president did talk to members of congress before he blasted off for brazil and that it s very important to keep them on board with operation odyssey dawn which is the campaign that senate foreign relations committee chairman democrat john kerry says is not about installing a new regime. this is a very limited operation that is geared to save lives, and it was specifically targeted on a humanitarian basis. it is not geared to try to get rid of qaddafi. he has not been targeted. that is not what is happening here. reporter: but we have heard president obama say it s important to get rid of qaddafi, and independent senator joe leibman said he should stick to that or else. once the president of the united states says as president obama did that qaddafi must go, if we don t work with our allies to make sure qaddafi does go, america s credibility and prestige suffers all over the world. reporter: so lawmaker from
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britain and some of the others involved in the separation saying how dare you intervene in our internal situation here and you are going to regret it. that stands in huge contrast to the letter to president obama. he is capable of both. he knows is he capable through his networks in europe of trying to carry out terrorist attacks still. that s the concern for the europeans. he doesn t have those kinds of networks in the united states. but, remember, prior to 9/11, this is the man who killed more americans in an airplane than any other middle eastern leader. this guy is a killer and we often kind of say oh, he is crazy he is crazy like a fox. no one stays in power in the middle east without being very diabolical and determined. that s muammar qaddafi. he has a split personality.
president obama is going to be faced with a choice of admitting failure or putting u.s. troops on the ground. whatever comes about, this is a u.s.-led, u.s.-powered, u.s.-enabled intervention in the muslim world. there was a piece in the washington post this morning that argued while this has an international, almost an arab face to it. that s true as long as you assume every muslim on earth is stupid. they no one on earth has the power and capability to do this except the united states. we may fool ourselves by saying the qataris and the british are in the lead. the reality is that the united states invaded and will try to destroy a government of a muslim land with a lot of oil. okay. they re painting it, at least the administration, that this is not about taking out qaddafi, it s about protecting civilians and stopping his strikes against
missouri flew to an air field in an attempt to destroy qaddafi s air force. not clear if the no-fly zone is in effect. a pentagon official tells fox that the indications are that the strikes were effective and that the no-fly zone is essentially in place though qaddafi does still have some air defense capability left. later on though, a senior defense official seemed to throw a bit of cold water on that say would he go don t have the capability yet to fully enforce a no-fly zone throughout the entire country about the size of alaska. according to that official qaddafi s forces have not felony in flown in two days remember the from qaddafi you would remain my son and i would still love you. judith miller has interviewed qaddafi many times maybe she could give us insight into what games may be playing now. thanks for your time today. nice to be here. what do you make of that letter. he goes on to say, qaddafi does, basically i m fighting al qaeda. when you do the same thing if