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Decision-making process to the point where moammar gadhafi, if we really do want to get rid of him, as the president said, gadhafi must go, that's a much tougher proposition than a few weeks ago. >> another part of john boehner's statement that i don't have in front of me, he agreed with the humanitarian effort and the suffering in libya must be stopped. so this notion of humanitarian military intervention seems to be half accepted, but people just don't seem to know exactly how to define what qualifies for that intervention and what doesn't. >> well, that's right. and remember, back in the da...

Eliminating the -- his ability to kill his own people, as well as support -- >> the mission can be accomplished and gadhafi can remain in power? >> that's potentially one outcome. >> hoping to counter the criticism the united states has taken too large a roll in the conflict, president obama told reporters in chile today that allied forces will transfer command to nato in the coming days. >> how quickly this transfer takes place will be determined by the recommendations of our commanding officers, that the mission has been completed, the first phase of the mission has been completed. but let m...

The larger goal of having gentleman coff gadhafi's forces leave the ground is not at all near. >> but elizabeth, of course -- that's obviously a problem. you know, elizabeth, the president said several weeks ago that gadhafi must go. if gadhafi does not, quote, go, then we may be looking at a divided libya where western libya as the capitol of tripoli where gadhafi is, he sells his oil to russia and china and launches terror attacks against the united states. has the white house decided now that we've engaged him that he must be taken out? >> well, you heard the president yesterday say that th...

About it. >> he waited too long, there is no doubt in my mind about it, but now it is what it is, and we need now to support him and the efforts that our military are going to make. i regret that it didn't -- we didn't act much more quickly, and we could have. >> there is no way barack obama is more trigger happy than john mccain. he didn't do it fast enough. mccain would have gone faster into libya. >> that's easy to say in hindsight. if you aim for the king, you got to get him in the same way. that's what they were doing, waiting for the arab league to give regional cover and sanction for wh...

Objectives are really unclear. >> and the most bitter republican presidential campaign losers attack the president. >> less dithering, more decisiveness. >> never seen a worse case of decision making. >> and finding a republican that almost conjured up the courage to say he is running for president. >> i am announcing formation of an exploratory committee for running for the president of the united states. it is day three of operation dawn. the mission to enforce a un sanctioned no-fly zone over libya and protect citizens from attacks by moammar gadhafi. since saturday, ships have fired over...