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Libyan ambassador because he resigned in protest of qaddafi's barbaric treatment of his own people. thank you. how do you feel tonight? >> well, imfeel happy after frustration for a few weeks. i'm very happy to see real action taken against the regime. and i'm hopeful that the mission will end soon and protection of the civilians two things. protect them from the air strikes and protect them from qaddafi. as far as qaddafi is there he is a serious danger for the civilians. >> geraldo: are you saying that the limited objective of preventing qaddafi air strikes and protecting the libyan civilian...

The civilians -- qaddafi must go. we cannot live with qaddafi any more. 42 years is more than enough. >> geraldo: do you approve of then, mr. ambassador, american nato and or other arab forces on the ground in libya? foreigners coming to invade your country to get rid of the dictator? >> they are not invading our country actually. we asked them to come to help us. so you approve of it, you want us to move in there with boots on the ground despite the fact that the president is saying -- >> well, the boots on the ground maybe it would be a little bit of a problem because i think what the libyan...

Other nations, italy are now involved, canada, gives us the kind of cover we did not have in 2003 against saddam hussein? >> well, i think we did have cover. let me ask you this, geraldo, who is in charge? >> geraldo: that is an excellent question. i think we are and i think that we will continue to be even if we very publicly give over command to some nonamerican command. >> that is what worries me. you can't run this kind of operation politically or militarily by committee and the logical order of battle here is for the united states to be in command. that does not seem to be what the presid...

Jamming devices and use their tomahawks to eliminate the communication nodes as well as the air defense system. it is ironic that it is the same air defense issues tell, the sa 5, the soviet era air defense system that saddam hussein had exactly 8 years ago when coalition forces invaded iraq. geraldo? >> geraldo: jen, i will speak to you later. exactly 8 years ago, folks. the bitter irony and the same air defense system we faced when we set out with our shock and awe campaign. a superb panel and they willle be with us most of the next two hours. before i introduce them i want to go state strai...

Meetings have been taking place at the united nations with you the vote, let's look back on the vote. the germans did not side with us. that is a concern to myself and many of my colleagues. i don't like the fact that the saudis are very quiet. i also do not like that the president is in brazil right now. brazil sits on the security council and the brazilians abstained from voting with us to support these actions. so, there is a lot of questions out there. and to top it all off, i think republicans in general do not like one foot in and one out. at the same time we are launching tomahawk missi...