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howard112211 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 04:51 PM Original message |
They are blowing all the military shit up in Libya so that |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. That might have required an interruption in the bombing.. |
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Distant Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. NATO does not have to worry about commiting WAR CRIMES -- they control the court. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 05:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. 100% correct |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. not at all |
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StarburstClock (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. Congrats, you're now qualified for a job in the security sector |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 05:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. military keynesianism for the upper crust. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. knr |
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PuffedMica (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
7. They have to re-arm before they can re-build . /sarc |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:19 PM Original message |
That's how the game is played. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. War is good for business. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. That presumes that the new government will want a large imperialist military like Gaddafi had. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. it sounds like gaddafi's government had a crappy conventional military |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:33 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. He had thousands of Russian tanks and hundreds of jets or other aircraft. |
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CJvR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:23 PM Response to Reply #13 |
32. Libyan OoB w. country of origin. |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. bbut, this war is OK! lol. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
14. We have to sink their ships in Libya so we don't have to sink them in Kansas City. . |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. We had to sink them so they'd not attack the port of a city of 500k people. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 08:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Atlantic City? Long Beach? Miami? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. K&R |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
18. Actually |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. "They" have their own little "Oil Friendly" replacement ALL ready to go. |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
19. The world is more complicated than: US = IMPERIALISM = BAD. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-20-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. So, we should be bombing Tel Aviv to support the ordinary people in Palestine? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. It's so funny because one of the ways I figured out the movement in Egypt was real |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:14 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. If we backed them you would then dismiss them as puppets of US imperialists. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 08:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Get back to me when the peace loving USA actually backs them. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 12:08 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Looks like they might be this Sept. |
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howard112211 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 03:15 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Actually I by no means think that "all the rebels are puppets". |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. The leadership has not only been hijacked, it's being imposed |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:18 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. Hijacked? We only interevened, at the last minute, because they requested it. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 03:20 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. More like an uprising of the Hatfields against the McCoys |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. Gaddafi has support from people he's been handing out oil money to. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 12:04 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Yes, that's how you keep allies. I certainly don't blame those left out for wanting in on the deal. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 01:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. No, it really isn't more complicated than that. |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:29 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. The situation in Bahrain has not descended to the level in Libya. |
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Distant Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Oh yes, just regular defenceless folks |
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CJvR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-21-11 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
30. Your... |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-22-11 12:09 AM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Nice. |
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