"Winning!"
Posted on 03/23/2011 10:14:17 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Support for Operation Odyssey Dawn is withering. China, which abstained from voting for the UN resolution to bomb Libya, is now calling for an immediate cease-fire, according to the AP.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/libya-tuesday-march-22-2011-3#ixzz1HUT2FWnS
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What is that?
According to M-W an odyssey is: a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
Isn't an odyssey dawn the start of a long, wandering trip or voyage with no end in sight?
Gonna be a looooooooong war.
These putzheads got NO idea what they're doing.
Some hope and change.
You know if hussein obama was right, had a valid reason for getting involved militarily in Libya, and had a backbone he’d stay the course, finishing the job. However, with international “support” for the ... whatever it is ... fading, look for zero to back out as fast as his spin-doctors can come up with a semi-believable way to say “mission accomplished.”
So I wonder if we’ll ever find out who is backing the rebels and where they got tanks and heavy weapons.....
"Winning!"
WE are backing the Rebels, errr wait we are protecting unarmed civilians, my bad!
Obama will be addressing the nation pretty soon to explain what is going on. Oh wait, is this thread about Libya? I thought it was about NCAA Basketball. Nevermind.
Odyssey Dumb
Their official position is that they don't mind "protecting civilians" as the UN resolution states, but they think that bombing from afar is not working to protect them.
I believe they would have said nothing if only NATO sent airplanes to patrol the skies and shoot down anything that flies without permission. Similarly, any AA site that fires upon NATO would be destroyed. This is how it was done in Iraq, for many years. Saddam was completely denied the air, but there was basically no damage to ground forces or civilians.
The Arab League has the same complaint, by the way:
Moussa said the Arab League’s approval of a no-fly zone on March 12 was based on a desire to prevent Moammar Gaddafi’s air force from attacking civilians and was not designed to endorse the intense bombing and missile attacks — including on Tripoli, the capital, and on Libyan ground forces
(as seen here.) And certainly the UN resolution said nothing about targeting and killing Gaddafi or his family (which appears to have happened.) In other words, the generals used a lot of force, and they reportedly selected targets that you select in a major war, not in a police action, especially when you are not at war with the country.
Here is one rambling interview given by a general that is responsible for the area. I'm not sure that he is competent to give interviews in real time, or even to talk to anyone.
What in the world does failure to lead have to do with starting an illegal war and killing people illegally.
“What in the world does failure to lead have to do with starting an illegal war and killing people illegally.”
If Obama knew how to lead himself much-less others out of a cardboard box he would be more successful at it.
Perhaps this observation is an indictment of President Obama, but it is just as much an indictment of our Constitutional system or lack thereof.
Well, he’s not doing a very good job of illegally killing people. He’s trying to get out of it before it has really begun and, predictably, that’s causing a stamped for the door.
Uhhhh, it’s also causing a stampede.
I guess you could say that China is playing the part of Democrat to Obama’s part as W.
Sort of got that Gene Simmons w/o the face paint look? BTW I always have to go to the Gene Simmons interview w/ Terri Gross/Fresh Air on NPR when I think of him, it’s great.
It seems pretty obvious to even a casual observer that this thing escalated almost immediately from “enforcing the UN approved no-fly zone” to providing close air support for the rebels and attempted decapitation strikes.
ROTFLMAO! That is so funny!
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