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Obama Approves Use of Predator Drones in Libya
Fox ^ | 4/21/11 | Fox News

Posted on 04/21/2011 5:14:41 PM PDT by NWFLConservative

The U.S. is not at war with Libya and has not taken sides, but President Obama nevertheless has signed off on the use of armed predator drones in the North African nation that has been torn by a weeks-old bloody conflict, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

"What the president has said that where we have some unique capabilities, he is going to use those, and in fact he has approved the use of armed predators, and I think today may have been in fact their first mission," he said.

The president approved the use of two unmanned aircraft around the clock to pick off targets in urban areas in Libya. The U.S. military tried to launch them Thursday but turned them back due to bad

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegalwar; kineticmilitary; obamajihad; obamawar; war
Explain to me again why we are STILL in Libya, burning up tax dollars when we have NO INTERESTS in Libya, apart from a muslim-loving president who wants to install the muslime bruthahud in place of GhaDaffy the Duck?
1 posted on 04/21/2011 5:14:44 PM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: NWFLConservative

Where is Cindy Sheehan & the pink ladies????


2 posted on 04/21/2011 5:16:17 PM PDT by FES0844
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To: NWFLConservative

Interesting. The title should be Hillary talked Obama into approving the use of Predator Drones in Libya. Obama is incapable of making such a decision.


3 posted on 04/21/2011 5:17:35 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: NWFLConservative

Days not weeks.


4 posted on 04/21/2011 5:19:39 PM PDT by Carley ( TYPICAL STREET THUG, NASTY BULLY, THAT'S OUR PRESIDENT.)
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To: NWFLConservative

I can’t complain about being in Libya while we have men and women in uniform fighting there. It just does not seem right. The decision has been made and we are there. I hated when those wackos complained about Iraq and Afghanistan. We cannot be like the liberals were during Bush years. it was immature and disgusting. We are at war with Libya and the best we can do is support the troops while we are there.


5 posted on 04/21/2011 5:20:12 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Carley

Somebody please explain what drones are used for in a no fly zone.
Why is the House not investigating this criminal war?


6 posted on 04/21/2011 5:21:49 PM PDT by omega4179 (Trumps is every bit the fraud that Soetoro is.)
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To: napscoordinator
This **** is about banking and money, and about George Soros wanting to own and control that $5T in wealth which Libya represents. Soros and Bork Obunga are basically perpetrating a bank robbery in broad daylight and using American military assets to do it.
7 posted on 04/21/2011 5:30:42 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: NWFLConservative

Add it to the list of Obama’s war crimes.


8 posted on 04/21/2011 5:31:07 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: NWFLConservative
The U.S. is not at war with Libya and has not taken sides

Say, what?

9 posted on 04/21/2011 5:33:53 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: Cicero

Where in the Hell is Congress?


10 posted on 04/21/2011 5:40:10 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: NWFLConservative

Could we get a running tally of the number of Predator attacks on Loyalist targets versus rebel targets? After all, they both have armor, helicopters, and rocket launchers, they’ve both killed civilians with them, and they seem to take turns attacking cities.

We can’t?

I didn’t think so.


11 posted on 04/21/2011 5:42:47 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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" Where in the Hell is Congress?"

What? - they just wanted to get elected - that's all. They're done.

See, they're all afraid of Obama because he holds the race card. He's not afraid to use it either.

Congress is over in the corner sitting and shivering in their own urine - afraid, very afraid.

12 posted on 04/21/2011 5:47:31 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: NWFLConservative

Mombasa Paradise on Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LylrS62zvw


13 posted on 04/21/2011 6:03:22 PM PDT by garjog
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To: napscoordinator

Hold on.
The Iraq action was sanctioned by the UN and backed up by 17 resolutions. And sanctioned by Congress.

This is not Iraq, it is a perversion of the UN resolution and unlawful.


14 posted on 04/21/2011 6:12:30 PM PDT by omega4179 (Trumps is every bit the fraud that Soetoro is.)
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Hey, ho, HBO, why your killing kids with our ammo?

(suggested slogan for anti war liberals betrayed by their god).


15 posted on 04/21/2011 6:12:41 PM PDT by garjog
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To: garjog

better: Hey, ho, HBO, why kill kids with our ammo?


16 posted on 04/21/2011 6:13:30 PM PDT by garjog
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To: scooby321

Congress is on recess. All scattered to the winds on junkets around the world at our expense.


17 posted on 04/21/2011 6:21:06 PM PDT by Carley ( TYPICAL STREET THUG, NASTY BULLY, THAT'S OUR PRESIDENT.)
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To: NWFLConservative

And the War came .....


18 posted on 04/21/2011 6:29:45 PM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: omega4179

He’s just practicing before using them in country - our country.


19 posted on 04/21/2011 7:40:22 PM PDT by mcshot (The impossible days are here. The GREATEST GENERATION would not accept.)
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To: garjog

Wait. correction

better: Hey, ho, BHO, why kill kids with our ammo?


20 posted on 04/22/2011 12:18:36 AM PDT by garjog
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