Live Thread: Obama to Speak on Libya From Brazil 3:45 P.M. EDT; First U.S. Missiles Strike Libya

Saturday, March 19, 2011 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Obama to speak again on Libya from Brazil within the hour (about 3:45 p.m. EDT.)

Fox News Channel reporting first U.S. Tomahawk missiles launched against Libya.

Earlier, the AP reported the U.S. was planning such attacks on Libya's air defense systems.

A Pentagon briefing will follow Obama's remarks.

[rintense]

I don’t.have.the words.

[cripplecreek]

I love the way this idiot launches a war from outside the country.

[Voltage]

I would think the ground to air missiles would be mobile...and thus gone by the time the Tomahawk’s arrive. I am only speculating.

[rintense]

Wag the dog.

[blueyon]

Hmmm wondering if he will be “fashionable” LATE...lol

[TomGuy]

I don’t.have.the words.

Let.me.be.clear.
The.script.was.not.in.the.teleprompter.earlier;
therefore.I.did.not.know.what.our.policy.was.
Secretary.Clinton.has.since.updated.me.on.our.official.policy.

[BenLurkin]

Don’t know why is Hussein bothering to set up TOTUS. PIAPS has already spoken for the regime.

[BenLurkin]

[DTogo]

How many UN resolutions did Saddam violate over several years before Bush "rushed to war" cowboy style? 17

How many UN resolutions did Ghadaffy violate in 24 hours before Obama "vacationed to war" from Rio? 1

[Cvengr]

So a Kenyan has attacked Libya?

[BenLurkin]

Probably.

[Kevin in California]

Does anyone really care what this empty suit has to say?

Seriously....

[kristinn]

They didn’t say, but Fox also reported the U.S. had three submarines on site.

[paulycy]

Is there a FReeper Constitutional attorney that knows whether Congress should be declaring this a war or not?

Why can we just start flinging lightning bolts into a sovereign country without a declaration of war?

[TomGuy]

Per FoxNews Alert, BO is running about 5 minutes late for this speech.

[Telefax may be running slow. lol]

[Lurking in Kansas]

I don’t.have.the words.

Try SNAFU.

[TomGuy]

That is the reason they are going in under UN authorization, so as not to have to bother with Congress and legaleze...

Sort of what BJ Clinton did in Serbia-Kosovo and Iraq.

[Diogenesis]

Let’s see,
An undocumented Kenyan tricks American to become
pRes_ _ent, running a War not voted on by Congress
AND while outside the USA, probably while putting
the USA down, too (certainly, in his Arabic version).

Now that is not only incredibly nuanced, but if it
was written up as a Hollywood Treatment
more than 4 years ago, it would be have been
dismissed with a laugh as psychedelic/psychotic fantasy.