It wasn't a war it was a military operation to protect civilians.Macbeth wrote:
I knew the Euros were complaining about not being able to take out armor without our help but I didn't know we committed so much to the war.
Fuck Israel
It wasn't a war it was a military operation to protect civilians.Macbeth wrote:
I knew the Euros were complaining about not being able to take out armor without our help but I didn't know we committed so much to the war.
Was actually quite a big deal that they did.
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[rehash]He hadn't given up his programs. He was still operating a massive deception program, aimed at Iran, making them think he had WMD. Since nothing had been done for 10 years or so, he felt safe in playing that game, using UN inspectors and the world stage as part of it. As debriefed by him and others and corroborated by facts on the ground, post invasion.Dilbert_X wrote:
Saddam gave up his WMD programs before he was ousted, where was the need to spend .01 to remove him?
If by no one, you mean those who are already predisposed to hatred of Bush and Cheney and won't believe anything that doesn't align with their already set notions of what happened...then sure.Dilbert_X wrote:
No-one really believes that.
Sorry, I tend to use the smiley to indicate irony.Macbeth wrote:
I don't see why you are so happy. What did they ever do to you? O right, sell you oil and cooperate with our governments intelligence services.
Yeah fuck those guys.
right. those who are about to replace gaddafi are going to make it all better.globefish23 wrote:
Sorry, I tend to use the smiley to indicate irony.Macbeth wrote:
I don't see why you are so happy. What did they ever do to you? O right, sell you oil and cooperate with our governments intelligence services.
Yeah fuck those guys.
Gaddafi's clan and buddies need to be punished hard for the atrocities they've committed.
the goal is not to simply buy oil from lybia.You don't need a loony like Gaddafi in power to buy oil from Libya.
Well, time is linear in one direction - the future.Shahter wrote:
right. those who are about to replace gaddafi are going to make it all better.
Where it gets leeched by Ukraine and Belarus, causing shortages in Europe in winter.FEOS wrote:
Nah...because Europe should buy all its hydrocarbons from Russia. Duh.Shahter wrote:
the goal is not to simply buy oil from lybia.
I agree with Hegel's whole "history is a slaughter-bench" that eventually leads to a good outcome but not every development is a good development. You could go back and stumble while on the progression. It's not really linear...globefish23 wrote:
Well, time is linear in one direction - the future.Shahter wrote:
right. those who are about to replace gaddafi are going to make it all better.
While Gaddafi already has commited a lot of atrocities and crimes, the new guys have not done so.
Are you implying that you'd rather leave someone like Gaddafi, continuing like he has done for 40 years, just because his successor may not make it better?Where it gets leeched by Ukraine and Belarus, causing shortages in Europe in winter.FEOS wrote:
Nah...because Europe should buy all its hydrocarbons from Russia. Duh.Shahter wrote:
the goal is not to simply buy oil from lybia.
Let's wait till Nabucco has been finished in 2017, then we can get our gas from Asia and the Middle East directly and can circumvent Libya and Russia.