Thursday, March 24, 2011

My thoughts on Libya

To let you know a little about me, I am fiscally conservative and feel I am morally liberal.  What angers me most about the Libya situation is one, there is no direct threat to the security of the United States.  I was for the attack on Iraq because, at the time, there was evidence of a threat to our security.  In hind sight, that intelligence was flawed and Saddam was no threat at all.

Where once we debated, and voted on if we should attack another nation.  Today, we spent over 100 million dollars last weekend, lobbing cruise missiles at a country that just a few years ago came to us pledging to give up it's pursuit of WMD and actively acted against Al Qaeda.

The excuse this time is the humanitarian reasons to protect the civilians of Libya.  When we attacked Iraq, many called the sitting president a war criminal, even though Saddam had used nerve gas on the civilians of Iraq and killed thousands.   

We are Americans... if the sitting president during the Iraq war made you want to impeach him.Now the guy you voted for, because he represented change is doing the same thing.  Then all I am asking is for you is to be consistent in your beliefs.  If Iraq is wrong, the Libya is more than wrong, it is a travesty.

1 comment:

  1. We have an illegal president. What do you expect?

    Of course they couldn't get rid of excess junk we have that will cost millions to dispose of(Nukes). They had to use the newest technology. At least an old nuke would have taken out ..dafy and saved the American taxpayers money in the long run. The world wouldn't even detect the radiation with Japan spewing their nuke plants all over.

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