Muammar Gaddafi - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Muammar Gaddafi Index / People Transcripts Scott Gration ...to this guy called Gaddafi [Muammar al- Qaddafi ], because Gaddafi was giving refuge t... Jay Carney ...in fact, it was the news that Muammar Qaddafi 's son had been killed in Libya. I wa... ...had no chance in life given that he was Qaddafi 's son. That this guy was marke... ...same time, from Alabama, to Florida, to Qaddafi 's son, to bin Laden, to the nationa... Josh Earnest ...captured and killed Muammar [al-] Qaddafi , and it raised a bunch of question... ...or this was the period in time in which Qaddafi was killed by the rebels. But ... Dennis Ross ...objective morphs into [Muammar al-] Qaddafi has to go. Here, again, we have no pla... Derek Chollet ...complementary of [Muammar al-] Qaddafi that there were concerns about hi... ...some of the cables he'd written about Qaddafi and his family that got him into som... ...working. There was no evidence that Qaddafi was taking his foot off the gas. Then... ...precedent, there was a concern that if Qaddafi was allowed to violently suppress wha... ...freedom elsewhere in the Middle East if Qaddafi was able to just violently roll ove... ...to then thinking through what a post- Qaddafi or post-conflict Libya—what tha... ...the conflict, to thinking through post- Qaddafi scenarios—and everything from regim... ...on what the US was able to do post- Qaddafi . What was your assessment of th... ...was your assessment of the post- Qaddafi prospects for Libya, and did the... ...to remember: the Libyan regime, the Qaddafi regime, was largely falling apart. Th... ...was there in 2011. And the thought was, Qaddafi was a bad leader. He was crazy. Th... ...in what was going to come after Qaddafi and this tremendous display o... ...well as the thinking through the post- Qaddafi stuff, throughout the crisis; becaus... ...of the UN envoy for a ceasefire and Qaddafi 's transition out. There was a smal... ...the White House—met with members of Qaddafi 's team at the ambassador's residenc... ...and unique dysfunction that was Qaddafi 's Libya. And I think he didn't rule s... ...than actually existed. So, without Qaddafi , and then as things unraveled in th... ...or incompetence—it could've just been Qaddafi was a bad bookkeeper; like, he didn'... ...to pressure on a regime like the Qaddafi regime in Libya or the Assad regime i... ...of the specific decisions of saying Qaddafi has lost his legitimacy to lead, an... ...is going to go, Assad is going to go, Qaddafi is going to go, you've got to at th... ...had been declared and acknowledged by Qaddafi , after being hidden in secret, and wa... ...we discovered after the war that Qaddafi had in fact held on to some chemica... Show more... Jim Steinberg ...lots of reasons why they didn't like [Muammar] Gaddafi . Gaddafi had tried to assassinate th... John Brennan ...what would happen once [Muammar al-] Qaddafi fell. And the masses of people an... ...was still very much forming, even after Qaddafi was in power for forty years or so. S... ...atrocities that were perpetrated by the Qaddafi regime during this period of time, an... Tawakkol Karman ...free our countries from a [Muammar al-] Qaddafi , from Ben Ali, from Hosni Mubarak... Robert Gates ...and so on. But in Libya, [Muammar al-] Qaddafi began shooting almost immediately. An... ...in Libya. Then the question began—when Qaddafi began moving his forces to the east... ...security interests weren't involved. Qaddafi had given up his nuclear weapons. H... ...to all those people in Benghazi if Qaddafi actually got there. So I think that hi... ...basically any place where you thought Qaddafi and his generals were located. So then... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Labor Labor go to the Native America Native America