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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-29-11 05:55 AM Original message |
Misrata rebels defy Libya's new regime |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-29-11 06:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. As the earwig said as he fell off a cliff |
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adhd_what_huh (368 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-29-11 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. I don't have a problem with this. Sounds normal. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Neither do I. They can protest when they couldn't before under Gaddafi. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Oh, yeah. Perfectly normal to appoint that evil regime's henchmen |
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Hart2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-29-11 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. The people smell the betrayal. It looks more like a coup than a revolution. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:50 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Qatari troops were on the ground all along I read. Boots on the ground |
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Hart2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 09:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Just look at the difference between the early and late pictures of capturing Bab al-Azizya palace! |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 12:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Good catch! Reminds me of the invasion of Iraq when |
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Hart2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Flying the colors in a military operation indicates which nation's forces were involved. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Yes, that is the one I was thinking of. There was a lot of commentary |
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sad sally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-29-11 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. The atrocities of war continue... |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-29-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Has NATO left yet? |
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sad sally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-29-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Doesn't appear so. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 12:55 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Didn't think they would. In fact they are probably there for decades. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:22 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. They are not going to be there for decades because the Libyan people won't allow it. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Wow, that site really thinks the whole thing is a zionist conspiracy... |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. NATO leaving? Are we leaving Iraq? Or Afghanistan? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. I believe that's called 'nation building' |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:12 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. LOL, you were the one saying NATO was going to deploy troops. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:41 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Give them time. I see that now they are stating they will have to |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. UK and Qatar provided flak jackets to the rebels, fyi. |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Kind of like how the war would be over in a couple of weeks? nt |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Operation Odyssey Dawn was days not weeks. |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-31-11 12:17 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. wut? nt |
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StarsInHerHair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
16. more info on Misrata |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 02:22 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Black Africans are still being rounded up and killed there. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 01:04 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Tragically, Libya has a large native black population |
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Distant Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. Jalil, Head of TNC, also worked for Gaddafi. He rebeled cuz Gaddafi did not impose strict Sharia |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Jalil, human rights advocate, and the first to defect, advocates "strict Sharia." Total dishonesty. |
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Distant Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 09:54 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I guess you are ignorant of Jalil's background. See that spot on his forehead? Do some research! |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-30-11 10:17 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. LOL, I call it Islamaphobic, and guess what, you give me a link to a right wing Islam bashing site. |
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