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U.S. says missile strikes on Libya only "first phase"
reuters ^ | March 19, 2011 | Missy Ryan and Phil Stewart

Posted on 03/19/2011 8:16:56 PM PDT by PROCON

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To: dfwgator

A few days...until they shoot down a bomber or attack one of our ships. Then there will be a half ass recuse attempt{Think Desert One in Iran, circa 1979}
Obama will mircomanage the war with the UN. He will make LBJ seem like Curtis LeMay.


121 posted on 03/20/2011 2:49:00 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Darkwolf377
But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States...

Well, he sure doesn't NOW, does he, Barry? MWAHAHAHAHAHA

Good quotes...good demonstration of what a hypocrite Barry is.

122 posted on 03/20/2011 2:57:10 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Vigilanteman
Obozo got a green light from the international community, but did he get a resolution from congress? Bush got congressional approval for both Afghanistan and Iraq, if you recall.

,,, Bush also had to kiss the UN's arse with $US14b in back dues before the first shot was fired in Iraq. The UN parasites would have spent some of that in top restaurants all over the world - it's not as easy to be a critic with your mouth full.

123 posted on 03/20/2011 3:44:40 AM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: cmj328
You also have to fill the vacuum. Good luck there.
124 posted on 03/20/2011 3:48:46 AM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: EBH

I’d call this : Operation We Don’t Know What We Are Doing.

At best. nobama is obviously such a great leader.

EPIC FAIL PRESIDENCY


125 posted on 03/20/2011 4:19:51 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: PROCON
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126 posted on 03/20/2011 4:35:45 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: PROCON

I don’t remember the President bringing this to the American people. Only thing I remember is his initial threats to Libya.


127 posted on 03/20/2011 4:57:19 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: tsowellfan

No Blood for Oil

No Blood for Oil

No Blood for Oil

...Oh sorry, that was when Bush was President.


128 posted on 03/20/2011 5:05:03 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: cmj328
Finishing it doesn’t end with killing Qaddafi. You also have to fill the vacuum

And we've yet to know what kind of government will be next door in Egypt.

129 posted on 03/20/2011 5:13:46 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: PROCON
It just pisses me off and depresses me that 0bama has control over the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen, OUR MILITARY!
But you know what? This IS OUR MILITARY and we should be backing them not making a lot of comments about Obama. It makes FR look one-issue minded and just gives ammunition to the enemy (the libs, not Libya). There are a million things to blast the annoited one for but this isn't one of them. I sincerely hope this Libya intervention is quick, clean and successful. I could care less who the CIC is I want our military to show the world how it is done.
130 posted on 03/20/2011 5:27:50 AM PDT by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12)
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To: PROCON

This has to be the most politically correct military action in history and a worrying blueprint for the future.

I have lost track of the amount of time I have heard ‘muslim nations supporting’ ‘arab nations participating’ ‘UN authorised’ ‘completely legal’.....bore off you cretinous incompetent liberals.

A real leader would have taken action ages ago, a real leader with have made targets number 1 Gaddafi and number 2 the lockerbie bomber and said screw the other muslim/arab nations.....this is a pathetic exercise aimed at making some really small men (namely Sarkozy and Cameron) look like Thatcher and Reagan.

I am interested to know when they will be taking China, Russia, Syria, Iran to task......of course they won’t, the hypocritical so and so’s they are....


131 posted on 03/20/2011 5:39:21 AM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: tsowellfan

Whatever the arguments for or against intervention,it is clear that Obama’s decision was based entirely on political considerations. He did not want to intervene, but his advisors were warning him of the optics of having the Libyan rebels and thousands of civilians killed by a madman, while the US sat back and watched the carnage.


132 posted on 03/20/2011 6:15:24 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: PROCON

Dammit, we needed to stay the hell out of all of this stuff going on in the Mid-East right now. Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, etc. etc. STAY OUT.

Yep. And so it begins....*sigh*


133 posted on 03/20/2011 6:18:07 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: littleharbour
his advisors were warning him of the optics of having the Libyan rebels and thousands of civilians killed by a madman

"Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Wednesday that a no-fly zone in Libya may not be the best solution."

And what will happen to those civilians after the government is gone? Another Somalia?

134 posted on 03/20/2011 6:22:50 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: sickoflibs
Absolutely amazing stuff at DU. . . hard to comprehend how their thought processes work. Brainwashing early on? Do they know nothing of history? Do they read anything?
135 posted on 03/20/2011 6:33:01 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It isn’t simply a vacation...Bo is doing business with them and brought the key players with him to do so...basically he brought his “whole” family with him to enjoy the sites...figure that! Had Bush taken his the news would have been all over that.

BUt my grip is he’s going there to enhance business deals which will create jobs for them while he does literally nothing here. But then that’s what globalists do....he is not for our country..just using it to further his own interests as we know.


136 posted on 03/20/2011 7:40:18 AM PDT by caww
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To: Art in Idaho; Munz

The news cycle goes round and round with tragedy after tragedy and everyone gets cought up in this fear mongling and that and forgets NWO is their ultimate goal. Why?

The GOP are sitting on their hands. The vote will be split-let’s face it people will write in Palin even if she does not run and other idiots will vote for a Romney and Obama will win and be king and we won’t be able to come on here daily and whine about him.


137 posted on 03/20/2011 7:47:25 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: PROCON

Bump.


138 posted on 03/20/2011 7:51:41 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: Vigilanteman

that’s is what bugs me , well along with him on vacation with the family and Frigging mother in law on our dime.

Bush went to congress and had the votes to go to war.
Obama goes to Rio and declares war and there is no outrage form the left and the media which lets be honest now they are a joke and have been for some time.

Bush goes to congress for war
Obama goes to Rio for war

Oh I don’t know but maybe someone could actually see the difference here and who is the war monger er now


139 posted on 03/20/2011 7:54:03 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: CurlyBill

Go Mirage! The French went in without any cover blind on Libya’s air defense.

Go Sarkozy the American! He’s more American than bloody Obama.


140 posted on 03/20/2011 7:56:36 AM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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