[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 41 (Thursday, March 17, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H1968-H1969]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   CALLING FOR A NO-FLY ZONE IN LIBYA

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call for a no-fly zone in 
Libya. I don't think that the United States should do it ourselves, but 
I think in conjunction with our European allies, the European Union, 
and the Arab League, we should do it. The Arab League called for a no-
fly zone, so it certainly would not be interpreted as if we were doing 
something unilaterally.
  But I would like to take it one step further. We have been selling to 
our Arab allies multiple planes and weapons for years and years and 
years, and I certainly think if there is a no-fly zone, the Arab 
nations which called on

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us to support a no-fly zone ought to participate with us in terms of 
making sure that no-fly zone is sustainable.
  We cannot sit by and allow Qaddafi to kill more and more innocent 
people in a bloodbath, to use the power, air power, of his force to 
massacre civilians. We cannot allow that.
  So I think the time is now. We can't keep waiting, because if we 
wait, it will be too long and the bloodbath will have already occurred. 
I think the time for action is now. Let's do it in conjunction with the 
EU and the Arab League.

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