News that Obama had given the authorization surfaced as the President and other U.S. and allied officials spoke openly about the possibility of sending arms supplies to Gaddafi's opponents, who are fighting better-equipped government forces.
The United States is part of a coalition, with NATO members and some Arab states, which is conducting air strikes on Libyan government forces under a U.N. mandate aimed at protecting civilians opposing Gaddafi.
In interviews with American TV networks on Tuesday, Obama said the objective was for Gaddafi to "ultimately step down" from power. He spoke of applying "steady pressure, not only militarily but also through these other means" to force Gaddafi out.
Obama said the U.S. had not ruled out providing military hardware to rebels. "It's fair to say that if we wanted to get weapons into Libya, we probably could. We're looking at all our options at this point," the President told ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer.
U.S. officials monitoring events in Libya say that at present, neither Gaddafi's forces nor the rebels, who have asked the West for heavy weapons, appear able to make decisive gains..........With alll the chaos going on in the middle east, this fits right in with the radical Islamists beliefs that the 12th Imam or Mahdi will appear and bring about world domination of Islam. In case some of you may not be familiar with this belief, the story goes that thousands of years ago there were twelve Imams and one fell into a well never to be seen again. Their belief is that he will return someday and then there will be great chaos in the middle east which is going on now after which all arab nations will unite under Islam and kill all those infidels (those who don't accept Islam) and Islam will prevail world wide. This will all start in Iran. Iran's whacko president Mamood Ahmadenijad believes he is the one to lead this messiah into the chaos where all infidels will be killed. Maybe that's why he wants the bomb so badly.
On Saturday night's John Batchelor show he was interviewing Reza Kahlil, a former member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and author of the book, A Time to Betray, who also worked as a double agent for the CIA inside the Iranian regime. They had his voice garbled but he was saying how most Islamists don't subscribe to this idea and they hate it, just the radical element does. He said they (the radical Islamists) have produced a video saying the time is near and it has the endorsement of the Iranian president naturally. They point to all this chaos as the sign the end is near and the mahdi is coming. When John Batchelor asked him if they have a time line he answered that they say sometime in the spring of 2012 though it does vary.
In our Christian religion we have similiar forbodings and talk about Jesus Christ coming as our messiah, but not before certain signs. Just look around what's happening now:
Bottom Line?
Something is very wrong. Sure, here in the US we're still reasonably safe - but for how long?
Take a good look at the world. In 2010 alone we've had:
The Haitian earthquake killing over 220,000 - not to mention more massive earthquakes than the world has seen in the past few centuries. A dramatic increase in tornadoes in the US. Wikileaks jeopardizing our relationship with practically every country on the map. North Korea gearing up to attempt a nuclear Armageddon. Islamic Jihadists in Sweden.The Mayan Calendar drops off completely after 2012 Current events have started sounding an awful lot like Revelations. Now NASA picks up potential for the sun to go haywire and decimate our nation. As Barry McQuire sang in the 1960's "And you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction." |
Details of the controversial move IRANIAN VIDEO: ISLAMIC MESSIAH IS 'NEAR'...