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[FreezingDrizzle]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/19...T1&iref=BN1

Yet another war front. FD

[weatherbowl]

After all the criticism against Bush for his mid east involvement, by just about every candidate that wanted to be president, guess what now we are involved with another mideast war. One thing I was glad this administration did, other countries led the way.

[Hurricaneff]

Something Usually happens on my birthday.
3/19
2003,the War with Iraq started
2009 7.2 Earthquake tonga
2008 7.2 Earthquake XingJiang China
1985 6.6 Earthquake Chile
1971 Earthquake in Peru that wiped out a whole town, set off floods,landslides,and avalanch.
Had a nice wind storm here in the early-mid 90,s

And you can now add 2011 Libya Attack to list

[weatherbowl]

I was glad to see this starting out as a coalition and was hoping other countries would have a major role. Tonight I hear there have been 122 tomahawk missiles launched, 120 by the U. S. Where is the coalition?

[vascudave]

why can't we send special ops type of guys in and just kill ghadafi??

[lab94]

vascudave, on Mar 21 2011, 10:57 AM, said:

why can't we send special ops type of guys in and just kill ghadafi??

That wouldnt be politicly correct, just saying.

[NittanyLion]

I think it violates the "rules of war". But our bombs may have done the trick anyway.

[weatherbowl]

The Libya conflict is unusual. We bombard the Ghadafi forces but I keep hearing it is not the goal to take out Ghadafi. I don't really believe that but if they are serious it makes no sense what so ever. We are suppose to be defending the people of Libya but that really means the rebel forces that are against Ghadafi. The question is who are the rebel forces and what do they want and stand for. I hope in the end some kind of democratic government can be set up in Libya like in Iraq and hopefully Egypt. We shall see.

[vascudave]

guess obama likes oil now too?

[weatherbowl]

vascudave, on Mar 22 2011, 09:25 AM, said:

guess obama likes oil now too?

This is another puzzler in that we don't get any oil from Libya. However, England, France and Italy do get much of their oil from Libya. So they are in it for the oil and maybe we are in it to support them? I'm still not sure what's going on their.

[icehater]

weatherbowl, on Mar 19 2011, 08:07 PM, said:

After all the criticism against Bush for his mid east involvement, by just about every candidate that wanted to be president, guess what now we are involved with another mideast war. One thing I was glad this administration did, other countries led the way.

Is Obama really running the country or is Hillary the defacto President? I would say the latter. This is always a very dicey situation. We put sanctions in place so that the people will uprise and when they do they need help. Big issue here is quaeda relations that certain Libyan factions have.