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Former national intelligence director under president george w. bush. he joins us tonight from naples, florida, ambassador, welcome. >> thank you. >> look, you've heard the opening segment here. don't we need a policy clearly articulated that says our policy is regime change and then a military strategy? >> well, i think what the president is trying to do is make a distinction between the immediate short-term purpose of our military action which is humanitarian, which is protect the civilians and the longer political context, longer-term political context which is that mr. gadhafi must go and ...

Part. >> i don't -- no, i don't. first of all it was very hard to see what was going to come and i watched your previous piece. nobody saw what was coming in the middle east. and we can't really plan until we know who we're planning with. i think the first thing we need to do with the transition government, the interim government, whatever comes in before the next election is to sit down and really begin a dialogue with them and we know most of the players. so we're not starting if a cold start and we're going to have to rebuild this and find out where we go next. i think one of the things tha...

I got an interview to try to answer that. >> we have a lot to talk about but we begin in libya where five days into the campaign and coalition forces control the skies. civil war rages on the ground. yet president obama still hasn't answered the most basic question about america's military operations, what is our mission? because there are at least two totally different statements coming out of the white house. let's first listen to the president. >> colonel gadhafi needs to step down from power and leave. >> i also have stated that it is u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go. moammar gadhafi h...