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Likely Libya Attack Strategy - Cruise Missiles, Then Bombing
Times of Malta ^ | March 19, 2011 | AFP

Posted on 03/19/2011 7:36:20 AM PDT by Strategy

Action to stop Libyan forces bombing rebels could start with a cruise missile strike to neutralise air defences, close-up bombing of runways and then patrols to enforce a no-fly zone, experts say.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofmalta.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afp; libya; obama
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To: bigheadfred

Did you mean civilian or were you being Obama?


21 posted on 03/19/2011 7:54:59 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: Strategy

22 posted on 03/19/2011 7:57:09 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Eurotwit

This is all about freedom and protecting innocent people. The world must act.

Now - for all you other countries that have tried to rise up over the years - and have been squashed by your leaders - well you don’t really count.

Psst it is all about the oil


23 posted on 03/19/2011 7:58:10 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: TomT in NJ

bttt


24 posted on 03/19/2011 7:58:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Thank goodness - with this new policy it appears we WILL be attacking Iran soon! Among other countries that have protests.

Endless!!!!


25 posted on 03/19/2011 8:00:08 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: silentknight

When we attack Bahrain and Saudi Arabia our forces won’t have far to travel.


26 posted on 03/19/2011 8:01:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

We have no business in Libya. Not our fight.

Might as well be machine gunning the illegals crossing our border. That type is killing is more justified.


27 posted on 03/19/2011 8:02:06 AM PDT by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: Eurotwit

I think their deployment was moved up is all. There is already a presence I am sure. It sounds like they will rock and roll and do it right.

The French took the political lead I never thought I’d see the day.


28 posted on 03/19/2011 8:02:09 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2691292/posts

If we do ANYTHING, we should park a battleship off from Gaza and fire cruise missiles at the Palis.


29 posted on 03/19/2011 8:07:21 AM PDT by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: bigheadfred

Oh I agree. Barry incited the mobs and war. <-—————READ THAT OUTLOUD an anti war progressive OBAMA started this then sat until the woosy French and UN said OH WE MUST STOP THIS . It is Obama that must fix his eff up he is an idiot.It is all a part of a plan of them trying to clean up the radicals so they can have NWO.

But once military orders are ordered I support the troops do or die no matter what.


30 posted on 03/19/2011 8:07:32 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

But, just like the bullsh!+ in Afghanistan and Iraq, the “troops” don’t have to obey an order they don’t feel is right.


31 posted on 03/19/2011 8:09:57 AM PDT by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: hal ogen

On a whim? O please...mowing down citizens who want freedom is not a whim. Good lord....


32 posted on 03/19/2011 8:10:13 AM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!; DarthVader; nutmeg
“The French took the political lead I never thought I’d see the day.”

Welcome to the aftermath of 54% of the voters voting to install an incompetent AA as POTUS.

Like I've posted before, I don't know how to implement it, but any and every piece of sh*t that voted “Obama/Biden” in 2008 should have their voting privileges revoked permanently.

33 posted on 03/19/2011 8:19:30 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Some men DO just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: silentknight
Psst it is all about the oil.

Sounds like a perfectly good reason to me. Only problem I see is the mystery of who will take Gadhafi's place.

Too bad Reagan could not kill that long time murderer of Americans.

1986: Berlin discotheque bombing
1989: UTA Flight 772 bombing
2003: Lockerbie bombing

34 posted on 03/19/2011 8:19:58 AM PDT by Racehorse (Always preach the Gospel . . . . Use words if necessary.)
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To: Racehorse
“Too bad Reagan could not kill that long time murderer of Americans.”

“Only problem I see is the mystery of who will take Gadhafi’s place.”

You answered your own question. RR could have blown Q-Daffy up along with the rest of his family but chose not to, because as wacky as it sounds, the replacement will most likely be worse.

35 posted on 03/19/2011 8:24:10 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Some men DO just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: fabian

Do we really know they want “freedom”? Maybe they just want to supplant Gadhaffi’s dictatorship with a dictatorship of mullahs and sharia. Just who are these purported “freedom-fighters”? Further, if they are trying to kill Gadhaffi, doesn’t he have the right to try to kill them first? I agree if they are just standing around living they should not be randomly shot. I really don’t think the residents of Libya are seeking some sort of kumbaya moment of democracy and love.


36 posted on 03/19/2011 8:24:13 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: WestwardHo
"Has anyone learned whose plane was shot down? I saw the photo, but no ID was included."
Similar question. I am sure I saw a forward conard wing on the downed jet shown in the Fox News video. And MIG23's don't have that forward nose wing.
37 posted on 03/19/2011 8:26:08 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: RC2

If that’s the case, then we have taken the right approach on this. No reason to bash the President over this, he didn’t want to get involved in Libya but our allies Britain and France wanted to do something so of course we have to support them. Or what are allies for?


38 posted on 03/19/2011 8:29:12 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: JoeProBono

The French may have shot down their first enemy aircraft since 1918.


39 posted on 03/19/2011 8:29:43 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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40 posted on 03/19/2011 8:32:56 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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