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Gaddafi to be held accountable. those are sentiments, those are not military goals. i don't see how people who watched the president yesterday, who watched the president today can walk away and say, those are what american interests in libya are and what we want to accomplish and our plan. the president has failed to articulate the reason we're going to war and make no mistake, we're going to war even though several limitati limitations are put on-- >> in terms of though ground troops being on the ground according to the president. the united nations favoreded the resolution, no-fly zone in li...

Advice to stay off the desert road where there were fears that gaddafi's army would be massing. the last report from within the city limits, gaddafi troops may have retreated south of the city and we're hearing about the french fighter jets and other n.a.t.o. aircraft in the skies, giving the people here a lot of hope, jamie. >> jamie: we sure hope so. the situation is so fluid, as president-- or actually as hillary rodham clinton, secretary of state has said and the president as well, flew in is an understatement. be careful, rick, we'll check back with you, thank you. meanwhile, president ob...

And givers you an idea what things have been like in that country all that time and beforehand. 1981 when gaddafi laid claim to a huge chunk of gulf of sidra and the 6th fleet flew over the imagery line that gaddafi called the line of death and when challenged our navy ended up having to sink two of their ships and couple months after that, president reagan ordered powerful air strikes, very powerful against libya days after a bomb blast at labelle nightclub to berlin killed two american servicemen and a turkish woman. reagan said at the time we had irrefutable evidence that libya was behind t...

Know at that we're not using ground forces. and if they were, they would restructure in fear of shock and awe and we've taken that off the table without having to. in terms of what we can do the secretary is right. we have a lot of capabilities without putting troops. and one is we can collect as much information as we can about the disposition of libyan forces and have ways to channel that, particularly looking at libyans ready for attack and we have electronic warfare we can follow for the coalition partners, and gaddafi's forces on the ground. we can particularly help with anti-aircraft and...

Communitycation-wise. at the end of the day, gaddafi has to be more worried about who is going to oppose his forces straits on and he knows now that the u.s. is not. >> jamie: well, let's talk about the reports now that the u.s. is preparing missiles. what is your impression? >> well. >> jamie: what does that mean? that does not give pause to muammar gaddafi. >> absolutely it does, jamie, but those missiles will be prepared to go after the anti-aircraft sites he has. because that no-fly zone means that we have to dominate the air and we don't want our aircraft or our coalition aircraft flying ...