Report earlier today....that the USS Enterprise has done a U Turn in the Red Sea and is heading back to the Suez. Also that 3 vessels with the 2000 US Marines are near the Suez waiting to pass thru and enter the Med.
Rumor from the White House is that President Obama wears a Sherrif badge under his suit coat these day......
ttom500: Report earlier today....that the USS Enterprise has done a U Turn in the Red Sea and is heading back to the Suez. Also that 3 vessels with the 2000 US Marines are near the Suez waiting to pass thru and enter the Med.
Rumor from the White House is that President Obama wears a Sherrif badge under his suit coat these day......
The two Florida Sherriff's are angry with him, Conrad. They were hoping to cash in on the 30b in froozen Libyan assets by send their deputies to the region. I quess when they did the Libyan financial assessment in the White House....this sounded better than the PB oil spill clean up fund of 20b.
So for 30b, you too can have the USS Enterprise for a month. Water skiing anyone?
But being honest. Even Carl Rove applauded some of the recent White House decisions on Libya last night. So...you got to know where the far left and liberals are on this.
ttom500: The two Florida Sherriff's are angry with him, Conrad. They were hoping to cash in on the 30b in froozen Libyan assets by send their deputies to the region. I quess when they did the Libyan financial assessment in the White House....this sounded better than the PB oil spill clean up fund of 20b.
So for 30b, you too can have the USS Enterprise for a month. Water skiing anyone?
But being honest. Even Carl Rove applauded some of the recent White House decisions on Libya last night. So...you got to know where the far left and liberals are on this.
Teed off as they were when the US was trying to stop the Bolsheviks in 1918!
ttom500: Report earlier today....that the USS Enterprise has done a U Turn in the Red Sea and is heading back to the Suez. Also that 3 vessels with the 2000 US Marines are near the Suez waiting to pass thru and enter the Med.
Rumor from the White House is that President Obama wears a Sherrif badge under his suit coat these day......
Well QDaffi has told the US and NATO if they intervene, it will result in a blood bath. I wonder what he considers a blood bath, for if Libya has not been in one of recent.....
So President Obama and other western leaders are now doing a face off with Qdaffi and his two sons. First to blink loses. We are about to see how well the White House can coalition build. Or if that card is in the game at this point.
Also funny now how that WMD defanged KDaffii seems to have found a number of chemical and biologic weapons. The similarity of the Hussien family and Kdaffi cannot be missed. Hussien turned into a radical Muslim late in his years. One can expect a falling Kdaffi to do the same. Kdaffi already had a relationship with alQeada.
With the USS Enterprise and several Marine Corp helo ships coming back into the MED...from their Red Sea segment of the cruise....Libya seems to be next stop for them. First ashore in the liberty leave, might get a hot welcome. Wear body armor is my advice.
Which of course is going to scare the local rebells. They want technical assistance and someone to take the Libyan air force off their backs. Coming ashore in full body armor send s different message. Watch how the Marine come ashore boys.....my bet it is with out the body armor and the weapons. At the request of the President.
So.....we come to McCain suggested no fly zone over Libya. Why did not the UN mandate it in the sanctioning resolution? Face it....the UN has placed the US into the same position they did on post Gulf war Iraq.
Now if it is our decision to solve the Libyan air defenses....which are not insigificant....provide a no fly zone to protect the Libyan rebells....yet keep hands off the Libyan oil....which is going to Europe anyways.
Sure am glad that Obama froze the $30b of Libyan assets, that will operate the USS Enterprise off the Libya coast for.....2600 days. Or about 7 years. 1.12m per day for a carrier battle fleet cost. Austerity, remember....austerity.
ttom500: Well QDaffi has told the US and NATO if they intervene, it will result in a blood bath. I wonder what he considers a blood bath, for if Libya has not been in one of recent.....
So President Obama and other western leaders are now doing a face off with Qdaffi and his two sons. First to blink loses. We are about to see how well the White House can coalition build. Or if that card is in the game at this point.
Also funny now how that WMD defanged KDaffii seems to have found a number of chemical and biologic weapons. The similarity of the Hussien family and Kdaffi cannot be missed. Hussien turned into a radical Muslim late in his years. One can expect a falling Kdaffi to do the same. Kdaffi already had a relationship with alQeada.
With the USS Enterprise and several Marine Corp helo ships coming back into the MED...from their Red Sea segment of the cruise....Libya seems to be next stop for them. First ashore in the liberty leave, might get a hot welcome. Wear body armor is my advice.
Which of course is going to scare the local rebells. They want technical assistance and someone to take the Libyan air force off their backs. Coming ashore in full body armor send s different message. Watch how the Marine come ashore boys.....my bet it is with out the body armor and the weapons. At the request of the President.
So.....we come to McCain suggested no fly zone over Libya. Why did not the UN mandate it in the sanctioning resolution? Face it....the UN has placed the US into the same position they did on post Gulf war Iraq.
Now if it is our decision to solve the Libyan air defenses....which are not insigificant....provide a no fly zone to protect the Libyan rebells....yet keep hands off the Libyan oil....which is going to Europe anyways.
Sure am glad that Obama froze the $30b of Libyan assets, that will operate the USS Enterprise off the Libya coast for.....2600 days. Or about 7 years. 1.12m per day for a carrier battle fleet cost. Austerity, remember....austerity.
Shake some of that Bailout Money loose ,his Cronies have hidden everywhere!
Maybe both Ccincy and FUD spent their entire trips there in LAX
People say there is a need for special visa if folks form Indiana want to visit California and that must be the reason if FUD was not allowed to leave LAX
Hot_Single_Dude: People say there is a need for special visa if folks form Indiana want to visit California and that must be the reason if FUD was not allowed to leave LAX
Only illegals are legally allowed to visit california.
ttom500: President Obama has called Qdaffii a "illegitimate" ruler. So?
Why not support the rebel groups with weapons, no fly zones, and other assistance? Why not call President Ahmendjada of Iran "illegitimate" as well?
Two US senator are calling just for that. To aid the Libyan protestors...in what appears to be a developing civil war.
Senator McCain called for no fly zone....enforced by US military aircraft......to ground the Westland Augusta attack helo that Italy has supplied to Qdaffi.
But President Obama has sent the Med fleet thru the Suez...so it will not be USNavy aircraft that do this.
Italy who gets 24% of it oils from Libya.....has been selling Libya many weapons and munitions...this according to a Italian watch dog group.
But if Qdaffii is illegal....then surely Ahmendjada is. And the street protest there have been getting stronger. Why not do a two fer? Send two dictators into the dust bins of history?
And it is not like Iran is making the world feel secure with its nuclear programs. They just had to unload the fuel rods from the Beshuer reactor. Yes....maybe that Isreali planted virus did the trick there.
No, I think that President Obama is clearly saying Libya is a EU problem. That Qdaffi and sons are free to wonder into the dust bins of history.... at at time and place of their own choosing.
With out foreign aid the out come of the Libyan Civil War is in question, and questions make instability and instability makes a crisis worth using.
Not exactly TT... America is going to take necessary steps toward freedom of Libya but still people of Libya are those who are going to get their freedom back and America, support right here and right now is not directly becasue there are international rules and legislations america respects. what the old war mogner dude McCain says is not rlevent... he is just a broken arrow whose words are important any way. No fly zone on Libya is not suggested by him but ameircnas have concidered this and are still concidering the same and if necessary no fly zone on Libya will begin with participation of US, France and UK. China will surely not oppose this and will support the effort because of tens of tousands of Chineese whom have left their belonginings in Libya ples a lot investments chineese companies have over there and China is interested in taking care of her investments and being on Gaddafi,s side is not longer wise even for China. Gaddafi will be over and out very soon.
Hot_Single_Dude: Unions became reality agiasnt alvaery and agaisnt explotation of workers and agaisnt greed of some employers and against bad working conditions and agaisnt too low payment plus a lot more which have been explained on tousands of pages to explain and is a process which have taken years to get an accpetable shape in most countries around the world and what protects workers agaisnt Greed... but still... so many years later... right winged anti human right Greedy Repubheads of the planet OZ need furter explanations why unions are important
The greed of Unions are ruining the United States businesses. Rose was forced to join a union.
We had a union try to force us to join. We told them to go to hell.
The unions provided a valuable service at one point. They then became the enemy of not only business but the workers as well.
Spare me the nonsense. If, as you claim, you live in Denmark you have no first hand experience with our system or with Unions in the US. Therefore your information is only hearsay and not admissible.
raphael118: its not a complicated concept, it means -do nothing- and its the heart of the extremist republican, libertarian, and john birch society it goes back to the days of the robber barons.
the right wingers are screaming we are broke but under Clinton we were out of the red deficit and actually reducing our debt.
Conrad is not from this planet and does not understand what you are talking a bout... they left his Brian inside the dang Cocoon back in 2008
Hot_Single_Dude: Conrad is not from this planet and does not understand what you are talking a bout... they left his Brian inside the dang Cocoon back in 2008
As can clearly be seen, in no year did the national debt go down, nor did Clinton leave President Bush with a surplus that Bush subsequently turned into a deficit. Yes, the deficit was almost eliminated in FY2000 (ending in September 2000 with a deficit of "only" $17.9 billion), but it never reached zero--let alone a positive surplus number. And Clinton's last budget proposal for FY2001, which ended in September 2001, generated a $133.29 billion deficit. The growing deficits started in the year of the last Clinton budget, not in the first year of the Bush administration.
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