President Obama’s speech on Libya this evening raised more questions than it answered in an administration that promised more transparency, but instead delivers messages of confusion.

Obama tried to make the Libya war sound like something to be proud of, when it is anything but a proud moment in the history of US annuals of war.

He failed to address why he didn’t consult Congress before he took the actions he did, failed to acknowledge whether it was a legitimate act under the Constitution of the United States, implied that Libya was not a war, said the US is not going to take sides, but as a policy would be pleased with a regime change.

It was a defensive political speech justifying the act of war, calling it something else and presenting achievements that are too early to substantiate .  In effect he said subliminally,  ‘mission accomplished’.

Perhaps this is an Ivy League concept of a war and if you pull out early enough you can call it a win.

He said to broaden our mission and take down Qaddafi would have been a mistake.

Obama, a passive left wing liberal,  is afraid of a stained Muslim image around the world and finds war troublesome. But then again, who doesn’t?

Obama failed to address the end game, turned the war over to NATO, a rather cowardly act when we launched it, but justifies it by not having any American ‘boots on the ground.’

Perhaps there is hope on the horizon, usually when a US president takes decisive action such as a justified war, his poll numbers spike — Obama’s went down.

There was one comment Obama made that is troublesome on numerous fronts, “Nations seeking to be free will always find a friend in the US.”

Does this mean we will take the same action we took in Libya for another nation in a similar situation? I doubt it, and so the statement is duplicitous.  Of course, he just meant we would be a ‘friend.’

The cost of this war for a few weeks has already reached $1 Billion, we have turned it over to NATO and the US is the major financial supporter to this organization.  Will we ever know the true cost of the Libyan War, or why Obama went into it in the first place?