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In 2011 Interview, Donald Trump Blasted Obama For Not Toppling Qaddafi Sooner
In 2011 Interview, Donald Trump Blasted Obama For Not Toppling Qaddafi Soonerby Andrew Kaczynski at BuzzFeed
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-2011-interview-donald-trump-blasted-obama-for-not-topplin?utm_term=.nlmWP2YRk#.gv7ELPRV5
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In an interview on Fox and Friends Trump blasted President Obama for not intervening in the country earlier, saying he should have targeted longtime leader Muammar al-Qaddafi for assassination.
“Well, I think he’s been very late,” Trump said in March 2011, asked what he thought of U.S. airstrikes in the country. “I thought of it really as a humanitarian thing, let’s save some of these people. And, two weeks later, thousands and thousands of people have been killed. If he would have done this two and a half weeks ago you might have stopped the whole thing.”
Trump said the president’s refusal to bomb sooner had left the rebels dissipated and unable to topple the Libyan dictator. He also said the Arab League should have paid the United States for the military action.
“If you’re going to do it, you really should have done it earlier.”
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