The Mississippi National Guard...on the ground... in LIBYA???

[bvar22]

A Libyan Fighter with the National Transitional Council (NTC) as a Mississippi National Guard C-17
military plane taxis on the tarmac of the Tripoli National Airport on October 29, 2011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/29/libya-retaliation_n_1065282.html

That is one hell of a "No Fly Zone!"

The rest of the article,
Libya: Retaliation Rumors Cast Dark Shadow Over New Libya
is frightening, but not enlightening.
This result was predicted by many here once our government chose sides with "The Rebels" in the Libyan Civil War.
The Rubicon has been crossed in that respect.
You may read the gruesome details in the above link.

At this point, the US Military presence on the ground in Libya is a more troubling concern.
This is the first concrete evidence I have seen of a US Military presence on the ground in Libya.

Maybe the Mississippi National Guard was just delivering Pallets of Hundred Dollar Bills? :shrug:

[democrank]

1. Shocked, I tell ya....shocked!

[maddezmom]

2. looks to be an evacuation of injured rebel fighters

http://oneclick.indiatimes.com/photo/0eWGdy170l5wb?q=National+Guard

[bvar22]

3. That is certainly a more humanitarian reason than I had suspected.

I wonder if they are also evacuating any civilians wounded in the reprisals?

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Also 200 Libyan fighters are being sent to the US for medical treatment.

22 right now all at US expense.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/

[bvar22]

8. Must be nice.

There are MILLIONS of American citizens who would love to have that kind of access to Medical Care.

I wonder if any of the civilians injured in the US bombings are being flown to the US for treatment?
So far, all the references have been to "Libyan Fighters".


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity99!
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[pinboy3niner]

9. Yes, extending U.S. help to treat severely wounded war casualties is a bad thing

:sarcasm:

[bvar22]

12. No.

The US has a moral obligation to provide Medical Treatment to the proxy "fighters" we used to force Regime Change in Libya.

You stated in your Strawman that the US is helping "severely wounded war casualties".
Have the Humanitarian Concerns been extended to civilians that were injured in the "NATO" bombings,
or the civilian casualties from the reprisals and cleansings?

The articles indicate that it is limited to the Libyan "fighters".
Perhaps you have more information?

I would love to see our military Humanitarian Concerns limited to providing Medical Assistance to those in need.
We should begin those Humanitarian Concerns with the 40,00 American Citizens dying from lack of access to Health Care right here at home.

[sabrina 1]

14. Any of the Sub Saharan immigrants who are still alive

being treated, or rescued from those 'rebels' who killed and raped so many of them?

Maybe if NATO had not bombed the hospital in Sirte (and wherever else they were bombing) they could have used Gadaffi's Free Medical Care system right there in Libya. Isn't bombing hospitals a War Crime also?

[pinboy3niner]

5. Ooh, boots on the ground!1!! (evacuating war casualties)

Reminds me of the U.S. invasion that (we were told) was to be mounted by the Marines on the Kearsarge--which came and went without landing a single troop.

[Riftaxe]

6. I am sure they are going barefoot

just to protect the political rhetoric. :P

[pinboy3niner]

7. Ah, our barefoot invasion army

My bad. How could I have missed that possibility? :)

[tabatha]

10. Wake up! The no-fly-zone has been lifted.

U.N. Votes to Lift Libya No-Fly Zone, Effectively Ending Action

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to lift the no-fly zone over Libya, bringing to an end the seven-month international military action in the country.
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There have been many flights by different countries into Tripoli to take out wounded soldiers.
They are usually accompanied by security detail.

How to twist and deceive and make something out of nothing !!!

How can there be boots on the ground when the war is over?

[texanwitch]

11. Need to protect that oil.

Also a new nice military base.

[sabrina 1]

13. No one should be surprised, and I doubt most people are

other than the willfully blind who supported another Imperial War against an African nation.

The Massacres of pro-Libyan government individuals, will not be investigated, recent reports say as the evidence is scrubbed by our new brutal Allies.

The plight of any remaining Black Africans remains a grave concern as many were unable to get out of the country and were in hiding even before these brutal 'rebels' took over the country.

The murders and rapes and torture, ongoing for almost the entire duration of this war, will not be investigated either.

The war crime witnessed on TV committed by France and the US in collusion with the murderous rebels will not be investigated either, despite calls from the UN and Human Rights Organizations world wide.

The reason the Western powers will have to put 'boots on the ground' is simple. This was not a people's revolution which is why even though NATO dropped over 9500 bombs on Gadaffi supporters, they could not stop them until they murdered him and his son.

They will have to kill a lot more Libyans before they can safely 'do business' in that country.

Reports say that over 30,000 people died in this invasion and that the country has been leveled, destroyed. 60% of the country now has no water. This was a country that was thriving, with a water system that took years to install, all destroyed now.

Libya's social programs, the best in Africa and better than ours and than many parts of Europe, if not continued, will cause more deaths as the disabled and the poor no longer have the support system they had under Gadaffi.

This was another war built on a web of lies, and ending with the second lynching of a Libyan leader by Western powers.

Poor people, their lives will now mirror the lives of all those occupied by Western Imperial powers.