Gaddafi Letter Sent To Congress Thanking Them For Obama Criticism: Report

Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly written Congress a letter, thanking officials for criticizing President Obama over the NATO-led military campaign in Libya and calling for a U.S. ceasefire.

As the New York Times is reporting, the three-page letter did not refer specifically to a resolution passed by the House which rebuked the Obama administration for maintaining a U.S. role in the campaign without Congress' consent, but instead expressed hope that authorities would continue to pressure the administration for its "inappropriate and illegal interference in what is essentially a Libyan civil war."

“I want to express my sincere gratitude for your thoughtful discussion of the issues,” he allegedly wrote. “We are confident that history will see the wisdom of your country in debating these issues. We are counting on the United States Congress to its continued investigation of military activities of NATO and its allies to confirm what we believe is a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1973."

The letter was not addressed to any specific lawmaker, but rather to the White House, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), according to The Hill.com.

Gaddafi also calls for "a cease fire, the funding of humanitarian relief and assistance in fostering and furthering accommodation between the parties within Libya that are at odds," in exchange for reforms, The Hill reports:

He also warns of another terrorist attack: "We have intelligence that suggest that both AQ members and weapons are being transported from Libya to Algeria Mali and the Sahara and even to Gaza; this constitutes a serious threat to the region, the world and particularly to the security of the United States."

The letter ends, "Peace be upon you Col / Muammar Gaddafi Commander of the Great Revolution."

The White House has remained mostly tight-lipped about the letter, though Boehner -- who was unable to verify the letter's authenticity -- told ABC, “If authentic, this incoherent letter only reinforces that Gaddafi must go. There’s no disagreement about that. That’s why so many Americans have questions -– which the White House refuses to answer –- about the administration committing U.S. resources to an operation that doesn’t make his removal a goal.”

Comments

[c2shiningc]

06:38 AM on 06/14/2011

House Speaker's dismissal of the letter from Gadhafi,calling again for a cease-fire, as"incoherent"??? I find this very odd. English must be Speaker Boehner's third or fourth language.Though he may disagree with various points made in the letter,none the less,it is perfectly clear and coherent.

[petrushka69]

03:56 PM on 06/13/2011

Moo Moo Gaddafi - is there a sillier man alive?

[Rapid1]

10:39 AM on 06/13/2011

Remember when it was "Bin Laden wants the Democrats to win"? Karma, she's a ....

[ny10013]

09:18 AM on 06/13/2011

NATO Bombed Libya's Nasser University
Graphic Images
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25221

[AbeMartin]

07:50 AM on 06/13/2011

The U.S. Congress and the White House just keep on spreading joy.  Billions per week in Afghanistan.  Billions per week in Iraq.  A billion per month in Libya.  All to keep the revenues flowing to the U.S. Arms Industry and the industries that provision the men and women who are assigned to protect the companies by blowing up Islamic countries and tribal homelands.  Starting to become more and more reminiscent of the wars against the Native American tribes during the 19th Century.

[Jack Kalpakian]

06:27 AM on 06/13/2011

One Arab Journalist who met Gaddafi when this war started said that he had never seen him more alive and even joyful -- the man is beyond crazy. The best outcome would be his sudden arrest and confinement to a mental health facility.

[SPacific]

02:45 AM on 06/13/2011

Republicans and Gadhafi........A match made in heaven.......

[Lorindol]

03:45 AM on 06/13/2011

They make a cute couple, but Gaddafi could do better.

[UneMondeNouveau]

11:18 AM on 06/13/2011

It is embarrassing you would post this without even a very basic understanding of the facts. Gaddafi would thank whoever is proposing we withdraw from his country and stop bombing the Libyan people and cities. Boehner doesn't get it, his advice is make murdering him and his remaining family a policy goal.

Gaddafi's ideas and the GOP's are in no way, shape, or form similar.

[SPacific]

01:01 PM on 06/13/2011

Think Again....Your republican president G W Bush removed Libya from the list of terrorist nations AND gave them most favored nation status.....You know Gadhafi was responsible for the murders of Americans over Lockerbie, Scotland, right? Bush knew this fact BUT chose to form closer ties with this madman when Gadhafi opened his oilfields to US oil companies.....It is YOU who are embarrassing, and exposed for supporting such traitorous acts.....Then again, your are a republican....

[rbenjamin]

10:36 PM on 06/12/2011

Great photo. The ever versatile Col. K. channels Larry Storch, F Troop. Or maybe Art Carney, Honeymooners.

[act nature ally]

09:16 PM on 06/12/2011

How is this an "incoherent letter"? It sounds like he has his head on straighter than most of the leaders of our country.

[maxben]

08:24 AM on 06/13/2011

"He also warns of another terrorist attack: "We have intelligence that suggest that both AQ members and weapons are being transported from Libya to Algeria Mali and the Sahara and even to Gaza; this constitutes a serious threat to the region, the world and particularly to the security of the United States."

Yeah...um... if that makes any sense to you you are beyond me.

[act nature ally]

08:45 AM on 06/13/2011

Well I think it's obvious that I'm beyond you.

[Knowitall]

04:38 PM on 06/12/2011

I'll give this letter about a 50% chance of being legitimate. But if it is, then we should next look for the letter from Netanyahu to the Republican congress thanking them for all those standing ovations, and giving more respect to a foreign visitor than they do the President of the United States.

What would we have been hearing now if the Democratic congress had done that??????

[dpooch]

03:03 PM on 06/12/2011

Would the regressives please make up your minds first the Prez is a weak Muslim apeaser now he is a war monger. Flip Flop the sky is blue the sky is red. He is not American. I have only one question for regressives where are all those jobs jobs jobs bills are they in those small gov bills that only fit in a womans womb or someones bed room.

[dpooch]

02:46 PM on 06/12/2011

So Gaddafi and the GOP house are on the same page. I guess the regressive GOP it's Antiamericanism is now inline with praying the nation to fail like they have from 2008 on.

[jcaunter]

02:53 PM on 06/12/2011

That's right. It's only the Democrats who are gungho for war this time around. Democrat, the new party of warmongering.

[Knowitall]

03:21 PM on 06/12/2011

Ludicrous statement. We Democrats are the godless, wimpy, anti-war, peaceniks and hippies--you know, the ones that want to take away your guns and leave you defensive, remember? You people on the right need to polish up your message so we Democrats can know exactly what we are. We're getting confused.

BTW. The only totally meaningless, "gungho for war" conflict we've had in the last decade was the war in Iraq. Nobody's told us YET why we went there????

[fairwayhill]

12:40 PM on 06/12/2011

The alleged purpose of UN Security Council resolution 1973, passed on March 17, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides. In NATO’s eager hands, cosseted by uncritical Western press coverage, it has rapidly mutated into an overt bid to destroy Qaddafi’s regime, specifically to murder Qaddafi, by missile or bombardment with land-based teams of Special Force assassins doubtless deployed in the desert, assigned the same task.

[NotMyTube]

01:19 PM on 06/12/2011

it seems only takes one chopper down to stop them

[hagagaga]

08:43 PM on 06/12/2011

NATO provided their own resolutions, which is why the French and British decided to take UNSCR 1973 to its logical conclusion, with American help in the form of aerial refueling.

[PmcV]

12:27 PM on 06/12/2011

There you go congress Gaddafi is cheering you on. Let's keep doing our best to make sure our country fails. Only then can we take power, I mean, save America from, well what ever we tell you.

[jcaunter]

02:56 PM on 06/12/2011

Yeah, because it's always important for America to succeed in fostering, and then taking sides in, foreign civil wars against governments that won't sell us oil at the right price.

[dayzee10]

12:23 PM on 06/12/2011

Proof that Muammar and the Retealibanbaggerican Party have mutual interests....how patriotic of them!