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Of osama bin laden, potentially moammar gadhafi, u.s. troops out of iraq, you start a pull down in afghanistan. as politico put it, the war time president may be a successful one. this is good news for him. a lot of bad news started around the time of the libya operation, the gas ond oil prices started to increase. these five months have been very difficult. >> libya complicated for him at the start, conservative republicans and liberal democrats opposed to it. lets talk about the republican fie...

Carl cameron has more. >> reporter: congress defeated what would have allowed the libya operation for a year. it was laced with bipartisan frustration at the commanderrer in chief. >> the president has yet to explain what american interest are at stake. what outcomes he hopes to achieve. >> more an a third of democrats join all but eight republicans to deny authorization. antiwar liberals accuse the commander in chief of violating the constitution four months ago when the airstrike op libya bega...

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The u.s. role in that nato campaign. chief political correspondent carl cameron has more. >> reporter: congress defeated what would have allowed the libya operation for a year. it was laced with bipartisan frustration at the commanderrer in chief. >> the president has yet to explain what american interest are at stake. what outcomes he hopes to achieve. > more an a third of democrats join all but eight republicans to deny authorization. antiwar liberals accuse the commander in chief of violating...

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Be achieved with air power to stop fighting in a city. >> reporter: for now, nato insists that the air strikes are destroying much of gadhafis ability to launch attacks and showed combat video to make the case. >> over the last few days, our aircraft destroyed many ammunition bunkers, tanks, defense radars, rocket launches, and utter military equipment. >> reporter: on monday, nearly 30 targets were destroyed around misrata. nato sources telling cnn that days they struck sites that ga gave tea w...

Enforce a no-fly zone over the country. libyan rebels are advancing westward and have taken control of two key cities. gadhafi forces retreated from ras lanuf and rebel fighters have seized the key oil town of brega. meanwhile, nato okayed a man today to take over responsibility for the libya operation. that will happen in two or three days and then the current situation in britain and france can stand down. youre hearing a lot about the actions of the libyan rebel, like where theyre moving and ...

Weve been extremely careful in this military effort. >> nato approved a plan to take over responsibility for the libya operation. that will happen in two or three days, then the current coalition led by the u.s., britain and france can stand down. now we want to go back to cnns nic robertson joining us from tripoli where that dramatic event unfolded yesterday in the hot hotel. were hearing the woman has been released. do we know if this is true? >> reporter: well, government officials say she ha...

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