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I don't care about the rockets. i don't care. i want to die actually if i can. >> richard, as i watch your reporting over the last 12 days you can't help but wonder what we'll be talking about 12 days from now or a week from now will we be talking about the rebels being armed? will we be talking about negotiations for gadhafi to step down because there have been so many defections? it's just impossible to know right now obviously. >> yeah. i think one of the things we haven't been talking about enough that we'll probably be talking about more especially if this regime collapses is misratah. th...

Down in the streets and tell the people of benghazi that they were not worth saving. but this doesn't mean it's necessarily in the united states' interest. and to discuss this is retired four star general barry mccaffery who always tells it like it is. a good friend. thank you for staying up, general mccaffery. will you address this question? was this a good idea? i know there's a lot of debate about the weeds here. how the nato role, u.s. role, but should the u.s. be involved militarily in libya? that is really the question i want your perspective on, sir. >> well, i think, richard, it's enti...

>> this is the town of ajdabiya about a hundred miles on the outskirts of benghazi. when rebels drove gadhafi's forces out of this town last weekend with significant help from western air strikes there was significant excitement. rebels came in firing guns in the air and people were cheering. the situation has now changed completely. gadhafi's forces have rurd al j he outirts of this town and there is a feeling of uncertainty here. the people have almost all left. they're not taking their chances. they worry gadhafi could come back in and reoccupy this town. so almost everyone has moved to b...

Between when the president was saying he had this strategic objective of getting gadhafi out but a military objective of helping benghazi. what does that mean? is there -- it seems you either have one, you should have one purpose, one goal. or am i mistaken here? >> i think it's been an astonishing level of confusion on this. the air cap gave almost nothing to protect libyan civilians. neither in misratah nor benghazi. what you needed to do was strike their military center of gravity, tanks, artillery. but also his intelligence service. again, libyan armed forces are 10-1 advantage over the re...

Intelligence and he's talking. the rebel front line right now is on the outskirts of braga and it was heading in that direction that we saw this big convoy of weapons -- rocket launchers, several hundred men going out to fight. it was the biggest convoy we've seen, the first time the rebels have moved militarily. and they seem like they want to fight gadhafi's troops. a lot different than just getting in their cars, driving in reverse, and coming back practically to benghazi where we are now. >> all right. thank you so much. we've got more now on that sharp criticism of the president's handlin...