Posted on 03/20/2011 11:00:27 AM PDT by Starman417
I'm betting Obama, France and England thought this Libyan shell game was going to be a piece of cake. Not so much:
There, hundreds of supporters offered themselves up as human shields, cheering to newly minted dance songs about their adoration for their leader. “House by house, alley by alley,” the catchiest song went, quoting a Qaddafi speech. “Disinfect the germs from each house and each room.”The crowd included many women and children, and some said they had family in Colonel Qaddafi’s forces. They said they had come to protect Colonel Qaddafi’s compound from bombing by volunteering to be shields. “If they want to hit Muammar Qaddafi, they must hit us because we are all Muammar Qaddafi,” said Ghazad Muftah, a 52-year-old widow of a soldier from the Warfalla tribe, who said she was there with her six grown children.
And how did this happen? Obama and pals thought they had a perfect evil enemy that they could use to quickly dispatch from the scene and then Obama's image could be uplifted a bit. His image economically is in shreds after trying to spend his way out of a recession sending us into a ever spiraling amount of debt. Gas prices are skyrocketing and all he does is make us MORE dependent on foreign oil, instead of less. His Socialist ideas are not gaining in popularity. His approval ratings are going down.
So against this backdrop he starts this new shell game. Hey everybody, look over there, I'm gonna knock out the evil Libyan leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi, but doing it wasn't going to be that easy without looking like a "warmonger"
When Muammar el-Qaddafi first struck back against protesters, Obama hoped that tough sanctions and material support to the opposition would be enough to force the dictator from power. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned him that a “no fly zone” would be ineffective and essentially commit the country to war. By Monday night, it was clear to Obama that this policy wasn’t working. Countries like Iran were getting the wrong message. The Libyan military was selectively testing the patience of the world by striking opposition strongholds. The opposition was pinned down in the port city of Benghazi, swelled by tens of thousands of refugees. Qaddafi kept using a phrase that stuck in Obama’s head: “no mercy.” And France, smarting from seeming to abandon Egyptians during their time of trouble, along with the U.K., were champing at the bit to use force.…Gates wanted to game out scenarios, knowing that any effective no-fly zone would necessitate a cascade of other military actions that would look a heck of a lot like an invasion, no matter how carefully it was done.
To sell this they had to bring out some phrases that should once again give you a case of deja vu:
Asked if American officials feared whether Colonel Qaddafi could open a new terrorism front, Mr. Brennan said: “Qaddafi has the penchant to do things of a very concerning nature. We have to anticipate and be prepared for things he might try to do to flout the will of the international community.”Among the threats the United States is focusing on is Libya’s stockpile of deadly mustard gas, he said.
Support terrorism
WMD's
Hmmmm, seems I heard these reasons before and they were not well taken by the liberal left if I recall right.
My, how the thinking has changed:
The negative comments about this operation are shocking really. My friend is a Red Cross doctor in Algeria and she told me Gaddafi's forces wiped out a hospital treating rebels. The hospital had more than 29 sick children.Why should the world stand back and allow a mad man murder his own people?
Murder his own people you say? Like dumping them in vats of acid? Throwing them off of buildings? Rape rooms?
Oh, that was Iraq.....my mistake.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
He probably sees this as a dry run for dealing with the real enemy, Scott "Adolf" Walker.
Obama is killing innocent Africans and Muslims in an illegal war... all for his Big Oil Cronie$. Impeach him now!
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Yep, Obama back in 2003 said Hussein was a bad man, but not an imminent threat to the U.S. Well Mr. President, neither is Libya, but that didn’t stop you either. He and his supporters and hypocrites on many issues, this is just the latest one.
Pro-war conservatives have always misunderstood Obama. He is really one of their allies. He didn’t hide his pro-war feelings during the campaign when, for example, he ran to the right of McCain on Afghanistan.
Pro-war conservatives have always misunderstood Obama. He is really one of their allies. He didn’t hide his pro-war feelings during the campaign when, for example, he ran to the right of McCain on Afghanistan.
Pro-war conservatives have always misunderstood Obama. He is really one of their allies. He didn’t hide his pro-war feelings during the campaign when, for example, he ran to the right of McCain on Afghanistan.
Hypocrisy is the compliment that vice pays to virtue. Because the motives are hypocritical does not make the actions wrong.
Make up your mind, will ya!
“He and his supporters and hypocrites on many issues, this is just the latest one.”
Yes, but this is the big one....
Yesterday, Obama destroyed the moral superiority and the moral high ground the liberal left has been claiming since 2003.
In a single act, he has exposed the utter hypocrisy of all the years of anti-war stances held by the Democratic Party and the liberal left.
It was NEVER really about the wars, it was only about hurting Bush, and getting a Radical Democrat elected as President of the United States. And those who fell for the scam were just used as pawns in the game.
We MUST drive this point home to everyone we know, in any way we can, before the “OBAMA WARRIOR PRESIDENT!” meme takes hold.
Frankly, I think he should double down as there is a imminent threat that is being swept under the carpet now.....Iran.
Only one problem, ~this might work if we had a American president and not one trying to consolidate a caliphate.
True, no question it shows liberals are ok with wars and bombs as long as a democrat is calling the shots. Any supposed outcries from the left will be just for show and hardly any to speak of. Phony hypocrites.
How does Afghanistan relate to Iraq? You ought to explain that, because that’s the point where people deem our president the most contradictory. Gadaffi hates bin Laden with a passion for an attempted overthrow of his own regime back in the 90s, not to mention multiple assasination attempts. Saddam Hussein was similar in hating bin Laden as well. As far as Libya is concerned, we get little to no oil from that nation directly, the same as Iraq, plus the rebels don’t feel Gadaffi is embracing Sharia enough, as revulsive as that sounds. Saddam was a genocidial creep, but the UN didn’t care about that fact, when supposedly Rwanda, Bosnia, and other genocides were all so bad. Point in case is, the UN, and dear president are contemptible, despicable hypocrites on the matter of tyranny, that shouldn’t be taken seriously for whatever moral high ground they claim.
How does Afghanistan relate to Iraq? You ought to explain that, because that’s the point where people deem our president the most contradictory. Gadaffi hates bin Laden with a passion for an attempted overthrow of his own regime back in the 90s, not to mention multiple assasination attempts. Saddam Hussein was similar in hating bin Laden as well. As far as Libya is concerned, we get little to no oil from that nation directly, the same as Iraq, plus the rebels don’t feel Gadaffi is embracing Sharia enough, as revulsive as that sounds. Saddam was a genocidial creep, but the UN didn’t care about that fact, when supposedly Rwanda, Bosnia, and other genocides were all so bad. Point in case is, the UN, and dear president are contemptible, despicable hypocrites on the matter of tyranny, that shouldn’t be taken seriously for whatever moral high ground they claim.
Notice it was okay for progrssive commiecrats to paint Bush as a clown and call for his death? Yet...It is racist to make fun of the one they were waiting for to usher in Farrakkan radicalism. Hypocrisy is right!
Everything, and I mean every single thing obama does reeks (period). But they also reek of hypocrisy, dishonesty, stupidity, socialism, and fascism. That basically defines obama, and those are his good qualities.
Considering the bigger picture though... A liberal showing glaring hypocrisy is really not news. Their world view is inconsistent and self-contradictory anyway. They can't get through the day without a few lies, hypocrisy, and self-delusions.
I rarely agree with this view of the U.S., but now I do in the case of the U.S. beginning a third war in the Middle East and the disaster that will follow. However, I do not agree though that Rep. King’s congressional hearings are a ‘witchhunt’ since he is trying to protect us here in the U.S.
Libya: Another quagmire beckons.
In the short space of a decade, the U.S. has made war in three Muslim nations, and Canada in two. For many Muslims, any just cause for these conflicts is beside the point. Shoddy affairs like Rep. Peter King (R-NY)’s congressional witchhunt on Muslims are easily enough overlooked in Karachi and Jakarta. But Western military attacks on sovereign Muslim nations can’t help but appear to many of the world’s estimated 1.2 billion to 1.6 billion Muslims - or about 20% of the world population - as a determined assault on the Muslim world.
http://thestar.blogs.com/davidolive/2011/03/libya-another-quagmire-beckons.html
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