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US Marines, Warships Head to Libya
Fox Nation ^

Posted on 03/02/2011 7:50:27 AM PST by VictoryGal

A ragtag army of opponents to Col. Moammar Gadhafi began moving west toward Tripoli from the east and the U.S. ordered two warships to the Mediterranean Sea, as the prospect of an extended war loomed over Libya.

Also Tuesday, the U.S. ordered two warships and 1200 Marines to the waters off of Libya, but a top Obama administration official stopped short of saying the forces would intervene in the clashes that have consumed the country following anti-Gadhafi protests here in recent weeks.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: libya; marines; obama
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To the shores of Tripoli.
1 posted on 03/02/2011 7:50:29 AM PST by VictoryGal
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To: VictoryGal

Obama’s Maxim for Libya is:”Speak loudly and carry a very small stick.”


2 posted on 03/02/2011 7:56:57 AM PST by zbogwan2
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To: VictoryGal

I think it’s “to the shores of Tripoli... again.” Maybe with a sigh in there.

God bless our Marines and ALL servicemen and women. God bless the silent ranks!

And Good LORD why do we have to go through this nonsense again?


3 posted on 03/02/2011 7:57:27 AM PST by HushTX (If the best defense is a good offense, it's a good thing I'm really offensive.)
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To: VictoryGal

Why don’t we just take over the whole Middle East and that way we can be their baby sitters. We need to stay out of this and get our kids out of the Middle East. When we heard that ships were going to the coast of Libya, I felt in my gut that boots would be aboard. You don’t send the Marines along without plans on using them. We are being sucked into another war. The government isn’t being sucked in, the American people are.


4 posted on 03/02/2011 7:57:47 AM PST by RC2
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To: VictoryGal

That ain’t no U.S. warship in that AP photo, LOL.


5 posted on 03/02/2011 8:00:20 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: VictoryGal

With some guys already on their third (or more) deployment in the ME I sure hope not.


6 posted on 03/02/2011 8:00:24 AM PST by skeeter
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The media is desperate to get the public behind this administration, and a nice little military intervention Obama can call his own might just do the trick.

I'm strongly suspicious we're not getting the complete story on whats going on there, ala Mogadishu 1993.

7 posted on 03/02/2011 8:03:29 AM PST by skeeter
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To: VictoryGal
In the mean time Obama and his group head on vacation to Brazil..I am sure he won't cancel that trip it is getting to close to election time so he will have to be back in the states to travel to each state all 57 of them..
8 posted on 03/02/2011 8:05:02 AM PST by PLD
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To: VictoryGal

No thanks, no more soldiers dead for the likes of muslims.


9 posted on 03/02/2011 8:05:21 AM PST by dforest
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To: VictoryGal
Speak loudly and above all distract from Wisconsin..
Provide something anything to divert attention from Wisconsin..
If WISCONSIN spreads.. the democrat party gets stripped naked..

The smell of what it means to even be a democrat is becoming offensive..
The democrat party is becoming "OVER RIPE".. and stinks..
Even to the eye rollers and droolers..

10 posted on 03/02/2011 8:17:42 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: VictoryGal

Crazy muslims are killing each other and the Dumbo in the White House wants to send Marines in to stop it?

He is either even more stupid than we thought or he is more pro-muslim than anyone admits.
Or more likely, he is both.

Let them knock each other off.
Just send ammo to which ever side is losing at the moment.

Keep our Marines and our aircraft on the ships.
We have lost enough Americans to these 8th century animals.


11 posted on 03/02/2011 8:29:05 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: VictoryGal

Let the bastards kill each other, we can stay the hell out of it.


12 posted on 03/02/2011 8:38:24 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: org.whodat

Im with you . Who cares if they kill each other off.


13 posted on 03/02/2011 8:42:10 AM PST by sonic109 (Civil Unrest is in Order !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: skeeter

If he gets us into another war, he will surely loose the next election. He doesn’t know how to pick a battle or prosecute one.


14 posted on 03/02/2011 9:01:49 AM PST by RC2
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To: VictoryGal

To the shores of Tripoli.


Why? What business it is of our’s and what interest is it of our’s to care less what one camel jockey Muslim does to the other ones? They are all raised to be butchers.

We are supposed to pretend one group of Muslim butchers is better than the other? We are to sacrifice American life on that “patrotic” hill?

No way! Screw all the Muslims - overtime. Let them hang one another over and over again, with their shria ropes. That way, they are busy killing each other and not killing us.


15 posted on 03/02/2011 9:34:16 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: VictoryGal

Democrat bombs have love and compassion built into them. It’s only those evil Republican bombs that are bad and must be stopped.


16 posted on 03/02/2011 9:48:05 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer.")
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To: 1rudeboy

Which country is that? I don’t see the stars & stripes, but some country just sandlocked a very expensive ship.


17 posted on 03/02/2011 9:51:44 AM PST by Ro_Thunder (I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
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To: VictoryGal

Someone must have looked at the polls from when George HW Bush (along with many others) invaded Iraq. Obama wants a second term, so he figures if he can have military success, and understand supermarket scanners, he’ll be King of the World again in 2012 /sarc


18 posted on 03/02/2011 10:01:31 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: VictoryGal

There is no way this will end well if the leathernecks go ashore.

And you just know that this would all be micro-managed by the White House.

OMG.


19 posted on 03/02/2011 10:26:15 AM PST by RexBeach (There is no such thing as a good tax.- Winston Churchill)
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To: PghBaldy
"Top of the world , Ma!"

James Cagney White Heat

20 posted on 03/02/2011 11:38:14 AM PST by de.rm ("Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, 3 times is enemy action." Auric Goldfinger)
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