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Operation Odyssey Dawn
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Operation Odyssey Dawn
U.S. Wages War
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Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
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RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
Quote:Will the women who risked all to bring down a government find that all they got for their bravery and sacrifice was a shuffling of oppressors?


Undoubtedly.

Simply killing Qadday would solve the problem and then the towel heads could fight it out to find a new goat-fucking barbarian to be their leader.
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#3
RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
Ah, now I understand. What the UN really mean by a "no fly zone" is that nobody but THEM can fly in it. Duh...
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#4
RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
Well duh. That's kind of how a no-fly zone works. But oh my goodness I am so happy that this has happened.
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RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
If there wasn't oil involved...
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
well didnt we intervene in darfur, the democratic republic of congo and rowanda when the populations there were brutalised?

Guess not having oil makes a big difference.



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RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
Are they really calling it "Odyssey Dawn"?

The Odyssey, Odysseus' journey home, lasted ten years according to the classic story. That's not a hopeful name.
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RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
Of course, the US government doesn't really care about the Libyans as much as it cares about securing oil investments as well as the geopolitical objectives.

America saw that being involved in a no-fly zone would be worth it for that reason alone.

Quote:Some of the biggest oil producers and servicers, including BP, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Chevron, Conoco and Marathon Oil joined with defense giants like Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, multinationals like Dow Chemical and Fluor and the high-powered law firm White & Case to form the US-Libya Business Association in 2005. BP and ExxonMobil have oil production deals worth billions of dollars; Dow Chemical was the first worldwide chemical company to participate in Libya through a joint venture with the state-owned oil company to expand its petrochemical facility; Halliburton, which had operated in Libya through subsidiaries long before sanctions were lifted, was well-placed to profit through multiple contracts to service oil productions platforms throughout the country.

Full article: http://www.tfdnews.com/news/2011/02/24/8...addafi.htm
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RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
This is the right thing being done for all the wrong reasons. That said, I don't really care as it is the right thing being done.
"If an injury must be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared" - Niccolo Macchiavelli
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RE: Operation Odyssey Dawn
They might as well call it "Operation teddy bears for the children" the way this bumper sticker politics work in America. How about that "Patriot act" and "no child left behind"
How about we create an act that slowly dissolves social security into the military fund and call it the "Protecting American Health" Act?
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