NATO True Colours Showing In Libya

Silly comments from US commentators below. Read the full story here.

But in Washington, Stephen Hadley, former national security adviser in the Bush administration, warned that the assassination of Gaddafi by Nato aircraft could prove counterproductive. "The narrative we want to come out of this is that the Libyan people overthrew a dictator – not that we came in and toppled a despot," he told CNN. "What we really want him to do is to leave or to die at a Libyan hand, not an American hand."

But senior Republicans expressed little concern over the prospect of Gaddafi becoming a casualty. Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News: "Wherever Gaddafi goes, he is a legitimate military target. He's the command and control source. He's not the legitimate leader of Libya and the way to get this to end is to go after the people around him and his support system."

Reminded that assassinating foreign leaders is illegal, Graham said: "In my view, he's not a foreign leader, he's a murderer."