libya. hell in the desert. - Page 2

finnbow · #11 03-03-2011, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

...THEIR... oil, Stereorob.

And just how much oil does the United States get from Libya? Check that and get back to me. The British draw more oil from them than we do. So let the Brits go after it.

What I want to know is why in the hell where we sending $30,000,000,000 in "aid" to that bastard? That's the question that seems to be slipping by.

Dave

It doesn't matter whether we buy their oil or not. Oil is a fungible commodity. What we buy or don't buy from them is irrelevant, as the difference just gets made up by those that do.

finnbow · #12 03-03-2011, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

No fly. I saw a US general say we'd have to bomb antiaircraft sites. The left OK with this?

Pete

It's not an issue of left or right. Bombing their antiaircraft sites is an act of war. The issue is whether what's going on there rises to the level of us committing to yet another war in the Mideast.

BTW, it was Sec. Gates who said this to Congress. If we want to impose a no-fly zone there (and bomb their antiaircraft sites before doing so), the consensus is that we we have to do as part of a broader UN action with support from other Arab nations. Otherwise, we stand to lose more than we gain by doing so.

piece-itpete · #13 03-03-2011, 10:33 AM

Gas here, $3.35/gl, up appreciably.

Pete

piece-itpete · #14 03-03-2011, 10:37 AM

So, here we have a one world wet dream, with the various government organisations running around to and fro, just having the time of their lives hoping they can show they're really, really not nutless wonders, perhaps keeping a fruitcake from gassing his own people....

Pete

finnbow · #15 03-03-2011, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

So, here we have a one world wet dream, with the various government organisations running around to and fro, just having the time of their lives hoping they can show they're really, really not nutless wonders, perhaps keeping a fruitcake from gassing his own people....

Pete

That's one way of putting it. Another is that we need to look at the long term cost/benefit of our action overseas. I'm not saying we shouldn't impose a no-fly zone (and bomb their antiaircraft sites beforehand), but that we should carefully weigh the consequences thereof before acting.

In other words, ready-aim-fire, not ready-fire-aim.

merrylander · #16 03-03-2011, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

No fly. I saw a US general say we'd have to bomb antiaircraft sites. The left OK with this?

Pete

With starting yet another war in the middle east? Hell no!

And you would never get it past Rep Young from Florida, that cheap bastard won't even give General Petraeous the money he needs to protect our military in Afghanistan.

finnbow · #17 03-03-2011, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

And you would never get it past Rep Young from Florida, that cheap bastard won't even give General Petraeous the money he needs to protect our military in Afghanistan.

Not if it cuts into the budget for building unneeded and unwanted Humvees in his district.

merrylander · #18 03-03-2011, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

So, here we have a one world wet dream, with the various government organisations running around to and fro, just having the time of their lives hoping they can show they're really, really not nutless wonders, perhaps keeping a fruitcake from gassing his own people....

Pete

Make up your mind, last week it was "Why don't other countries pull their weight" this week we have to save all the poor Libyans.

finnbow · #19 03-03-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

Make up your mind, last week it was "Why don't other countries pull their weight" this week we have to save all the poor Libyans.

That's kind of an affliction of the right, Rob. They always want America to flex its muscle around the world while bitching at others for not wanting to do the same.

I think it must having something to do with having a small pen........, er, manhood.

merrylander · #20 03-03-2011, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by finnbow

That's kind of an affliction of the right, Rob. They always want America to flex its muscle around the world while bitching at others for not wanting to do the same.

I think it must having something to do with having a small pen........, er, manhood.

Did you ead Dana Millbank's OpEd in the WaPo this morning? That yoyo from Florida needs a good stiff kick in the cojones.