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Don't start my on killing your own people. if that's the new standard, there's about a dozen places we need to be. i happen on the rebels' side, but i have another problem -- who are the rebels? >> you have a lot of questions, congresswoman. they are fair questions. >> i was on conference call with democrats on sunday, our intelligence people said they don't have any intelligence from libya. soç i -- like the american the say please come home and tell us the reasons and how you're going to get out of there. >> congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, thank you for joining us. >> always a pleasur...

That he took on iraq and afghanistan, i think he would agree. >> by congresswoman, i've got to put you on the spot here. would you have liked the approach of either we do nothing or the approach of hey, you know what? we go in with ground troops, help the rebels, get gadhafi out? >> i certainly don't want to see us open a third war in the middle east, where at this time we could leave the meet, or at least libya, more unstable that we found it. this is a society of tribes. all gadhafi did was hold them together. is this a civil war or an eye jepgs-type revolution? >> you wouldn't have gone in?...

And that same year, john thune warmed that tom daschle's words, embolden enemy, andç dick chen said if the senate passed a resolution against the iraq plan, it would be, quote, descriptal from the standpoint of the troops. except now that it's a democratic president, i guess it's okay to embolden the enemy a wit by questioning our commander in chief in times of war. right, sarah palin? >> i won't criticize his foreign policy, but to answer your question, certainly there would have been more decisiveness, lest dithering more decisiveness. >> how can she say that about the commander in chief? ...

Trying to undermine, but continue with a political committee meeting in paris that would govern the war. now, the turks are even farther out of box. >> they're for, just not for a nato operation. >> right, which is the only serious command and control capability other than u.s. unilateral, which is what we've down up to now. we have a four-star u.s. army general as the strategic commander and a three-start u.s. admiral as the on-scene tactical commander, so this is a u.s. operation so far. >> steve, let me go to you. one school of thought is with general mccfery states and it's a fair point if...

Meanwhile, the international coalition has suffered its first setback, an american fighter jet crashed overnight in the country's rebel-controlled east. according to the u.s. military, the war plane went down late monday after an equipment malfunction. both crew members safetily ejected from the aircraft, which is very good news. now, ever since this operation began, there have been many questions and we've been among those asking them. is president obama doing the same thing president bush did by not seeking authorization for the war? is this a split the baby approach that cannot work? did we...