Ango-American Libya War-Lust rears its ugly head. Italy called for talks, NOW even the French, BUT

[Distant Observer]

America and Britain say NO WAY!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8630778/Libya-France-risks-Nato-split-over-call-for-Gaddafi-talks.html

Libya: France risks Nato split over call for Gaddafi talks

France risked opening a significant split within Nato over the war in Libya yesterday by calling for negotiations with Colonel Gaddafi and confirming it was "passing messages" to his regime.

REUTERS

By Ruth Sherlock, in Zintan and Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent

6:20PM BST 11 Jul 2011

Signalling dismay at the slow progress of attempts to drive Col. Gaddafi from power, the French defence minister, Gerard Longuet, said it was time to “get round the table”.

Although the position of NATO and the rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) has always been that there can be no negotiations while Col Gaddafi remains in power, Mr Longuet said he could remain “in a different room in his palace, with a different title”.

“We have asked them to speak to each other,” Mr Longuet said of the two sides in an interview on French television. “The position of the TNC is very far from other positions.”

His interview triggered a swift response from Washington. “The Libyan people will be the ones to decide how this transition takes place, but we stand firm in our belief that Gaddafi cannot remain in power,” the State Department said, indicating it had not changed its position.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. The Libyan people will be the ones to decide how this transition takes place

and we will keep bombing them until they decide the way we want them to.

[inna]

5. exactly.

[WatsonT]

2. We are so going to get stuck holding the bill on this one

all our allies will bail leaving us as the sole combatant. And then we'll be demonized if we simply walk because hey, we broke it we should fix it.

[Distant Observer]

3. That this is Hillary's WAR is becoming obvious. Shame for the Pres

[The Northerner]

4. K&R Why has this thread been unrecced to 0?

[inna]

6. more here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb07112011.html

July 11, 2011: France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed. Gaddafi Can Stay "in Another Room of the Palace"
By FRANKLIN LAMB, Tripoli