military attacks on qaddafi s forces had nothing to do with regime change, no, no. regime change was going to be handled by a range of other measures that he said were in place to try to bring him down that the only purpose of these attacks is to prevent qaddafi from bringing about some terrible humanitarian calamity with savage attacks on the rebels around benghazi which he had threatened to do. that was the catalyst for the u.n. action and so on. so that s where he says we are. we have two distinct parts. bill: he has to do that for the u.n., i guess. it s all a matter of bs. it s just bs. it s my job to cut through it? i agree with you, bill. i would say this about it the policy is said to have two distinct parts that are apparently unconnected. in other words, they don t do here which means a fair description of the policy is incoherent. bill: all right. you support it though, right? you support going after this guy. brit: i don t have a vote on this. i m just an observer.
here is andrea mitchell, nbc. the problem the president has in projecting american values he first of all believes in multilateral policy. on that score he has really accomplished that. this was pretty remarkable bringing the coalition together and getting the arab league. bill: remarkable. am i a genius or what. bill: do you want genius. no, oracle is fine. bill: that s the spin. as kucinich said and i will get to him in a minute, unlike president bush and i thank karl rove again for correcting me on that, he didn t go to congress to consult with them on, this barack obama, he just went to the u.n., basically, once they said okay, he did it. yeah. there are going to be some liberals who are against this because barack obama isn t liberal enough for them. ravel nader is-ralph nader is in that category. bill: michael moore.
bill: how about for afghanistan. same in 2001. bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? right. bill: i stand corrected. right. and, look, our view was he didn t need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was in the interest of the country to unify the country and get clarity. bill: no doubt about that. i m sorry i made that mistake. you had a good question though. i think i have a theory. my theory is that president obama let in essence his statements get ahead of the policy. they now have a european led effort at the united nations that got a resolution authorizing action it did not
bill: bernie is an oracle. here is andrea mitchell, nbc. the problem the president has in projecting american values he first of all believes in multilateral policy. on that score he has really accomplished that. this was pretty remarkable bringing the coalition together and getting the arab league. bill: remarkable. am i a genius or what. bill: do you want genius. no, oracle is fine. bill: that s the spin. as kucinich said and i will get to him in a minute, unlike president bush and i thank karl rove again for correcting me on that, he didn t go to congress to consult with them on, this barack obama, he just went to the u.n., basically, once they said okay, he did it. yeah. there are going to be some liberals who are against this because barack obama isn t liberal enough for them. ravel nader is-ralph nader is in that category.
bill: how about for afghanistan. same in 2001. bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? right. bill: i stand corrected. right. and, look, our view was he didn t need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was in the interest of the country to unify the country and get clarity. bill: no doubt about that. i m sorry i made that mistake. you had a good question though. i think i have a theory. my theory is that president obama let in essence his statements get ahead of the policy. they now have a european led effort at the united nations that got a resolution authorizing action it did not