Posted on 04/02/2011 8:46:40 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
"No blood for oil" was a popular slogan chanted by the left in opposition to President George W. Bush's push to send U.S. forces into Iraq. Now that President Obama has authorized Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya, I have been waiting to hear chants of "no blood for oil." I am happy to report, I don't hear them.
I went to the No Blood For Oil website; its lead item opposes efforts to strike wolves from the endangered species list. In fact, as NATO forces are lobbing missiles to enforce a no-fly zone over the country with Africa's largest oil and gas reserves, the nobloodforoil.org domain name is for sale.
With a Democrat in the White House, the anti-war corner has a much more civil tone. Anti-war House members have asked the GOP leadership to schedule an up-or-down congressional floor vote on the use of military force in Libya. A perfectly reasonable proposal. Congress should take its constitutional responsibilities seriously.
Now the Obama administration is in the hot seat - crushed between critics who charge the White House was too slow to authorize a no-fly zone and those who claim it was too rash in authorizing cruise missile strikes before notifying Congress. Hawks fear that Obama's promise not to put "boots on the ground" will embolden strongman Moammar Khadafy to fight to retain power. Doves believe that Obama went back on his no-boots-on-the-ground promise by authorizing a CIA presence in Libya.
Now, there are some smart questions to be asking the Obama administration. Who are the Libyan rebels? Are al Qaeda operatives or other extremists in their ranks? Can they win? Without answers, it is impossible to support any call to provide them with arms. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen opposes such a move; Obama said he wouldn't rul
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We may have to sacrifice much more as our founders
did. I am always inspired by the price paid for the
founding of our nation.
If I have to sacrifice all, be sure someone is going
to PAY.
The Obama Administration has never and will never be in the Hot Seat as long as 95% of the Journalistic community are Registered Democrats fulfilling the Progressive Agenda of their Master.
No blood for oil for Europe! (could be my tagline)
To reemphasize the same point: He blames the commander in chief directly and slams him constantly. Your claim that he only has “issues” with the war is simply wrong. He opposes firmly it at every opportunity. Perhaps you were thinking of the comparatively wimpy born-again antiwar politiicans like Newt and Hannity who seem to oppose only
Democratic quagmires.
Blood for oil is ok when progressives do it,see media.
Quagmire.
——Quagmire.——
Meanwhile over at the Pentagon, Fagmire
Even a suggestion that the Progressive-Left-Revolutionary media might be devoid of hypocrisy and double standards is laughable.
IMHO
you're kidding, right? What initiative of their ideology that has been put forth by his administration hasn't been implemented?
do you think that he's been a failure simply because he's unpopular with his opponents? That's how it's supposed to be. Because its understood that he's an incompetent fraud? Even with that incontrovertible fact, neither he nor his sponsors' agenda has been slowed in the least. On the contrary, it has been greatly advanced. And the radical choreography on the street has been installed and fine tuned.
Nope!
Look I'm trying to be a little optimistic here, OK.
There are three major groups of players out there; the right, the left and the ever so important middle of the road independents. Obama and his team of RATs will never lose the left and he never had the right, but now the squishy moderates are abandoning him by the millions. That's the good news.
The bad news is he has been very successful in implementing his agenda so far and it has been exceptionally destructive as you noted, but I believe it is coming to an end.
God, it's rough being a 'glass half full' kinda guy!
My opinion is that the world you describe no longer exists.
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