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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

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To: dead

Yep. Help with evacuation. No big deal, blown way out of proportion here. And they won’t enforce a no fly zone. Too many variables. Escaping pilots, relief planes, etc.


41 posted on 03/01/2011 12:57:15 PM PST by mikhailovich
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To: americanophile
Obozo, Gates and Mullin combined couldn't shake the dew off General Schwarzkopf's lily. Knowing the ineptness of the Obozo I pray this doesn't turn out to be another Black Hawk Down moment for the US.
42 posted on 03/01/2011 12:57:32 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Munz
The next steps include an initiative at the UN for the creation of a United Islam series of states, with one national military and local state level forces reporting to a central power.

The people are too stupid to understand that the alternative to ruthless dictators is not by way of marxist/socialist ruthless rule mixed with religious zeal.

43 posted on 03/01/2011 12:57:54 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Pan_Yan

They list is as breaking news and Fox’s main site just posted it as ‘Breaking News’ as well.


44 posted on 03/01/2011 12:58:25 PM PST by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: org.whodat

This is going to be his helicopters in the desert, his Mogadishu.


45 posted on 03/01/2011 12:58:33 PM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: americanophile
In the middle of an all night bender, I found myself in an after-hours nightclub in Macau with my brother and a buddy of ours. It was somewhere in the neighborhood of five in the morning, but the place was still jumping like crazy.

Suddenly, two hookers started fighting right behind us. They were ripping each other's hair out and tearing their cocktail dresses. I felt like I won the lottery and leaned against the bar to enjoy the show.

Then, my brother and my buddy jumped in to break it up. So naturally I started fighting with them.

What kind of lunatics break up a drunk hooker fight in Macau at five in the morning? It's absolute insanity to even think to do that.

I feel the same way about this.

46 posted on 03/01/2011 12:58:45 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: americanophile

Headline doesn’t match the story. Which is it?


47 posted on 03/01/2011 12:59:01 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A few months from now, some powerful, corrupt, long-term leftist legislator will be making long-winded speeches calling these Marines cold-blooded murderers, and there will still be trials and courts martial going on 10 years from now to justify some officers’ incompetence.

P.S. Hope they do not call up ready reserves, or our boys might be going....


48 posted on 03/01/2011 12:59:32 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: cripplecreek

LOL, no kidding.


49 posted on 03/01/2011 1:00:21 PM PST by Obadiah (If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?)
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To: SMARTY

Hillary (and Bubba) probably told Urkel that this is the best shot at playing commander that he’s likely to have. You can almost hear BJ telling him, “when it lands in your lap like that, lean back and enjoy the ride!”
Brief, surgical, UN-approved, and 40 years overdue. I predict a poll boost for 0bama. :(
Colonel Bizarro and his spawn are going to be starring in a Hitler parody by Friday.


50 posted on 03/01/2011 1:01:16 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: americanophile

“Personally, I think this is one we should stay out of. We’ve asked enough of our boys in actions in the Middle East. They’ll hate us no matter what we do...”

You wrote exactly what I was thinking.


51 posted on 03/01/2011 1:02:02 PM PST by Avid Coug
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; All

Have not read whole thread fully, can someone tell me which Marines are going over? I in the beginning of a Panic Attact here. Anyone???/


52 posted on 03/01/2011 1:02:05 PM PST by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 ~ 7/2/2010 - See you on the other side!)
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To: Thunder90

Hmmmm Imagine That . . . the arrival is perfectly timed with Obama’s Libyan speech for Thursday.


53 posted on 03/01/2011 1:02:05 PM PST by mentor2k
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To: Larry Lucido

I think that all the info they have is that the U.S. is deploying Marines. The rest is background filler.


54 posted on 03/01/2011 1:02:15 PM PST by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: TSgt

Gates said we were sending planes, but we haven’t received any requests for air cover from the rebels yet. Are they the forces we take directions from now?


56 posted on 03/01/2011 1:02:49 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Reagan69
It's 3:00AM in Iran and the phone is ringing in Ahmadinanutjob's bedroom. The phone call is to deliver the good fortune to Iran's leader, that a small contingent of American Marines are about to beach in Tripoli.

"Big Things!" The Iranian president was heard saying...........

57 posted on 03/01/2011 1:03:13 PM PST by blackdog
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To: library user

400


58 posted on 03/01/2011 1:03:36 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: bareford101

how tragic for America to be always playing catch up. I can remember when we set the bar.

I’m 72, and we have been playing catch up all of the last century and this century.

My Dad was a WWI Vet, he and his fellow vets were drafted from their farms/ranches/stores/wherever to fight a German professional army. That was a big catchup.

I’m 72, and my first real memory was Pearl Harbor another example of catchup. Then came the NK invasion of SK and then the ChiCom invasion of Korea.

The cold war got hotter and about exploded with the Cuban Crisis and that evolved into the Viet Nam war. I was on active duty during those two catchups.

Then the Islamofascists took over Iran and we have been catching up since then.

9/11 was another catchup.

Now we have Libya, Egypt and most of the middle east/North Africa getting ready to explode.

This part of your reply is the big difference and danger with the thugs of 0b0z0 in charge.

“how tragic for America to be always playing catch up. I can remember when we set the bar. But now we sit AT the bar instead throwing parties for Gladys Knight one week and motown the next...turning the white house into a sleezy place”

But now we sit AT the bar instead throwing parties for Gladys Knight one week and motown the next...turning the white house into a sleezy place


59 posted on 03/01/2011 1:04:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: americanophile

this is typical of Obama a tepid response some Marines and two amphibious landing craft to evacuate more Westerners. He will do the least possible and than he will expect the praise when and if Qaddaffi falls. A prseident whom has no backbone and no spirit to fight for anything than mediocrity. Obama is quoting Harry reid “This War is lost, that is in Libya by the USA”


60 posted on 03/01/2011 1:04:57 PM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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