2009. 

In 2003 Gaddafi agreed to dismantle Libya's WMDs

In 09’ Hillary Clinton welcomed Gaddafi's son, Mutassim, to USDS and said:
"We deeply value the relationship between US and Libya". Poo

2 years later she laughed upon hearing he & his dad’s lyn*ching pic.twitter.com/GRaMmdG68a… https://t.co/vkIpLvtmZi

— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) March 20, 2023

2009, Obama takes office with his Shovel Ready Funds.  

2010s, Arab Spring.  

2011, "We Came, We Saw, He Died."

2012, Benghazi. 

2013, Senate Hearings on Benghazi with Rand Paul grilling Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who served in that role from 2009-2013.

I thought NATO was created to protect European countries from Soviet or Russian invasion?  If so, why is the U.S. using NATO to invade Libya at the instigation of France?  

https://original.antiwar.com/eland/2015/07/20/lessons-from-obamas-war-in-libya/

On 19 March 2011, a multi-state NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya, to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, in response to events during the First Libyan Civil War. With ten votes in favor and five abstentions, the UN Security Council's intent was to have "an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians, which it said might constitute 'crimes against humanity' ... [imposing] a ban on all flights in the country's airspace — a no-fly zone — and tightened sanctions on the Muammar Gaddafi regime and its supporters."^[23]

10 GOP Senators Vote To Oppose Libya Intervention.  Who were these ten?  They were all Republicans.