SabrinaDeep
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damn i would love seeing you both doing a bikini mud fight, democrat vs republican wow
1 March 2011: The US Senate unanimously passes non-binding Senate resolution S.RES.85 urging the United Nations Security Council to impose a Libyan no-fly zone and encouraging Gaddafi to step down. The US had naval forces positioned off the coast of Libya, as well as forces already in the region, including the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
19 March 2011:...military operations began, with American and British naval forces firing over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
The United States deployed a naval force of 11 ships, including the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, the amphibious transport dock USS Ponce, the guided-missile destroyers USS Barry and USS Stout, the nuclear attack submarines USS Providence and USS Scranton, the cruise missile submarine USS Florida and the amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney. Additionally, A-10 ground-attack aircraft, B-2 stealth bombers, AV-8B Harrier II jump-jets, EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft, P-3 Orions, and both F-15E and F-16 fighters were involved in action over Libya. U-2 reconnaissance aircraft were stationed on Cyprus. On 18 March, two AC-130Us arrived at RAF Mildenhall as well as additional tanker aircraft.[citation needed] On 24 March 2 E-8Cs operated from Naval Station Rota Spain, which indicated an increase of ground attacks.[citation needed] An undisclosed number of CIA operatives were said to be in Libya to gather intelligence for airstrikes and make contacts with rebels. The US also used MQ-1 Predator UAVs to strike targets in Libya on 23 April.
On 10 June, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates criticized some of the NATO member nations for their efforts, or lack thereof, to participate in the intervention in Libya. Gates singled out Germany, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and the Netherlands for criticism. He praised Canada, Norway and Denmark, saying that although those three countries had only provided twelve percent of the aircraft to the operation, their aircraft had conducted one-third of the strikes.
Funds spent by Foreign Powers on War in Libya.
United Kingdom $336–$1,500 million USD September 2011
United States $896 – US$1,100 million October 2011
Italy $700 million EUR October 2011
France $450 million EUR September 2011
Turkey US$300 million July 2011
Denmark $120 million EUR November 2011
Belgium $58 million EUR October 2011
Spain $50 million EUR September 2011
Sweden US$50 million October 2011
Canada US$26 million June 2011
There has been criticism over the handling of the operation and the belief that the Obama administration failed to adequately consult the U.S. Congress. The Obama administration defended its handling of the Libyan crisis, drawing a clear line between military and political objectives. On 24 March White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters "We are not engaged in militarily-driven regime change." Instead, the administration is engaged in "time-limited, scope-limited" action with other countries to protect civilians from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.[107] However, this conflicts with multiple statements seeming to imply regime change as at least one objective of the Operation, including a report made to Congress as required by House Resolution 292:
"Establishing these conditions would pave the way for a genuine political transition – of which Qadhafi's departure is a critical component. To bring about this objective, along with the international community, the United States responded to this crisis by developing, implementing, and monitoring sanctions and freezing billions in Government of Libya assets, building a broad international coalition focused on escalating diplomatic pressure on Qadhafi and increasing his isolation, and initiating and sustaining political support for military operations. ... Politically, U.S. leadership continues to play an important role in maintaining and expanding this international consensus that Qadhafi must step down, sending an unambiguous message to the regime. We continue working with the international community to enhance the capabilities of the Libyan opposition and increase the ability to achieve political transition. After many meetings with senior opposition members in Washington and abroad, combined with daily interactions with the U.S. mission in Benghazi, we have stated that the TNC has demonstrated itself to be the legitimate interlocutor of the Libyan people, in contrast to the Qadhafi regime that has lost all legitimacy to rule.
In its draft "vision" the self-appointed TNC condemned despotic regimes and called for Libya to "join the international community"; to build a state in which racism, discrimination and terrorism will be substituted with equality, justice, peace and freedom. Two years later, terrorism was established in Libya for the first time in history, while Libya itself was turned by the reckless actions of the UN into the world's largest weapons supermarket for world terrorists.
Moreover, the TNC, which has reportedly sold chemical weapons to both Hamas and Hezbollah, has also been linked to supplying arms to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
come on you're reaching now. Every one of the guys on the other side would have had us in wars with lybia iran and who knows who else by now if they won, but they didnt. You're way too focused on finding any little thing to finger point but the alternatives were MUCH worse.
Well of course we are. We trained the Taliban, we armed the fuckers with the very hand held missiles they shoot our choppers down with. That fuck bin ladin was in bed with Rumsfeld, when he ran the C.I.A. for daddy bush. This shit is going on, because our leaders WANT it to. It isn't a democrat or republican thing, it's about world power, and a one world government. We can't bring the rest of these fucktards up to our standard, because they're leaders are a bunch of greedy fucking dictators, so they have to drag us down to their level. How, by bankrupting us, and destroying our economy through attrition....years of this costly bullshit will turn us into a third world nation. And yes, he is a disgrace, and a treasonous one at that. Everyone thinks Regan was such a great president...he was an arms trading drug dealer, that bankrupt Russia, causing them to flood these shithole countries with stockpiles of old Soviet weapons, that are being used to try and kill our soldiers. I would bet that a good 95% of the illegal guns that our government whines about in Mexico, are surplus AK47's, that come in from Central America, but these half wit retards in Washington will never admit to that, they blame it on the American public, and nobama isn't even the biggest disgrace in this administration. That one goes to eric holder, and his little attempt at treason. They should all stand trial, and suffer the full consequences.
November of 2008 the US lost 772,000 jobs. The stock market was under 7,000 and the housing market was getting worse, not better. The US auto makers were near bankruptcy and the banks were ready to default. Every single one of those things has turned around. You will surely credit the republicans which is a fucking joke.
Show us stats to prove that it was already turning around. I dare you.
None of his economic policies have worked.
Oh really? Why don't you tell us which of Obama's economic policies have made it through congressional republicans?