Apologies Over Libya, $1 Billion Re-Elections, and Epic Weirdness!

[Weird Liberal Head]

Run time: 09:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS41MV3EBGI   Posted on YouTube: April 04, 2011 By YouTube Member: WeirdLiberalHead Views on YouTube: 4   Posted on DU: April 04, 2011 By DU Member: Weird Liberal Head Views on DU: 623

 
Why do people hack me? Attack me? Hate me?
Because they fear me.
They know I'm telling the truth.

I report the news of the day, including violence in the Middle East, and launch into a tirade over Libya, talk about the hacking of the WeirdNewsChannel briefly, and discuss my merchandizing plans.
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Note #1: If you have any idea who hacked/shut down the Weird News Channel, just contact me please. Thanks! (I'm not sure who did it, I have my suspicions, but rest assured that there is little/no chance anyone I mentioned in this video did this).
Note #2: I had no time for a "Con" or Palinism of the Day for today, so just make do with this if you want~ http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/04/avlon.obama.repeat/index.html?hpt=T2

Sources:

Obama $1 Billion Reelection- http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/04/obama.announcement.analysis/index.html?hpt=T2

Japanese nuclear water- http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/04/us-japan-nuclear-water-idUSTRE7336L720110404

Civil Wars in Libya and the Ivory Coast- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/world/africa/05ivory.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hmKvdoDfcbsekq7bf_ZmMTd92DBw?docId=CNG.bcf74a4d0a9bb29afe4e98cfe57a8c2d.161

[Countdown_3_2_1]

1. No apologies.

Zip. Nada. None.

You either do something all the way or you don't.

Obama is pulling back BEFORE the job is done! The rebels are losing, and Libya is gonna slaughter them.

--Incidentally, the president pulled back on the same day he announced for reelection. The war is unpopular and the rebels are under the bus. The EU doesn't want to fight this war. How long do you think NATO will stay in without the US egging them on?

this was a political decision on the part of the president. The rebels are screwed without US backing.

I repeat my initial assertion. The US was foolish to start this in the first place. Now good people will die without the US to back them.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Sounds like the Kurds in '92 eh?

They sorta like us now, a little bit, but you can bet they carry a grudge.

Better to let a people determine their own destiny. Otherwise, you own the outcome. If you want to own the outcome, you become a major player in a civil war, and you have to go ALL the way.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Tell me, how did getting involved in Vietnam's civil war work out for us?

How did it work out for the boat people?

You're using neocon justifications for wars of foreign adventurism. Good luck with that line of logic.
Also funny you'd use the civil war for justification. How would you have liked it if a major european power had sided with the south, and intervened? Would have sorta sucked, wouldn't it?

We do not own these countries. We do not dictate the terms of their own governments to them. It is not our place. At the MOST, the UN should have gotten involved. This is not a matter for NATO, or the US, leading a small portion of the NATO coalition.

It's warmongering, pure and simple.

I see the apologies are pouring in, how's that working out for you?

[Turborama]

5. How would you have liked it if the French & Dutch had helped with the American Revolutionary War?

Oh, wait...

[AtheistCrusader]

6. The French used us as a proxy against England.

Just a few years later, we ended up using French ships for target practice too. (American-French Quasi-war) Whoopsie.

The Dutch were cool and all, with the port of Texel Ranger/Serapis incident, but otherwise, they were just protecting their valuable customer in the slave trade.

Not a whole lot of altruism to be found here. Today's allegory would be our interest in Libyan oil, via Standard Oil/Shell and others currently holding producing wells on leases in Libya.

[howard112211]

4. The biggest counterargument against specific interventions

is often that they will accomplish nothing. Take Vietnam. Millions dead and the North still won. In warfare, one doesn't "at least try". An attempt that accomplishes nothing is way worse than not doing anything in the first place. Take Iraq. Was it worth it? Are the people better off today? Again, Nazi Germany was a different story, on many levels.

Kid, let's hold back final judgement on the success in Libya for, say, six months or a year. Let's see whether democracy is firmly in place then and it hasn't turned clusterfuck. I hope you will be able to recognize the later outcome, in the event that it occurs.