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Title: Limited Kinetic Action: Gates Denies US ‘At War’ With Libya
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URL Source: http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/17/ ... s-denies-us-at-war-with-libya/
Published: May 18, 2011
Author: Jason Ditz
Post Date: 2011-05-18 15:21:47 by Jethro Tull
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Limited Kinetic Action: Gates Denies US ‘At War’ With Libya Says It 'Probably Seems Like a War' to Gadhafi by Jason Ditz, May 17, 2011 Speaking today on 60 Minutes, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates denied that the US was actually “at war” with Libya, saying he prefers to think of it as a “limited kinetic action” against Libya. At the same time, Gates conceded that if he was “in Gadhafi’s shoes” he would think of it as a war. The comments come two months after a UN resolution which authorized a “no-fly zone” that directly led to US and French attacks on Libya. Interestingly enough, Gates had been critical of the “no-fly zone” calls in early March primarily because it would, by his own admission, mean a war against Libya. Now that the war is not only ongoing but mired in stalemate, its redefinition seems to be convincing no one. This is not the first time the Obama Administration has tried to redefine the Libyan War as the Libyan “not-quite-a-war.” Shortly after the attacks began, officials were calling the conflict a “kinetic military action” as well. In practice it is a distinction without a difference, but the Obama Administration isn’t doing so entirely without reason. With growing questions about the fact that the war is, as of next Friday, running afoul of the War Powers Act for not consulting Congress about a use of troops lasting 60 days or longer, an attempt to downplay the conflict as something minuscule could be part of a political effort to avoid debate.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
4 the kinetic revolution
Well stated, let the kinetic energy flow!
The psychotic gates should be hung for trying to sell the un-constitutional war-lite bs to the mullets. We are bombing and killing mainly defenseless people. No one is being protected over there. Damn our fedgov to hell.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
Fools rush into war without knowing who the enemies are and why they are fighting them.
God is always good!
reminds me of clinton's depends on what the definition of is, is.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it~Joseph Goebbels
We are bombing and killing mainly defenseless people. No one is being protected over there. Gates is a psycho. They did the same in Iraq. No one is being protected.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
It sure does. It stinks, too. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
bump
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#2. To: Rotara (#1)
4 the kinetic revolution
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#6. To: Lod (#3)
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The psychotic gates should be hung for trying to sell the un- constitutional war-lite bs to the mullets.
#7. To: christine (#5)
clinton's depends on what the definition of is, is
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