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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:55 AM Original message |
A People Betrayed: West Launches New War for Oil in Libya |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
1. No more... Bring them home.... |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. Enough |
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jannyk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
3. Correction! Led by the French & the Brits - get your facts straight. nt unrec for BS |
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Safetykitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
4. No. this is a just and right war. Oil just happens to be there. |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 11:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. In what way is this a just and right war? |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. So why isn't anybody discussing military intervention in Burma? |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 01:04 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Same with Zimbabwe. |
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meow mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
5. Unrec for feeding the republican propaganda machine |
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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
6. This is so stupid. Some people would be against military action no matter how just the cause.... |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:22 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Let me see didn't we go into Iraq because Saddam Husein was |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Thank you! +1 nt |
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jannyk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 11:22 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Wait...the Taliban were responsible for 911? For 10 years I've been |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 12:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. At the time, they were conflated. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. only in the minds of people |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:02 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Well, they were deliberately conflated by BushCo rhetoric. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:15 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Cheney was the master of this- but |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:28 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. The real problem, at bottom, is that our government uses "freedom and democracy" |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. weren't they the very same ideals which were invoked to get us into |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:44 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. You are very right. The script is unchanged. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. yeah- |
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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 11:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. How short is your memory? We were lied into war in Iraq, myself and many others like me may have... |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
30. I was against any military action in Afghanistan- |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 11:40 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. People have very short memories. n/t |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 01:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. we didn't go into Iraq for any 'humanitarian' reasons- and anyone |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:13 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. They named the war "Iraqi Freedom", remember? |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. 'they' also call themselves "compassionate conservatives" |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. It's not accurate to say this is just like Iraq. |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. Seriously stop trying to spread fear |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 11:25 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. You betcha I fear this latest action by our government. I fear |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. "Chris FLoyd" can turn off his computer and go to Libya to fight for his cause himself nt |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
9. Probably the first press release ever to use the phrase: "That lousy henchman" |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
10. Who is Chris Floyd? |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Who is Chris Floyd?: |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
11. oh yawn... |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
13. Have you seen this? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'm growing impatient with the potus but WTF is that source? Credibility zero. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
25. led by Whom??? |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
26. Perhaps Obama could personally attach his Nobel Peace Prize to the first US bomb dropped in Libya |
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GSLevel9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. well deserved REC! |
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Catherina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
34. REC. n/t |
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