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2011-05-01 Africa North

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Posted by Steve White 2011-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Why are you attacking us?

Attack is such a strong word. We like to think of it as Pruning the Gadaffy family tree.

Posted by gorb 2011-05-01 00:49|| 2011-05-01 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 It's an 'intervention'.

Think of it as friendly help to overcome the withdrawal from no longer being absolute dictator.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-01 01:02|| 2011-05-01 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 When you start begging to "negotiate" its finally beginning to dawn on you that you are losing. I think its beginning to dawn on Kadaffy.
He realizes that we are willing to kill him to get him out. He understands that we are going to murder him if we can and we dont care if we kill his entire family down to the grandchildren to do the job.

Has that dawned on you too? Has it also dawned on you that we are going to drag this situation out in Libya until we bleed the country white so that the whole place is as weak as a roadkill and then a coalition of Europeans and an American supervisor will set up a Karzai to milk the cow? No? We just want "Peace" right?
Khadaffy has no future. He has no place to run. No one anywhere will take him. He will wind up on a guthook the same as Mussolini. Its just a matter of time. Even the best case scenario would have him "legally" tried in a court of some kind and then we get to watch Saddam shuffle down the catwalk in the abbatoir and Khadaffy ( sorry did I say Saddam?). Well, rest assured it will all be legal. Legal is what happens when you play with the big boys.
Khadaffy is a weenie on a stick and we are all boyscouts.

How do you see it?

Oh, "subdued but defiant" means a rat in a corner. That's when you squirt him with lighter fluid and lock the dog in the bathroom.

Posted by de Medici3489 2011-05-01 07:31|| 2011-05-01 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 This is the problem with going into something like this without a plan. Should've long ago set up a 'Dictators-r-Us' estates on American Samoa where these clowns could retire along with their immediate family and no more than two mistresses to encourage these fellows to move along without so much bloodshed. You know, a nice little private compound with a enticing ocean view [along the tsunami prone side of the island].

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-01 08:23|| 2011-05-01 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Future "copy and paste" titles taken from past conflicts:

XXX calls for ceasefire
YYY rejects ceasefire
Ceasefire accepted by XYZ
Ceasefire violated
New agreements, blah blah, blah, etc., etc.

Posted by Willy 2011-05-01 10:59|| 2011-05-01 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 P2K, leave American Samoa alone. It's way too nice. Find a more suitable location for this little retirement community you're planning.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-05-01 11:36|| 2011-05-01 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't argue with your concept. One of the big downsides of choosing dictatorship for a career is the crummy retirement plan. Just leave the wonderful Samoan people out of it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-05-01 11:38|| 2011-05-01 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 The Kerguelen islands are supposed to be nice in spring...

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-01 14:28|| 2011-05-01 14:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Nice little island with a lagoon, Sverdrup Island

Posted by Bobby 2011-05-01 17:13|| 2011-05-01 17:13|| Front Page Top

#10 we bleed the country white so that the whole place is as weak as a roadkill and then a coalition of Europeans and an American supervisor will set up a Karzai to milk the cow?

You mean just like Afghanistan. What a cash cow that is.

deMedici, you should be banned on the basis you are an idiot.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-01 21:23|| 2011-05-01 21:23|| Front Page Top

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