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US Prepares Operation "Boots On The Ground" A/K/A "The Presidente Was Only Keeeding"
The natural step in the US-led invasion of Libya's oil fields, which could be seen from a mile away and as was discussed on Zero Hedge previously, is about to unfold with the proverbial silver-tipped bang. Courtesy of Army Gen. Carter Ham we learn that the Nobel war prize winner "may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international
ground force that could aid the rebels, the former U.S. commander of the
military mission said Thursday, describing the ongoing operation as a
stalemate that is more likely to go on now that America has handed
control to NATO." Nothing like a little land war in Asia, er, Africa, to distract the peasantry from an insolvent government which can't legally issue any more debt on top. Make no mistake though - this is all about "humanitarian intervention."
From MSNBC:
Army Gen. Carter Ham also told lawmakers that American participation in a ground force would not be ideal, since it could erode the international coalition attacking Moammar Gadhafi's forces and make it more difficult to get Arab support for operations in Libya.
He said NATO has done an effective job in an increasingly complex combat situation. But he noted that, in a new tactic, Gadhafi's forces are making airstrikes more difficult by staging their fighters and vehicles near civilian areas such as schools and mosques.
The use of an international ground force is a possible plan to bolster the Libyan rebels, Ham said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
Asked whether the U.S. would provide troops, Ham said, "I suspect there might be some consideration of that. My personal view at this point would be that that's probably not the ideal circumstance, again for the regional reaction that having American boots on the ground would entail."
Anyone recall Obama's promise to not send a land force in Libya? Add that one to the lies you can believe in.
President Barack Obama has said repeatedly there will be no U.S. troops on the ground in Libya, although there are reports of small CIA teams in the country.
Pressed by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., about the situation in Libya, Ham agreed that a stalemate "is now more likely" since NATO took command.
Next, while the constitutional lawyer is usurping the constitution, let's just toss the whole checks and balances thing away as well.
Ham also disclosed that the U.S. is providing some strike aircraft to the NATO operation that do not need to go through the special approval process recently established. The powerful side-firing AC-130 gunship is available to NATO commanders, he said.
Surely this latest uber-transparent move to sequester 2 MMBD/oil will raise America's glorious standing within the Muslim crescent.
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Trump:
"OBama is a war monger who just goes around and kisses everybody's ass."
Obama has fully engaged a Tar Baby.
Why not. Why not toss another full on war on top of everything. Let's go broke in style...with the hockey helmet wearing kid in the center of the room [whose name is S&P] clapping form himself. Hoooooooray!
With the budget busted and the US dollar in the toilet, and bailout Europe trying to out do bailout America, and Egyt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Ivory Coast all having fallen or falling, on top of continuing earthquakes and radiation showers in Japan, currency wars in every freakin' direction, and inflation ramping up everyone's keester...oh, and never mind about how unemployment remains unimpressed with all the genius on display each day...why not?
Throw another bundle of dollars on the fire, brother.
Lame Cherry had this to say today:
"There is no longer a rule of law in this world. There is just lawlessness under some guise calling things legal when all it is, is a colonialism on the scale of owning your dog with RFID tags, tracking you on your cell, enslaving Chinese, stealing from Americans in all they labored for, to poisoning the world in genetic engineered foods to change your DNA to an order which serves the elite.
Moammar Khadaffi cut a deal, a deal that had him so secure, that the US Government was funding Khadaffi's family and giving him arms just weeks before Obama turned on him.
Oh for the whim of Caligula, because perhaps he noticed during his fairy dance, that you could have leaped higher from your seat to applaud him............
It is the cartel's oil, for their empire, and everything in this world is their chattel."
Awesome.
Still a long way from understanding what the native American Indians went through (to make way for the "Christian Nation").
Let's see how those boots hit the ground when the wife is Skyping to tell her husband that his pay didn't come through this month...
I applied for an received Food Stamps while on Active Duty in the Navy under Jimmy Carter. Talk about history repeating.......
TPTB cares little about its cannon fodder. Check out history and see how military personnel have been treated (in the US). And people just buy it, running around waving flags and spouting their trite slogans of "support the troops." Meanwhile look at the profits racked up by the Offense contractors...
And that asshole said Gitmo was a Jihadist recruiting tool...
Hey, Braack! See ya at Al Megiddo!
Hi there party troll!
BTW - It's all lip service (and it SEEMS you likely have yours around a party's cock). But, yes, you kill innocent people and lock people up for years on end without them being able to address their accusors and what the hell do you think their general population is going to do, applaud? Fucking morons! Folks in the US have to be some of the dumbest mother fuckers to ever roam the earth...
BTW2 - I didn't vote for Obama. I don't vote for anything that TPTB put forward.
In the words of Bill Clinton a few days ago when asked about the Libyan intervention: "We're trying to build a world in which people resolve their differences in non-violent ways."
If they'd just all do what they're told there wouldn't be any violence, right?
"We're trying to build a world in which people resolve their differences in non-violent ways."
Collectivists.
It's all one team kids. What fights you see are kabuki theater and the mere fighting between divisions within a corporation so to speak.
The discussions about Obama/Bush/Clinton/Bush are drawing distinctions where none really exist.
Bush I's job before VP? Now top exec. for Carlyle. What do they do again?
Bush and Clinton working together (Haiti etc)? Read some Carroll Quigley or Read about Cecil Rhodes, as in Rhodes Scholar/Rhodesia. (Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and Studied under Quigley)
The right/Left Dem/Rep rope-a-dope just wears you out.
Those arguments are so last century.
Oh, here's a quote from an news article how your current president was picked back on Sunday, June 8, 2008.
"Recently, there has been much discussion about Barack Obama having possibly attended the recent Bilderberg conference in Virginia. This speculation arose when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sneaked off for a secretive meeting while in Virginia..... "Reporters traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening between the pair when they arrived at Dulles International Airport after an event in Northern Virginia and Obama was not aboard the airplane. Asked at the time about the Illinois senator's whereabouts, [Obama spokesman Robert] Gibbs smiled and declined to comment....."7
One reported asked Gibbs, "Why were we not told about this meeting until we were on the plane, the doors were shut and the plane was about to taxi to take off?" to which he responded, "Senator Obama had a desire to do some meetings, others had a desire to meet with him tonight in a private way and that is what we are doing." This preceded another question, "Is there more than one meeting, is there more than one person with whom he is meeting?" Gibbs simply replied, "I am not going to get into all the details of the meeting." He again later repeated that, "There was a desire to do some meetings tonight, he was interested in doing them, others were interested in doing them, and to do them in a way that was private."8
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9270 So Obama had his meeting 'In a Smokey room...Roll the film...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MRykTpw1RQ
Mabye it was a metting with Dick Cheney and folks from the energy industry? Seems that those kinds of meetings have the best shrouds around them...
Those Tomahawks with a monster box of Eagles per button push was getting expensive..
I think we are gonna see an emp come in from somewhere like a sucker punch just to see how well they work in a real live exercise..
I see some "Better killing thru Chemistry" action happenin'. Kdaff or false flag. who knows.
This fucking piece of shit puppet needs to be impeached. The first daughters should be sent over to be human shields. While we're at it, lets idict the last administration for treason.
People are junking you slv but there is some truth in what you say about daughters. The day the USA re-instates the draft and agrees women are worthy to fight on the front line with their male counterparts === that is the day our talking head politicians may hesitate before sending us into war.
Thank you for NOT being biased!
But, why spend all the energy, why not just tell them all to fuck off and we'll ignore the lot of them? Oh, but somewhere along the line it'll be branded socialism, or, my favorite, anarchism: refer to Edward Bernays for social programming.
+1
Side note: Jacques Ellul's 'Propaganda' might also be worth your time.
Bernays makes me want to puke.
CIA to the right of me TSA to the left....back in the middle with you. ......ZH
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Do you guys know people who actually voted for Obama thinking they were really voting for change? I do. Fucking pathetic, how many times does the American public need to get bent over before they learn that both sides of the aisle are completely opposed to them?
This is like asking "How many cows will be driven into the slaughter house before they learn?". Look at our fellow Americans, look into their cow eyes, and you'll get your answer. They will only panic when they themselves are in the abattoir, and by then it's a little late.
The real sadness is when the last of the wealth is being cut away the masses will look to the very same people who are doing the cutting and beg them for help. The public is worse than worthless, only individuals can make a change. The herd will always act like a herd.
+1 to both of you. You can essentially look at any house vote, find out which way Ron Paul went, and do the math...
This cannot be sustained forever. People will not be ready for when SHTF. All you can do is prepare yourself.
+1
Doesn't hurt to find kindred spirits in your local community. Posses will form...might as well have one of your own.
Thanks for injecting reason into things. I think that there should be a button that we can all hit to dismiss party trolls (the minions of all that's fucked up).
People need to look into the mirror.
A society that blindly accepts war is NOT peaceful, does NOT have any redeeming moral values.
Well now, you goofy bastard, I am not trying to start an argument here...but do you really think we'd be anywhere different with McSame and Missy Failin' in office? It's the system that is broken. Donkey or Ass, makes no diff.
Reading comprehension. Not trying to start an argument. I believe what you are saying was essentially his point.
just saying.
I wonder how fast the banks will foreclose on a soldier's home when his wife can't make the monthly payment because her husband, now deployed to Libya, isn't getting paid? Tyler, can you have someone figure out how many military personnel's salaries can be paid per month with one months' worth of Loyd's bonus.
If those guys find pallets of 100's as they did in Iraq. It's theirs
The most pathetic part of this is that The Great One actually believes he is shrewd and diplomatic, a paragon of wisdom, his sh*t don't stink.
In truth, he is a complete stuffed shirt, bought and paid for buffoon.
Amen Mr Sharkbait. Stuffed, talking head shirt.
And you felt the same about Bush? If not, you're a party troll- die!
The Ministry of Peace announced today thaty we captured 823,000 of the enemy and are now in control...nothing to worry about....nothing...
Any word of participation by other NATO countries in the whole boots/ground thing?
All you have to do is look back to when Bush was in office and realize that the Dems were not criticizing the war itself, just Bush's prosecution of it. They were screaming for blood too, just claiming that they could do it better.
Hillary is a bloodthirsty bitch and Obama a silk tongued demon.
Don't you mean Obama is a "silk tonged teleprompter reader?!?"
Significant US troops are needed on the ground in Libya in order to protect and preserve the resources of that country for its people.
Then get your yakking ass over there, pronto!
Go ahead and do it Obama. Please do it. The pieces of the puzzle of my prediction are falling into place that will assure that the dems are crying into their panties for Hillary to save them come next year's primary time. No way no how Big O wins the primary yet alone the election if he continues on the path he is on.
You do realize she is his SecState, and point on all this, right?
Who cares. She takes her orders from O like everyone else. The buck stops here. Trust me the dems will be BEGGING for her to challenge him by EOY.
If he were primaried out, the Dems would lose all the black vote. Not gonna happen.
It is him or no one for them. Their only way out would be if he didn't run, and he likes being king.
Obama DOES NOT give orders, he just repeats what his evil joo masters tell him to say!
Listen, I don't like the bastard anymore than the next person, but your postings are rather childish, don't you think? (well, if you're a child, then I guess you've got a legitimate right)
I smell party troll...
What happened to all the right-wing Hillary haters? Geez, she's at a higher level of office now, AND along with Obama!
Yeah, the reason why it's no longer vogue to attack her is because she's doing your bidding of killing brown people...
FYI - I hated her before (and not for party troll reasons), and I hate her now. I've been consistent! Can't say that about the warmongers and party trolls.
OK!!! BlackholeDivestment says ''Fight Club IS ON BITCHEZ'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToceoE9DHWY
Lets go down into the Great Pyramid shall we? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgT1Sv8Pcg&feature=related
''By peace shall he destroy many'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jn-JxYkasY
(irony) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsP052z5hLk
Hussein of Babylon, AKA Mr. Lightning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHUZXgNAWo
Things that make you go hmmm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgxkeDF2_0A&feature=player_embedded
Apollyon Rising 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWnFGeqgqtE&feature=player_embedded
''only keeeding'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI
This is the most absurd expedition ever. These jelly-spined, bed wetting socialists want to fight for oil so Europe can drink Libya's milkshake, but are too chicken to call it what it is.
Just say you're doing it for freedom and kick some ass and then get the hell out of there.
It's one of those kinetic thingies--not that nasty 3 letter word!
Exactly! How about actually discussing the REAL reasons and then letting people make the choice?
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln (note: it's the message!)
Don't be shocked and dumbfounded if Obama wins again. Remember, corporate campaign spending is unlimited now. Who or what shapes reality for most Americans? TV does. Whoever throws the most money around controls things now. You know popular votes mean nothing.
So the Dems. funded the (Hadron Super Collider). Obama needs a parallel universe to take 2012.
I tried warning right-wing party trolls about this when their last boy was in office (Bush) and they could have cared less. Well, what's the saying? You get the government that you deserve... Stupid fuckers!
"Boots on the ground" - Bullshit,
His boots our feet.
The Prez is a Sack of shit.
The USA is controlled by Banksters and Generals.....
Without them the country is a fucking joke.
AND with them ,the country is a fucking joke.
You's ALL allow this to go on.It is partially your fault ,american citizens
WAKE UP...!!!!
Did you's guys and gals forget yous pay for the goverment...???
If you's do not like this you have 2 choices.
Call the shots and overthrow the goverment.
or KEEP paying them your hard earned tax dollars.
Which funds them to do AS YOU do NOT wish.
You's appear to like living on your knees.
I always subscribe to the belief that there's always a third solution. In this case that would be to walk away... Remove your energies from them all. Yup, they'll fold up like a wet paper sack.
What do you suggest we do? The ball seems to always be in the government's court.
www.forecastfortomorrow.com
I'm rooting for Libya. I hope they can somehow can overcome the Imperialist forces trying to steal their oil and I also hope when we go bankrupt we'll get our ass thrown out of Afghanistan like the Soviets. Iraq too. China and Russia might be waiting for us to play ourselves out and step in after we make some real stupid moves. No more bubbles to blow. Only thing left for us to do is steal shit and default on our obligations. Things are pretty shitty when Americans start to root for the people we pick our wars with. I actually smirked when I read NATO again accidently bombed the rebel stooges they got to start this whole dust up so I'm certainly not going to cheer when I hear their bombs hit their intened targets in the future or when they finally get to hang Quadafi and steal his gold. After all they'll do the same in a few years to the new puppet boss they put in power. Junk me. I don't care at this point.
'...China and Russia might be waiting for us to play ourselves out and step in after we make some real stupid moves...'
I've thought the same thing Mr Gonzo. Only the game may be being played by more than just China and Russia. What if may f the ME/African countries are in on the game? Kind of like the age old game of keep-away. One country has its uprising and watches us run to intervene....then another...and another...we run from place to place proceeding, just as planned, into bankruptcy. Too pathetically damned stupid to see we are being played like a losing chess piece.
"I actually smirked when I read NATO again accidently bombed the rebel stooges they got to start this whole dust up"
But... don't discount this being deliberate. If the original parties aren't around they can't say what the original agreements with TPTB were. US slips NATO some "intel" and, poof! The only folks that could really provide any meaningful refutation are taken out.
And what's left is shit like Curveball...
Did you's guys and gals forget yous pay for the goverment...???
If you's do not like this you have 2 choices.
Call the shots and overthrow the goverment.
or KEEP paying them your hard earned tax dollars.
Which funds them to do AS YOU do NOT wish.
You's appear to like living on your knees.
but the people on the TV tell me it's normal to have the government tell us what to do...
And I don't see the conduit going to Big Business, to offense contractors, while they brainwash our children to go kill people for Their profits.
Report earlier today that Saudi Arabia was seeking to improve relations with both Russia and China must have been quite an understatement.
because the writing's on the wall. doesn't take a nobel peace prize let alone a cracker-jack mystery prize to figure this one out...
Thanks for that.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/305430
Impeachment NOW! Nothing more can be said!
Sure! One more word: STUPID!
Go away party troll!
BTW - Impeachments have been BS. All they will help do is to cycle in the next group of thugs (but party trolls like this, as their mob gets in and They get a bigger slice).
If we send ground troops in Libya we will make shit worse.All K-Daffy Duck will do is arm at least arm 1 million of his supporters and tribesmen to engage us and the rebels in a never ending insurgency.This a bigger blunder then Napoleon's invasion and occupation of Spain.
Blunder?
Have you seen the performance of the offense contractor's stock since 9/11?
Further, this will, as has happened in Iraq, knock the oil-signing pen out of the new bad guy's hand. NOTE: Saddam, with sactions clearly becoming seen for what they were (no longer meaningful- no proof of non-compliance, as was proven after the invasion), was on the verge of being completely un-bound to sign oil contract however he liked*.
http://www.towardfreedom.com/middle-east/516-a-peoples-history-of-iraq
Despite the desire of people in Iraq to be free of foreign domination, the British government had, in 1921, set up a puppet Hashemite feudal monarchy in Iraq during the pre-1932 British Mandate period. The British next created the Iraq Petroleum Company, which was jointly owned by British, Dutch, French and U.S. oil companies. The Iraq Petroleum Company was then granted a lucrative 75-year concession of Iraq's oil resources by the UK's puppet monarchy.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, his government, and close associates have taken extreme measures against the people of Libya, including by using weapons of war, mercenaries, and wanton violence against unarmed civilians. I further find that there is a serious risk that Libyan state assets will be misappropriated by Qadhafi, members of his government, members of his family, or his close associates if those assets are not protected. The foregoing circumstances, the prolonged attacks, and the increased numbers of Libyans seeking refuge in other countries from the attacks, have caused a deterioration in the security of Libya and pose a serious risk to its stability, thereby constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Goldman Sachs's Tentacles in Libya We should not be surprised that Goldman Sachs jumped at the opportunity to "invest" in Libya once George Bush welcomed Gaddhafi back into the fold of the world community. Recently, President Obama announced that he was freezing the Gaddhafi family's assets. The Libyan Asset Authority invested "hundreds of millions of dollars in Goldman Sachs Asset Management funds, including a loan fund designed to invest in new hedge funds set up by the Kuwait Investment Authority." Everyone likes the opportunity to earn big bucks with Goldman Sachs. .http://www.goldmansachs666.com/2011/03/goldman-sachss-tentacles-in-libya.htmlhmmmmm.....
A point of view from the normally more relaxed Gerald Celente
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rUX-1BI_pvQ
You think he's pissed? <smirk>
I totally agree with him. But... on the other hand I KNOW how this is going to turn out, and that there's nothing that can/will be done (martyrdom just doesn't seem to work), because people are brainwashed ("patriotic").
heh ... +137 the Triumph reference Tyler
Meanwhile, back at home, every news station is covering only the budget stand-off. Just coincidence? uh-huh. sure it is.
some of the attitudes and comments on this site are just totally fucked up
and I really wonder sometimes why I even bother to post amongst this bunch
of fascist and racist rednecks that seem to be frequenting this site !
Boots on the Ground is exactly the right answer for a killer like Gaddafi !
Or would you rather have some little Hitler-Clone like Gadaffi and his gang
sit on the sweet crude Oil and hold the whole world to ransom to keep him in power ?
Just because we are born on a piece of land on this here Earth,
does not mean that everything above in the Air and below Ground is ours,
to do as we please ,to take and exploit for power and greed and fuck everyone else !
The time when one little rogue country could hold the rest of the world to ransom is long gone and those Hiters of you, who don't recognize this change ,will soon go the way of the dodo, with all your guns, gold or silver.
Boots on the ground and get rid of the fuck and anyone who wants to hold the world to ransom ! Boots of the ground and kill the fucking Hitler and anyone standing in the way! This is about the world's resources being controlled by a few rogue countries who hold the whole world to ransom for their own selfish greed and lust for power.
Gaddafi kills his own people just to stay in power and keep the Oil .
That Oil does not belong to Gadaffi, that Oil belongs to everyone !
Gadaffi must be taken down like the dog he is
so the rest of the world can get on with life !
Boots on the Ground is the only answer for a tyrant like Gadaffi.
I totally agree, let the Libyans get their boots on the ground, and use their planes and their ships and their tanks, and go in there and get ride of that bastard!
I'm wiff ya bro!
And then there will be a next tyrant (backed and supported by TPTB), and another, and another... One day people will get it, that no one should have Their power, and that govts, leaders, mythical controllers/gods, are means of oppression and that they'll throw off the shackles and live like real humans. Naw! Let's go kill brown people! (and pretend that they're bad- we have to keep our jobs!)
If you just replace Gaddafi with Obama/Bush and Libya with America, and read your whole piece again, it would still ring true....don't you think?
Another U.S. led war for control of a country and it's resources. How is it that there is UNLIMITED money for war (and the big banks) but NO money to keep the govt going or save the social programs, the homeowner in foreclosure, small business, etc?
Sigh, some piss-ant party troll junked you...
Remember, it's not a Ground War, it's a No Parking Zone
Bullish for both Silver N Gold. Thank you, Barry!
Hitler (Obama's idol) was more efficient than Obama, but Hitler did not have an ocean to cross. He could just send his troops across the border when invading the surrounding countries.
A righteous impeachment boot should be resolutely put up Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama's ass. Except that it is already so full of bankster cock that there is no more room.
Obama is the new Bush! Black Gold is the real authority behind our government and the only thing we can afford to pursue for the next few decades.
www.forecastfortomorrow.com
Anything labeled a "peacekeeping mission" is OK, it's been that way for 60 years
I can't believe his approval ratings are still this high-
Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administra...
They certainly are not talking to me or anyone that I know....