NATO officials were reveling in their latest “success” in the war in Libya, a new escalation involving attack helicopters pounding targets in and around the Libyan capital city of Tripoli. Officials say the helicopters are more accurate than the current air strike campaign.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the latest escalation would push Gadhafi’s allies to abandon him, and that his time is “up.” The escalation also led to another serious expression of concern from Russia, where officials cautioned that what was supposed to be a “no-fly” zone originally was “sliding” toward a ground invasion.
NATO is still denying plans for a ground invasion, but their latest extension of the war is unlikely to be their last. British Defense Secretary William Hague conceded that the war could be going on at Christmas, and others say there is no sign of an end.
And while Libya’s rebels were initially talking about using the escalation as a change for a new offensive, that too appears to be stalled amid concerns that the cities they hoped to conquer might not be so keen on being conquered. It has been this divide between pro-rebel and pro-regime cities which has kept either side of making meaningful gains.
We all new it was a war even though the people said it was not.The un athorized a now fly zone not the fighting of a war thats killing the civilians they were supposed to protect.It was a lie as usual from day one.After Gadafi said he was going to sell oil everywere but to the corrupt US regime that changed it even more were it is going to become a ful scale war.The US is trying to stop China from geting what ever oil they can.Nice way to thank your number 1 financer.The US is now longer controlling the world unless you call killing innocent people controll.There days are numberd just hope the sick regime don't try to take the world with it.They need to realize everthing comes to an end.But they are the best actors and liers better than hollywood they are probably staging a fauls flag using the death of Bin Laden as the reason.Well many high people in or previously in the government includind Madam Albright said before bushes secound election that Laden was dead on ice for a time when needed.
What better time than when the dollar may be on the verge of collapes and new presidential elections are not to far off.They are trying to scare people even more into beliving they are in danger of a terroirist attack.If there is van attack most likly it will be a fauls flag.Not saying there are not people not terrorists because of the wars killing peoples famillys they want to give America a tasyt of there own medican.All they want is America to leave and stop the murders and stealing there natural resourses.Also supporting Israel that the last thing they want is peace with the palistinians.Americans need tpo wake up because being gullable is ok but it's way past gulibilaty it a lake of caring how many people there government kills.Most if not all governments are corrupt but the US has any country beat 10 fold but they give there citizens a fauls sence of freedom through lies.AND they are slowly being inslaved soif the ones that only care about themselfs thewy need to realize there government don't care for them and will one day turn on them to.They have no respect for life of ant kind.Wake up and God bless the world.
I hope the Libyans "rebels" who asked for foreign assistance enjoy being slaves once the bombing stops, Ghaddafi is gone, and the DU has settled into being a permanent part of the landscape for the next million years.
The NATO Nazis have set back the progress that this small African country has made on its own without borrowing money from the IMF/ World Bank for development. Say what you want about Ghaddafi, the man had some vision.
Maybe with any luck some Libyan freedom fighter will find his way to France and castrate Sarkozy while he sleeps. One can only hope.
I agree with you except for the Qaddafi comment. The guy is a bloody-shedding psychopath who deserves nothing but to be made into hamburger meat and fed to the hungry lions. He has no vision. He's a crazy, deranged, demented dog. My apologies to all the animals I've compared him to or wanted to feed him to. And that happens to be the tragedy of Libya and its people: they're screwed if they do and screwed if they don't.
We all know the Western line on him. He kills his own people, he's the New Hitler, we will selectively target him for removal while ignoring similar crimes by favored regimes (GCC countries, Bahrain, etc) blah blah blah
I'm of a mind that internal affairs should be settled by those that live there, not meddled with from outside powers.
You really need to dig deeper into what this guy has done for these people overall, compared to the way they lived under the monarch before he took over.
He had a vision for uniting the African continent. One currency, one Army, with his oil wealth backing these, and no more broken promises of aid for starving sub-Saharan nations from fickle Western powers.
He is the founding father of Libya. Once he is gone you can bet a united Africa, and even a united Libya, will go with him.
We'll see if Libyans love the free market as much as the Iraqis do.
Just curious ML3, how many Libyans have you talked to? Never mind what you think you know or what the putrid left tells you. How about what the actual Libyans tell you, huh? Do they matter? Does what the Libyan people have to say mean anything to those of you that want to do exactly the same thing your Empire is doing? Nothing like reverse brainwashing. Idiots! Idiots to the right, idiots to the left. All idiots.
Idiots! Idiots to the right, idiots to the left. All idiots.
Everyone but you, right?
I don't mean to temper you salivating for Libyan blood and freedom and all that, but the fact is, the guy brought them out of bass ackwardness. They need to import workers from all over to throw out their garbage and do other menial work Libyans won't do. it has nothing to do with reverse brainwashing, fluoride in the water, restless leg syndrome, or any infantile Left/Right nonsense.
I'm sure you can ask some of the Libyans you know what they think. Do they want to be like Iraq? Ask your Iraqi friends too, how they like the free market when its delivered wrapped in the bombs of foreigners who are looting your country?
Nah, the glorious "rebels" (backed by the majority of the Libyan people, I'm sure), the old Libyan guy from Virginia who went back there to lead them and Al-Qaeda all deserve to win, backed by NATO. Brilliant. What comes next? I know, who cares, right?
I'm sure if you ask, the Libyans will prefer NATO free market radioactive dust than Daffy's lousy socialized, medicine, health and education systems. Everyone wins!
My wife is Moroccan, I will ask her to call her Libyan and Algerian friends and ask them which they prefer
Ciao, idiota!
whoa, get out much? that's my whole point! Everything is not black and white you tool! Two sides to Ghaddafi, right? Who taught them to read and write? Your mother? It's not propaganda! To say he did nothing but robbed his country blind and killed his people only is such bullshit. I'm sure you saw it all. You were there, I believe you. You're a freedom fighter – look at your name!
Crawl back under your rock let the Libyans overthrow Ghaddafi themselves. Better yet, go fight for them. They seem to need all the help they can get. You're hyperventilating and reading WAYYYY too much into my comments, pal. And my wife is Moroccan, dipshit. Get a life.
Ciao, idiota! Love it. Nothing like one word in Italian and another in Spanish to show your utter ignorance. Ha ha!
I don't mean to temper you salivating for Libyan blood and freedom and all that, but the fact is, the guy brought them out of bass ackwardness.
Wow! You know me so well. And all that tripe from just a couple of lines too. You must have crystal balls…I mean, a crystal ball.
They need to import workers from all over to throw out their garbage and do other menial work Libyans won't do.
Well, in that case but only in that case, Qaddafi is justified in killing them. After all, it's better to be dead than to have to do those menial jobs, right. Coincidentally, if that is the case then, why is it that Libyans complained about unemployment then? Would your Moroccan wife happen to know about that?
I'm sure you can ask some of the Libyans you know what they think. Do they want to be like Iraq?
No, they don't want to be like Iraq but they also don't want to be like Syria or Iran. Or Libya for that matter. But I realize that their opinion doesn't count.
Ask your Iraqi friends too, how they like the free market when its delivered wrapped in the bombs of foreigners who are looting your country?
Apparently, it takes someone with above average intelligence to answer that one too. NO! They don't like it but they didn't love Saddam either nor the horrors he bestowed upon them or when he and his cabal were doing the looting. Why is that so very difficult for you peabrains to realize that just because the present situation is horrible, the one before it wasn't any better? How about having some compassion for the people? Better yet, how about listening to what they have to say, instead of, in true ignorant and arrogant Anglo fashion having to appoint yourself the spokesperson of an entire society that you obviously know nothing about and pretend to speak for them? What hubris!
Nah, the glorious "rebels" (backed by the majority of the Libyan people, I'm sure), the old Libyan guy from Virginia who went back there to lead them and Al-Qaeda all deserve to win, backed by NATO. Brilliant. What comes next? I know, who cares, right?
Uh, huh! I see you swallowed that one. Too bad that he didn't even come into the picture until months after the protesters were at it and Quaddafi had slaughtered by the score. Or did your Moroccan wife forget to tell you about that one? Your liberal media is every bit as perverse, brainwashing and twisted as the CONservative one. And y'all swallow the lies just the same as the opposite side does. Remember, idiots to the left, idiots to the right…
Oh, please, make sure that you inform me of what the Algerian expert has to say. Hey, maybe she also has a friend in Somalia or Sudan or even Nigeria or Chad that can contribute to your enlightenment…and tell you about the mercenaries Qaddafi imported for $2,000 to slaughter the civilians. But, again, please know that I understand that what's being massacred when you have free socialized, medicine (sic), health and education, right?
NATO hits Tripoli…again. Gates says it's time for Qaddafi to go so Gates will go in and remove him himself.
There, Jason, just fixed that caption for ya.
~snicker, snicker~
BTW, EXXON must be getting pretty impatient by now.
Seems like the only ones doing mass killing in Libya is the US with NATO. Some humanitarian mission huh?
Yeah don't know what the Laptop Bomber up there is carrying on about. Musta fell off his Ritalin or something. Maybe he got hit in the head while on the frontlines of Libya's Revolution.
When everything is said and done, the people of Libya are going to be no better off, perhaps even worse.
Yeah only time will tell. So far no flower petals being thrown, hopefully no people saying life was better off under Daffy, like in Iraq. For dissenter's sake.
Well, I keep wondering what your Moroccan wife thinks about the situation in Syria. Since you stand in deafening silence I must surmise one of two things: (1) she, I mean, you approve of the slaughter; (2) she doesn't know anything about Syria, unlike her extensive knowledge of Libya.
Oh, btw, did I tell you that my wife is Mexican? Maybe one of these days, if you want to discuss the situation in the Canary Islands or Venezuela or Argentina, I can tell you all about it. Because of my Mexican wife, of course which, as we all knows, makes me an unquestionable expert on each and every single country in the world that speaks Spanish.
Hablando de idiotas, al parecer tu no tienes espejo.