Scott Brown blasts Dems’ checkup - BostonHerald.com

This is how we battle in the arena of ideas.......

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown — an upstart Blue State Republican in the cross hairs of national Democrats — is lashing out at the party’s opposition researchers, accusing them of prying into his family’s private health insurance records, and demanding that they stop fighting dirty."

Sensitivity Training? Female U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan ‘Encouraged’ to Wear Hijab | The Blaze

OK...sorry...I have a REAL problem with this...it seems everywhere we look we are being "encouraged" to be Muslim sensitive....STOP!

Female U.S. soldiers are being “encouraged” to wear headscarves in Afghanistan in an effort to get closer to the locals, according to The Daily Caller.

Major Kyndra Rotunda, the executive director of the Military Law and Policy Institute, says that being “encouraged” to do something in the military is tantamount to being “ordered” to do it, putting the servicewomen in a touchy situation."

Now the claim in GOP wants to murder children...

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM....we're all gonna die!

During testimony delivered before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Ops subcommittee Wednesday, Shah told federal lawmakers that Republicans’ budget bill would kill at least 70,0000 children. Not coincidentally, Shah is depending on full funding to continue the administration’s “Feed the Future” global aid campaign."

Two Beheaded: Florida Koran Burning Triggers Massacre at UN Office in Afghanistan | The Blaze

However....this is a religion of Peace......

Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure U.S. pastor killed up to 20 UN staff, beheading two foreigners, when they overran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst-ever attack on the UN in Afghanistan."

War Loving Ed Schultz Confronted By Anti-War Writer | WRKO.com

It's great to hear the antiwar left tear into people like Ed Schultz, liberals who are supportive of an aggressive US president because Libya is a Democrat's war. Schultz tries to tell Jeremy Scahill of The Nation that the key is President Obama went to the UN for authorization, but Scahill points out huge inconsistencies in this argument."

American Thinker Blog: Bitter irony of socialized medicine

The government simply cannot do this. This isn't their job. This is not what the Founders intended...welcome to the future of Obamacare....

A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation - at her own hospital.

Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.

But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery."

American Thinker: The Golden Anniversary of a Bad Amendment

The Constitution, despite what leftists think, has always been able to 'grow' without the arrogation of ultimate power by the Supreme Court. Article V provides two ways to amend the Constitution. Amending the Constitution requires a very strong political consensus and as a consequence the Constitution has only been amended twenty-seven times."

American Thinker: What a Difference a War Can Make

Hypocrisy, thy name is....Barry......

How times have changed! The United States isn't the imperialistic, blood-for-oil war machine that it was just a few years ago. We've shed the 'I ride alone' image and become acceptable in the world community. Every charge levied against the United States following the Iraq invasion is yesterday's news and America can again wage a just war. All we needed was a change of party at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."

Ann Coulter Brings Conservative Rebuttal to University of Wyoming | CNSnews.com

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter shrugged off a few hecklers and took aim at liberals and President Barack Obama during her University of Wyoming speech, viewed by some a response to the controversial appearance at the school last year by a former 1960s radical."

Investigations Find ‘Unprecedented’ Political Review of FOIA Requests by Homeland Security Department | CNSnews.com

Washington (CNSNews.com) – A political review of open records requests smacks of “Nixonian” tactics by the Department of Homeland Security, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Thursday."

NYT: Fannie, Freddie executives earned millions - Business - U.S. business - The New York Times - msnbc.com

Regulators have approved generous executive compensation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-backed mortgage finance giants, with little scrutiny or analysis, according to a report published Thursday by the inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency."

Stephen Moore: We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers - WSJ.com

We have become a Nation with a horrible sense of entitlement...and that will be our un-doing. I'm in manufacturing, and every day I feel our industry under assault. As though WE are the enemy.

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government."

Barack Obama: Losing $84 billion big success - Washington Times

Barack Obama has some 'splaining to do about taxpayers' profitable 'investment' in General Motors. It turns out the president is imagining things.

Though Democrats tout the auto bailout as a success, recent reports illustrate the taxpayer cost of the GM auto bailout was substantially larger than the Obama administration and a Congressional Oversight report has owned up to."

Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Rate at 10.0% in March

However, When GWB was at 5.5% - it was too high......

Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, was 10.0% in March -- down from 10.2% in mid-March and 10.3% at the end of February, but above the 9.8% at the end of January. U.S. unemployment was 10.4% at the end of March a year ago."

Problem: Census worker won't take 'no' for answer - chicagotribune.com

But they're not too keen on the American Community Survey, a more in-depth, ongoing questionnaire the Census Bureau conducts to compile information on area demographics, consumer patterns and economic issues.

In particular, the Scotts did not want to answer questions they found too personal, such as inquiries about their income, when they left for work and their health."

American Thinker Blog: Bengladesh: Fourteen Year Old Girl Raped, Charged With Adultery, and Lashed to Death

A tragic example of Sharia perversity from Bangladesh provides gruesome context to the previous blog on the alleged rape victim in Libya, and her ominous predicament.

Below are the salient, if repugnant details, reported by CNN."

Breitbart.tv - Tim Pawlenty: Cap-And-Trade Support Was ‘A Mistake’

If he supported this in ANY form....he'll NEVER get my vote - admitting "Mistake" or not.......talk about an economy killing control grab in ANY form!

Tim Pawlenty: Cap-And-Trade Support Was ‘A Mistake’"

Breitbart.tv - Barney Frank: Bachmann ‘Cuckoo’, Tea Party Doesn’t Understand Constitution

Wonder if he carries the constitution in his back pocket as we do...better yet, wonder if he's ever read it!

Barney Frank: Bachmann ‘Cuckoo’, Tea Party Doesn’t Understand Constitution"

The News Tribune (Lite) - Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter

More Global Warming...............

A drought that loomed over some of California's most fertile farmland officially ended Wednesday after a winter of relentless mountain storms that piled snow up to three stories high and could keep some ski resorts open until the Fourth of July.

More than 61 feet of snow has fallen in the Sierra Nevada high country so far this season, second only to 1950-51, when 65 feet fell, according to records kept by the California Department of Transportation. And more snow is possible in April, raising the prospect of an all-time record."

Freshmen take aim at Harry Reid - Marin Cogan and Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

Freshmen House members are taking a hard line against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the politics of passing a temporary spending bill—with one freshman vowing not to settle for a “split the baby strategy” on spending cuts."

U.S. support order, defection could buoy Libya rebels - Yahoo! News

Libyan rebels massed for a counter-attack against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the east on Thursday, both buoyed by and wary of news of covert U.S. support and his foreign minister's defection.

'We are beginning to see the Gaddafi regime crumble,' rebel spokesman Mustafa Gheriani said in the eastern town of Benghazi, while stopping short of welcoming fugitive foreign minister Moussa Koussa, a former spy chief, into the rebel fold."

Shh! Obama gets anti-secrecy award | POLITICO 44

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool."

Obama in 2002: Toppling Brutal Dictator a ‘Dumb War’ | CNSnews.com

Hypocrisy, thy name is Barry....................

President Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator in 2002, said that using military force to topple a murderous dictator amounted to a “dumb war” and should be opposed."

In Libya Interview, Sawyer Asks Obama About Praying Like Lincoln and 'How Much Do You Think Kentucky Will Win By?'

It's OFFICIAL....my hair is ablaze.....................AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

The broadcast evening news anchors all got ten minutes with President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon in New York City to press him about contradictions in his Libya policy, ceding authority for foreign entities and how he’s a hypocrite after his criticism of President Bush for unilateral actions and not getting congressional approval, but instead they simply prodded him to provide arms to the rebels and pushed him to take action in Syria."

Brokaw Feels for Obama: No President in 'My Adult Lifetime' Has Had to Face So Many Problems

What?! What?!.......What - 9/11 doesn't count? Or the Tsunami in Indonesia, Two Shooting Wars, Katrina, Economy meltdown.....Oh Hell, if these supposed "Professionals" say it only the way they want - does that make the truth disappear?

Tom Brokaw appeared on Tuesday's Today show to offer his analysis of Barack Obama's Libya policy, as well as his sympathy for a president who has experienced more 'unexpected circumstances' than any Oval Office occupant has seen in his 'adult lifetime.' Today co-host Matt Lauer prompted the former NBC Nightly News anchor to tell the audience what he told him right before going on air - that he couldn't 'recall a time where a president has faced a confluence of events, like the confluence of events taking place right now.'"

The American Spectator : My 2011 MLB Predictions

He was pretty darn close last year - personally like his top pick!

One of my favorite things about baseball is predicting what will happen in the season to come. I spend a great deal of my time in the off-season thinking about next year. In 2010, my predictions were a mixed bag. I thought the Seattle Mariners would win their first World Series."

The American Spectator : Wrecking a Nation

Here's how the economic and political system of a nation is destroyed.

Every price increase of just a dime per gallon of gasoline at the pump extracts approximately $5 billion from the pockets of U.S. consumers over the course of a year."

Obama Cuts in Line and Gets an iPad 2 | NBC Bay Area

A CNN photographer also reportedly saw the president playing around with an iPad in the Oval Office shortly after Mr. Obama dined with Apple CEO Steve Jobs in the Bay Area in February. The dinner took place before the iPad 2 was unveiled.

Is it possible that Jobs gave the president a campaign donation of an iPad 2 as a parting gift for choosing him as a dinner guest?"

Obama's Libya address ratings down from previous speeches | Inside TV | EW.com

Perhaps because he puts you in a coma with his vacuous rhetoric or sets your hair on fire with his hypocrisy?!

President Obama’s speech viewership keeps on slipping.

Monday night’s policy address on Libya delivered 25.6 million viewers, continuing the president’s trend of declining ratings for his issue-oriented telecasts."

Project Gunrunner: Obama's Stimulus-Funded Border Nightmare - Opinion - PatriotPost.US

Buried in Barack Obama's failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy. It's bloodstained government malfeasance overseen by anti-gun ideologues -- and now anti-gun ideologue Attorney General Eric Holder will 'investigate.'

Welcome to Project Gunrunner. Prepare for another Justice Department whitewash."

PatriotPost.US- Questions about our own nuclear power

Before a 9.0 axis-shifting earthquake damaged the nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan, legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives endorsing the construction of 200 nuclear power reactors in the U.S. by 2040, tripling current megawatt generating capacity. H.R. 909, co-sponsored by 64 Republicans, also endorsed the completion of the spent fuel storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada."

Bill Maher | Sarah Palin | cunt | Report: Bill Maher doubles down -- calls Sarah Palin the 'c' word | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

I personally think the guy is just vacuous and NOT funny - this just proves my point....must have missed that civil discourse memo...again....and again....AND AGAIN!

Despite being criticized and even rebuked by the National Organization for Women, HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher isn’t stopping with his slurs directed at female conservatives. And this time, he went after Sarah Palin once again."

Former Organizing for America staffer | FOIA requests | Department of Homeland Security | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

How's that transparency thing workin' out? Imagine if GWB did this....HA!

New emails and testimony from Department of Homeland Security FOIA officer Catherine Papoi reveal that a former Obama campaign staffer repeatedly asked Papoi and her team to redact portions of “politically sensitive” documents, as well as portions of documents that were already publicly available."

Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi & Her (SEIU, AFL-CIO) Political Operative Son | RedState

Hypocrisy - they name is SEIU....today anyway....this is just such a target rich world these days!.

On Friday, unions scored a temporary victory to maintain their ability to collect union dues from Wisconsin public employees when Judge Maryann Sumi (the same judge who refused to order striking teachers back to work in February) issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the implementation of Wisconsin’s new law governing public-sector unions."

STRATFOR-Obama's Stance on Lybia

Prior to President Obama's address justifying a U.S.-European coalition in Libya Monday evening, leaders from around the world have sounded off in both support and condemnation of the intervention. In Russia, for example, Prime Minister Putin criticized it heavily as a medieval campaign."

Read the Wis. Gov’s Op-Ed the NYT Refused to Print | The Blaze

The greatest danger lurking in our country today is the "Drive By Media"...they are the most powerful people on Earth - if we let them be....

These are uneasy times in Wisconsin. Not only is the state recovering from almost a month of mass protests, but today a judge heard arguments about whether or not the state’s new collective bargaining law was a) legal and b) already in effect. And through it all, the media has become as much a part of the story as Gov. Scott Walker. So today, Walker exacted his revenge — a little."

Stephen Lerner Doubles Down on ‘Economic Terrorism’ Plan in New Op-Ed | The Blaze

Lerner writes that “This can be our moment.” In the op-ed, Lerner outlines his campaign to “stoke simmering discontent into concrete, concerted direct action to challenge corporate extremism.“ This is a campaign that would sow ”the seeds of a movement that turns the tables on them [Wall Street].”"

Original Pigford Claimant Calls It One of the ‘Biggest Conspiracies Against the U.S. Treasury Ever’ - Big Government

This story is important to pass on. The media is just squashing it!

It’s back to business on our investigation of the Pigford story – the ongoing fraud that needs your help and attention to make it stop. The mainstream – with a few exceptions like John Stossel – are ignoring the story of the one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history because it doesn’t fit their narrative. The good guys are the real farmers who faced discrimination at the hands of the UsDA and the people, mostly conservative at this point, trying to bring their story to light. The bad guys are the trial lawyers, politicians, race hustlers and those inside the USDA who profit by lying to the public about how the Pigford settlement is a ‘victory’ for black farmers."

North Jersey towns object to solar panels - NorthJersey.com

Well, if nothing else, ET will have something to home in on when landing.....can't wait to see what a good Northeaster does to them....

The large rectangular solar panels that PSE&G has been installing on utility poles across North Jersey are not winning style points from residents and local officials, who call them hideous, an eyesore, even 'ugly as hell.'"

Budget Talks Sour, Dems Blame Tea Party for Stalemate as Deadline Looms - FoxNews.com

Do these guys even understand the "Tea Party" isn't a "Party" at all...it is a state of mind. A deep seeded belief in our Founders....in freedom....in smaller government. Basically a deep belief in the tenants of the Constitution...the Bill of Rights. I thought this is what our elected leaders swore to uphold????

The Capitol Hill rhetoric reached new levels of ugliness Tuesday as negotiations over some semblance of a federal budget gave way to finger-pointing, with Democrats blaming Tea Party freshmen for a potential government shutdown and Republicans calling those claims a fantasy."

Obama and Thought Control | FrontPage Magazine

Time and again, “catch phrases” are used amongst national security leaders. This includes military, political appointees, and even our own President. Key terms are used to control our own thoughts. More and more are popping up and most recently, the greatest catch phrase of all is beginning to circulate the internet: “Kinetic Military Action Promoting Humanitarianism.”"

Presidential Pettiness | FrontPage Magazine

In the less-than-gracious way President Barack Obama compares himself to his predecessors and other mere mortals, we’ve come to expect oblique swipes at President George W. Bush."

Cash for Clunkers 2: The Return of Government Motors - Washington Times

Car can't prove itself in the open COMPETITIVE marketplace? Oh...I hear Atlas Shrugging again....and again.....and again.......................

Ready for another cash for clunkers program? It looks like General Motors is attempting to replace it's own consumer incentives with tax payer money. The car company, bailed out of bankruptcy in 2009 by the American tax payer, appears to be turning the government into an automatic rebate provider."

Lejeune Marines prepare to deploy off Libyan coast | abc11.com

No boots on the ground....???

Twenty-two hundred Marines and sailors from Camp Lejeune are preparing to deploy off the coast of Libya in northern Africa. They said goodbye to their families Monday afternoon, and they'll be leaving in the days ahead."

AP‘s ’Fact Check‘ Hammers Obama’s Speech | The Blaze

I have to admit - I don't watch Presidential speeches. Even when I like the guy. I'd rather some spontaneity these forums won't allow.
However, last night I broke my rule and watched President Obama. The hypocrisy literally set my hair on fire! Understand, I don't necessarily disagree with some of his actions. And, if in the course of events surrounding Iraq, we gave GWB a pass with regard to certain matters, then Obama deserves the same consideration.
However.....the rank, utter hypocrisy of "his" administration vrs. that of GWB and reasons for their respective military actions set my hair on fire. I can admit...he almost matched John Forbes Kerry in the utilization of the word "I".

There may be less than meets the eye to President Barack Obama’s statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the U.S. in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending people under attack there by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces."

New Zeal: "Responsibility to Protect" - The End of National Sovereignty As We Know It?

Why Did U.S. President Barack Obama order a military attack on Libya? Why did he seek the permission of the United Nations Security Council, but not that of the U.S. Congress - as he is constitutionally obliged to do?"

Senator Rockefeller coal | Senator Rockefeller fiddles while the coal industry burns | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

A plan to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions is gaining momentum, but Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is playing the spoiler to the growing bi-partisan effort to stop the federal agency’s power grab."

Environmentalists obstacle | clean energy production | NIMBY | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The Obama administration has set a target of having 80 percent of America’s electricity come from “clean energy sources” by 2035, but ironically one of the biggest obstacles to this goal could come from within the environmental movement itself."

Ironically-Named ‘Smart Meters’ Prove to Be a Dumb Idea | The Blaze

Headaches, insomnia, tinnitus, DNA breakdown. . . These are just a few of the myriad problems mentioned when people talk about the constant bombardment of EMFs or electromagnetic frequencies, a huge by-product of the new Smart Meters being installed by public utilities around the country."

Wade Rathke’s Startling Admission: ‘Economic Terrorism’ Engineer Stephen Lerner Is Still on SEIU Payroll | The Blaze

On Sunday morning, The Blaze posted a story about the “return” of ACORN on the world-wide scene. While reading through some of the background material on that story, I noticed something significant."

Protest the Quakertown School District's protection of a radical teacher | Facebook

Unless we, as parents and grand parents keep a vigilant eye on what's happening at school...this will continue to happen. My granddaughters talk to us often about what goes on. My youngest granddaughter Alexis ( something in the name?) is a fierce defender of the Constitution. We taught them early!

Please come out to support our CCG member Glenn Rickabaugh, as he protests the District's protection of a radical teacher in his attempts to indoctrinate high school students, including Glenn's daughter Alexis. Dr. Stevens, a QT High School teacher, in his Health class, has questionned why our country should be run according to a 400 [his mistake] year old document written by rich, old white men and has stated that the 2nd Amendment has no place in today's society since a society is always safer when its citizens do not have the right to bear arms."

Obama and small business | A small businessman's plea to Obama | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

If you are small business and/or employed by one - all I can say as one is AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!

So why is Obama trying to tax us to death? Why do small business owners feel demonized and punished? Is it Obama’s goal to drive us out of business? Or is Obama simply inexperienced, incompetent and clueless about business and how it works?"

Sarah Palin | Bill Maher | Bimbos | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The present Captain of his "ship" is clueless...except I think Biden is more like the Skipper and well, we all know who Gilligan is......

“I love this,” he said. “If Bachmann and Palin both get in, that’s two bimbos, and then there’s Mitt Romney, a millionaire, Newt Gingrich, a professor. We just need a Skipper and a buddy and we got Gilligan’s Island.”"

Media Matters | Fox News | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

If Fox is the de-facto head of the GOP...then what is CNN? Notice we don't have to sabotage CNN....they do all the work for us!

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” read a 2010 memo by Brock that was acquired by Politico. “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”"

Media Matters' war against Fox - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

Of course, when you have no new ideas, no game plan to fight in the arena of ideas, don't want your sneaky little world exposed by Beck and Co., why not scorched earth policy. Good Luck...we are out here watching YOU!

The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock, Media Matters’ chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group’s main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media.

The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.”"

ACORN Returns! Sets up Shop Internationally in Egypt, South Korea, and Prague | The Blaze

Trying to stay ahead of "Them" is turning into a giant and never-ending game of Smack a Mole!

Though ACORN shuttered its US operations last year, when its funding dried up as a result of being ambushed by conservative activist James O’Keefe, the outfit’s community organizers are taking their progressivist vision to the international market. ACORN International has just set up offices in South Korea and Prague, according to NOLA.com.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall still a fresh (and happy) memory for many Czech residents, ACORN’s Prague division has ironically decided to call itself the ACORN Comrades Club."

American Thinker: President Bush Runs the Gauntlet to Visit Christian University

While I was briefly amused by the screamers on the sidewalk, two things struck me: President Bush hears this vitriol everywhere he goes, and these people have nothing better to do on a random weeknight than scream at their fellow Phoenicians"

American Thinker: Even Worse than British Unions

Viewers from 'across the pond' are watching with keen interest, as the elemental struggle between Republican politicians and the public sector unions is played out. With, on the one hand, a sense of 'deja vu', and on the other, a feeling that, for once, the old country is in better shape, British observers can see clearly the similarities in circumstances, but also the (primarily legal) differences, between our two countries."

American Thinker: Can We Save America?

The founders of the United States were aware of the failings of mankind and as a result tried to establish a government structure which mitigated those traits. That structure is still in place, but are there national leaders willing to risk their ambitions in order to tell their constituents the awful truth? That the future of the United States is dependent not only upon immediate changes in fiscal policy, but more importantly the people and their leaders must re-constitute American society wherein honor, integrity, self-reliance, restraint, and respect for one's neighbor are paramount. These attributes will also ultimately solve the nation's long-term financial woes and insure the future. Unless the country does so, it will inevitably join the likes of Rome and other nations on the ash heap of history."

Reporter held in closet by VP's people

Reporter Scott Powers was the designated 'pool reporter' for the vice president's Wednesday visit to the massive Winter Park, Fla., home of developer and philanthropist Alan Ginsburg. The veep hadn't arrived yet but most of the 150 guests (minimum $500 donation) had. They were busy noshing on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese and bacon deviled eggs, before a lunch of grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps.

Not so for Powers. A 'low-level staffer' put Powers in a storage closet and then stood guard outside the door, Powers told the DRUDGE REPORT. 'When I'd stick my head out, they'd say, 'Not yet. We'll let you know when you can come out.''"

Defense Secretary: Libya Did Not Pose Threat to U.S., Was Not 'Vital National Interest' to Intervene - Political Punch

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country.

On “This Week,” ABC News’ Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Gates, “Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?”"