God Bless Our Marines!
Posted on 03/25/2011 7:26:35 AM PDT by Pontiac
We've seen Camp Lejuene Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and now they are joining the fight against Libya.
About 2,200 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit will take part in support operations based aboard USS Kearsarge at sea. Those support operations have thus far included air strikes and one rescue operation. The overall mission is to help end the violence directed at the Libyan people.
"The ability to launch these and other missions directly from naval vessels illustrates the unique and valuable capacity of the Navy/Marine Corps team called 'sea-basing'", said Captain Timothy Patrick, spokesman for II Marine Expeditionary Force. "Having these forces embarked aboard amphibious ships means that at any time we can execute a variety of tactical missions with little or no footprint on foreign territory."
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Kucinich’s amendment to defund U.S. military intervention in Libya is cosponsored by Representatives Walter Jones (R-NC), Pete Stark (D-CA) and Ron Paul (R-TX).
God bless every one of them!
Yep
I can see the Gulf of Tonkin on the horizon.
"But I might send a few advisers"
Nixon. Specifically during Op Lam San 719...
ping
Why is the “No Nation Building” left silent about this?
This is Obama’s War but I doubt that we will hear any such words come out of Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
You could cut the hypocrisy with a dull spoon.
From your keyboard to God’s monitor.
I would expect that if any American soldier is killed in action in Libya, we won’t hear about it, or...they will be grouped into the Afghanistan tally.
It’s just a trial balloon.
Can he get the U.S. military to follow an illegal order? Yep - but that’s just air support and a no fly zone. Can he get ground troops for this illegal operation which was never approved by Congress or the American people? Yep, they’re on thier way.
If he can do this, will anyone in the military say “No sir” when he orders up the same “kinetic action” to prevent deaths of poor innocent Palestinians at the hands of the IDF? That’s next, this was a test. It seems to me that the military will follow the commander in chief, whether the order is illegal or not. He’s just set precedent and has eased them into what’s next.
But I probably just need to put my tin foil back on.
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“Kinetic” = “relating to or produced by motion.”
Examples: BO dancing in Rio; BO playing basketball; BO playing golf; BO sending Marines to Libya and telling them to keep their feet off the ground.
there wont be boots on the ground?
Being a Muslim this is allowed, lie, lie, lie if it fits the situation. Allah allows this. And George Bush said we worship the same god ? Statements such as this are going to get a lot of people killed.
"We're only sending advisors to Vietnam."
My son was stationed at Camp Lejeune and this was his unit.
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