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The U.S. launched a major new military campaign against ISIS on Monday when U.S. planes bombed targets in Libya, responding to requests from the U.N.-backed Libyan government. Strikes took place in the coastal town of Sirte, which ISIS took in June of last year.
The strikes represent a significant escalation in the U.S. war against ISIS, spreading the conflict thousands of miles from the warzones in Syria and Iraq.
All of these attacks took place without congressional authorization or even debate.
“We want to strike at ISIL anywhere it raises its head,” said Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook. “Libya is one of those places.” He said the airstrikes “would continue as long as [the Libyan government] is requesting them,” and that they do not have “an end point at this particular moment in time.”
The U.S. has long planned to spread its military campaign to Libya. In January, Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that the U.S. was preparing to take “decisive military action against ISIL” in Libya.
Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald responded with a post headlined “The U.S. Intervention in Libya Was Such a Smashing Success That a Sequel Is Coming.”
The New York Times editorial board called the plan “deeply troubling” and said it represented a “significant progression of a war that could easily spread to other countries on the continent.”
The Times supported the U.S.’s initial intervention in Libya in 2011, when the U.S. led a NATO air campaign to oust longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. But after a mob raped and murdered Gaddafi, the country plunged into years of anarchy and militia rule.
President Obama would later call his failure to plan for Gaddafi’s removal his “worst mistake,” and thousands of ISIS fighters have since gained a significant foothold in the country.
At the Pentagon press briefing on Monday, when Nancy Youssef of the Daily Beast asked Cook if the war was legal, Cook responded by citing a controversial 15-year-old congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution passed in the wake of 9/11.
The AUMF resolution authorizes military force against organizations that “planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.” But the resolution has been invoked, first by George W. Bush and then by Barack Obama, to justify military action in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, and numerous other countries.
The administration has argued that the 2001 AUMF applies to the war against ISIS, even though ISIS and al Qaeda are sworn enemies. Several members of Congress, including Hillary Clinton’s running mate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., have argued that the administration should seek congressional authorization to continue its war against ISIS. Such authorizations for the conflict have failed to gain traction in a divided Congress.
Even without the AUMF, it’s unlikely that the White House would have acknowledged any legal barrier to bombing Libya. In 2011, the U.S. continued its Libyan campaign even after Congress rejected a resolution to authorize it. The White House even delivered a report to Congress that argued that the U.S.-led bombing campaign did not count as “hostilities” under the War Powers Resolution. That resolution limits unauthorized conflicts to 180 days.
While emphasizing that the U.S. is “prepared to carry out more airstrikes,” Cook could not confirm basic details about Monday’s operation. When Cook was asked if he had a “ballpark figure” of casualties from the airstrikes, he responded, “I don’t.”
In the past year, the U.S. has also conducted a handful of individual military strikes against ISIS targets in Libya. In February, the U.S. carried out an attack near the coastal city of Sabratha, aiming to take out ISIS operative Noureddine Chouchane. Cook described the attack as “very successful,” but a day later, the Serbian government announced that two kidnapped members of the Serbian diplomatic staff had died in the bombing.
Top photo: Forces loyal to Libya’s unity government gather at the site of a car-bomb attack carried out by ISIS in Sirte on June 2, 2016.
Obama was elected to end “Junior’s” wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I watched some of his press conference today, and turned it off in disgust! Clearly, he learned nothing from Vietnam. Fifteen years in Afghanistan, and not much progress to show. Freaks like General Westmoreland wanted to expand the Vietnam War into Laos and Cambodia. Similarly , thanks to myopic foreign policy from the likes of Hilary Clinton, this is precisely what has happen in the Middle East. Regime change and “blowback” is the order of the day! When little Miss “trigger happy” gets elected, prepare yourselves to see even more war! It’s “3 AM,” and she’s calling her war criminal buddy Henry Kissinger for advice, time to bomb some children!
Yey permanent war forever \o/
The Pentagon said the airstrikes would continue as long as the Libyan government is requesting them. What would happen if the American people requested an end to the airstrikes? Not to worry! Americans are doers and not talkers. Weapons are made for killing both home and abroad. Shoot first and possibly palaver later.
Could it be that the endless bombing (of empty sand?) is merely an excuse to issue fat resupply contracts to defense contractors? Just churn — just busy work, keep the bomb factories running three shifts.
Why hasn’t The Intercept dug into and published their findings of the WikiLeaks cables and emails relating to Hillary Clinton, especially those regarding Libya, Syria and her nefarious middle-east dealings?
The ugly truth is: it’s another act of force perpetrated by the empire of chaos, illegal at every level, violating national and international laws without any permission or invitation from the government of the sovereign country of Syria or at least the consent of the UNSC. A total act of imperialism…
This reminds me of when fmr. Pres. Andrew Jackson rounded up the 5 Civilized Tribes and sent them west on the Trail of Tears. The Supreme Court ruled that his action was illegal. What was Jackson’s response? Basically “if that’s the Supreme Court’s ruling then let the Supreme Court attempt to enforce it.” Now, Jackson gets honored by having his image placed on the $20 bill. Yet, he is nonetheless a criminal. Looks like nothing in the US has changed in the 150+ years since. And people try to say Obama is the worst president the US has ever had. That’s a tough title to achieve.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/new-counterterrorism-heat-map-shows-isis-branches-spreading-worldwide-n621866
Pay attention- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwQlsTXYw8
Whatever we can fairly say about other conflicts, the problem here is that war ain’t a tango. If ISIS wants war with the U.S., then it doesn’t need our permission to have it. The only question is whether these particular military responses are justifiable.
Anyone see the 15th issue of Dabiq referenced here? http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/01/breaking-the-cross-islamic-state-magazine-mocks-christianity-claims-jesus-is-a-slave-of-allah/ They talk about why they hate us, and yes, the bombing is part of it. But they would hate us anyway. Yeah, they’re a bunch of Iraqi thugs from the Sunni Triangle and maybe not the most perfect Muslims in the world (even given that Muhammad was a child molestor, slaver, killer of poets) – nonetheless, that only means that these were the sort of people hitting Kurds with chemical weapons and launching an intensely homicidal war on Iran and destroying the Shiites’ environment and so forth. They were killers and are killers and their idea of entertainment is finding some gay guy to stone to death. So even the most rabid anti-American fringe of the liberal movement ought to recognize that ISIS is no friend either. We don’t just pass them a paper and everybody signs and we go back to our normal lives. Somebody has to stop these bastards and the only question here is if we can shove off the work on somebody else who has more skin in the game.
He who does not worship life.. will fight others who do not worship life, be they different.
Putting that law on a larger plain imagine if there was a world law basically saying the same thing. that would mean that if a President went to a trumped up war based on lies with the purpose of robbing a country of its resources, say oil, then everyone of those who voted to go war where innocents get killed, would be subject to the same death penalty as that President.
If such a law existed I imagine there might be a lot less wars.
Julian Assange:
“So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria, including ISIS, that’s there in those emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection, that we have released, just about Libya alone.”
http://theduran.com/julian-assange-says-1700-emails-hillary-clintons-collection-proves-sold-weapons-isis-syria/
Don’t forget my personal pet peeve. They got a bunch of free Humvees and Toyota trucks courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers. Google ISIS Toyota trucks.
and worse:
Well, when your only customer is the U.S. gov. you rely solely on them to keep products moving through the door to stay in biz, to avoid bankruptcy. So, if I make automatic weapons which can’t be sold post 86 in the U.S., then the gov is gonna have to pick up the slack somehow….
….what better way to do that than to “lose” 74000 firearms, oooops, gotta order more.
Good times.
The US still has learned nothing after all these years and so much wasted time.
Without ground forces to move in and secure the zone bombing does nothing.
The Russians know this, and it is why when they bomb the Syrian Army moves in and takes advantage of the chaos created by the bombing to wipe out the remaining the forces, attack the compromised defensive positions and to take back the territory that was under bombardment.
This is why should the US and Russia come into direct conflict the US military would find itself on the losing end of the stick almost immediately: because they have no clue what they are doing.
Hillary Clinton email on Libya’s gold reserves:
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12660
Well, this could explain the French eagerness to overthrow Qaddafi, if he was the #1 threat to their colonial outposts in North Africa, the most important of which is their uranium mine operation in Niger.
The ugly face of European colonialism, as adapted and adopted by the American Empire, continues to affect Africa to this day.
hm. nice find. To quote die hard saying, “So that’s what it was. A f*cking robbery.”
GOD DAMN the Pentagon —-
YOUR schools, electric grid, healthcare, national infrastucture, are being blown up in the form of $100,000 bombs dropped on $10 mud huts so the WAR PROFITEERS can eat lobster and lounge on yachts. The TRAITORS in the Pentagon spent 18 months at $10MILLION a DAY hitting nothing.
ISIS continued to hold miles long parades of OUR equipment complete with flags on clear, dry, sunny days, and the TRAITORS in the Pentagon “could not seem to bomb them”. ..
https://forzanuova-us.org/2016/05/26/russia-accuses-us-of-deliberately-bombing-desert/…..
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/06/16/something-going-worse-thought/
Then the Russians came in and blew the ISIS asses off.
ISIS has ZERO antiaircraft abilities. the TRAITORS in the Pentagon could have dropped bombs from HOT AIR BALLOONS ……. We KNOW who the Pentagon is working for and it is NOT America.
Amen.
Hillary wants to be queen of her foreign global initiative. She doesnt give a damn about America. And she wants to make enemies of Russia for no really good reason except some fantasy she has to sell nukes and repopulate the planet with nukes. What a very stupid woman she must be to believe that making enemies and threatening war is the way to success. Donald Trump doesnt believe that. But hillary is not a builder either, she’s just a simple minded over-powering bureaucratic do nothing take everything power monster.
Apparently we must be running out of Terrorists and decided to create more.
“Stevens an ‘arms dealer’?
According to information cited by Klein, Stevens served less as a diplomat and more as an arms dealer and intelligence coordinator for assistance to the so-called Arab Spring, with particular emphasis on the Syrian rebels.
As was widely reported, Stevens originally arrived in Libya during the revolution aboard a Greek cargo ship carrying equipment and vehicles. His original task in Libya was to serve as the main interlocutor between the Obama administration and the rebels based in Benghazi. Stevens never abandoned that role, even after becoming ambassador, according to Klein.
Indeed, the New York Times reported in December 2012 that Stevens himself facilitated an application to the State Department for the sale of weapons filed by one Marc Turi, whom the Times’ describes as an “American arms merchant who had sought to provide weapons to Libya.”
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/finally-revealed-what-ambassador-in-benghazi-was-really-doing/#j8TrGqDrWDT6caWX.99
So-called diplomats are often (usually?) spies.
Sure – but isn’t Brussels another one of those places? No drone strikes over Belgium – why not? Here’s something relevant:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/libyas-oil-industry-phoenix-or-mummy-1093261529
The entire discussion over whether to use military force to intervene in Libya in 2011 revolved around this oil issue – if Gaddafi fell, who would be in charge afterwards, and who would get the oil contracts? Hillary Clinton’s plan was to install a puppet named Jibril who would be amenable to foreign control; this effort collapsed in six months. Libya in fact looks a lot like Vietnam in the aftermath of Kennedy’s anti-Diem coup – a disaster, one regime falling after the next, eventually leading Johnson to send in the U.S. troops en masse to protect the failing puppet state.
This is just standard imperial thinking: send in the military to crush any opposition, install a puppet government, and get the oil flowing under contract to American and British majors, with something for the French and Italians, but certainly locking out Russia and China. A straight continuation of the Bush-era program, which is what Clinton and her neocon allies are all about.
The whole “fighting terrorism” BS line is just cover for this agenda.
There’s some debate over what government of Libya is legitimate, but at least a Libyan government asked, one with widespread international recognition. If the French ask I’m sure the U.S. can have a Predator flying over Paris in no time. No, it’s not an appealing prospect, but if I had these bastards from ISIS running around my neighborhood killing people for their religion and looking to find me next, I’d cheer when the bombs dropped even if they were dumb bombs shovelled off an airplane.
There’s some debate over what government of Libya is legitimate, but at least a Libyan government asked, one with widespread international recognition. If the French ask I’m sure the U.S. can have a Predator flying over Paris in no time. No, it’s not an appealing prospect, but if I had these bastards from ISIS running around my neighborhood killing people for their religion and looking to find me next, I’d cheer when the bombs dropped even if they were dumb bombs shovelled off an airplane in bulk WWII-style.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/breaking-isis-terrorists-used-obamas-fast-furious-gun-paris-attack/
Judicial Watch reported:
“One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”
A Report of Investigation (ROI) filed by a case agent in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) tracked the gun used in the Paris attacks to a Phoenix gun owner who sold it illegally, “off book,” Judicial Watch’s law enforcement sources confirm. Federal agents tracing the firearm also found the Phoenix gun owner to be in possession of an unregistered fully automatic weapon, according to law enforcement officials with firsthand knowledge of the investigation.
The investigative follow up of the Paris weapon consisted of tracking a paper trail using a 4473 form, which documents a gun’s ownership history by, among other things, using serial numbers. The Phoenix gun owner that the weapon was traced back to was found to have at least two federal firearms violations—for selling one weapon illegally and possessing an unregistered automatic—but no enforcement or prosecutorial action was taken against the individual. Instead, ATF leaders went out of their way to keep the information under the radar and ensure that the gun owner’s identity was “kept quiet,” according to law enforcement sources involved with the case. “Agents were told, in the process of taking the fully auto, not to anger the seller to prevent him from going public,” a veteran law enforcement official told Judicial Watch.
It’s not clear if the agency, which is responsible for cracking down on the illegal use and trafficking of firearms, did this because the individual was involved in the Fast and Furious gun-running scheme. An ATF spokesman, Corey Ray, at the agency’s Washington D.C. headquarters told Judicial Watch that “no firearms used in the Paris attacks have been traced” by the agency. When asked about the ROI report linking the weapon used in Paris to Phoenix, Ray said “I’m not familiar with the report you’re referencing.” Judicial Watch also tried contacting the Phoenix ATF office, but multiple calls were not returned.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-syria-heavy-weapons-jihadists-2012-10
“The official position is that the U.S. has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria.
But there’s growing evidence that U.S. agents — particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens — were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels.
In March 2011 Stevens became the official U.S. liaison to the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan opposition, working directly with Abdelhakim Belhadj of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group — a group that has now disbanded, with some fighters reportedly participating in the attack that took Stevens’ life.
In November 2011 The Telegraph reported that Belhadj, acting as head of the Tripoli Military Council, “met with Free Syrian Army [FSA] leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey” in an effort by the new Libyan government to provide money and weapons to the growing insurgency in Syria.
Last month The Times of London reported that a Libyan ship “carrying the largest consignment of weapons for Syria … has docked in Turkey.” The shipment reportedly weighed 400 tons and included SA-7 surface-to-air anti-craft missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.
Those heavy weapons are most likely from Muammar Gaddafi’s stock of about 20,000 portable heat-seeking missiles—the bulk of them SA-7s—that the Libyan leader obtained from the former Eastern bloc. Reuters reports that Syrian rebels have been using those heavy weapons to shoot down Syrian helicopters and fighter jets.
The ship’s captain was “a Libyan from Benghazi and the head of an organization called the Libyan National Council for Relief and Support,” which was presumably established by the new government.
That means that Ambassador Stevens had only one person—Belhadj—between him and the Benghazi man who brought heavy weapons to Syria.
Furthermore, we know that jihadists are the best fighters in the Syrian opposition, but where did they come from?
Last week The Telegraph reported that an FSA commander called them “Libyans” when he explained that the FSA doesn’t “want these extremist people here.”
And if the new Libyan government was sending seasoned Islamic fighters and 400 tons of heavy weapons to Syria through a port in southern Turkey—a deal brokered by Stevens’ primary Libyan contact during the Libyan revolution—then the governments of Turkey and the U.S. surely knew about it.
Furthermore there was a CIA post in Benghazi, located 1.2 miles from the U.S. consulate, used as “a base for, among other things, collecting information on the proliferation of weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals, including surface-to-air missiles” … and that its security features “were more advanced than those at [the] rented villa where Stevens died.”
And we know that the CIA has been funneling weapons to the rebels in southern Turkey. The question is whether the CIA has been involved in handing out the heavy weapons from Libya.
In any case, the connection between Benghazi and Syrian rebels is stronger than has been officially acknowledged.”
Ok. I’ll be very interested to see what Wiki brings out; I’m guessing these will be e-mails or other forms of e-communication.
Assange did tell Cooper on CNN that more was coming; that, it’d make the DNC e-mails look like firecrackers in comparison.
Thanks for posting.
IsUS and AlCIA da are sworn enemies?Impossible.
God,the shite is thick.
The NY lying times loves the destabilization of all their enemies,as Zion never sleeps in its evil towards humanity.
And rational tomes by them are just fodder for the brainwashed.
Assholes in $2000 suits playing army man- wherever, whenever
Hillary and her State Department – with the backing of John McCain and his nefarious connections were involved in gun-running arms to Syrian ‘rebels’, by means of the Fast & Furious program, which smuggled guns from Arizona to Mexico, then on to Libya, through the CIA’s Benghazi annex operated by Chris Stevens, who delivered them to those we now fight.
Interesting and believable; however, can that comment be substantiated?
WikiLeaks will soon prove it to be absolutely true.
If you can take this as substantion
http://theduran.com/julian-assange-says-1700-emails-hillary-clintons-collection-proves-sold-weapons-isis-syria/
Substantiated by the Hell bitch’s denial,as she never says the truth.
I always assumed Fats&Furious was about arming a ‘moderate’ cartel to check The Zetas.
It’s worth actually reading that report: “U.S. armed forces would transition responsibility for leading and conducting the mission to an integrated NATO command. On April 4, 2011, U.S. forces did just that, shifting to a constrained and supporting role in a multinational civilian protection mission—in an action involving no U.S. ground presence or, to this point, U.S. casualties—authorized by a carefully tailored U.N. Security Council Resolution…”
Starting with the lack of definition of “hostilities” in the War Powers Act, they now put on *two* legal condoms – first, that the US troops are not really making war for the U.S., but helping NATO, and second, that NATO troops are merely helping the UN. It’s just like Trump hiring illegal immigrants, only in this case it’s the subcontractor saying it can’t be responsible for what the company does. Nothing can get past such a flawless wall of double rubber.
Or the company isn’t responsible for what the subcontractor does, … usually in the way of safety, permitting, or other violations. That’s typically how or why that works, right? The company wants to outsource responsiblity to the sub. Not the other way around.
Didn’t even read the article; but, based on headline, of course the U.S. doesn’t. :) C’mon. If ISIS is for the most part just the Baathist leadership disguised as a fanatic religious group (all good leaders know to coopt religion as a tool, see Sadaam H. at the end of his career) then the U.S. has been bombing them for over two decades now, right?
Or Cook could have re-purposed Rudolph G.’s lines from 911 casualty count: “more than anyone can bear.” That is what kicked this global party off right – 911, the U.S. civilian body count and destruction?
US Admits It’s Been Bombing Liberia by Mistake –
A Glitch in Spelling, in Geography, or Both?
History Channel Presents: Pres. Lincoln has been alive ever since the staged Booth assn… he ordered the bombing “mistake” of Liberia — typical political trickery: emancipate the slaves, send them to a another place all together, then bomb them like fish in a barrel. Meanwhile he looks like hero and Rep. can claim that whole “Party of Lincoln” emancipation bs, put a feather in their cap. ..just another bloody tyrant and scoundrel.
Ancient Aliens on a 5pm.
no worries, once the dust clears, I’m sure Hillary’s friends at LaFarge will make a pretty penny, supplying jihadists with weapons supplied by the CIA, and then more money rebuilding the infrastructure, only to pay Hillary back with more campaign bribes/contributions. They’ve done it before, they’ll do it again. Heck, Hillary even helped LaFarge’s legal dept, in the late 80’s, to smuggle weapons to Saddam Hussein, then went on to become a member of their board. She has blood on her hands, and blood money in the bank.
The phony global war on terror has always reminded me of a line from my favorite Clint Eastwood movie, “Outlaw Josey Wales.”
When the ex-leader of the Ozark Guerrillas that betrayed his men, Fletcher, suggests to the union red-legs captain hunting down those that escaped – how when they get Wales “it ends,” Captain Terrill’s closed-minded self-serving response is, “Doin’ right ain’t got no end.”
Maybe empire should adopt that as their motto.
“no end in sight”?
So here is the dumass milplan of hillary himmler…
keep bombing, kill more innocent persons, make more enemies, bomb some more, pay the Military Global Initiative and pay more…. and keep paying….
Under the zionist fist of hellery, the fed will start printing money to pay for this nonsense, maybe enslave the population to produce goods to match their money printing scam, or, maybe china will dump a load, in any case, AMERICA WILL BE OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT.
if it’s bankruptcy she wants, or doesnt, that would make hillary the smartest moron on the planet.
I get really confused by the Democrats? They want the USA to allow every Jihadist into our country, it is in the constitution.
But (i know my grammer is bad), They (Hellary) went whole hog to eliminate Ghadaffi who was doing great things for his country. WHY???
The only reason I have seen that makes any sense, Is that he was going to have an African gold currency and EFF the petro dollar!
2011: Arab Spring begins spiralling out of control, threatening the interests of U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and Egypt. What is the response?
1) Obama and Clinton and their European allies try to shut down (in U.S.-allied nations like Bahrain and KSA) and hijack the Arab Spring (in U.S.-opposed nations like Syria and Libya). This involves using Saudi tanks to crush Bahrain protestors, on one hand, and efforts to use the Arab Spring as cover for the covert overthrow of the Libyan and Syrian governments.
2) The “only reason I have seen that makes any sense” is oil – if you look at Clinton’s emails over Libyan oil, it’s clear she tried to install a puppet dictator who would deliver oil to the U.S. and British majors (maybe the French and Italians), while blocking out Russia and China. If you look at Syria, well, it’s a pipeline route to the Mediterranean from Iran and Russia, so blocking that would on par with U.S. policy in the region.
Yes, corporate media-fed zombies who believe America promotes democracy and human rights around the world are unwilling to admit that the U.S. had subverted the push for independent democratic rule in the Middle East and North Africa since the early 1950s, but the U.S. is just as much of an enemy of any democratic transition as the House of Saud is.
If they could get away with it, U.S. corporate and government leaders would happily replace democracy with authoritarian plutocracy here in the U.S. as well, not just in the Middle East.
“If they could get away with it, U.S. corporate and government leaders would happily replace democracy with authoritarian plutocracy here in the U.S. as well, not just in the Middle East.”
They have. The DNC leaks show that the primaries are merely a formality, and they indeed have gotten away with the “Russian hackers” red herring story to cloud the issue in collusion with the media. So, here we are…
the Russians did not hack the DNC email in my opinion. In my opinion, i believe it was hacked by another email server out of Ukraine.
It’s always about oil or some pipeline. Wars have always been fought for resources, with a few exceptions for religion, though even those had resource elements.
We will never know for sure but it sure makes sense as he was becoming our buddy again. By the way, those in the know, know Qaddafi had nothing to do with the Lockerbie bombing. That was done by the Ayatollah as revenge for the Vincensz shooting down an Iranian civil airliner. By the way, didn’t dubya do something similar in Iraq? What did Einstein say about doing the same thing over and over expecting different results? Hillary was all over Libya even bragging about murdering Qaddafi in public? Not a fan of Trump but do you really want to continue the Bush, Obama Presidency with a Hillary extension?
The American dilemma in the corporate media are: “Not a fan of Trump but do you really want to continue the Bush, Obama Presidency with a Hillary extension?”
How did the American people end up with such a lose-lose scenario for the two top Presidential contenders? Personally, I blame the corporate media – the one american institution most desperately in need of antitrust legislation, above all others.
Will you stop the pussyfooting around?The Zionists hated Khaddafi,and that was that.
The most advanced and prosperous nation in Africa destroyed for the whims of zionism,just as every nation in the region has been.
The American empire’s interest in Libya has nothing to do with Zionism, and everything to do with Libyan oil output. The Israelis are just along for the ride in this game, they are not calling the shots any more than their close allies, the House of Saud, are.
Muomar’s effort to unite Africa vis-a-vis a gold backed currency was a real threat to the US fiat dollar aka to the zion currency currency monopoly. Could be that the US financed the protests in Libya. Alas, China has the gold backed yuan.
IMF admits China’s yuan to elite currency club – Nov. 30, 2015
money.cnn.com/2015/11/30/investing/imf-yuan-reserve-currency/
hasta la vista, dolly.
Maybe President Trump will use the AUMF resolution to authorize military force against the actual organizations that “planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.” The House of Saud and the CIA.
That’ll have to wait till we have erected the Wall and chucked some folks over. But eventually we will get to it, so don’t lose patience.
And their enablers and protection agency,Israel.
Dancing Israelis documenting the event would make any non ethnic supporting traitors livid.
BTW Mr. Emmons, I see no comments in the article from either the Hillary or Trump campaigns.
Did you try to get a comment from them?
As in basic journalism.
Well if you don’t use the bombs you cannot bill for new ones.
It’s all good.
No anti-war marches are necessary… because a Democrat is doing it.
Opposition would just help Trump, right?
Or, are progressives going to remember what they believe in?
First and foremost, rule of law… where LEGAL congressional authorization is required.
It would seem that progressive cowardice in refusing to challenge Obama is setting a precedent that either Hillary or Trump will use, and no ability to organize to block more wars will be possible.
On a slightly different twist on this topic, nobody in Congress, and particularly Dems who might otherwise suffer an electoral backlash, needs to vote for this war authorization (like the one for the original regime change war in Libya that created the “need” for more bombing).
I would submit that every single elected Dem in Congress is authorizing this war by remaining silent.
Voters should act accordingly.
“Or, are progressives going to remember what they believe in?”
Not even an itsy-bitsy chance.
“I would submit that every single elected Dem in Congress is authorizing this war by remaining silent.”
Absolutely correct.
“Voters should act accordingly.”
But you know they won’t.
An event that caused Black Souled Hillary no end of mirth.
Libya once had the highest human development index in Africa.
From an article : 16 Things Libya Will Never See Again
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law.
3. Having a home considered a human right in Libya.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 dinar (U.S.$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83 percent.
6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms are all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need, the government funds them to go abroad, for it is not only paid for, but they get a U.S.$2,300/month for accommodation and car allowance.
8. If a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidizes 50 percent of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amounting to $150 billion are now frozen globally.
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession, as if he or she is employed, until employment is found.
12. A portion of every Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gives birth to a child receive U.S.$5,000.
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $0.15.
15. 25 percent of Libyans have a university degree.
16 Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Manmade River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
Look at he light in her eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM
But the Libyan Government and people didn’t have American values.
And yet you notice there’s no serious Gaddafist faction. Ungrateful masses.
You don’t know that,and of course your lying friends wouldn’t say that in their lying times would they?
I guarantee everyone but the zionist headchoppers would love Col K back.
17. Libya under Gaddafi did not have a good intelligence network to catch conspirators.
18. Libya did not secure their borders properly, consequent to which a lot of money flowed in to the conspirators and encouraged them to clamor against Gaddafi.
19. Tony Blair lulled Gaddafi into a false sense of security, and that directly led to 17 and 18.
There, that should complete the list.
And the Libyans have yet to thank us for ousting that evil dictator.
Please don’t mind very much, they are all nasty people, just what you may find in the rest of Africa. The Libyans are in fact trying to bring the son of the evil dictator back to power. That fellow was released very quietly without asking for our permission.
My grandfather, who passed away sixty five years ago, used to predict that Africans will one day send someone to rule us because of all the trouble we gave them. I don’t think I ever believed him, but now I wish he had told me many more of his predictions.
I was a CIA coup like the Bay of Pigs, but this time the US provided air support.
It then sent weapons looted from Libya to Syria (through Turkey and Jordan) for another overthrow operation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cCLJieV9IY
Americans wouldn’t know how to act …
Dumbfounded and unbelievable would be their reaction
Thank you for posting what I never knew.
This should have been played at Trump’s convention – Hillary Clinton “We Came, We Saw, He Died” (Gaddafi)
This is certainly not all Hiliary Clinton’s fault. What the heck is Ban Ki Moon doing? Why does he draw any salary when he does not perform his basic duties? This is fraud. One member of the UN goes and bombs another without any justification and Mr Moon is sleeping. Here also thousands of BLM blokes are killed every year, but would we tolerate another UN member send drones to bomb us?
Maybe that has already started happening. San Bernadino, Orlando … it’s not a good sign.
All the Muslim blokes will soon see that Donald Trump is the only person who always criticizes the war on Libya, while Hiliary Clinton was the one who engineered it. Bad luck for them if they don’t realize this and go ahead and vote for Clinton.
Sarcasm exposes the truth like nothing else.
You mean the real reasons for the attack and destruction of the Libyan government (as opposed to the BS about Gaddafi attempting to massacre civilians)?
We don’t have enough endless wars and open-ended military commitments at the moment. Let’s add this one to the list!
Any other possibilities?
And the purpose of this is to prove NOTHING….Afghanistan/Iraq 15 years and only a fool or moron would think something was accomplished…..
Oh, Yes – sorry… MISSION ACCOMPLISHED…PERPETUAL WAR
• HE who would play God….. bomb them – they are nothing – they are meaningless…
George W. Bush has said we bombed them back to the dark ages ( think of the actual meaning of that statement (PLEASE THINK )..). COMPASSION?.? for the refugees created?.? ARE YOU SOFT ON DEFENSE ?.? Bombing people half the world away….Be Afraid…..Be Very Afraid… KILL ….MURDER….DESTROY…. TORTURE….MAIM…..STARVE….the products of George W. Bush’s war…
Today the WAR is owned by Barrack Obama and the people of our country – it will produce the same misery so someone can feel powerful spending countless money to destroy what someone says is our enemy.. Be Afraid….Be Very Afraid….who will the finger of destruction be pointed at next – who will be named to the role of enemy so again someone can feel all so powerful.. NOTE – the cost is never discussed… not in money – not in damage to the environment – not in Blood.
HE WHO WOULD PLAY GOD?.? – – the emperors new clothes?.?
Meaningful? or Meaningless?
The WAR-MONGERS AWAIT YOUR VOTE –
death & destruction……
Please VOTE, sadly we do not have a PEACE nominee
( it seems my comments fit more than one article – clip & paste. sad commentary)
Islamic state pretence and the upcoming wars in Libya
http://www.ramzybaroud.net/islamic-state-pretence-and-the-upcoming-wars-in-libya/
Seems like Obama wants his own interpretation of the Constitution as much as Glenn Beck does.
Depressing, isn’t it?
A divided Congress should at least be able to come together to declare war or if they are too politically afraid to take a stand against unpopular aggressions, (House Repubs, I blame your Speaker, not the Dems who are not in power) then vote to DEFUND these expenses.
Touche! Mr Greenwald.
ISIS-ISIL seem to be whoever the US wants to bomb – call them terrorists, use the military, then it ain’t murder – Simple! Tell everyone you made “grave mistakes” then carry on making more “grave mistakes”, these being precisely what you want to achieve. Attack anyone who isn’t pro- the US controlling the oil pricing, ignore all pleas to the contrary.
How can your military act without Congressional approval? Because your military is a Rogue Agent. 9-11 was a coup d’etat. There will be terrible war.
Prezzy Peace is softening up the place so Killary can come in and fix it.
Then, on to Syria! Iran! Russia?
End points are uninteresting, too complicated, and bad for the bottom line.