To Bee and Elyzabeth,
Just read this link (
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/us-forces-lead-attack-against-libya-in-operation-audacity-dawn/) and according to it the USA didn't offer ground support in Libya:
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USS Barry launches a Tomahawk missile — one of about 110 cruise missiles fired from U.S. and British ships and submarines targetting radar and anti-aircraft sites along Libya’s Mediterranean coast....'
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France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Canada, and that they expected some Arab countries to join in the coming days....'
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The president reiterated that the U.S. will not send in ground troops....'
So it seems to me that whether bombs were dropped from planes or shot from ships is moot. The effect is the same.
What I think is more important is why this all happened and as other links have shown, Libya, under Gaddafi was one of the richest African countries and the citizens got all kinds of perks and benefits that us Westerners would love to have, i.e. free education, free healthcare, a royalty check every year from the oil sales, and most even got free housing, plus other benefits. So who exactly was fighting against all of this? What nimrod would 'rebel' against the blessings of the Gaddafi regime if that's what life was like for the citizens?
And in looking at Wikipedia, (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011)) it's noted that Gaddafi offered a ceasefire in March of that year, but the rebels who were being supported by the Western coalition, refused it because it didn't include Gaddafi leaving.
It should also be noted that prior to all of this commencing, Gaddafi was planning on selling his countries oil for gold instead of petro-dollars(the American dollar). African countries were keen on the idea as were some Muslim countries. America's economy is highly dependent on their reserve currency status and the global buying and selling of oil is a primary source of American 'wealth' because of the use of the dollar, but unfortunately for Libya, they were too small a country to protect themselves from the ire that the plan was sure to raise. His plan was a threat, so he had to go.
Saddam Hussein had also begun efforts to begin selling his oil for euro's instead of the dollar, and shortly after that, the news outlets began chanting the mantra of 'threats from his WMD' and we all know what the culmination of that bogey-man was.
So people can look at all these clues and ignore the circumstantial evidence that is being suggested by these events, and you can ignore General Wesley Clark's pronouncement on what the Pentagon decided regarding destabilizing the ME back in 1991, but it seems pretty self-evident to me and millions of others around the globe, that events are being manipulated and countries like Canada, Britain, France, the Saudi's, etc., are going along with all of this in exchange for standing as BFF's with benefits.
