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US Military Says Repositioning Forces In Area Around Libya To Be Able To Provide Flexibility And Options
Just perfectly anticipated headlines from Reuters for now.
US MILITARY SAYS REPOSITIONING FORCES IN AREA AROUND LIBYA TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FLEXIBILITY, OPTIONS
Whatever happened to stretching exercises? More as we see it. This week's US naval update on Wednesday afternoon should be interesting.
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Did they bring any cruise missiles? I hear they work a lot better these days.
Of course we did.
Charlie Bravo
Charlie Bravo Tango Tripoli-Blockade Bitchez!
Charlie Bravo KaDAffy Cruise Missile Bitchez!
Doesn't the Marines' Hymn have something to do with this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines'_Hymn
I've caught myself whistling that at least once a day since this thing started.
Here's what American style "caring" looks like...which begs the question...Who is America trying to protect?:
Libya: African mercenaries 'immune from prosecution for war crimes'
African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend's UN resolution that was demanded by the United States.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/835...
Didn't we withdraw from that in 2002 to "protect" the contractors we hire that are pretty much in everything but name, mercs.
CD-yes, and some of us remember the D.I. saying: "You're going to keep on doing it until you do it right!"
- Ned
Would this become a territory or our 51st state?
Nah, Ghadaffi's residence will be an oversized pond though.
boom!
http://dailyreckoning.com/files/2010/04/DRUS04-28-10-2.jpg
Yes, I've even heard that there is a 1% chance that one might even hit the right target if they fire 100 of them at the same time to the same target!
Technology, I LOVE IT!
Warning: Do not shoot at the cruise missiles, it makes them, er, unpredictable.
disclaimer: I am not a bloodthirsty bastidge. But if KaDaffy got his it might save lives.
NAPALM FOR EVERYBODY!!!
AND NUKES FOR DESERT!
I think you mean "Nukes for the Libyan desert", right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Desert
Gadaffi fights fire with cash, hands it out to whoever is hanging out in his opium den.
Someone has to create all that glass to replace all the broken windows we'll need to stimulate our economy
It's all for the children, ya know.
That's why we get paid extra.
It's all for the children.
Typical USA spreading peace and democracy one DRONE MISSILE at a time.
"NAPALM FOR EVERYBODY!!!
AND NUKES FOR DESERT!"
Sounds like a parody of "Money for nothing, and chicks for free."
Which reminds me of a song parody that I heard in '86, when Reagan bombed Libya, that was based on John Cougar Mellencamp's "Rockin' in the USA" - it was called "Rockets from the USA." Damned fine song, too, I just wish that I could find it somewhere.
Sam Kinison also had a great routine on that raid, especially the part about how we "accidentally" dropped a laser-guided bomb on the French embassy...and the fact that our pilots had to fly another 6,500 air miles because the Froggies didn't give us overflight rights is just a ... pure coincidence.
It's only fun until someone loses an eye. Then the party is started.
That Libya has oil is just a coincidence. This is strictly a humanitarian mission.
"smash and grab" on the geopolitical stage
If we (twitter/CIA) can just keep this "liberty" wave rolling, we might just end up with ALL the oil reserves in the end !
God Bless America !
Obama and anyone who feels this way needs to get their guns and head up to the front line. Don't send real Marines and Soldiers into another bullshit mission.
LET'S GIVE THEM DEMOCRAZY THE HARD WAY!!
ONLY 2 JUNKS?!!
IS TODAY A JEW HOLIDAY!?!
THAT POST IS WORTH AT LEAST 5 JUNKS!!
I think it is ROSH-STFU day bitchez!
To get 5, you need to make a sarcastic reference to Israel as the great harbinger of peace.
edit: Damn, SD, you made it to 5 by the time I got 2.
My Monday morning is complete. No, it doesn't take much.
No need for humanitarian aid. Libya sits on the UN Human Rights council. All is well.
Ahhh, that's right, the UN is getting around to ousting them from said Council. NM, commence humanitarian aid mission "Turn it All to Glass".
I think Khaddafy is doomed. Why? Because arch-Magister Hillary was running her piehole about MK's atrocities to humanity, this morning.
Our Admin would not release such commentary unless they were comfortable Khaddafy was a lost cause. What we have here is the Administration scrambling to get to the head of the parade and pretend they are leading it.
The same goes for the UK. Harsh rhetoric, and confiscation of financial assets. Imagine what Gaddafi would tell the UK what they can do with their signed oil contracts if he were to retain power.
Libya is a done deal. Who's up next?
Wait what? Aren't we broke? Who is paying for this? Do we get some of their oil?
New world order, same old lies. Hedge accordingly.
"Do we get some of their oil?"
We get ALL the OIL and they get USD.
told ya so.
You mean like this?
I sure could have a good time with a intellectual woman like that!
I LOVE A WOMAN WITH LARGE BRAINS!! :)
Yes....but they are usually disappointed with my small "brain".
perhaps if you get them really drunk before the "conversation" they won't notice?
Speaking of stretch marks ...
I've been sitting staring at this for 5 minutes now (a worthwhile investment)... does she have 3 boobs?
Rofl. Lighting needs to be taken into account by the photographer... kind of like this picture... http://static.someecards.com/someecards/images/feed_assets/4d361286790d6...
LMFAO with the pic, MM. Took me a couple of seconds to realize it wasn't a set up but a lighting snafu. Good stuff.
Sure does look like it.
Hard to believe they're natural, but they are! Google for "Chloe Vevier"
More than a mouthfull is a waste and requires a jogging bra.
"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!" -- Mae West
Stretching exercises?? How do the beltway bandits make money off of that?
Once retired colonels and generals get paid to go to yoga class, maybe it will be a different story.
Flexability bitchez!
Nobody here actually they believed they going to permit the ponzi recovery to be endangered did you?
You have to love these selective humanitarian missions. The President is getting desperate for a poll bump..Oscars are over..so distractions away.
Alexander Hamilton > Thomas Jefferson
Btw, Most people are just happy they don't have to live through another Great Depression (Deflationary heck).
Don't believe me. Try talking to people about Silver and Gold. They get upset.
"the dollar still pays the bills. still puts food on the table... I cannot pay for my bills with a hunk of metal (IT's NOT DIGITAL!)"
I wish I could help you folks out more... Nothing will change, EVER! Got it? Good.
No one is listening.
Keep tapping your feet folks.
This is not going to end pretty.
US can't enter in Libya without exacerbating
even more the Arab nations.
Right now, there are too many angry,
hungry and traumatized people in that side of
the world and unfortunately they are sitting on
a lot of oil.
There is no quick fix on this issue.
This global unrest is not going anywhere soon.
This is not a flu, this is cancer and chemo
sucks.
well then the rebels are going to have to make up their minds whether they want our help or not. Can't have it both ways bitchez!
Our overthrow of the MiddleEast has hit a snag in Libya.
would fit so well if they would use the north african chaos to start ww3...after all
the tptb could need a good diversion
the tptb could need a good diversion
Wait, This AIN'T the diversion?
revelations WW3.0
Send in Charlie Sheen; he's an F-18, baby, with missiles for fists. Hot shots part trey.
All who dare to enter his octagon with his fire fists of fury!
Does the us really need to get involved in nation building again?
AFRICOM!!! Early taste of action in what was meant to be a gentle, en-nobling presence in the cradle of humanity!
If anyone thinks that the game is "out-of-hand", think again. So far all the broadcast moves have had flawless follow-through.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/the-fascinating-dr-chippalone/
"we will be greeted as liberators" ......DICK!!!! Cheney
Expansion, expansion. Like gas. Libya is falling apart and who is waiting at the doors to expand on?
Is this to have control of the air to keep the battle on the ground?
yes... BUT THEY HAVE CAMELS WITH CANONS!!!
http://www.camelphotos.com/pic/army_camels5.jpg
YOU CAN'T BEAT THOSE!!!
and those beasts are just dangerous! THEY FEED THEMSELVES WITH HUMAN FLESH!!
JUST LOOK AT THEM!!
http://www.redbubble.com/images/clear.gif
Tut. The photo say JAIPUR - that's the Indian army, silly waffle.
WB, how about the Office Assistant popping up on Gadaffi's desktop saying:
"It looks like you are starting a war. Would you like to buy some weapons?"
A: Yes please
B: No thanks, I already left
I heard that a small scale nuke will reverse global warming...hahha
For GoDaffi and sons, it's the Repo Man alright.
The US risks an over-extension of troop deployment. Germany learned this painful lesson towards the end of WWII.
the Germany army, relatively, was the strongest army in the last 300 years of recorded military history.
It only took 1-2 year to save the German economy and build up a military strong enough to fight all of Europe and the American/British Empire and the Soviet Union.
Overdue. We need to protect the oil facilities from Qaddafi sabotage
Also need to be positioned for humanitarian, food shortages, etc.
Agreud.
That will likely necessitate amphibious assaults and a "boots on the ground" campaign. I'm wondering how many African revolutionaries will be rushing to Libya for their chance to kill an American soldier.
We don't fight like that much anymore. Did you happen to catch Gulf Wars 1&2 by any chance?
Yeah, so there's no reason to keep the troops in Iraq. The war is over. Re-deploy them all to Libya. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Step 1) Eliminate air farce.
Step 2) Bomb Iraq.
Step 3) Clean up bodies.
The usa could tip the balance of power in Libya with very little effort.
Yeah, so there's no reason to keep the troops in Iraq. The war is over.
The war has been over for years. What we have now is big oil & MIC profits.
If there aren't already US forces on the ground in Libya, I'll eat my hat. Small teams have to be there to cover the extraction of foreign nationals and in-country assets and to co-ordinate close air support when this thing reaches a point that can no longer be tolerated (read: when it becomes politically palatable to "liberate these oppressed people" and to secure pipelines and oil fields.) The day we figure out who the "enemy" is in Libya will be the day it becomes no longer tolerable to stay out of this conflict.
The necessary ingredients for the recipe for US intervention are present:
1) a vested economic interest in the region, 2) a palatable political excuse to intervene from an international perspective, and 3) a regime that will be easily toppled. Domestic acquiesence is no longer a necessary ingredient for foreign intervention. They no longer care what we think and Americans are too stupid to understand foreign affairs anyway.
Victory flags to fly on US warships by next Thursday, I reckon...
The US simply can't resist its egomaniacal urge to intervene in foreign matters where we have a quantifiable economic interest. The fact that a US millitary presence in North Africa, even if temporary, could cause other future problems will not stop us... it never has.
Now... who saw the Academy Awards last night??!! James Franco in a dress??? Come on!
Paging WB, we need new super heroes with 3 R's on their chest- resource rescue rangers
Another year, another war, another hole in the budget. How long can it continue this way?
As long as the petrodollar holds.
Authentication is confirmed
Launch code confirmed
Launch
Glazed sands here they come!
Good excuse for trying out those fancy new landing craft on the shores of Tripol.
good thing we have those useless carriers. I saw a chinese military video showing a new weapon they had which sucked CVNs into a big time vortex...scary stuff
Yeah, I saw that, too. They had a guy that looked like a young Kirk Douglas starring in it ... not the old skin flap on the Oscars last night.
Problem with the Chinese vortex is it sends the CV back to fight the Japenese and stave off Pearl Harbor and WWII Pacific Theater. It screws the timeline and the Chinese are held in a perpetual state of manufacturing fortune cookies, railroad labor and high-MSG laden foods like Cream of Sum Yung Gi.
sic
I think Rothbard had it right when he suggested the US just invade every country on Earth and get it over with.
lol. Very funny guy.
Why the hell can't we just let the Libyans kill each other for as long as they want to? Why does the U.S. have to get involved? I know the answer but come on already!!!! We're broke and already have too many troops scattered across the globe. I'd rather have Obama play basketball and ignore Libya then send troops in.
You lassie, win the Guiness. I doubt we'll do squat; Hillary will run her mouth. Not any kind of action until they get the NEO sorted out. Brits and Frog special operators pulling out oil workers; State Dept. couldn't order up the right kind of boat. - Ned
Im with you guys. Screw any military involvement
any where. We should have never helped in Haiti
or with the tsunami in south Asia either.
In Haiti, the US provided 17th~18th Navy level surgery, maiming many in the doing.
Haiti and a few others are easy to understand: the US can not tolerate independent nations off its shores that could bargain military bases fees.
As simple as that.
The US has never helped Haiti. On the very contrary, been at odds since Haiti turned into a non slaver nation while the US was still one. The US had to factor in the weight of a non slaver nation off its shores. Story keeps going since then...
"Until all the soldiers come home." That's the USO's motto and may it be all of yours at wonderful ZH as well. Now to quote The Governator "if it bleeds we can kill it."
Is this the 1st time Iranian and US warships have been in the Mediterranean at the same time?
Hit the beaches! - The military needs a new campaign ribbon to impress the ladies.
Sometimes one needs to sit back and take a look at all the comments and wonder......
I wonder how many people making these comments live in the USA or the western world for that matter.
I wonder how many own a car or 2 or 3 or 4....
How many take family vacations and travel...
How many use plastics and eat groceries frm the supermarket...
Then I sit back and wonder...are you really naive enough to think that if we did not have cheap oil that you would be able to enjoy the lifestyle you have?
It's always been about oil, Iraq was about oil, Kuwait about oil...etc etc. It has nothing to do with humanitarian efforts but about maintaining the comfortable and sometimes extravagant lifestyle(compared to the rest of the world) of the citizens of the USA.
So unless you are willing to ride a bicycle... grow your own food... and end your addiction to cheap oil...(in other words stop benefiting from the actions your are condemning) then stop complaining it reeks of hypocricy.
I live in my parents basement. Have no money other than 2 week cashflow from my mimimum wage job.
I converted savings bonds issued by my family (given on my birthdays) since the year I was born... into physical gold.
6 ounches of Gold. I will never see more money in my life
An absurdly low cost of energy explains almost all of the US's advantage over the rest of the world. That game will be coming to an end soon... perhaps sooner than many thought.
Circumstances made it such that energy cost us almost nothing for a century or more. We attribute our success to our business accumen, savvy and self-determination when it was all a function of geographic advantage. Our captains of industry are quick to take credit for luck and circumstances they had nothing to do with.
But the game is coming to an end.
Cheap oil for the last century was a function of our location on the planet. We are not addicted to cheap oil. We're addicted to cheap money, get it straight.
I find myself agreeing with everything you are saying.. so tell me what is the difference between being addicted to cheap oil / being addicted to cheap money?
Cheap oil was a geographic function that would have been exploited no matter what our political orientation was.
Cheap money is a function of the goverment colluding with money center banks and big business to destroy capitalism in favor a corporate welfare state that ensures status quo for those in power.
The only thing these two have in common is that they are finite. Eventually we bleed the earth dry of oil and we bleed the population dry of its wealth and property.
ok I understand you now X. Kurt.
Thanks for explaining what you meant. It makes sense!
So unless you are willing to ride a bicycle... grow your own food... and end your addiction to cheap oil...(in other words stop benefiting from the actions your are condemning) then stop complaining it reeks of hypocricy.
UNLESS is the operative word here.
There are scores of commenters. You have no idea what their attitudes to bicycle riding are, or food growing for that matter. But throwing accusations of 'hypocricy' is nice and easy and makes you feel superior, I suppose.
Of course, if they were rah-rahing American interventionism, you'd be accusing them of being imperialist pigs. You win either way, don't you?
Big Jim, yes there are scores of commentators, but some that comment regularly and it is quite easy to form an opinon on some that I've been reading for close to a year.
So basically if the shoe fits wear it... if it doesn't don't worry about it. In the end I don't think any of us win unless we face the cold hard truth.
Peace!
hypocricy
Hypocricy? Crikey! I think you have a point.
"Live simply so others can simply live."
A fine motto.
However, the majority of the U.S. and the World population depend upon mechanized agricultural machinery, fertilization, pest control, harvesting, production, and transport to eat.
The Amish/Bicycle/Hippy fantasy is an appealing one but just that, a fantasy.
Go back to a crank phone, one 40 watt bulb at night, and no computers or television and you are half-way there.
Get it?
Mystery in the Libyan Desert ?
"Pieces of natural silica-glass up to 16 lb in weight occur scattered sparsely in an oval area, measuring 130 km north to south and 53 km from east to west, in the Sand Sea of the Libyan Desert. This remarkable material, which is almost pure (97 per cent silica), relatively light (sp. gin. 2.21), clear and yellowish-green in colour, has the qualities of a gemstone. It was discovered by the Egyptian Survey Expedition under Mr P.A. Clayton in 1932, and was thoroughly investigated by Dr L.J. Spencer, who joined a special expedition of the Survey for this purpose in 1934.
The pieces are found in sand-free corridors between north-south dune ridges, about 100 m high and 2-5 km apart. These corridors or "streets" have a rubbly surface, rather like that of a "speedway" track, formed by angular gravel and red loamy weathering debris overlying Nubian sandstone."
Duke Nukem perhaps ?
Reuters = BP = Rothschild.
Any other questions?
Tyler has great abs.
Jon Voight likes Gold, why don't you?
Reuters = BP = Rothschild.
I thought Reuters was kicked to the curb a few years back. It seems to me that they have a bit more journalism and a bit less propaganda these days.
USA Gov....the worldpolice
Make me fucking puke.
Did Israel say it was O.K...?
They are not the world police.. thats the thing...If they were the world police they would have stepped in at Darfor and everywhere else in the world where there are atrocities. They try to portray themselves as all caring but only act when they have something to gain strategically and/or financially... cheap oil access to cheap oil.
But it is cleared by Israel,right.?
Is it true that 3/4 of Israel is totally secular?
The PhDs don't like "distortions"... I just need an answer on that
But.. but.. if they're secular, how can they claim the land belongs to them because God gave it to them?
Oh yeah, it's a birthright... even if it was just one ancestor (out of hundreds) two millenia ago.
Zionism. You know it Makes Sense.
stretching exercises dont induce central bank lending.
That just about sums it up, doesn't it?
Entrenched corruption, enabled at the highest levels and disseminated to us by their underlings.
http://decaybyproxy.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/an-empire-of-lies-the-cia-a...