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I dont care about the rockets. i dont care. i want to die actually if i can. >> richard, as i watch your reporting over the last 12 days you cant help but wonder what well be talking about 12 days from now or a week from now will we be talking about the rebels being armed? will we be talking about negotiations for gadhafi to step down because there have been so many defections? its just impossible to know right now obviously. >> yeah. i think one of the things we havent been talking about enough...

Down in the streets and tell the people of benghazi that they were not worth saving. but this doesnt mean its necessarily in the united states interest. and to discuss this is retired four star general barry mccaffery who always tells it like it is. a good friend. thank you for staying up, general mccaffery. will you address this question? was this a good idea? i know theres a lot of debate about the weeds here. how the nato role, u.s. role, but should the u.s. be involved militarily in libya? t...

>> this is the town of ajdabiya about a hundred miles on the outskirts of benghazi. when rebels drove gadhafis forces out of this town last weekend with significant help from western air strikes there was significant excitement. rebels came in firing guns in the air and people were cheering. the situation has now changed completely. gadhafis forces have rurd al j he outirts of this town and there is a feeling of uncertainty here. the people have almost all left. theyre not taking their chances...

Between when the president was saying he had this strategic objective of getting gadhafi out but a military objective of helping benghazi. what does that mean? is there -- it seems you either have one, you should have one purpose, one goal. or am i mistaken here? >> i think its been an astonishing level of confusion on this. the air cap gave almost nothing to protect libyan civilians. neither in misratah nor benghazi. what you needed to do was strike their military center of gravity, tanks, arti...

Intelligence and hes talking. the rebel front line right now is on the outskirts of braga and it was heading in that direction that we saw this big convoy of weapons -- rocket launchers, several hundred men going out to fight. it was the biggest convoy weve seen, the first time the rebels have moved militarily. and they seem like they want to fight gadhafis troops. a lot different than just getting in their cars, driving in reverse, and coming back practically to benghazi where we are now. >> al...

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Days. in the beginning there was a mission to save benghazi. now the submission seems to be helping the rebels but not with the same amount of force and the rebels are recognizing this and stepping up and saying theyre going to have to take this fight on themselves. the rebels today on gadhafis troops without western air support. the rebels fight with mortar and rockets. they lack experience. rebels load a rocket, it doesnt go off. after adjusting it, the rocket eventually fires. but its way off...

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