Marco Rubio Sends World Abuzz with Cryptic Gaddafi Tweet
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), one of the biggest critics in Congress of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, sent out a graphic and cryptic tweet on Sunday showing a before-and-after photo of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Gaddafi, who antagonized the U.S. for decades, was deposed in a 2011 military intervention led by the U.S. In the ensuing conflict, Libyan rebels found Gaddafi and brutally murdered him in public. A still from a video of that spectacle was one of the images in Rubio’s post.
Rubio’s tweet was widely interpreted as a message to Maduro, setting off furor on Twitter among critics who saw it as a thinly-veiled threat of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela.
Rubio has not explicitly endorsed military action to force out Maduro, but he has hinted at it in the past and has generally agreed with the stance of President Donald Trump that “all options” should be on the table to achieve a regime change in Venezuela. (Rubio’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment on the tweet.)
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Is this going to be little Marco's Bengazi?
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