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Breaking: U.S. Sending Marines To Help In Libya
Fox News via MyFoxPhilly ^ | March 1, 2011 | Fox News

Posted on 03/01/2011 12:43:32 PM PST by americanophile

Fox News says the United States has deployed some Marines and two amphibious ships to help with the evacuations in Libya.

The news comes one day after the U.S. moved naval and air forces closer to Libya and said all options were open, including patrols of the North African nation's skies to protect its citizens from their ruler, Muammar Qaddafi.

The Obama administration is demanding that Gadhafi relinquish power immediately.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned that Libya is at risk of collapsing into a "protracted civil war" amid increasingly violent clashes between the two sides.

On Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice cast doubt on Qaddafi's sanity and ability to lead and said the international community will continue pressuring Qaddafi with embargos and sanctions until he steps down.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaddafi; help; libya; marines; sending
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Prayers and more prayers for our Marines under this cic.

Send in the freakin’ Red Cross. Our Marines aren't a bus service.

141 posted on 03/01/2011 2:25:54 PM PST by 444Flyer ("...Rather the scorned- the rejected -the men hemmed in with the spears..." from 'A Consecration')
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To: dead

I can see it now...100k Libyans rush to the shores to be evacuated along with the western folks. Where do you send them? I think we’d be better off getting all of these westerners to just drive over the border into Egypt and put them up in fancy hotels for a week or two.


142 posted on 03/01/2011 2:26:03 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: dead
What kind of lunatics break up a drunk hooker fight in Macau at five in the morning?

LOL! Great point! ;-)

143 posted on 03/01/2011 2:26:03 PM PST by Matthew James (SPEARHEAD!)
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To: americanophile

Well now, if this is prophecy, the Halls of Montezuma must be on the horizon.


144 posted on 03/01/2011 2:29:03 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: americanophile

Let Libyans mind Libya’s business.


145 posted on 03/01/2011 2:36:13 PM PST by pallis
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To: americanophile

...to the shores of Tripoli...” Been there. Done that. Go get ‘em, boys!


146 posted on 03/01/2011 2:39:41 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: americanophile

They ought to send a few Marines over to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I hear there’s one hidin’ out over there...


147 posted on 03/01/2011 2:40:27 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: gleeaikin

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148 posted on 03/01/2011 2:42:58 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: SMARTY

Call came in at 3, Hillary Rodham calls back a week later at 4 PM worst Sec state ever!


149 posted on 03/01/2011 2:44:45 PM PST by omega4179
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To: org.whodat

I’d like to see Gaddafi unable to fly planes that bomb innocent civilians. If that takes some air cover, I think that is something we should do. We should have done that in Darfur, IMHO, with a (one) B-52 on station over Khartoum.

I don’t want boots on the ground. But I think a relatively low risk to us / high reward to innocent civilians intervention is strategically in our interest. When the Libyans control their own country, they may be more inclined favorably towards us if we shot down Gaddafi’s planes of death.

I’ll take that bet.


150 posted on 03/01/2011 2:45:34 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ("And did you exchange a walk on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?")
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To: bareford101
You are incorrect.

There is always a Battalion Landing Team afloat in the Mediterranean Sea.

All that needed to be done was tell the Admiral in charge of the fleet to direct it to Libya.

The Marines are in there 24/7/12

151 posted on 03/01/2011 2:47:24 PM PST by Flint
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To: americanophile

God speed , brothers..

Semper Fi


152 posted on 03/01/2011 2:48:59 PM PST by devistate one four ( AARP: Anti America Retired People Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: Munz

It looks like they will just be assisting in getting refugees safely out of Libya.


153 posted on 03/01/2011 2:53:50 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
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To: Dead Corpse
"We told you not to make us come back here..."

Actually, that would make an incredibly good poster. But, it would be more appropo if adults were actually in charge of the govt. and not the current group of Marxist adolescents.

If the ROE are just I have no doubt our brother Marines will fare well. If not. I don't see how we can benefit from any scenario Obama/Clinton can drum up.

Semper Fi,

TS

154 posted on 03/01/2011 2:55:47 PM PST by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: americanophile

Will they be allowed to do what they did last ime they were in that region ???

or will they be told not to fire back etc ???

What a difference 2 centuries make


155 posted on 03/01/2011 2:58:47 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: americanophile
Oh WOe is me... Why's everybody always pickin on me???

156 posted on 03/01/2011 3:00:42 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: americanophile

Since the likelihood that very little American interest will be protected here, can at least one Marine take a shot at the Lockerbie bomber while he is there?


157 posted on 03/01/2011 3:01:59 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: americanophile

We have no reason to be there. Big mistake.


158 posted on 03/01/2011 3:04:57 PM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: americanophile
I agree with ya.

Why is it that the world complains because the US is a bully etc., etc.. Then the first time there is a problem they demand to know why we haven't gotten involved yet. We have troops in Iraq and fighting a vicious war in Afghanistan and now they want our Marines to die in Libya. For what? let the Libyans take care of their own problems.

159 posted on 03/01/2011 3:05:55 PM PST by Americanexpat (Everytime I see that guy's face ot)
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To: americanophile

And we could barely give lip service to Iran’s uprising where it is in US interests to overthrow the regime.

Once again Zero has it a** backwards.


160 posted on 03/01/2011 3:07:35 PM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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