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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

Reuters) - A series of more than 110 cruise missile strikes on Libyan targets is only the first phase of a multiphase operation, a senior U.S. military official said on Saturday.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: libya
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To: PROCON

Quagmire.

No blood for oil.


41 posted on 03/19/2011 8:45:05 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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To: Absolutely Nobama
Or the EU’s war.

Or the war, ($114 Mil today), to advance worldwide socialism/communism - paid by You! Don't you feel good!

P.S. I never go there, but I bet the DU folks are exploding - or are they going to somehow spin this?

42 posted on 03/19/2011 8:50:36 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: PROCON

Yeah, President Dunham-Marshall-Soetoro, we know war is more than a handful of Tomahawks. But your dipshit voters probably didn’t, so your Captain Obvious Update wasn’t totally in vain.


43 posted on 03/19/2011 8:52:34 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: cmj328
"Finishing it doesn’t end with killing Qaddafi. You also have to fill the vacuum. Good luck there."

Or to borrow the left's mantra for so many years, "What's the plan to win the peace?"

44 posted on 03/19/2011 8:53:05 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: FLAMING DEATH

Rush to war!


45 posted on 03/19/2011 8:53:12 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: PROCON

I agree.

This whole pretend thing about a no fly zone and then promising no ground troops when they are stationed right there really ticks me off.


46 posted on 03/19/2011 8:56:23 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: cripplecreek

WIki says $569,000


47 posted on 03/19/2011 8:57:34 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: FourPeas

I guess memory doesn’t serve so well. :-)


48 posted on 03/19/2011 8:57:41 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (I don't prep for the disaster. I prepare for the rebuilding.)
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To: GeronL

“We’re only sending advisors to Vietnam, they won’t see any combat.”


49 posted on 03/19/2011 8:57:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PROCON

Can somebody tell me what strategic value that shithole is? Oh I forgot, it concerns Europas oil.


50 posted on 03/19/2011 8:59:48 PM PDT by crz
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To: Art in Idaho
"... P.S. I never go there, but I bet the DU folks are exploding - or are they going to somehow spin this?"

Overwhelmingly, they're ignoring it. That's what they do at those times when they get clobbered in the head by the hypocrisy boomerang.

Oh, there's some threads over there for sure, but the general tone amounts to them pulling the joint out of their mouth just long enough to say "Woah, does this mean that Obama is going to have to delay closing Guantanamo again?".

The few progressives over there who stick to their ideological guns have to be very careful about what they say or they'll get edited for making 'right wing disparaging comments about a Democrat', which is an official reason for being censored on DU.

(Yeah, I know some DU people are reading this thread. I see you over there. How do you like it that your Unicorn-riding President is launching hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars worth of cruise missiles at little brown people in the Third World while he's celebrating at Carnival in Rio with executive fat cats from Halliburton and big oil companies in his entourage?

About ready to smash your President Barack Obama Limited Edition Collector's Plate set yet?)

51 posted on 03/19/2011 9:02:34 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: PROCON

“only the first phase of a multiphase operation”

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sec_50_00001543——000-.html

(a) Written report; time of submission; circumstances necessitating submission; information reported
In the absence of a declaration of war, in any case in which United States Armed Forces are introduced—
(1) into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances;
(2) into the territory, airspace or waters of a foreign nation, while equipped for combat, except for deployments which relate solely to supply, replacement, repair, or training of such forces; or
(3) in numbers which substantially enlarge United States Armed Forces equipped for combat already located in a foreign nation;
the President shall submit within 48 hours to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President pro tempore of the Senate a report, in writing, setting forth—
(A) the circumstances necessitating the introduction of United States Armed Forces;
(B) the constitutional and legislative authority under which such introduction took place; and
(C) the estimated scope and duration of the hostilities or involvement.

Gee, our (putative) president decides the DOM act violates the equal protection clause so the Dept. of Justice won’t enforce it (or our Immigration laws) and this military action is going to require several phases, apparently not requiring the input of either the judicial or legislative branches.

We could save a lot of money if we just did away with the two superfluous branches of government and made Obama king-for-life.


52 posted on 03/19/2011 9:02:47 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: dfwgator

Yep.

But we have Amphibious Ready Groups over there just in case we need to land helicopters and hovercraft on the shores of... Benghazi.


53 posted on 03/19/2011 9:02:47 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: FourPeas

$569,999 in those days probably is close to $700,000 nowadays


54 posted on 03/19/2011 9:03:35 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: PROCON

They want all the loon countries out of the way for their UNITY
IN DIVERSITY NWO currency and government. Obama will high five Gadaffy duck with some more money (SEE CAIRO) and some plant Libya leader will be put in that loves NWO.


55 posted on 03/19/2011 9:05:27 PM 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

They better hope this EEFr hasnt got any exocet missiles and the ability to get them off.


56 posted on 03/19/2011 9:13:08 PM PDT by crz
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Touche! You hit the nail on the head!


57 posted on 03/19/2011 9:21:16 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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To: Vigilanteman

I think Clinton did the same thing in Kosovo. I always brought this up but nobody would answer. Hilarious—now the messiah does the same.


58 posted on 03/19/2011 9:21:16 PM PDT by CommieCutter (Promote Liberal Extinction: Support gay marriage and abortion!)
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To: dfwgator
Obama's Az. Memorial/campaign speech used the term UNITY IN DIVERSITY.

Russian-President-Dmitry-Medvedev-pulls-new-world-currency-from-his-pocket

http://udcworld.org/

http://www.futureworldcurrency.com

59 posted on 03/19/2011 9:22:33 PM 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

“First Phase”?

He damn well better not put boots on the ground! Time for us to hit the Congresscritters phones and emails HARD.


60 posted on 03/19/2011 9:23:36 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("We stand together or we fall apart" mt)
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