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hedgehog

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Wed Mar-23-11 12:18 PM
Response to Reply #9

14. Here's hoping the air strtikes are effective, but I note the last paragraph

suggests the possibility of stale mate.

I wish we had other tools at hand. For example, $50,000 for every one of Gaddafi's troops who surrenders his weapons at the border and leaves.

Or better yet, $50,000 for the first 10,000 of his troops who surrender.

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-The direct words of a Libyan widow	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 11:56 AM	#0
- "if they stop helping us we will be killed"	dkf	Mar-23-11 12:00 PM	#1
- Deleted message	Name removed	Mar-23-11 12:03 PM	#3
- Can't save everyone.	dkf	Mar-23-11 05:52 PM	#51
- Bet you'd feel different if you were that widow.	originalpckelly	Mar-23-11 10:43 PM	#62
- Compassion is sooooo last century.	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 10:44 PM	#63
- Libyans cannot vote Gaddafi out.	tabatha	Mar-23-11 12:05 PM	#4
- The no-fly zone was working in Iraq before Dubya's illegal invasion.	damntexdem	Mar-23-11 12:40 PM	#20
- Easy	rufus dog	Mar-23-11 11:39 PM	#70
- No complaints for me. The people of this world should be able to live without fear	Lucinda	Mar-23-11 12:02 PM	#2
- Reminds me of the Kuwaiti nurse	dipsydoodle	Mar-23-11 12:05 PM	#5
- How dare they ask for our help? Don't they know Obama's too busy cutting Social Security now?	ReturnoftheDjedi	Mar-23-11 12:06 PM	#6
- I wish those who are making sarcastic threads on DU would read this	thewiseguy	Mar-23-11 12:08 PM	#7
- The problem with helping put the fire out is that the only tools we have	hedgehog	Mar-23-11 12:10 PM	#8
- Read this:	thewiseguy	Mar-23-11 12:12 PM	#9
- Here's hoping the air strtikes are effective, but I note the last paragraph	hedgehog	Mar-23-11 12:18 PM	#14
- Yeah, but if they surrendered, wouldn't we first have to lock 'em up	sad sally	Mar-23-11 04:06 PM	#42
- Not our only tools...but it sure seems to be the only ones they are willing to use	Lucinda	Mar-23-11 12:14 PM	#11
- You got a chuckle with that one.	Iterate	Mar-23-11 10:54 PM	#65
- thank you for posting this Bobbolink	Bluerthanblue	Mar-23-11 12:12 PM	#10
- Please see post #38	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 02:01 PM	#39
- It is amazing that some people are unrecommending this thread	thewiseguy	Mar-23-11 12:15 PM	#12
- Deleted message	Name removed	Mar-23-11 12:32 PM	#17
- Deleted message	Name removed	Mar-23-11 01:45 PM	#36
- Here is my problem (and I didn't recommend but I don't blame those who	ScreamingMeemie	Mar-23-11 12:35 PM	#18
- I unrecommended this OP because it is emotionally manipulative	EFerrari	Mar-23-11 01:20 PM	#31
- Exactly. I'd rec except for the personal attacks towards DUers at the end	uppityperson	Mar-23-11 07:38 PM	#54
- +1	leftstreet	Mar-23-11 08:11 PM	#59
- well said	paulk	Mar-23-11 10:57 PM	#66
- I'm speechless too.	DevonRex	Mar-23-11 04:02 PM	#41
- Nah, the Libyan people were thrown under the bus as soon as they asked for help.	joshcryer	Mar-23-11 07:36 PM	#52
- Yes, that was a landmark U-turn.	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 08:05 PM	#58
- "We want to do this ourselves, but we don't have the weapons, the technology, the things we need."	n2doc	Mar-23-11 12:16 PM	#13
- If nothing else, this is an object lesson for every one here who has	hedgehog	Mar-23-11 12:19 PM	#15
- It did not start violent. It started as peaceful protesting.	Shiver	Mar-23-11 01:05 PM	#25
- K&R...nt	SidDithers	Mar-23-11 12:20 PM	#16
- Deleted message	Name removed	Mar-23-11 12:35 PM	#19
- Deleted message	Name removed	Mar-23-11 12:41 PM	#21
- K & R	MilesColtrane	Mar-23-11 12:45 PM	#22
- It's an emotional appeal	gmaki	Mar-23-11 12:46 PM	#23
- Here's a report from a doctor treating the wounded and one from a US admiral:	EFerrari	Mar-23-11 12:59 PM	#24
- Funny, I read that first article this morning	gmaki	Mar-23-11 01:08 PM	#27
- I posted these reports as a counterpoint to the OP	EFerrari	Mar-23-11 01:15 PM	#28
- Ahh sorry. I guess I just furthered your point then.. lol	gmaki	Mar-23-11 01:23 PM	#32
- Misurata has been shelled every 20-30 minutes for a day, how do you get snipers...	joshcryer	Mar-23-11 07:39 PM	#55
- He's asking for fucking airstrikes. He got some early this morning btw.	joshcryer	Mar-23-11 07:38 PM	#53
- Here's another emotional appeal:	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 01:45 PM	#35
- I did not "unrec" your orginal post	gmaki	Mar-23-11 01:55 PM	#37
- You're right; we should base our foreign policy on the words of an unknown Libyan woman	Rage for Order	Mar-23-11 01:07 PM	#26
- .	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 01:15 PM	#29
- K&R	bengalherder	Mar-23-11 01:15 PM	#30
- Do you remember that saying....	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 08:03 PM	#57
- K&R Thanks for posting this, bobbolink	Waiting For Everyman	Mar-23-11 01:25 PM	#33
- Thank you!	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 04:35 PM	#43
- This is so sad......my heart breaks for her....	Desertrose	Mar-23-11 01:39 PM	#34
- "I'm not afraid to die, I'm afraid to lose the battle" -Mohammed Nabbous, a month ago when all this	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 01:57 PM	#38
- yeah, emotional manipulation.	Bluerthanblue	Mar-23-11 04:49 PM	#44
- This whole thing is breaking my heart, how DU turned it's back.	joshcryer	Mar-23-11 07:39 PM	#56
- Thanks. KnR	DevonRex	Mar-23-11 02:13 PM	#40
- These words could come as well from an Afghani widow	rug	Mar-23-11 04:53 PM	#45
- So if we care about the Libyans we don't care about the Afghans?	MedleyMisty	Mar-23-11 05:26 PM	#48
- Any death is a reason for grief. It is not, however, a rationale for war.	rug	Mar-23-11 05:30 PM	#49
- And lack of heart blinds people to distinctions between one situation and another.	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 05:48 PM	#50
- K&R	meow mix	Mar-23-11 05:13 PM	#46
- hugs	MedleyMisty	Mar-23-11 05:19 PM	#47
- I'm completely with you! We are mostly conflicted,, and we insist on listening to the Libyan	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 10:32 PM	#60
- K&R	Swede	Mar-23-11 10:41 PM	#61
- Deleted sub-thread	Name removed	Mar-23-11 10:52 PM	#64
- Deleted the Reply; sublet the space	Iterate	Mar-24-11 01:55 AM	#73
- "...I am caring more about the Libyan people than I do those in my own country anymore"	Poll_Blind	Mar-23-11 11:13 PM	#67
- The disgusting attitude of 'Murkins and "progressives" in particular toward poor people has caused	bobbolink	Mar-23-11 11:17 PM	#68
- Of course. Anyway, I don't believe there is any difference between them and us.	Poll_Blind	Mar-23-11 11:34 PM	#69
- Hey now	DonCoquixote	Mar-23-11 11:58 PM	#71
- I don't think ANY of us like "the way we came into this" for a lot of reasons.	bobbolink	Mar-24-11 11:18 AM	#75
- But don't the widows in Mexico say similar things?	IndyJones	Mar-24-11 12:10 AM	#72
- Have the widows in Mexico organized a popular protest against their government?	bobbolink	Mar-24-11 09:15 AM	#74

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