Scarborough Hits Liberals For Hypocrisy On Libya

In his opinion piece at Politico today, Joe Scarborough asks, "How can liberals call for Qadhafi's ouster when they opposed the war against Saddam?"

It's a good question! And it would have helped if Scarborough had, you know, identified some liberals who were taking that stance, so they could be asked that. You know, like, maybe a link, or something? So I could see such hypocrisy in action? This is apparently too much to ask.

But, okay! Scarborough says that "for a decade," President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were compared to Hitler and Stalin, "condemned as an immoral beast who killed women and children to get his bloody hands on Iraqi oil," by anti-war activists and CODE PINK, etc. "But," Scarborough says, "in the morally murky afterglow of the Obama years, the certainty of these secular saints has melted away."

UN Security Council approves no-fly zone over Libya

UN Security Council approves no-fly zone over Libya and supports the military action.The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to authorise a no-fly zone over Libya and "all necessary measures", code for military action to protect civilians against leader Muammar Gaddafi s forces.

Ten of the council s 15 member states voted in favor of the resolution, with Russia, China, Germany, India and Brazil abstaining. The resolution was co-sponsored by France, Britain, Lebanon and the United States. The adoption of the resolution after days of closed-door negotiations could lead to a dramatic escalation of international involvement in a conflict that erupted last month between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi s forces and rebels trying to topple him.

Anti-Gaddafi protesters in Benghazi cheered and let off fireworks, where it was already Friday, to celebrate the vote. France, which drafted the final version of the resolution, had pressed the council to act fast, saying it could otherwise be too late to stop Gaddafi from crushing his opponents. Apart from the military measures, the resolution also expands sanctions against Gaddafi and his inner circle imposed in a February 26 Security Council resolution. The resolution bans all flights over Libya except for humanitarian flights.