Posted on 04/20/2011 3:23:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Misurata, Libya— Misurata, the only rebel-held city in western Libya, has asked that NATO troops be sent to fight alongside the rebels holding off Libyan forces, a local government representative said Tuesday.
"If they don't come, we will die," Nouri Abdul Ati, a member of the 17-member ruling body in Misurata, told reporters as heavy machine gun fire, rockets and mortar rounds exploded in the near distance. "Grad rockets don't leave anybody alive," he said, referring to the truck-mounted rockets used by the Libyan military.
The local council in this besieged city sent its plea via letter a week ago to the Transitional National Council, the national opposition government in Benghazi in eastern Libya. The letter urged that NATO or United Nations troops be asked to defend Misurata against Moammar Kadafi's forces, Ati said. The national council has yet to reply.
"We need a force from NATO or the U.N. on the ground now," Ati said at a house set amid date palms, as the night's regular roar of heavy shelling commenced. "We did not accept any foreign soldiers on our land, but that was before we faced the crimes of Kadafi."
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Hmmm...the council COULD demand that the rebels leave....
Nawwww...too simple.
Why does it have to be NATO troops? Here’s an idea. Send their union thug “brothers” from Madison over there to help them out. They can kick Daffy’s ass and then all sit around eating pizza from Egypt.
They should have, and without Zero's absurd bombing and bluster about "Qaddafi must go" would have, surrendered to Qaddafi six weeks ago.
If they had, some of their children might have survived. Now, they all will be slaughtered.
Don’t forget it was Liberal Feminist Women who campaigned for the US to intervene in Libya. Hilliary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Powers. This will be a defeat of US military involvement. The War Obummer starts we will lose. Great he is some Commander in Chief... NOT!
Bay of Pigs.
The idiocy of this intervention is now on display for all to see. Quagmire? Yes indeed. Soon they will be abandoned, and it will be referred to as a Vietnam at supersonic speed.
One word: NO! =.=
Yes let’s do what the dems always say not to do, get involved in someone elses civil war. The only reason we’re doing anything is European oil. Yes that’s right, this is a war for oil, and it’s Obamas.
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