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Paldi5: The thread is young and needed a break IMHO. Get over it or bite on me, your choice and your time guy. I don't much care either way.

Paldi5: This is total BS!

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Pentagon: Strikes a Success

Pentagon: 31 Targets Hit in First Day
of Strikes; Operation a ‘Success’As U.S. forces launched a second wave of attacks on targets in Gadaffi-controlled areas of Lebanon, the Pentagon said that based on preliminary battle damage information, the airstrikes on Sunday were successful.

Speaking at a news briefing in Washington today, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. forces had struck military aircraft, runways, missile launchers and "amunition storage bunkers including those storing mustard gas."

"Based on our early assessment, we believe that we've made progress towards eliminating the air defense sites that are located around the country," he said. "We also believe we've made an impact on the military airfields that were targeted."

Fifteen land-based bombers, 25 strike aircraft and 50 Tomahawk missiles were used in Sunday's attacks, which were aimed at the Gadaffi's air defense installations, his personal command center, airport-based command centers, airfields, communication grids and transportation choak points and infrastructure.

Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said 31 targets were attacked in Sunday's strikes. "We are generally pleased with the early results," said Myers, adding that a second wave of attacks was targeting sites similar to those hit in the first round of strikes.

However, Rumsfeld stressed that it was still too early to say if Libyan air defenses, aircraft and airports had been fully disabled.

Refuting earlier Libyan claims that its forces had shot down one U.S. aircraft on Sunday, Rumsfeld said all U.S. military personnel and aircraft that took part in Sunday's strikes had returned safe and were accounted for. He dismissed the claims as "flat untrue."

Humanitarian Air Drops to Continue

Sunday's mission was a two-pronged attack combining a broad campaign against the Gadaffi's loyalist network while offering humanitarian airdrops for Libyan citizens.

The first strikes on Libya began shortly after nightfall local time on Sunday (about 12:30 p.m. ET) with Tomahawk cruise missiles, each with a price tag of $1 million. The missiles came from U.S. and British surface ships and submarines, including one unnamed American submarine, one unnamed British sub, and the surface ships USS Philippine Sea, USS John Paul Jones, USS O'Brien and USS McFaul.

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I must be dreaming.

Paldi5: Does anyne have any further thoughts about what can be done?

It seems to me the democracies in the world don't go out of their way to help a new democracy get off the ground. We did nothing for Iran or Egypt. I for one think a coalition of the willing should always be ready to help in any way they can.

Albertaghost: Help overthrow a government? Where would it stop, overthrow the British government, Russian, Italian who?

As for democracy, not yet as it is simply a revolution with democracy as one possible outcome not a shoe in.

Paldi5: Sure you're right Al. Let him get out the gas and go to town like Saddam and Adolf.