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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 31, 2011, 05:49:15 PM
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Here's the entire thread as of my clicking into it, minus a spat over citing sources for "who killed more":
Distant Observer (957 posts) Tue May-31-11 03:59 PM
Original message
Libya: 4,067 Civilian Casualties of NATO Bombing, 718 killed. NATO denies killing "large numbers"
Withing a few months the Allies have created more bloodshed, death and mayhem that the Gaddafi dictatorship accomplished in 40 years.
But, of course, the war propagandists will blame the Libya Gov for all the destruction by the rebels and their Big Power allies.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/idINIndia-5740...
(Reuters) - NATO's bombing campaign has killed 718 Libyan civilians, government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said on Tuesday.
He said 4,067 civilians had been wounded, 433 of them seriously. The figures were current to May 26.
NATO has denied killing large numbers of civilians, and foreign reporters in Tripoli have not been shown evidence of large numbers of civilian casualties.
gratuitous (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 04:03 PM
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1. We were left with no choice
The only thing the U.S. and its NATO allies understand is violence and death. You can hardly blame them for these casualties. It's obviously all Gaddafi's fault because he knew or should have known that random bombing of population clusters was sure to follow once he'd earned the negative attention of Western governments. So he's, like, a terrorist for making us bomb his people.
malaise (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 04:53 PM
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6. Oh the humanity of it all!
The West intends to control that oil - nothing else matters.
GSLevel9 (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 05:53 PM
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14. did the EU wrap up those OIL deals with the rebels, yet? nt
Distant Observer (957 posts) Tue May-31-11 06:13 PM
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15. Will take a while. The Southern Europe energy plan spans all of N. Africa
and includes Oil, Gas, Vast Desert Solar-Thermal. It will take a while to ink all the deals, but Libyan real-estate in the lynchpin. Once that is settled we will put the region under "disciplined" management.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1203815#1204150
Something is missing in all these indictments.
One million innerwebz buxx to whoever buzzes in first with the correct answer.
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No blame for The Won?
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No blame for The Won?
Yep, "I Won" is perfect in every way.
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No blame for The Won?
DING-DING-DING
And we have our winner!
Amazing how Afghanistan and Iraq--the latter in particular--were Bush's Wars,TM.
Yet, here is Libya, begun without even a pretense of threat to the US, in violation of the War Powers Resolution and no discernible objective or withdrawal...
...and yet not only is Obama wholly unindicted. Not only does he escape blame, all blame is transfered to the collective "we." WE...the US and it's NATO allies are to blame for Obama going to the Arab League and the UN for his little adventure.
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In 04 some MSM exec said that the left bias would give Kerry 16 points. Clearly he thought that would be enough. Today, it is hard to tell the working class of America that everything is rosy and the future is bright when they live the polar opposite. My guess is that even with the 99.9% MSM donk knob gobblers it will only sway it 7-8%. Which translates to a big win again in 12.