toon -- Boots Hovering Above the Ground

k&r

What need have we of some activist judge's ruling? Besides, around here, I understand that a lawsuit for injunctive and declaratory relief is actually an impeachment proceeding. And before you try to state the obvious denial, I speak from the highest recognized authority.

No US participation in airstrikes. No US artillery. No US cruise missiles. Nothing of the sort. So this nonsense gets tiring.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/10/501364/main20070541.shtml

he United States contributes between one-fifth and one-quarter of NATO's budget. In FY2010 that contribution totaled $711.8 million.

But that factors in only direct payments, not deployments of personnel which - outside of special operations, such as in Afghanistan or Libya - may be used to train European forces (for example, in anti-terrorism skills) that benefit U.S. security.

In February NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that over the past two years, "defense spending by NATO's European member nations has shrunk by some 45 billion dollars" - the equivalent of Germany's entire annual defense budget.

Gates' argument that by slashing their defense budgets European countries are allowing the U.S. to pick up the slack comes when the United States is already spending more on defense than all other nations on the planet combined, according to Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/10/501364/main20070541.shtml#ixzz1PYwJADr4


and several weeks ago we were certainly bombing the Hell out of libya.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-actions-may-speak-louder-than-words/2011/03/19/ABVWsZx_story.html

But her modest words belied the far larger role the United States played as international forces began an open-ended assault on Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s military capabilities. U.S. warships fired more than 110 Tomahawk missiles into Libyan territory to disable air-defense systems. And the French and British warplanes that began to enforce the emerging no-fly zone operate under U.S. command.

Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, director of the Joint Staff, described the U.S. role to reporters at the Pentagon: “We are on the leading edge of a coalition military operation.”

Sure you got that right?

". . .although remotely piloted drones operated by the United States periodically fire missiles, too."
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/us/politics/16powers.html>

Drones and missiles as well.

Somehow I doubt that you really know what you're talking about.

confirmed that we are still carrying out some bombing in Libya.

And, we rained down a shit ton at the onset.


ETA: Aside from your error, it still gets to the very core of the argument put forth by Koh. He said as long as US troops are not at risk, it isn't really a war.