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Canuck57[_9_]

On 24/03/2011 10:26 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:45:03 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:19:09 -0600,
wrote:

On 22/03/2011 5:57 PM, bpuharic wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:43:10 -0600,
wrote:

Didn't big mouth THE Obama "In Debt We Trust!" also say he was going to
end the war? Oh well, just another liar politician with no brains, just
lies.

number of troops in iraq when bush was pres

150,000

number under obama

50,000

Well he just dumped a billion or more debt-dollars into Libya.

which comes out of DoD money already spent. and he's dumping the war
onto the french and norwegians.

let them run it.

This is just part of the stimulus package. Raytheon will have to
replace all of those fired Tomahawks and the sub contractors spread
out across the US. They may even get Boing/MD to build a few if they
still have a contract. That gets a few more congressional districts in
the action.

This "dumping it on the French" is a nice subterfuge politically in
the US but the French do not have that good a reputation in North
Africa. This could blow up in our face.
I am sure Qdaffy is already spinning this as the European
recolonization of Africa and if that catches hold, we could hit a
wall.
Politically, this is a lot more complicated than simply huddled masses
yearning to be free.
These dictators may have been nasty SOBs but they were our nasty SOBs
They pretty much agreed not to oppress anyone outside their borders,
sell the west cheap oil and leave Israel alone.
We really can't afford to lose any of those bargains.

Agreed, it is more complex, and much of it we have not been told.

My guess is this, Obama tried to talk to Gadafi like he did with Egypt.
But Gadafi told Obama to fly a kite. Obama has a wild ego so he would
immediately support his assassination. France, it is easy, just look at
the rich aristocracy in France, Total Oil and others for the answer. It
is about colonialization. France knows a new succession leader might
just do a Venezuela like takeover. Canada has interest there but UK and
Canda are just US/UN ftag alongs.

Saudi/Arab, it is a nice diversion to take attention off of the real
carnage to unarmed civilians n Yemen and Behrain. Further, Gadafi never
really fit in to the Arab oil racketeering cartels so Saudi view him as
a victim of convenience. Maybe adafi even told a Bin Laden family
member to take a hike.

So in the end it is more of politicial grudge war and deception. It
isn't about oil, Libya is less than 2%, Canada, Brazil and others can
make that up. It isn't about freedom, these are armed rebels with
al-Qaeda ties, hardly democracy.

Nope, this is a purely political war of politicians egos.

Our governments have become far too big for anyones good.