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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Quagmire.
No blood for oil.
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?
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.
Or to borrow the left's mantra for so many years, "What's the plan to win the peace?"
Rush to war!
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.
WIki says $569,000
I guess memory doesn’t serve so well. :-)
“We’re only sending advisors to Vietnam, they won’t see any combat.”
Can somebody tell me what strategic value that shithole is? Oh I forgot, it concerns Europas oil.
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?)
“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.
Yep.
But we have Amphibious Ready Groups over there just in case we need to land helicopters and hovercraft on the shores of... Benghazi.
$569,999 in those days probably is close to $700,000 nowadays
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.
They better hope this EEFr hasnt got any exocet missiles and the ability to get them off.
Touche! You hit the nail on the head!
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.
Russian-President-Dmitry-Medvedev-pulls-new-world-currency-from-his-pocket
“First Phase”?
He damn well better not put boots on the ground! Time for us to hit the Congresscritters phones and emails HARD.
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