A True American Hero, Libyan Fighting Against A Dictator

[Lostlover]

This guy's courage just takes my breath away. He's my hero. And I feel for both of his parents who seem at ease with their son's death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-rebel-forces-shot-dead-Gaddafi-soldiers.html

And you have losers without a pot to piss in in this country complaining about a 3% increase in taxes on the rich. And you also have people comparing this Libyan intervention with a completely optional and deadly Iraqi war.

Not a peep about this guy's death in the media. But tons of coverage about Jessica Lynch's fraudulent ass and Rogaine Charlie's delusion rants.

 

[justapixel]

This guy's courage just takes my breath away. He's my hero. And I feel for both of his parents who seem at ease with their son's death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-rebel-forces-shot-dead-Gaddafi-soldiers.html

And you have losers without a pot to piss in in this country complaining about a 3% increase in taxes on the rich. And you also have people comparing this Libyan intervention with a completely optional and deadly Iraqi war.

Not a peep about this guy's death in the media. But tons of coverage about Jessica Lynch's fraudulent ass and Rogaine Charlie's delusion rants.

You can thank Obama for his death.

Obama's inability to make a decision caused his death.

If Obama intervene at the beginning of the revolt, it would have been over by March 12 and he would still be alive.

Thanks, Mr. President for killing another American.

 

[BostonPirate]

You can thank Obama for his death.

Obama's inability to make a decision caused his death.

If Obama intervene at the beginning of the revolt, it would have been over by March 12 and he would still be alive.

Thanks, Mr. President for killing another American.

you may well be one of the most vile human beings alive.

How dare you use the death of a human being to this end. You have no conscience and you have no intellect.

You are devoid of morality.

You ARE the embodiment of the GOP.

 

[justapixel]

you may well be one of the most vile human beings alive.

How dare you use the death of a human being to this end. You have no conscience and you have no intellect.

You are devoid of morality.

You ARE the embodiment of the GOP.

Sometimes, the truth hurts.

 

[BostonPirate]

Sometimes, the truth hurts.

I doubt you care about human pain and suffering. You have NO shame.

You will use anyone or anything to further your unatural hatred for a Black president.

I have contempt for you with every fiber of my being.

You truly disgust me. You wouldn't know what truth is if it slapped you across your diseased face.

 

[Telstra]

That is tragic. He look nice.

 

[Lostlover]

That is tragic. He look nice.

He has a distinct look for sure.

Is Australia helping out in the coalition? I know they're kind-of/not-really a member of NATO.

 

[BostonPirate]

He has a distinct look for sure.

Is Australia helping out in the coalition? I know they're kind-of/not-really a member of NATO.

I believe they are considered a contact country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

The nato countries are in blue. The contact countries are in green. Brown is mediteranean dialogue nations??? dunno what that means, and the other color is Partnership for Peace

 

[Just_Believe18]

You can thank Obama for his death.

Obama's inability to make a decision caused his death.

If Obama intervene at the beginning of the revolt, it would have been over by March 12 and he would still be alive.

Thanks, Mr. President for killing another American.

You are vile.

 

[Kulindahr]

If only his spirit could infect American youth, so many of whom can't even be bothered to vote.

 

[Telstra]

He has a distinct look for sure.

Is Australia helping out in the coalition? I know they're kind-of/not-really a member of NATO.

Australia support the down fall of Gadafi.

 

[Glafna]

You can thank Obama for his death.

Obama's inability to make a decision caused his death.

If Obama intervene at the beginning of the revolt, it would have been over by March 12 and he would still be alive.

Thanks, Mr. President for killing another American.

Thanks Bush, Cheney, Gore, Clinton, and every other president for as long as Ghaddafi has been abusing his people.

You want to play the blame game? Try it without the lame linear point of view.

 

[Glafna]

If only his spirit could infect American youth, so many of whom can't even be bothered to vote.

Tis the same with Canadians.

We've never had to legitimately fight for our freedom. The last time that happened was the American Civil War for you, and the War of 1812 for us.

Sometimes I wonder if a dictator for a few years wouldn't do us some good =/

 

[rareboy]

Yes Pixel. I have to agree.

You are utterly over the edge.

Do you go to bed at night cursing George Bush for every dead soldier in Iraq?

I thought not.


You sir, are entirely beneath contempt and notice.

And that is the truth.

And sometimes the truth hurts.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Such melodramatic declarations from both sides in this thread!

 

[justapixel]

Such melodramatic declarations from both sides in this thread!

Just the usual "fake" outrage.

They know the truth and to deflect it, they pretend to be outraged.

 

[jackoroe]

you may well be one of the most vile human beings alive.

How dare you use the death of a human being to this end. You have no conscience and you have no intellect.

You are devoid of morality.

You ARE the embodiment of the GOP.

I haven't really weighed in one way or the other on this debate, but I do have some questions I'd like answered.

I was in Montreal just before we invaded Iraq. There was a rather large protest against the war we were about to engage in, fair enough. Why is there no such protests against going to war (and it is a war not a Kinetic Military Action) with a country who poses us no immediate threat? A country who can effect none of our vital national interests? Why is there no protesting about the president ignoring his Constitutional responsibility to get Congress approval before waging war?

Every president who sends our young men and women into harms way, ultimately bears the responsibility for what happens to them. There is no arguing that point. If it was fair to saddle Bush with the deaths of everyone who died in Iraq and Afganistan, why is it not fair to do the same with Obama?

I'm just confused by the differing responses I've seen in one war and now the other. I think we can discuss this in an intellectual manner without all the inflammatory rhetoric. Wouldn't you agree?

 

[pat grimshaw]

I think Puccini or d'Annunzio could use this thread for an opera of accusation and counter-accusation.

 

[BostonPirate]

I haven't really weighed in one way or the other on this debate, but I do have some questions I'd like answered.

I was in Montreal just before we invaded Iraq. There was a rather large protest against the war we were about to engage in, fair enough. Why is there no such protests against going to war (and it is a war not a Kinetic Military Action) with a country who poses us no immediate threat? A country who can effect none of our vital national interests? Why is there no protesting about the president ignoring his Constitutional responsibility to get Congress approval before waging war?

Every president who sends our young men and women into harms way, ultimately bears the responsibility for what happens to them. There is no arguing that point. If it was fair to saddle Bush with the deaths of everyone who died in Iraq and Afganistan, why is it not fair to do the same with Obama?

I'm just confused by the differing responses I've seen in one war and now the other. I think we can discuss this in an intellectual manner without all the inflammatory rhetoric. Wouldn't you agree?

You know what pixel was up to and It was not born of a passionate belief in peace.

I had an american friend who tragically thought it would be a "good" idea for him to go off to a war, based on his ancestry.

it didn't turn out well for him.

As for the outrage here?

When an american dies that HE, the president, sent into harms way I will let you know. As of now I am truly undecided.

The warpowers act of 1975 gives the congress and the president 60 days before anyone has to pass a resolution of any sort.

In the meantime, he MUST consult with them, and the press indicates he did in fact, do that. And does even in conference calls, regularly.

Bush sr never went to congress before panama. Reagan never went before congress to ask before the first Libya bombing or Grenada.

Thats just the way its done, and since the house of reps and oversight is in the hands of Rep Issa, I assure you, if Obama had broken any laws that could hold up in a hearing before the senate, we would be having impeachment harings as we speak.

the rest is nothing but GOP political opportunism.

Pixels behavior in this thread is inexcusable and disgusting.

 

[rareboy]

I haven't really weighed in one way or the other on this debate, but I do have some questions I'd like answered.

I was in Montreal just before we invaded Iraq. There was a rather large protest against the war we were about to engage in, fair enough. Why is there no such protests against going to war (and it is a war not a Kinetic Military Action) with a country who poses us no immediate threat? A country who can effect none of our vital national interests? Why is there no protesting about the president ignoring his Constitutional responsibility to get Congress approval before waging war?

Every president who sends our young men and women into harms way, ultimately bears the responsibility for what happens to them. There is no arguing that point. If it was fair to saddle Bush with the deaths of everyone who died in Iraq and Afganistan, why is it not fair to do the same with Obama?

I'm just confused by the differing responses I've seen in one war and now the other. I think we can discuss this in an intellectual manner without all the inflammatory rhetoric. Wouldn't you agree?

Because even Canadians saw through Bush's flimsy pretext for war and recognized it as a war of adventure and driven by the military industrial complex through Rumsfeld and Co.

This time?

It was as much the Europeans driving the adoption of a no-fly zone to prevent the slaughter of Libyans by a dictator they themselves were trying to depose.

I am constantly baffled that perceptive and intelligent people on the right don't get this.

Or choose not to get this.

I could make an entire classroom of first year students write a 5000 word essay on this subject and most of them would get it.

Anyway, NATO is now in control so the Americans no longer have to fuss themselves over the role of the US.

And as for the inflammatory rhetoric?

Pixel's laying the death of a soldier who's role may put him in mortal danger executing his mission at he feet of a president he has an irrational and obsessive hatred for is a classic example of the rhetorically and intellectually bankrupt.

My contempt is visceral. And there's nothing fake about that.