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2011-02-26 Africa North

Son's unit may be one of Gaddafis last lines of defense

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Uh, uh, okay, I'll bite, ISN'T THAT GONNA BE HARD TO DO FROM VENEZUELA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-26 00:13|| 2011-02-26 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, and Cortez' motley band of adventurers were not particularly 'elite' in comparison to many train bands and units back in old Europe either. It's all relative. I'd be tracking movement of Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah mercs to Libya who'd be willing to 'work for food', so to speak, and have no problem putting down fellow muzzies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-26 08:45|| 2011-02-26 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Anyone else glad that Daffy caved on the nukes after Iraq?

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-02-26 10:02|| 2011-02-26 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Not exactly sure that he fully 'caved'.

Posted by Pappy 2011-02-26 10:40|| 2011-02-26 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Well Pappy, I think/hope that he caved sufficiently that we're not facing a possible Gotterdamerung scenario.

He's nuts enough to try it to go out in a blaze of gory.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-02-26 11:15|| 2011-02-26 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Will the people who really pull the switches activate them though?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-02-26 12:10|| 2011-02-26 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 In other news:

Muammar Qadaffy and family along with 3 surviving Kenyan mercenaries accept political asylum from President Obama and are flown to Madison Wisconsin where Qadaffy will chair the Middle Eastern Studies Department.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-26 13:09|| 2011-02-26 13:09|| Front Page Top

#8 this didn't work out too well for saddam either

Posted by chris 2011-02-26 13:30|| 2011-02-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

#9 According to this there was a 'nuclear standoff' as recently as 2009. Gaddafi was deterred by Reagan and temporarily by George W. Bush but when the Bush administration weakened he resumed his aggressive behavior and unfortunately was rewarded instead of punished.

I wonder if he took the opportunity to go on a shopping spree in North Korea, even a nuclear fizzle device under his control would be a major disaster.

Posted by Grampaw Shirong7680 2011-02-26 16:46|| 2011-02-26 16:46|| Front Page Top

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