Dennis Ross: "We were looking at 'Srebrenica on steroids' —the possibility that up to a 100,000 Libyans could be massacred.."

"This is a limited humanitarian intervention, not war, .....We were looking at 'Srebrenica on steroids' —the real or imminent possibility that up to a 100,000 people could be massacred, and everyone would blame us for it," Dennis Ross explained, according to one of the foreign policy experts who attended the briefing, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the administration is trying to keep its consultations private. (Nevertheless, one of the attendees referenced the White House meeting in a tweet.)

The White House national security officials also stressed that U.S.-led military operations in Libya would be transitioning soon to a more multilateral effort. Under this arrangement, the administration intends to stress that the United States will not be taking the lead, attendees said. "The president has made brutally clear to all of us that we are transitioning," Ross stressed, according to the attendee.....

The White House did not respond to a query about how it had gotten the estimate that as many as 100,000 people could have been killed if Benghazi had fallen to Gadhafi's forces."