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Deadly Libya Violence Pushes Country Toward 'Failed State'
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| 7/31/14
| Alastair Jamieson
Posted on 07/31/2014 7:37:22 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Elsewhere the article asserts:
"Gadhafis savage killing at the hands of those rebels unverified video showed him being sodomized with a weapon should have been a forewarning of the risk posed by a power vacuum."
Uh, THERE WERE PLENTY OF VOICES YELLING STOP. But the man-child AND Hitlery ignored the intelligent ones and chose the path of morons.
To: SoFloFreeper
I like how NBC buries this kind of analysis on a web site but pretty much REFUSES to nail BO and Hitlery over this on their broadcasts which reach millions more eyeballs.
Bias.
To: SoFloFreeper
Another one of McCain’s Wars.
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:42:16 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
To: SoFloFreeper
HRC: “We came. We saw. he died.”
How’s that working out?
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:43:18 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(This tagline for lease)
To: SoFloFreeper
Toward?
Gee you would think someone would have spoken up in opposition to messing with Libya. /s
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:44:31 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:44:35 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Now aren’t we all glad that Obama got rid of that nasty Gaddafi.
To: SoFloFreeper
Libya will sink yet again into the abyss. It seems to be the natural state over there.
When all their petroleum and natural gas are gone NO ONE will care. Then, that will be when they sink into and stay in that chaos and mayhem.
Reminds me of the south of the border dictatorships of Mexico and Central/South America.
To: McGruff
Another one of McCains Wars.
Wouldn't want to blame it on Obama.
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:45:53 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(This tagline for lease)
To: SoFloFreeper
Another O failure. No doubt he’ll blame Bush!
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:46:39 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: nhwingut
McCain seemed to be having a good time. Ambassador Stevens seems a little leery.
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:53:25 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
To: SoFloFreeper
The “Muslim Spring” was organized after Obama took office to try to get the Muslim Brotherhood to take over all these countries and create the new Caliphate.
Obama clearly knew about it and helped it to happen. We had no reason to step in and help Kadaffy get tossed out, Syria is only still standing because they saw what happened to all the other “spring” countries, and did not let it happen to them.
But just like the “occupy [your city]” movement it was poorly orchestrated and never made it to their grand goal.
Thankfully they are as incompetent as they are stupid, or we would have the one-world government they want already.
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:53:56 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016)
22 April 2011
Libyan rebels in the eastern stronghold of Benghazi have been visited by the veteran US Senator John McCain.
His visit comes as Libya has accused Nato of killing nine civilians overnight.
The authorities say the victims were working at the water plant in the city of Sirte repairing earlier bomb damage.
Anti-Gaddafi forces have welcomed America’s decision to send unmanned armed drones to join Nato’s military operation.
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:54:48 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
To: cloudmountain
Libya will sink into madness THEN join this new “caliphate” ISIS claims to have created.
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:54:56 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:54:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Mr. K
Libya will sink into madness THEN join this new caliphate ISIS claims to have created.No doubt.
The union with SUCH a chaotic country is doomed. The self-serving despots ALWAYS do themselves in when the leader of said dictatorship runs out of money.
Recall Idi Amin--he ran out of money to pay his goons and it was "bye-bye, Idi."
To: SoFloFreeper
Wasn’t this Obama’s Excellent Leading-from-Behind Adventure?”
Yeah.. thought so.
Tailgunner Joe, are you out there? I remember your being an enthusiastic support of overthrowing Ghadafi.
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posted on
07/31/2014 7:58:58 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
To: Mr. K
Thankfully they are as incompetent as they are stupid, or we would have the one-world government they want already.The despots always run out of money, wherever they are.
When their army and goons stop getting paid...they turn to the NEXT highest bidder.
That's the way of the THIRD world "garden spots."
To: McGruff
Obozo, March 2012... (Not McCain)
Qaddafi chose to escalate his attacks, launching a military campaign against the Libyan people. Innocent people were targeted for killing. Hospitals and ambulances were attacked.
Confronted by this brutal repression and a looming humanitarian crisis, I ordered warships into the Mediterranean. European allies declared their willingness to commit resources to stop the killing. The Libyan opposition and the Arab League appealed to the world to save lives in Libya. And so at my direction, America led an effort with our allies at the United Nations Security Council to pass a historic resolution that authorized a no-fly zone to stop the regimes attacks from the air, and further authorized all necessary measures to protect the Libyan people.
Ten days ago, having tried to end the violence without using force, the international community offered Qaddafi a final chance to stop his campaign of killing, or face the consequences. Rather than stand down, his forces continued their advance, bearing down on the city of Benghazi, home to nearly 700,000 men, women and children who sought their freedom from fear. At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. Qaddafi declared he would show no mercy to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we have seen him hang civilians in the streets, and kill over a thousand people in a single day. Now we saw regime forces on the outskirts of the city. We knew that if we wanted -- if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world. It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen. And so nine days ago, after consulting the bipartisan leadership of Congress, I authorized military action to stop the killing and enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973.
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posted on
07/31/2014 8:03:13 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(This tagline for lease)
To: dfwgator
SUCH a lovely man, WASN'T he?
The ONLY claim to fame he ever had was when the Italian influence led to better-dressed despots over there. He looked downright spiffy at one time.
Then, old, fat, gluttonous and greedy set in. Chaaaarmimg.
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