About time. How long was everyone willing to tolerate Gaddafi massacring civvies?
It sends a clear message: You can't massacre civilians. You WILL be stopped if you do it.
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.Yeah, about time.
Currently taking a break from the site. See my user page for more information.1718: Talking about the first shot by a French aircraft on a Libyan military vehicle, French defence ministry spokesman Laurent Teisseire told reporters: "A first target was engaged and destroyed." An armed forces spokesman told the same briefing the operation to halt Colonel Gaddafi's advance on rebel forces involved around 20 planes and an area 100 km by 150 km (60 by 100 miles) around the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi. France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will leave France for Libya on Sunday, the spokesman added. A central command centre for the operation was still being set up.
FIRST BLOOD GOES TO FRANCE.
Proud member of the IAA What's the point of being grown up if you can't act childish?As the great philosophers the Wu-tang clan once spoke, the French ain't nothin' to fuck with.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?So, when do the Americans join the party?
Same as usual: After three years, when they see who's winning.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'Har har. We'll be on time...
1748: French aircraft have destroyed four Libyan tanks in air strikes to the south-west of Benghazi, Al-Jazeera television has reported.
YES.
Proud member of the IAA What's the point of being grown up if you can't act childish?CNN said USA doesn't want to be seen as leading the 'invasion' of ANOTHER middle eastern country, so they are shuffling their feet and going to work as support instead.
Don't the realize they'll be seen as scapegoat no matter what?
No, they won't. This is France's war. The French have chosen to lead it. Yeah, they will mostly do what American military advisors tell them, but they have more or less taking the responsibility for this conflict.
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.^ Actually we will. We pretty much already have been scapegoated as far as Gaddafi is concerned.
There is nothing we can do over the issue that won't make us a scapegoat one way or the other.
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."And do you think the Propaganda Machine gives a flying shit?
USA is the easiest of scapegoats, there is already anti USA sentiments throughout the middle east, so it would be stupid for Ghadaffi to not use the easiest of scapegoat and get more support out of the retarded loyalists.
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The UK are right on France's tail here - our aircraft are moving to forward bases, and we're likely to to be in action within hours.
The US will inevitably be scapegoated here, because the US is obviously the only country on earth that isn't in the Middle East, and everything that ever happens anywhere ever has to be their fault by definition, but they do seem to be trying to let the French and British take the lead here, and go after them.
I think that history will look back on this more favourably than, say, Iraq, because this has been done by the book, with the cooperation of and through coordination with the Rebel Alliance and the Arab League. Oh, and the UN. Our intervention is legal under international law, being within the terms of a broad UN resolution. Much as I'd love to see Sarkozy and David Cameron hanged drawn and quartered, it won't be for war crimes if it ever happens.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.Guys, we have the middle east protests thread.
^^Rebel Alliance? They're really calling themselves that?
^This is big news and deserves a more focussed discussion.
Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.No, they're not, I just can't stop myself referring to them that way.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.Libya has been the main source of discussion for several pages on the other thread, it's not going to not be spoken about on the other thread and I find it funny that several posts on this thread are things already stated on the other thread. Please, you're not going to get more focused than the other thread.
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The Rebels also lost one of their two or three MiGs, but nobody's sure if it was shot down by AAA, or just caught fire.
Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.