[jmcenanly]

The Marines still sing about the last time the Enterprise was in Tripoli. http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm

If Lieutenant Decatur knew about the legacy of the ships, both real and imagined, that bore the name of his command, I am sure he'd be proud.

[ETL]

“Gadhafi has been tied to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s spiritual adviser for more than 23 years.

The Libyan dictator also has financed and strongly supported the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan. Obama has ties to Farrakhan and his controversial group.”

http://nation.foxnews.com/rev-wright/2011/02/23/qaddafi-has-been-tied-rev-jeremiah-wright
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“In 1984, Wright traveled to Libya with Louis Farrakhan to meet the enemy of America back then, [Gadhafi].”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352870,00.html

[hattend]

Here we go. Obama’s Bosnia

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Still, the Enterprise - with its compliment of F-14 Tomcat fighters - is not the best candidate for a humanitarian aid mission."

As many have already alluded to, the F-14 has been out of use since about 2005. The enterprise is packed with F-18's and hopefully soon, F-35's in the near future. The Enterprise can be used to enforce the no fly zone while the Kearsage's Helos can be used for delivering relief supplies, etc. And, if need be deliver Marines to re-earn the Marmaluke sword.

From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli baby!

[NavyCanDo]

Do we not still have a Carrier Air Wing patrolling the Mediterranean? When I was in the Navy during the Reagan years, The Forrestal, Kennedy, and us the Saratoga would rotate 6th Fleet Med duties. Flight Ops off Libya's coast taunting the dirty Sierra Oscar Bravo was allot of what we did our six months there.

[hondact200]

The US Military is going after the 10 - 14 Tons of mustard gas that Qaddaffi has failed to destroy. In 2003 Qaddaffi agreed to destroy the tons of mustard gas and the containers for delivery via scud missles. he achieved destroying the missles for delivery and attempted to destroy some of the mustard gas. But, he has failed to honor the commitments to the UN and the Us regarding the destruction of the mustard gas that was to be achieved by the end of 2011 as directed in the removing of embargo by the uS.

Okay something happened to make him change his mind

Okay on monday I typed in “mustard gas in Libya in yahoo browser” to find out what happened to the so called WMDs of Libya. the amount of mustard gas varies 44,000 containers, 10 tons 14, tons. So you can read about yourself if it has not been removed

[Joe 6-pack]

"USS Enterprise On Its Way To Libya..."

What the media is not telling us is that Obama expressed his desire to speak directly to Captain Kirk to wish him good luck with the mission.

[redgolum]

Let the EU handle it.

Sorry, we have enough right now. There is no justification for this.

[Moose4]

This could be the Big E’s swan song. She’s scheduled to be retired in the next year or two, to be replaced by either (I think) the George H.W. Bush or the Gerald Ford.

}:-)4

[Moleman]

I have been a member here for many years and I have never seen so much hatred for the President and anything and everything he does. Had President Bush been in office many would be calling for the head of Qaddafi and to invade. Many here are acting like the babies on DU that blamed Bush for EVERYTHING that went wrong in the world. Lighten up folks.

[The Great RJ]

This should have been done weeks ago at the start of the Egyptian crisis if for no other reason than to evacuate Americans. Again Obama dithers, relies on weak kneed diplomats and the “good will” of Muslims who supposedly love him.

[dragonblustar]

Scotty, warp factor seven.

[americanophile]

Let’s stay out of this one.

[rmlew]

So the US Navy is going to help end Qadaffi’s military attacks on the growing Emirate of Barqa, which has ties to AQIM. This isn’t going to bite us in the rear.

[Typical_Whitey]

OMG deja vu, I was on the Enterprise in 1986 when we got called out of the Indian Ocean and became the first nuke carrier to transit the suez canal helping to bomb Libya after onstation in the med.....

full accounting of that deployment available here...

http://www.history.navy.mil/shiphist/e/cvn-65/1986.pdf