Posted on 03/17/2011 3:48:48 PM PDT by Ed25
Here we go..
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Let the Egyptians enforce it. They have a good sized air force.
Obama just got what he pretended he wanted but assumed they would not give him
10-0 for with 5 abstentions on the UN vote.
Debka mentions air forces of the US, UK, France, Oman and UAE.
God Bless Our pilots! It’s time to unite around our President.
The United Nations Security Council has voted on a resolution authorising military intervention in Libya to protect Libyan citizens, including the enforcement of a no-fly zone.
The members of the UNSC voted with 10 in favour, none against the resolution and five abstentions.
The resolution fulfills a long-standing demand from pro-democracy opposition forces in Libya asking for a no-fly zone to be established in order to prevent Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, from using fighter jets to bombard their positions, as they have been doing.
It comes just a few hours after Gaddafi warned residents of Benghazi, an opposition stronghold, that his forces would show “no mercy” in an impending assault on the city.
The draft of the resolution was prepared by the United Kingdom, France and Lebanon, and in the hours ahead of the meeting the United States appeared to have changed its stance on the issue by actively backing calls for not just a no-fly zone, but also strikes against Libyan military targets that could be mobilised against civilians.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said there was not much time left for the international community to act.
“France is very much involved in this action and has prepared the draft resolution. We have one goal… we want to stop the attacks by the Gaddafi regime against civilian populations.
“And it’s a question of days or hours because the pressure against Benghazi, especially, is now very tough.”
The Libyan defence ministry on Thursday, before the vote, warned that any military intervention in Libya would endanger air and sea traffic in the Mediterranean Sea.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201131720311168561.html
Great, an third war.
Great folks. I do not support this one iota.
Massive celebratory gunfire in Benghazi after the UN vote
Where is your /sarc tag?
I pray not one of our military members is injured or killed in this unnecessary mission which is too little and too late.
I was about to say,
“I’m very proud of my fellow conservatives, to not fall for the usual jingoistic manipulations as they did with Kosovo”.
Unless you’re joking, I’ll exclude you in that statement!
“UN Security Council approves no-fly zone resolution for Libya”
That’s nice.
Let France, Costa Rica (no airforce? too bad), Guatemala, Uruguay, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Egypt, Nigeria, and the G-damned duplicitous Saudi bastards enforce it.
The UN A$$holes approve it, so long as the UNITED STATES funds it, does the heavy lifting and looses the most lives. F**k these bastards.
A new theater of military operations for a nation with a 2011 $1,650,000,000,000 budget deficit.
Just what we need (not).
The responses tend to be funnier and more creative when the comment accidentally gets sent without the /sarc tag?
Nice of them to wait until most of the opposition was killed off. Maybe that was intentional.
I’ll bet the chins and russians are on the abstention list.
And we have no idea who will replace him. It may be someone worse than Bin Laden and then we have another country we will have to invade (and we all know dems LOVE the Draft)
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