Washington, March 04: “Throughout all this, we will continue to send a clear message that it’s time for Gaddafi to go,” Obama said.”My approach throughout the convulsions that have swept through the Middle East is, number one, no violence against citizens; number two, that we stand for freedom and democracy. And in the situation in Libya, what you’ve seen is, number one, violence against citizens, and the active urging of violence against unarmed citizens by Gaddafi,” he said.”So let me just be very unambiguous about this.Colonel Gadhafi needs to step down from power and leave. That is good for his country. It is good for his people. It’s the right thing to do,” Obama said.
“Those around him have to understand that violence that they perpetrate against innocent civilians will be monitored and they will be held accountable for it. So to the extent that they are making calculations in their own minds about which way history is moving, they should know history is moving against Colonel Gaddafi and that their support for him and their willingness to carry out orders that are direct violence against citizens is something that ultimately they will be held accountable for,” he said.
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