Targeting Gaddafi not part of mission - US general

Well, that's just dumb. Why in the hell wouldn't we be targeting qaddafi? When he is out of the picture the rest of his thugs won't know what to do. You the old saying, "Cut of the head and the snake dies"? I think it applies in this case. Everybody and their granny wants this guy out of power, targeting him seems like the best way to accomplish that mission...

From Reuters

The Army general leading the U.S. forces enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya said on Monday it would not be ideal for Muammar Gaddafi to remain in power but attacking the Libyan leader was not part of his mission.

U.S. Army General Carter Ham also said the military coalition imposing the no-fly zone flew 70 to 80 sorties on Monday, with non-U.S. forces flying more than half of them. He said he expected a decline in the frequency of attacks on Libya in the coming days.

Liberal Democrats in uproar over Libya action

kucinich is a dumbass. He should have known that a: obama doesn't ask anybody if he can do anything, and b: with the entire world calling obama a big pussy, he didn't really have a choice. I mean, think about it, when FRANCE seems like it has more balls than us, something is wrong, real wrong.

If you ask me, I think obama was shamed into action. It was kind of funny though, after the decision was made by France and England, obama acted like he had been on board the entire time, which is bullshit, and started talking tough.

It's also funny that he is getting kicked in the nuts by those who used to be his base. He just continues to alienate the entire world. When liberal socialist democrats like maxine waters and sheila jackson lee turn against him it's gonna be a long tough ride to 2012...

By John Bresnahan & Jonathan Allen - Politico

A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of U.S. missile strikes against Libya, with one lawmaker raising the prospect of impeachment during a Democratic Caucus conference call on Saturday.

Reps. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Donna Edwards (Md.), Mike Capuano (Mass.), Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Rob Andrews (N.J.), Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) “all strongly raised objections to the constitutionality of the president’s actions” during that call, said two Democratic lawmakers who took part.

Kucinich, who wanted to bring impeachment articles against both former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over Iraq — only to be blocked by his own leadership — asked why the U.S. missile strikes aren’t impeachable offenses.

Kucinich also questioned why Democratic leaders didn’t object when President Barack Obama told them of his plan for American participation in enforcing the Libyan no-fly zone during a White House Situation Room meeting on Friday, sources told POLITICO.

Arab League condemns broad bombing campaign in Libya

This is exactly why we can't count on these dumbasses. It's kind of stupid to attempt to impose a no-fly zone without taking down the air defense systems. Without that all you have is an airwar. And while there is no way a libyan pilot can compete with a Marine Corps pilot, why chance getting our aircraft damaged or our pilots injured.

I do kind of wonder though, if anyone bothered to tell the arab league that we would begin this with a bomning campaign? I find it hard to believe that this caught them totally by surprise. If nothing else, they have seen us kick the shit out of some of their neighbors before. The arab league should know how it's done...

By Edward Cody - The Washington Post

CAIRO—The Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, deplored the broad scope of the U.S.-European bombing campaign in Libya and said Sunday that he would call a league meeting to reconsider Arab approval of the Western military intervention.

Moussa said the Arab League’s approval of a no-fly zone on March 12 was based on a desire to prevent Moammar Gaddafi’s air force from attacking civilians and was not designed to endorse the intense bombing and missile attacks — including on Tripoli, the capital, and on Libyan ground forces — whose images have filled Arab television screens for two days.

“What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone,” he said in a statement on the official Middle East News Agency. “And what we want is the protection of civilians and not the shelling of more civilians.”

Moussa’s declaration suggested that some of the 22 Arab League members were taken aback by what they have seen and wanted to modify their approval lest they be perceived as accepting outright Western military intervention in Libya. Although the eccentric Gaddafi is widely looked down on in the Arab world, the leaders and people of the Middle East traditionally have risen up in emotional protest at the first sign of Western intervention.

A shift away from the Arab League endorsement, even partial, would be an important setback to the U.S.-European campaign. Western leaders brandished the Arab League decision as a justification for their decision to move militarily and as a weapon in the debate to win approval for a U.N. Security Council resolution two days before the bombing began.

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