Muammar Gaddafi - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Muammar Gaddafi Index / People Transcripts Denis McDonough ...but also questions around [Muammar al-] Qaddafi and Libya in the first term. How di... Hillary Clinton ...was totally different. [Muammar al-] Qaddafi was our adversary. He was a dangerou... ...plane were connected to New York. So Qaddafi was on everybody's nerves. He didn'... ...let's see what happens in Libya.” Then Qaddafi made it inevitable when he began makin... ...in Libya against the onslaught of Qaddafi and his mercenaries without actuall... ...didn't want to lead the battle against Qaddafi . So the interesting, unprecedente... ...chance in their lifetime to get rid of Qaddafi . He had ruined Libya. On and on. An... ...had really strong feelings about Qaddafi . Was some of it self-interested? Di... Show more... Antony Blinken ...a general abhorrence at [Muammar al-] Qaddafi , what he did to his own people. The... ...countries, including the United States, Qaddafi ultimately left power? Who would follo... ...we say what was going to follow if Qaddafi was dislodged and was that actuall... ...We're not getting the job done” after Qaddafi was gone. And it wasn't for lack o... ...We underestimated the extent to which Qaddafi had done an incredibly effective job i... ...once we got involved, the opposition to Qaddafi , of course, was strengthened an... ...And it was not our policy to remove Qaddafi , but it was the result of our polic... ...time frame on it, but some months after Qaddafi left, and given the difficulties tha... Show more... Leon Panetta ...to, in effect, eventually get rid of Qaddafi , and also involve NATO in probably th... Janice Langbehn ...but some international thing—I think Muammar Qaddafi was killed, or something. The presiden... Victoria Nuland ...military operation where [Muammar al-] Qaddafi is killed. Then, we're trying to pul... Ta-Nehisi Coates ...camp]. I just think [Muammar al-] Qaddafi —and obviously I don't have a defens... ...obviously I don't have a defense of Qaddafi —but I think putting your fingerprint... Richard Nephew ...me to do. This is, of course, also when Muammar Gaddafi decided to give up his nuclear an... Related Topics go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Public Health Public Health go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the East Wing East Wing