http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/29-4
What Exactly Is a 'Limited War?'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/29
Obamas Unconvincing Case on Libya
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-7
Americas Growing Intolerance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-5
Obama Tries, Without Success, To Explain An Undeclared War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29
Kucinich: President Had Time to Consult with International Community, Not Congress?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/29-8
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Contrary to the Presidents Speech, Removal of Qaddafi Is the Military Objective
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "The most important content of presidential speeches is often what they don't say. Here are some things that President Obama didn't say about Libya in his speech last night. The president did not answer his critics who asked why he took America into war without authorization by Congress. This question was made sharper on Sunday when Jake Tapper of ABC asked Defense Secretary Gates, 'Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?'
http://www.truth-out.org/contrary-president-removal-qaddafi-is-military-objective68859
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NATO Chief Opens The Door to Libya Ground Troops
By Spencer Ackerman
Welcome to a new possible 'endgame' for Libya. Western troops patrolling Libyas cities during a a shaky transition after Moammar Gadhafis regime has fallen, however thats supposed to happen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27790.htm
Regime change by any other name: U.S. Gives Its Air Power Expansive Role in Libya
The American military has been carrying out an expansive and increasingly potent air campaign to compel the Libyan Army to turn against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/us/29military.html?hp
Libya: Cameron and Sarkozy demand that 'Gaddafi must go'
Britain and France have demanded that Muammar Gaddafi should stand down immediately and declared that the era of the Libyan leader is over.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/libya-sarkozy-cameron-gaddafi
Libya: Coalition bombing may be in breach of UN resolutions legal limits
Concern over the legality of the military action in Libya reignited on Monday as rebel forces surged into the space created by the international bombardment of Colonel Gaddafis military.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/28/libya-bombing-un-resolution-law
From Information Clearing House
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UN 'authorization' is the emperor?s new fig leaf
Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Gene Healy
03/29/11
Last night, nine days after we began bombing Libya, President Obama went on television to explain what were up to and what the plan is. Its always nice to be kept in the loop. But the real outrage here isnt that Obama ? for once ? has been reluctant to make a speech. It's that our Nobel Peace Prize-winning, former constitutional law professor president has launched yet another war in the Middle East without any constitutional authority for doing so...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12919
Our misguided faith in strength
The Boston Globe
by James Carroll
03/28/11
'What if US military force were proportionately more like that of other nations? ... Our military would still be strong enough not only to defend the United States from attack, but also to deter attacks in the first place. But such a military would not be so world-transcendent as to make us think that brute force, exerted by America alone with token support of other nations, is the solution to every international problem ? including the contemporary obligation to protect civilian populations from mass attacks...
http://tinyurl.com/4p4zf6k
You lie, Mr. President
Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
03/30/11
The lives we 'saved' are countless only because they dont exist: we intervened to prevent a holocaust that never happened -- and theres no way of knowing (although plenty of reason to doubt) whether it would have happened without Western intervention. This is the kind of lie that Americans like to hear: hes telling us were heroes, not Ugly Americans. Quite literally every other word in his Libya peroration is a lie...
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/29/you-lie-mr-president/
The 'Obama Doctrine,' Libya and Iran
The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss
03/29/11
Does Libya set a precedent? If a revolt breaks out again in Iran, and the regime cracks down with brutal force, will the United States support a Libya-style response? The New York Times, in its coverage of Libya, is already talking about imposing a no-fly zone against Syria. Is there an 'Obama Doctrine' emerging? It looks like it. And, unfortunately, it seems focused on the idea of humanitarian interventionism, with some add-ons and codicils, that make it broader than that...
http://tinyurl.com/4qnnw3d
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kucinich
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Gates
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Cameron
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sarkozy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+action
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gaddafi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=regime+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitutional
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=no-fly+zone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jennifer+Epstein
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Matthew+Rothschild
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Karen+Greenberg
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Nichols
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Naiman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Spencer+Ackerman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gene+Healy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Carroll
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
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