President Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination in 2008 partly by reminding the party’s base of his early, prescient criticisms of the ill-fated decision to invade Iraq. “What I am opposed to is a dumb war … a rash war,” then-Senator Obama explained in 2002. Obama was right to call the Iraq War “dumb” and …
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CAIRO – Rights groups have condemned the indiscriminate attacks on residential areas in Misrata, that have worsened an already dire situation. Libya’s third-largest city Misrata has been a major battleground between pro and anti-Gadhafi forces to secure control over this major Western Libyan port, which not only connects Tripoli with Gadhafi’s home town Surt but …
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Of our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted. When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war. For Moammar Gadhafi’s forces not only survived the U.S. …
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"We are there to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas" – William Hague "I was watching ABC News last night and, lo and behold, there was a DU impact. It burned and burned and burned." – Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon’s Depleted Uranium Project commenting on Libya attack. "Depleted uranium tipped missiles fit the description of …
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Kevin Carson has some concerns
Let’s shrink our military footprint, says John Feffer
Justin Raimondo with lessons of the Libyan despot’s undoing
In a recent New York Times op-ed titled “Is It Better to Save No One?,” liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof implicitly attacks the critics of the U.S. intervention in Libya as being heartless and/or immoral. Though he acknowledges the hypocrisy and inconsistency of U.S. foreign policy and the potential for the intervention to damage U.S. national …
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“NATO is moving very slowly, allowing Gadhafi forces to advance,” said rebel leader Abdul Fattah Younis, as the Libyan army moved back to the outskirts of Ajdabiya, gateway city to Benghazi. “NATO has become our problem.” Younis is implying that if NATO does not stop Libyan soldiers from capturing Ajdabiya, the rebels may be defeated—and …
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Was there ever an American president who publicly told more people on this planet what they must do than George W. Bush? I suspect not. He’s gone, of course, but America’s version of a “must-do” foreign policy didn’t exactly leave the scene with him—the only difference being that from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to Libya, …
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