Now what?
No-fly zones don't help anyone on the ground. The rebels aren't talking to us and we don't even know who they are** except that they are not-Qaddafis. The fighting continues. We are committed to not committing ground troops in Libya, so what do you do about a ground war? We DO remember it's in their country, not ours, right? Well, are we the world's policeman or not? Does the Vice President move to impeach the President or not? Are we really going to let somebody else do the main body of the work maintaining the no-fly zone? and, more importantly: How is this any of our business, anyway?
If Qaddafi stays in power, is that a problem, according to whom, and what are we going to do about it? Hmm? Anyone? Bueller?
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*an ordinanceman corrected me. I had said ten-thousand dollars smart bombs. He says they are more like $220,000 (each) bombs. No wonder we racked up a billion dollar tab in a week. It's nice to know President Obama is confident we can fit that into the national
**the only person mentioning this is Michael Savage: 1/5 of the fighters who came out against our men in Iraq were from Libya. The opposition/rebels/anti Qaddafi fighters are Al Qaeda and we know it. Good luck finding THAT on the nightly news. We're officially hopeful of setting up a leadership vacuum for them to fill. Great.
I'm pretty sure Biden was talking out his [deleted] and will not be moving to impeach now. Hat tip to Uncle for the link to Les Jones who linked up the video with the audio everyone was playing on the conservative talk shows today.
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