Your specific reason for opposing Operation Odyssey Dawn?

What is your reason for opposing Operation Odyssey Dawn? You may have multiple reasons, but choose the reason that weighs most heavily in your mind.

'we can't afford to help them'....that is so pathetic I could scream.

The amount they are spending is nothing compared to the fraud and abuse by contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why don't these all of a sudden I care about the poor because of the war in Libya people go after the pentagon waste instead? hello? billion missing. 2.3 Trillion 'lost' by Rumsfeld.


Jesus, y'all think you are on the right side opposing helping people who were asking for help, who were just about to be slaughtered...I think Jesus would help establish a no fly zone to protect people.

what part of this don't you understand?




This is not the same as Iraq! We bombed them for the military industrial complex, Halliburton, Blackwater and to get Saddam back for W's daddy.

Geez what is wrong with people!!!

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Thank you so much for that picture... you'd think that would be PROOF!

I don't know any of these people, but I feel bonded with them. :cry:

We have much to learn from them!

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/incoming/article386489.ece/ALTERNATES/g3l/Libya+no+fly+zone.jpg

I don't feel like a heartless asshole. I'm sorry, but until our government decides it should really tax the rich in order to keep teachers, cops, and firemen from being fired (I come from a family of teachers being royally screwed right now), along with folks from losing their homes, France and the UK are perfectly capable of handling this.

And, all the other wars fought for "good" and "noble" reasons.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mohandas Gandhi

WTF the Odyssey is.

one war, spends another decade finding his way home and upon return discovers his wife (who thinks she is a widow) entertaining multiple suitors and
then proceeds to slaughter them all. Interestingly, his name means "trouble" in Greek, which is very fitting as that is the state he constantly either finds
himself in or causes on the others throughout the story. An even more fitting name for this mission would be "Operation Clusterfuck", but I assume that
was already taken.

No, really - who knows who the rebels are... could be worse than the colonel.

sheesh

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These freedom fighters were begging for us to protect them from slaughter. Don't listen to the fucking news people!

No troops, Arab League support, other states acting... A+ for Obama on this

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What part of this are "progressives" not getting?!

thinks is an epic fail. That worries me, he's always right.

" It's NOT a war"

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Gaddafi is not a threat to us. This is a matter for the Libyans to deal with. We can provider weapons money ect.. but that's as far as I will support.

the Republicans are yelling that we're broke and are shredding what little social safety net we actually have. For that last reason especially it's galling that we're doing this.

(Also, "Odyssey Dawn" sounds like a country-singing Bratz doll.)

There are tons of options that really weren't tried before self-interested third-parties decided that bombing was the next step.

Did they work against Saddam? Did prohibiting conflict diamonds bring down governments in west Africa?

Dictators don't give a shit if there's no money to feed their people, as long as they have power. That's what makes them dictators.

Should we also "dislodge" dictators in sub-Saharan Africa? Because there are lots of them. Should we "dislodge" Kim Jong Il? Or do we only "dislodge" dictators who threaten our oil supply?

Do you think we should just let dictators continue to do whatever they want in defiance of basic human rights?

Our military is overextended, we're failing our citizens at home (not to mention our veterans!) and there is no shortage -- and never will be any shortage -- of dictators and human rights violations anywhere in the world. The U.S. cannot be the world's police force. It simply isn't possible.

There are plenty of dictators that your logic applies to but we're not bombing them

Support it. Oppose it. Support it! Oppose it! Support!! Oppose!! Support!!! Oppose!!!

but to the eye, it looks like the "support" category is winning.

Oh, my answer why I dont support it....too many to list. We're already in 3 other armed fights in the area, it's none of our business what Libya does, it doesnt affect/effect us, war is rarely the answer.....

I know DU is different but even on DU, support is just under 50%.

We seem to be able to start them and fight them. We just can't figure out how to end them.

...:sarcasm:

1) No vital US national interest
2) No defined achievable objective
3) Forces already stretched too thin

Bottom line: The benefit to be gained is not worth the risk to American lives.

Homerphobic ?