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Wish I could say I'm surprised.
1 posted on 03/20/2011 11:51:23 AM PDT by Racehorse
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To: Racehorse

Open the can of worms and dump it on Zero.


2 posted on 03/20/2011 11:58:21 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Racehorse
A shift away from the Arab League endorsement, even partial, would constitute an important setback to the U.S.-European campaign. Western leaders brandished the Arab League decision as a justification for their decision to move militarily and as a weapon in the debate to obtain a U.N. Security Council resolution two days before the bombing began.

Apparently the children in the White House have never sat in the Khan el-Khalili in Cairo and dickered with an Arab. We have been played like a fiddle.

3 posted on 03/20/2011 12:01:57 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: Racehorse

Well, they should get off their collective lard asses and do something!

I am so tired of these gigantic sacks of corrupt camel poo and their so called religion.


4 posted on 03/20/2011 12:03:29 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!)
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To: Racehorse

did anyone just hear a mousetrap snap shut?

How the HELL do they think a ‘no-fly zone’ is created? with flying carpets?

I am SICKTODEATH of hearing about ‘muslim land’ / ‘our holy land’. There is no incorporating muslims into a based-on-equals world community. There will never be a welcome mat in the muslim world for Christians or athiests or agnostics or treehuggers and they will never cooperate for a common cause - you might as well try to ride the sun.
IMO JMO MOO


5 posted on 03/20/2011 12:09:16 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Racehorse
How much of this is for the consumption of their people? "I'm shocked, shocked that the first move in setting up a no fly zone is knocking out the air defense system of a country (psst, keep it up guys)."
6 posted on 03/20/2011 12:11:03 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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To: Racehorse

The word *steadfast” does not exist in the Arab dictionary.


7 posted on 03/20/2011 12:11:46 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Racehorse

Oh so now they are complaining after their Muslim Brother Obama decided to help them? This does speak volumes doesn’t it?

Just nuke Libya—they aren’t worth the trouble and money to “help” them!


10 posted on 03/20/2011 12:15:23 PM PDT by Tea Party Reveler
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To: Racehorse

Tell them fine you handle Libya,Iraq and Afghanistan,We need to go home and drill for Oil.


11 posted on 03/20/2011 12:18:24 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Racehorse

Well, that didn’t take long.


12 posted on 03/20/2011 12:19:27 PM PDT by Kozak ("It's not an Election it's a Restraining Order" .....PJ O'Rourke)
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To: Racehorse

LOL! Jimmah’s, uh, I mean Barrack’s Big Middle Eastern Adventure is blowing up in his face already!

Guess I wasn’t the only one that was surprised to see tanks being blown up in a no-fly zone.

Next thing you know, the Arab League is going to say that they thought a no-fly zone meant a place where you used bug spray to try and kill flys.


13 posted on 03/20/2011 12:19:32 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the right stuff!)
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To: Racehorse
I think we missed a priceless "teachable moment" here.

The moment the Arab League said that, I would have halted all military action and withdrawn our forces to a safe distance.

Then tell the Arab League, you're right. Our efforts to enforce a no-fly zone and protect the people of Libya has caused civilian causalities. We have ceased all action and withdraw to a safe, non-intervention distance.

You have spend countless billions of dollars on building your military forces. We will sit back and take notes as you show us how to deal with this issue without causing any civilian causalities or collateral damage. The world is watching and so are we. This is your problem in your neighborhood. Show us your solution.

17 posted on 03/20/2011 12:29:53 PM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: Racehorse

Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha! Who could`nt see this coming? So much for the commies “coalition.” Condemnation from the UN will be next, and Canada and our European allies will start backing out, leaving the US holding the bag.


18 posted on 03/20/2011 12:36:22 PM PDT by chessplayer
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Our people in the White House are extremely naive, but so are the Arabs.


19 posted on 03/20/2011 12:49:53 PM PDT by texmexis best
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The powers that be keep repeating the phrase that premises all this action "protect innocent civilians".

Are we now the world police attacking sovereign nations with no strategic vital national interests -we just find and protect "innocent civilians"?

The primary function and mandate of a government is to its citizens. The US has no stated vital interest in Libya...

I say call a spade a spade. IF there is some interest then 0marxo should state it and see if Americans agree with him. This action clearly is an act of war and support of revolutionaries unknown in Libya. 0marxo is being given a free ride by the press as he engages in this odyssey...

20 posted on 03/20/2011 1:23:30 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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“4. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, and acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011), to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory, and requests the Member States concerned to inform the Secretary-General immediately of the measures they take pursuant to the authorization conferred by this paragraph which shall be immediately reported to the Security Council;”
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/20/video-us-launches-stealth-bombers-more-than-100-cruise-missiles-against-libya/

Looks like the UN gave carte blanche to obama, and he can target anything he wishes under the guise of protecting civilians.


25 posted on 03/20/2011 2:20:23 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Racehorse

When the arab league condemns you, you know you’re on the right track.


26 posted on 03/20/2011 2:28:12 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Since when did FReepers embrace pacifism? 189 Americans were BUTCHERED at Lockerbie!)
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To: Racehorse

The Great Satan does the bidding of muslims. Why is it that we have to fight THEIR wars? Don’t they have enough camels and rocks to fight their own battles?


27 posted on 03/20/2011 2:47:37 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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The White House and State Department misinterpreted the Arabs’ “No Fly Zone” communique. They wanted UN public health teams to eradicate maggots and flies from Libya.


28 posted on 03/20/2011 2:52:59 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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“What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone,” he said in a statement on the official Middle East News Agency. “And what we want is the protection of civilians and not the shelling of more civilians.”

You wanted a nice sanitary armed intervention?
How many interventions has the Arab League accomplished with zero civilian casualties?

How could you tell the civilians if all the sandmaggots wear civilian dresses?

30 posted on 03/20/2011 9:11:05 PM PDT by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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