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US Using Low-Flying Gunships In Libya
The Miami Herald ^ | March 28, 2011 | By Robert Burns

Posted on 03/29/2011 6:29:02 AM PDT by Strategy

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1 posted on 03/29/2011 6:29:04 AM PDT by Strategy
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To: Strategy

If you are going to conduct illegal war, conduct illegals war. Whoever gave the order should be tried for war crimes. You cannot have war crime trials of people and then do the same crap yourself.


2 posted on 03/29/2011 6:36:01 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Strategy

My guess is that we now have boots on the ground as liaison and controlling the air strikes.


3 posted on 03/29/2011 6:37:39 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: Strategy

seems like this Qaddafi problem could have been resolved with a single way placed bullet. How much does a single well placed bullet cost? How much will this “kinetic military action” cost?


4 posted on 03/29/2011 6:38:25 AM PDT by RC one ("merchants have no country")
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How much does a single well placed bullet cost?

A lot less than $100 million a day. That's for sure.

5 posted on 03/29/2011 6:41:20 AM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Strategy
Vice Adm. William Gortney, staff director for the Joint Chiefs, insists that the U.S. is not coordinating attacks with the opposition forces or using airstrikes in direct support to help them gain ground.

Word mincing alert. Nah, pounding the piss out of Gadaffi's armor and little technicals couldn't possibly support the rebels in gaining ground.

6 posted on 03/29/2011 6:41:59 AM PDT by Sax
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Obama needs to save face at the cost of taxpayers. Indirectly, we’re putting our boys in harms way in Libya and we’re paying $100 million a day to help Obama save face and move up in the polls so he can increase his chances of winning in 2012.


7 posted on 03/29/2011 6:43:32 AM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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I actually thought the our military was watching “kinetic action” not in a “kinetic military action”? Man i wish the “Won” would clarify this.


8 posted on 03/29/2011 6:45:45 AM PDT by DeadFurrow (Your rights end where mine begins.)
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Well, I don;t see any of our Congress coming out with questions about the legality of it so why would the average American (not us) believe there's something fishy going on.

The average American does not even know the difference between enforcing a No Fly Zone and an aerial intervention in a civil war.

Sadly, they depend on our Representatives to notice that and do something.

9 posted on 03/29/2011 6:46:57 AM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Strategy
A top military official says the U.S. was striking Libyan targets with low-flying Air Force AC-130 gunships and A-10 Thunderbolts over the weekend, bolstering speculation that the U.S. air missions have served to support rebels seeking to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Exactly who are the "rebels" and what is their relationship to Al-Qaeda? Exactly who are we killing with our gunships? Why? I do not understand. What will overthrowing Gadhafi accomplish, besides creating another country controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda hostile to Christians and the USA?

People from the middle east use the word "democracy" to please the westerners; they do not know what democracy is.

10 posted on 03/29/2011 6:49:19 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Strategy

Obama is looking for another Mogadishu on his hands, and just when one thinks he cannot do any worse as POTUS he proves them wrong.


11 posted on 03/29/2011 6:49:40 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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He feels at home screwing around in Africa.

The people in Tripoloi have Osama Bin Ladens Qaida boys approaching from the east, Barak Huissein Obama Bombing from the north, and Mohmar Gadaffie bombing from the west.

Now that's a Meat Grinding Muzzie circle jerk if I ever saw one. The longer this lasts, the better.

12 posted on 03/29/2011 6:53:25 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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Preparing the ground to send in ground forces in April or May.


13 posted on 03/29/2011 6:55:43 AM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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Only problem is until Biden takes over the Presidency due to Barak Huissein Obama’s law breaking, Obama has hijacked our military :(


14 posted on 03/29/2011 6:57:51 AM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Strategy
They'll take out those tanks before they can violate that “No Fly Zone”?
15 posted on 03/29/2011 6:58:12 AM PDT by McGruff (Libya. A Wag The Dog scenario designed to prevent a government shutdown?)
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To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar

Your guess would be correct. They have been there scouting landing zones and doing FAC.


16 posted on 03/29/2011 6:59:14 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Strategy
Obama's getting bad press on this... for example, AP's Ann Gearan said:

The Nobel Peace Prize winner never used the word "war" to describe what's happening in Libya, but made a point of addressing what the conflict he chose "says about the use of America's military power, and America's broader leadership in the world, under my presidency."

The blush is off the rose.

17 posted on 03/29/2011 6:59:36 AM PDT by r9etb
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We’re doing Air Interdiction, which is basically almost the same as Close Air Support just minus the coordination with the troops on the ground and supposedly separated by more space. You can easily and purposefully blur the lines between AI and CAS without much effort.

I still firmly believe we need to understand more about the rebels, who they are, their intention, goals and vision of the end-game. I think we could easily usher in a bigger problem to the US than Gadaffi himself if we are not intelligent about this.


18 posted on 03/29/2011 7:00:31 AM PDT by Sax
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Preparing the ground to send in ground forces in April or May.

.... or more likely to acknowledge that they've been there for a while.

19 posted on 03/29/2011 7:00:45 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: quantim
I was thinking that this morning too... Black Hawk down.

But I have hopes for a stalemate giving a protracted bloody civil war, where we just keep lobbing bombs into the middle of Gadaffi and Bin Ladens Al Qaida forces.

If Obama wins, Al Qaida will have its first country.

20 posted on 03/29/2011 7:01:41 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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