Obama: Never let the truth get in the way of a good speech
OBAMA: Seeking to justify military intervention, the president said the U.S. has “an important strategic interest in preventing Gadhafi from overrunning those who oppose him. A massacre would have driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya’s borders, putting enormous strains on the peaceful — yet fragile — transitions in Egypt and Tunisia.” He added: “I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.”
THE FACTS: Obama did not wait to make that case to Congress, despite his past statements that presidents should get congressional authorization before taking the country to war, absent a threat to the nation that cannot wait.
“The president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,” he told The Boston Globe in 2007 in his presidential campaign. “History has shown us time and again … that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the legislative branch.”
Obama’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, said Sunday that the crisis in Libya “was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest.”
OBAMA: “And tonight, I can report that we have stopped Gadhafi’s deadly advance.” 
THE FACTS: The weeklong international barrage has disabled Libya’s air defenses, communications networks and supply chains. But Gadhafi’s ground forces remain a potent threat to the rebels and civilians, according to U.S. military officials.
Army Gen. Carter Ham, the top American officer overseeing the mission, told The New York Times on Monday that “the regime still overmatches opposition forces militarily. The regime possesses the capability to roll them back very quickly. Coalition air power is the major reason that has not happened.”
Only small numbers of Gadhafi’s troops have defected to the opposition, Ham said.
At the Pentagon, Vice Adm. William Gortney, staff director for the Joint Chiefs, said the rebels are not well organized. “It is not a very robust organization,” he said. “So any gain that they make is tenuous based on that.”
For the rest of the “Facts” please go here:
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2146732&spid=
Face Forward comments:
To know one’s surprise and after avoiding making a statement or explaining himself for weeks, Obama made his teleprompter guided speech to the American public last night. After hiding in Latin America, Obama returned to the states to declare that his undeclared war on Libya was justified. I will say this for him, while he continues to be the worst modern day president to ever be elected, he is one of the better liars. Had there not been access to the facts I would have turned off the television thinking, “we are so lucky to have him as our leader in this time of crisis”.
What I find particularly interesting about this fact check is that the article was on the WLS website. WLS is the BIG talk radio station in Chicago. If the voice of radio Chicago is reporting on Obama and his poor record of telling the truth, then his support base has really taken a hit.
