Finally, a war for oil that the Left can get behind
Fox News reports that the USS Enterprise has left it’s station off the coast of Somalia and is steaming towards the Suez Canal and it’s ultimate destination, Libya with 13 captured pirates still aboard from their adventure last week. The Marines are looking for a force to place aboard the USS Kearsarge which is also steaming up the Red Sea entrance to the Suez.
The Washington Post reports that the US Treasury Department is busying itself freezing Libyan assets in US banks and their overseas branches.
In Geneva, U.S. and European leaders focused on sending aid to rebels and refugees, toughening sanctions and calling for the ouster of Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya for more than 41 years.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, addressing a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, announced new efforts to stem the Libyan humanitarian crisis. Some $10 million in relief funds have been set aside by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and two teams of experts are being dispatched immediately to Libya’s borders to assess the refugee crisis and organize the delivery of aid.
Of course, these are not any of the things that Clinton’s husband did when hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were murdered – arguably a much larger crisis than Libya. The only difference is that the Libyans have oil and production has declined considerably in preceding weeks. At the pumps, Americans are feeling the pinch as gas soared seventeen cents in the last week. Of course, there’s no Halliburton or Dick Cheney or evil genius idiot McBushitler to blame, so no one is really interested in gas prices…well, except you and me.
Besides, Obama is doing all of the things that Bush did to Hussein in the run up to the Iraq War – isolating Qaddafi, cutting off his money, planning no-fly zones to protect dissidents, and Obama gets to do all of that stuff without members of Congress standing on the roof of Gaddafi’s palace announcing that Gaddafi is more trustworthy than Obama. There are no human shields streaming towards Libya.
You’d think Code Pink would have something to say about the US military forming up for war fighting with Libyan military…but you’d be wrong. Code Pink was marching across the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge today “in solidarity” with the Egyptian people.
Obama just a few minutes ago, without ceremony, issued the first deep water drilling permit since the Deepwater Horizon exploded. Too little too late.
So after voting present on Libya for weeks, he’s counting on the military to pull his narrow ass out of a jam.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Code Pink, Foreign Policy, Terror War
Oh well, here we go again. I sure hope that there are massive protests in the streets with big ass signs saying “No blood for oil” as there was in 2003-2008
Of course there won’t be such protests. However, I am willing to deal with the hypocrisy if the One will just take the steps necessary to ensure there is not a slaughter in the streets of Libya. A no-fly zone is a no-brainer.
Gee,
It would have been nice if the British still had HMS Ark Royal around plus some Harriers.
Now seriously,
What did Qaddafi ever do that Saddam didn’t either do or attempt to do?
Personally, I’d say Qaddafi was more civilized than Saddam and not a significantly bigger sponsor of international terrorism than Saddam was.
Oh I get it. The Left was milking Operation Iraqi Freedom for political points.
Fred: The difference between Q and H is that we sent a couple of bombs to his front porch courtesy of some F111’s and Ronaldus Maximus, and Q decided it would be a good time to permanently STFU and knock off the “dotted line of death.” Hussein was, instead, emboldened by the coalition’s failure to do likewise in Desert Storm 1, and so we had another decade of trying to not get shot down enforcing the No fly zone around Iraq, before we had to dig H out of a hole, and stretch his neck.
And the folks in Lockerbie would likely disagree with you about Q’s role in terrorism.
Jonn: If we need some folks to take a ride on the Kearsarge, I can’t imagine we could do better than the shrieking harpies from code pink. Let those bizzos march in solidarity in Libya. Even better, put them in the hold with the somali pirates. No one’s saying we have to bring them back.
The folks in Lockerbie, and a whole lot of people in New York and elsewhere in the US. I was a college freshman at the time. One of my classmates from HS had wanted to go to Syracuse. I worried he might have been on that plane, as a number of Syracuse students had been in Europe for something and were on their way back home in time for Christmas. Thankfully, David wasn’t on that flight.
Great minds think alike. Deb and I were watching the news last night and we were making the exact same comments about the hypocracy. My asshat neighbor screaming at me about Bush and Cheny upping the gas prices to make them rich. Not a word out of her mouth now. Screaming about a war for oil in Iraq….not a word about us positioning ships near Libya. If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. We watched the clip of our Sec. of State Shrillery, and could see this idiot is in so far over her head it’s unreal. That whole gang in the WH are over their heads also. Children running around looking for someone to point them in the right direction. Thank God the UN is finally jumping in. They’ll set everything straight.
[…] Last night I wrote about the measures that the Obama Administration is finally enacting to deal with the problems in Libya. among them was a no-fly zone to protect anti-government forces. But Russia put the kibosh on that plan since they’re on the Security Council and any action by the UN would require unanimous consent from that useless body. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the idea of imposing limits on Libyan air space as “superfluous” and said world powers must instead focus on fully using the sanctions that the U.N. Security Council approved over the weekend. […]
I would like to know how Libya and Egypt are going to feed their newly liberated people. Both countries use to be breadbaskets until they were so poorly managed that they became importers. Wheat for OIl?
Chuck
The thing with Lockerbie is that I have heard a strong case or two that that was ultimately Iran’s doing.
Either way, I would never dispute Qaddafi’s support of terrorism, as he had quite the long and illustrious career of that.
Thing is Saddam had a comparable record of supporting terrorism.
Either way, I say good riddance to them both.