Posted on 07/07/2011 1:29:27 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday he was against NATO intervention in Libya but had to go along with it, an admission that exposed the fragility of the alliance trying to unseat Muammar Gaddafi.
NATO warplanes have been bombing Libya under a U.N. mandate, but the alliance is under mounting strain because of the cost of the operation and the failure, after more than three months, to produce a decisive outcome.
"I was against this measure," Berlusconi said. "I had my hands tied by the vote of the parliament of my country. But I was against and I am against this intervention which will end in a way that no-one knows."
(Excerpt) Read more at af.reuters.com ...
The first rat is already leaving that sinking ship....
“NATO warplanes have been bombing Libya under a U.N. mandate...”
There is so much, so very wrong, in that mere sentence fragment.
And our congress, whose responsibility it is to stop such adventures stands around doing NOTHING and thereby endorses it!
Silvio is mah main man, bro!
King Obama shows how he will rule when REPUBs actually have a say in Congress: operate as if Congress does not exist.
I read the first couple of words on the this thread “Italy’s Berlusconi Exposes...” and I thought it was a story about his sexcapades...
Well, maybe he wants to “make love, not war.”
:^)
I think that's been fairly obvious. And it makes sense given that Italy recently made some big financial deals with Libya.
My first reaction upon seeing a title that began “Italy’s Berlusconi Exposes...”: What, again? Seriously, I have to wonder just how much he spends on a certain little blue pill.
Like Hitarry asked “whose side are you on?”.
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