Posted on 06/21/2011 3:07:11 AM PDT by grundle
NATO air strikes killed nine civilians in the Arada neighbourhood of Tripoli, which is a known anti-Gaddafi stronghold, the regime said Sunday. The incident occurred a day after the government accused NATO of specifically targeting civilians.
AFP - NATO said Sunday it was investigating Libyan claims that nine civilians, two of them of toddlers, were killed in an alliance air raid...
Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told AFP that a NATO air strike on a residential district of Tripoli early on Sunday killed nine people...
Earlier in the day, journalists had been shown the bodies of five people, one of them a woman and two of them toddlers.
"The other four people were killed as they passed by in front of the block of flats when the raid hit," Ibrahim said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Crickets from the MSM... who when Bush was president, reported that nearly everyone our troops attacked or our forces bombed was women, infants, children or women holding infants and children.
That’s what happens when a Middle-East despot sets his military gear up outside but as close as possible to a civilian housing estate and uses unarmed civilians as human sheilds.Don’t worry -it’s only invetable that innocent people die in conflicts like this,there is no way to prevent it short of abandoning any attacks at all.If that happens then the enemy has won.
“Crickets from the MSM... “
Crickets from everyone. Violation of the war powers act and conducting a war without congress is an impeachable offense.
The prosecution of the president on that basis is something many “progressives” would get behind.
Just about everything 0bama has done is an impeachable offense. But from a practical perspective, impeachment is a non-starter, as no Democrat (and we'd need at least 20) would vote for conviction.
I fault Congress for continuing to fund this illegal war. I don't even cite the unconstitutional War Powers Act. I cite Congress' already well-established Constitutional authority to fund all operations of government. Congress bleats on and on about 0bama not giving an explanation for our latest war but continues to fund it. Perhaps if Congress cut off the funds for this war, then we might get an explanation as to why we are in Libya to begin with.
Congress has done nothing but sit on their hands and let the Kenyan run wild.
If Congress cannot get a law passed, Obama goes aroud them with a regulation, In they cannot get an appointment, he creates a czar.
Congress just shakes their heads and wanders off in another direction. Useless as teats on a boar hog.
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