Support for Libyan Al Queda Rebels, from Obama

I don’t care how you feel about whatever action it is we are doing in Libya. Pro or con this has got to rattle your cage.  Obama decides to give covert support to Libyan rebels, many of which are Al Queda.  If we are giving them guns the question is simple, should we be arming the enemy we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq?  Only a person with a law degree could defend such twisted logic.

It’s possible that we are only giving them propaganda aid, intelligence and things like that.  But, isn’t that a slippery slope to actually arming them?

Here is what the Reuters article says about the arms

ARMS SUPPLIES

The article, by VOA intelligence correspondent Gary Thomas, said covert action “can encompass many things, including propaganda, covert funding, electoral manipulation, arming and training insurgents, and even encouraging a coup.”

U.S. officials also have said that Saudi Arabia and Qatar, whose leaders despise Gaddafi, have indicated a willingness to supply Libyan rebels with weapons.

Members of Congress have expressed anxiety about U.S. government activities in Libya. Some have recalled that weapons provided by the U.S. and Saudis to mujahedeen fighting Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s later ended up in the hands of anti-American militants.

There are fears that the same thing could happen in Libya unless the U.S. is sure who it is dealing with. The chairman of the House intelligence committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, said on Wednesday he opposed supplying arms to the Libyan rebels fighting Gaddafi “at this time.”

“We need to understand more about the opposition before I would support passing out guns and advanced weapons to them,” Rogers said in a statement

 

I am sure it will all be okay. Right?

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