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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 06:45 AM Original message |
Why Libya? I don't think it's for oil or humanitarian reasons |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
1. Stability |
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JanDutchy (593 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Günther Oettinger, the EU Commissioner: "We are therefore not susceptible to blackmail by Gaddafi |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. Why Iraq? |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Central location. |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The UN resolution specifically states: "NO TROOPS ON THE GROUND"... |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. My point is moot now, we are at war |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. WE'RE not killing Libyans; Qaddafi is! God, do you LOVE this dictator that much? |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Opposing a war is not equivalent to supporting a maniac. |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. In this case, it is. And you;re false dilemma has already been debunked on DU a zillion times. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:00 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. There are a lot of murderous dictators out there. Why this one? nt |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. You'd rather see we did nothing, like Rwanda and Darfur. Okay, you have to live with it. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:06 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Why would I have to live with it? |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. You're proposing inaction when the UN has decided to answer the Libyan's plea for help... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Well, for those who support such wars, why not Yemen? nt |
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jakeXT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
4. He has been pissing off, but then he started groveling when he landed on the pentagon list |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
9. That's one of the sources of my queasiness: it seems like a group effort to eliminate a pest |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. I don't think Russia and China would abstain if Venezuela. |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. He's a clown and an asshole, but he's no Pol Pot, or even Saddam Hussein |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
20. Huge oil interests destabilized by civil war. Get Gaddaffi out and to replace him by a stabilizing |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:17 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Small oil interests. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. And how much with Gadaffi out of there? |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:17 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. I suggest you get your facts straight. |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
25. European oil and economic interests |
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