I saw a picture somewhere of those troops leaving..... they were
wearing bath hose slippers that said "Mans' Country" on them......
see... NO BOOTS.
On Apr 3, 9:58 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> im..........
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> *
> *
> **
> "UPDATE"*
> *Before anyone tells me i'm posting crap.*
> *Tell me why we are sending 2000+*
> *troops over there in the 1st place *
> **
> *We already got some on the ground*
> *so dont believe Obama when he said *
> *No Boots on the ground!*
> * TxForce*
> ****************
> 2,200 Marines Go To Libya, 'What Happened to No Boots on the Ground'?
> Obama's supposedly steadfast claim that there will be
> "no boots on the ground" in Libya?
> Warner Todd Huston Wednesday, March 23, 2011
>
> In all the reporting on the involvement of US Forces in Libya a report by
> WCTI Channel 12 News in New Bern, North Carolina seems to have gone by
> almost unnoticed. The News channel reports that 2,200 U.S. Marines have been
> shipped off the Libya. But doesn't this deployment clash with Obama's
> supposedly steadfast
> claim<http://www.deccanherald.com/content/147746/no-us-boots-libyan-ground....>that
> there will be "no boots on the ground" in Libya?
>
> On March 20 WCTI reported
> <http://www.wcti12.com/news/27257042/detail.html>that the Marines were
> shipping out.
>
> About 2,200 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or 26th MEU
> will take part. Their mission is to help end the violence directed at the
> Libyan people.
>
> "In Libya right now they are doing exactly what we need them to do. They
> are doing what they are told and right now that's protecting Libyan people
> against Qadhafi forces," said Captain Timothy Patrick, a Marine with the
> 26th MEU.
>
> So, what is it? Are there Marines in Libya or will there be "no boots on the
> ground"? If there are Marines there, what are they there for?
>
> Just what is Obama's plan? What is his strategy? Is there one?
>
> One suspects that US ground forces will have to become engaged if anything
> solid is to happen in NATO's engagement in Libya. And it seems like Obama is
> warming us up for that yet.
>
> In a recent interview<http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/03/23/obama-abdicates-commander-i...>Obama
> used some artful spin on our involvement there.
>
> He said that the US is being "volunteered to carry out missions" in Libya.
> Volunteered? By whom?
>
> And we will continue to support the efforts to protect the Libyan people,
> but we will not be in the lead. That's what the transition that I discussed
> has always been designed to do. We have unique capabilities. We came in, up
> front, fairly readily, fairly substantially, and at considerable risk to our
> military personnel. And when this transition takes place, it is not going to
> be our planes that are maintaining the no-fly zone. It is not going to be
> our ships that are necessarily involved in enforcing the arms embargo.
> That's precisely what the other coalition partners are going to do.
>
> And that's why building this international coalition has been so important
> because it means that the United States is not bearing all the cost. It
> means that we have confidence that we are not going in alone, *and it is our
> military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are
> important not only to us, but are important internationally*. And we will
> accomplish that in a relatively short period of time. (emphasis added)
>
> With the fact that one NATO ally has already pulled its troops from
> Libya<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368693/Libya-war-Germans-pul...>,
> one has to wonder where this is headed for US forces?
>
> **UPDATED**
>
> Dan Riehl reports that an additional 400 Marines are headed to
> Libya<http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2011/03/400-ma...>,
> too.
> Wednesday, March 23, 2011
> 400 More Marines Head Toward Libya
>
> If we take Gates at his word, it would appear Marines landing in Libya would
> come under "contingency
> planning<http://militarytimes.com/news/2011/03/military-marines-north-africa-0...>."
> They've been deployed to the Keersarge, which would already have the 26th
> MEU. Amphibious assault? So much for only no flight zones, I guess.
>
> The Pentagon is sending an additional 400 Marines to join the amphibious
> assault ship Kearsarge near North Africa in response to the unrest in Libya,
> Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
>
> Defense *Secretary* Robert Gates ordered the Kearsarge and the amphibious
> transport dock Ponce to move from the U.S. Central Command region into the
> Mediterranean Sea to provide the capability for evacuation or *humanitarian*aid.
>
> "We are obviously looking at a lot of *options* and contingencies," Gates
> said Tuesday at a Pentagon briefing.
>
> U.S. military officials are closely tracking the events in Libya, where
> armed rebels are clashing with military forces loyal to the Arab nation's
> longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
>
> Gates downplayed the prospect of military action in Libya, noting that there
> is no clear support from the United Nations or a consensus among U.S.
> allies.
>
> The Kearsarge deployed in August with an amphibious readiness group with the
> 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, but most of those Marines have deployed to
> Afghanistan. The 400 Marines will be coming from 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines,
> Camp Lejeune, N.C.
>
> B
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