the middle east and we re proud of it but would be happier if we are surrounded by democracies if they re committed to maintaining the peace. one more question about libya. there are many people who worry if we get stalemate and the country is essentially partitioned and picks u
to get out to the stores for the first time in seven days so it does appear there are some visible changes in a way that gets forces on the ground here. some some changes city by city but on the big question about whether the regime is rattled, whether gadhafi is looking for an exit strategy. he sounded defiant saying i m not afraid of your rockets and i will be here to fight. reporter: that s the theme that has begun and stuck with and we keep hearing and it s the public face of the regime here, as well. it s what senior officials will tell us in front of the camera but i have had other conversations with senior officials here. deputy minister here told me he believes if they were a viable cease-fire on both sides and let s not forget the government called a cease-fire and it hasn t held and it has continued to attack in misrata and places like that, so they ve got a bad track record but said if both sides agree to cease-fire there would be a way for the
alan, you know, when you look at quotes from then candidate, obama, he talked about how preventing a potential genocide in iraq is not a good enough reason to keep u.s. forces there and that sounds like the reason we re in libya. i m troubled by it. this is more comparable to the kosovo mission, when there was ethnic cleansing going on but, i believe the president needs to consult more with congress and i m upset that that has not happened and i don t know what the end game is and the powell doctrine, what is the exit strategy, how much money are we spending? why are we not asking about talking about budgets and fighting about teachers pay in wisconsin? we also are being told our mission, our leading will end by the end of the week and i hope that is the case and how do we know when we re done and what is exactly the end game here? we needed to know that. martha: and that is what we re waiting to find out and it is interesting, conservatives and liberals are divided on whether o
qaddafi. some say it s to protect the civilians. let me ask you about that. so president obama said we re on a humanitarian mission but is that consistent with air strikes? can you deliver both messages in the middle east? you probably can t. and you can t protect the civilians if you don t get rid of qaddafi because if qaddafi starts stops hitting his civilians and goes for a cease-fire, you quiet down. he s in power, he ll just quietly kill them all. and then finally, the concept is have an exit strategy. well, we clearly don t have anything approaching that. except we re going to leave we re going to turn it over in four days. that s the exit strategy. yeah. so who is going to take over? if qaddafi is in power, how are you going to leave? once qaddafi is toppled from power, as he goes into an iraqi insurgency, how are you going to leave? how are you doing to leave if you ve never gone in?
friday, friday you are ruining a great song. you are i can making it better. if qaddafi stays in power, won t he consider to do bad things? the plan is we hope by bombing him he will change his ways. it is lope hope and change. and yes we can, andy. the re-election campaign should be hope and bombs. then he will lose the nobel peace prize for sure. greg, you said the entrance strategy has to be the exit strategy. i would argue with you if thatent in anything. i m basically saying you get in and do your business and leave. they are both the same. ind could of like when i go shopping. i was hoping bill would keep quiet after you said that. 9th circuit says lives are protected. you said, quote, this week the appeals court struck down the valor act that made it impossible to lie about military decorations.