[vundy33]

I did not mean to imply that the deaths of Libyan civilians was deliberate but friendly fire deaths are a part of war. Libya was a sovereign nation, Gaddafi was its head of state, and Gaddafi's army was Libya's army. We inserted ourselves into a civil war, the outcome of which would have been quite different without our military intervention. I don' see how you cannot call what happened in Libya war.

The issue of whether Obama violated the War Powers Act does not hinge on whether Gaddafi posed a serious threat to our military. Deliberately attacking amd killing the troops of a sovereign country is an act of war, regardless of the justification.

It's not that I'm not trying to call it war, it's that I'm not calling it "war with Libya", because Gadhafi was it's deposed head of state, not the head of state we recognized and granted our support to, just like the rest of NATO did.

NTC have shown nothing but their thanks for U.S. and NATO intervention, they have worked with us fully. How do the rebels actions indicate ANYTHING about what type of government they'll have? They are fighters, not legislators, the leaders of NTC, who have shown nothing but competence throughout this conflict, will in my opinion be as pro-U.S. as possible.

Hoot, not everything that is on the news is put there for a party's advantage...Libya sure as heck isn't being covered so it will be an advantage in the eyes of voters for Pres. Obama and the Dems, and it's not being covered to "show the Obama Admin's problems" or anything else political.

They are refusing to release the Pan Am bomber because he's already been extradited on the basis of bad health! From what I've heard, he's in pretty bad health anyway, and even if he weren't, so what? Is that really what we are going to focus on to try to discredit them?

There is no indication that Libya's leaders are going to "turn against us", or that the ones that actually fought for this would. THEY DO NOT CARE. They cared about Gaddafi being gone, because they were at war with him, if they would've stopped, they all would've died. They want their country, and that's it. They're not worried about America.

"liberal Democrats will find a way to blame Republicans for the failure of democracy to take hold in those countries."

^^^That kind of stuff is what you're doing right now man...

And I can't believe that you are really taking up for Gaddafi...who cares if he got executed. He didn't get tortured, he didn't get beheaded and his body dragged through the streets...their mission was to find and kill him. They did just that. If it'd had been our mission, we'd have done the same thing, but he probably wouldn't be recognizable because of all the lead in his facial/upper body area.

Me thinks you are just using this as something you can use against Pres. Obama...the same way when Republican's get asked about it, the first thing they go to is how Obama is/was wrong or whatever. If he was wrong, do something about it the right way instead of the first thing that comes out of your mouth is how wrong our President was, when he wasn't. A government asked for our help, two big allies asked, and we could provide that help with minimum U.S. risk, and we did.