“Reagan was much different than Obama. Reagan invited the bipartisan leadership to the White House – Lugar as SFRC Chair – and told them planes were on their way to Libya for the sole mission of taking out Gadhafi, because of the intelligence that he had personally ordered the murder on a US soldier at a Berlin bar. Reagan said if anyone objected, he would order the planes turned around. No one, including Byrd, objected. …”

Ben Smith: how Reagan (brilliantly) handled Congress (& why Sen. Dick Lugar supported Reagan’s plan to assassinate Gaddafi but is not supporting Obama’s more limited goals) From an e-mail to Politico by Mark Helmke, an advisor to Lugar. - RealityChex