Posted on 03/25/2011 3:22:04 PM PDT by illiac
(Reuters) - A NATO decision to take charge of a no-fly zone over Libya does not include conducting air strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's ground forces, a mission that will remain in U.S. hands until a new command deal is reached, Vice Admiral Bill Gortney said on Friday.
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This has got to be the most screwed up “kinetic military action” ever.....
A monkey having sex with a football.
The ‘turned over to NATO’ story was total B.S. No surprise to anyone here, but that won’t stop the MSM from pushing the story.
Hot potato! Hot potato!
Win the Future, Kinetic Military Action... I’m so old I can remember when WTF and KMA stood for other things.
And by the way, we already have ‘boots on the ground’ in Libya. Special ops forces, marines, who won’t get medals for their bravery because they’re ‘not there’. Don’t know if they get hazardous duty pay, either. This was discussed on WRKO radio this afternoon. Since we’re ‘not at war’, our dear leader and his admin. lie to the American people 24/7 about everything. When will we impeach this jerk? Biden said about Bush in 2004 or 2007 that his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan would have been impeachable offenses had he not consulted Congress. But we’re ‘not at war’, not a peep from the MSM or Biden.
Sidebar: NPR had the Palestinian lobby on two or three years ago, they were in DC launching the effort to get the US to build and maintain a Palestinian state, from soup to nuts. We were to fund and maintain it, educate its ‘citizens’, build the infrastructure and army, and if necessary keep a US army there to protect them from Israel. Now Hillary’s proposing it as US policy.
This just in from the Left Holding the Bag desk.
Thanks illiac.
“A NATO decision to take charge of a no-fly zone over Libya does not include conducting air strikes against Muammar Gaddafi’s ground forces”
What the f**k they gonna do? Pick up spent cartridge cases?
Its like they are taking control only different. LOL!
Enforce the no-fly zone and nothing else.
The funny thing is that ll the democrats screamed that Bush was in Iraq for oil ...
In fact isn’t that exactly what Obama is doing For BP’s 900 million dollar Libyan oil deal
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110317-712221.html
In Obama’s letter to congress he says that he attacked because of”
“Qadhafi’s defiance of the Arab League, as well as the broader international community moreover, represents a lawless challenge to the authority of the Security Council and its efforts to preserve stability in the region”
OIL people .. he attacked as the U.N.’s strong arm to protect the oil that BP is drilling for and their $900 billion oil deal.
If not, why didn’t he attack Iran? They did a heck of a lot more to their civilians when they started uprising.
What a joke this whole thing is ... a sad joke and we are the ones being laughed at. If we were drilling here now, and were not dependent on foreign oil, there is no way we would be there.
Off course Obama can’t let Qadafi decide which Libyans to kill. That’s up to the UN.
I can see now where the downslide of society has taken us. Politicians on National News outlets talk about vaporizing and killing human beings as if they’re speaking about a video game and no one seems to mind. Make no mistake, Obama and Hilary will send our blood and treasure into harm’s way with the same attitude as to their value. The rule of law and justice seems to have been given over to who can muster the biggest screaming mob. If your mob happens to be smaller, or doesn’t happen to serve the interests of the “powers that be” at the moment, then you become less than human, along with your counterparts. Not only will the World Order “level the playing field” for you; it will gladly and without concience, make it possible for a gnat to overcome you. I’m pretty certain those Quadafi loyalists that were incinerated, thought they were riding into a legitimate battle with the rebels under a “no fly zone”. Nothing about this “war that isn’t really a war” has been done with any honor whatsoever.
If the objective is to kill Qadafi, so be it. But say so. This lying and subterfuge does not represent America’s best.
This bothers something deep in my heart, and smacks of something very wrong that is happening, not only in the world, but in the United States especially.
There is no way that Obama can ever convince me that he has done this for “humanitarian” reasons.
Geez...why don’t we just handle this the old-fashioned way and bribe Gaddafi into leaving Libya and going into exile? Why do we have to attack Libya with airstrikes? Every man has his price. Just let him keep his $30 billion and get him out of there. Are the Clintons running our foreign policy again?
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