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Former u.s. state department official. when do you think we should have gone in? ambassador bolton making the point that he wished we would have had the no fly zone a month ago. >> a lot happened in the month. the rebels had the initiative to one where we are are defending the stronghold. the president has been very unclear and only increasingly so lately. i think he said we should protect the civilian population. he wants qaddafi to be held to account. those are more sentiments than an actual strategy for victory and hasn't taken the time to ex-be plain the concept of victory and the interest...

Gets knocked out? >> i don't understand the logic behind where we are headed and how we got to this point because it just seem there's has been a lot of confusion like i was saying earlier. one thing i am concerned about here, rumor leaking out of the meeting in paris is that hillary clinton was very quiet and the french and british took the lead and hillary clinton stayed quiet. now, i don't know if that is true. that is just rumor and leaking out from diplomats all over the world on the wire. >> geraldo: i heard that she was the one that urged the president to get tough on qaddafi and that w...

Libyan government? >> libyan controlled tv is reporting that there are mass casualties from the u.s. cruz missile attacks. they say their hospitals are filling up with civilians killed by the attacks and yet there has been no proof, video or otherwise and no sound sirens here on the ground in the capital of tripoli. i think it is just one more statement that you really have to take from a regime which has told false statement after false statement including shooting down a french plane and shooting down a nato plane. i don't think any one really buys it. >> geraldo: steve, i want you to stand ...

>> geraldo: greg palkot in japan. thank you, greg. we will check back with japan in our second hour. go back now to the crisis at hand. although the president is obviously -- has obviously been briefed hour by hour on the situation in libya. the first family did spend the day in brazil where the president is talking economics. >> several key points of emphasis. limited military action involving an international coalition and reiterated that he is not planning to send in u.s. ground troops. during the first day of his trip to latin america, aides emphasized the commander in chief was briefed se...

General mcinerney, comeman nunez made the point if you are not going to send ground troops in why telegraph it. are you concerned about that? >> yes, i am, geraldo. and he brought up what are the objectives. we haven't unified the country we hind this and we know the problems can happen even when you have a unified country behind it. so i think the congressman is bringing up some very important issues. we also have the issue of where are the arab league countries. is it just qatar and the uae? why isn't egypt and saudi arabia heavily involved in this? if we don't have a very strong arab presen...