I'm already feeling a lot better about the Libya strike now that I know the official nickname...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

U.S. LAUNCHES STRIKES IN LIBYA

'Operation Odyssey Dawn'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

[doc03]

1. I think they are running out of names for all these military

operations.

[SpiralHawk]

2. The full formal name is 'Odyssey Dawn Super-Moon QuakeWave'

To conform with Super Scientific Stuff & millitury cusstoom.

[Desertrose]

9. other wise known as ODSMQ

:evilgrin:

:hi:SH :loveya:



Some moon, huh? Super or not...its pretty impressive!

On the other hand...I just want Gadaffy to stop killing his people. Bastard.

[jaxx]

3. Unrec for not using the picture that is with the text.

[wtmusic]

4. +1

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. -1

[wtmusic]

20. And you know this child was not injured by Ghadafi's forces...how? nt

[snappyturtle]

6. In fairness to the OP it may have been the picture at the time posted:

part of the slide show.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Guess you didn't notice it's a fucking SLIDESHOW.

That picture IS with the text, along with many others.

I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight knowing you unreced me. I simply don't.

Bye now.

[jaxx]

15. You are right and I apologize.

[wtmusic]

21. Actually, it's a fucking propaganda slideshow.

Just as I suspected - this kid was shot by Ghadafi's troops:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwMn-3lhCf0

Note title: "Libya intervention comes too late for some".

That's why we're there. :eyes:

[snappyturtle]

5. Enough. I wonder how many tax dollars went into coming up with that gem? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Actually a computer spat it out

[snappyturtle]

11. Nothing is free of cost in government. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Nope but that one was cheap

as cheap as a bullet... 50 cents worst case.

[snappyturtle]

18. So are toilet seats. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Those are cover for black ops

[Luminous Animal]

8. A long and wandering adventure.

[daleo]

17. The Oddessy was 10 or 20 years as I recall

And most everyone gets killed, except Odysseus. Back home, Penelope gets eaten out of house and home by parasitic suiters.

It's an interesting metaphor they chose. Maybe a Freudian slip.

[NashVegas]

12. Don't Forget to Stand With Neda

While you're there.

[indimuse]

16. YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!

:mad:

[Catherina]

22. This war brought to you by our favorite neocons. Iran by way of Libya

US neo-cons urge Libya intervention
Signatories to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) demand "immediate" military action.
Jim Lobe Last Modified: 27 Feb 2011 16:00 GMT

In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage US intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to "immediately" prepare military action to help bring down the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and end the violence that is believed to have killed well over a thousand people in the past week.

The appeal, which came in the form of a letter signed by 40 policy analysts, including more than a dozen former senior officials who served under President George W. Bush, was organised and released by the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a two-year-old neo-conservative group that is widely seen as the successor to the more-famous – or infamous – Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Warning that Libya stood "on the threshold of a moral and humanitarian catastrophe", the letter, which was addressed to President Barack Obama, called for specific immediate steps involving military action, in addition to the imposition of a number of diplomatic and economic sanctions to bring "an end to the murderous Libyan regime".

...

The usual suspects

Among the letter's signers were former Bush deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Bush's top global democracy and Middle East adviser; Elliott Abrams; former Bush speechwriters Marc Thiessen and Peter Wehner; Vice President Dick Cheney's former deputy national security adviser, John Hannah, as well as FPI's four directors: Weekly Standard editor William Kristol; Brookings Institution fellow Robert Kagan; former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor; and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Ambassador to Turkey, Eric Edelman.

...

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/2011227153626965756.html

What countries were on PNAC's list again? North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria.

This latest war = Iran by way of Libya.

More Death! Less Jobs!