{"id":22439,"date":"2011-02-28T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22439"},"modified":"2011-02-28T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:25:07","slug":"finally-a-war-for-oil-that-the-left-can-get-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22439","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a war for oil that the Left can get behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that the USS Enterprise has left it’s station off the coast of Somalia and is steaming towards the Suez Canal and it’s ultimate destination, Libya with 13 captured pirates still aboard from their adventure last week. The Marines are looking for a force to place aboard the USS Kearsarge which is also steaming up the Red Sea entrance to the Suez.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that the US Treasury Department is busying itself freezing Libyan assets in US banks and their overseas branches.<\/p>\n

In Geneva, U.S. and European leaders focused on sending aid to rebels and refugees, toughening sanctions and calling for the ouster of Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya for more than 41 years.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, addressing a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, announced new efforts to stem the Libyan humanitarian crisis. Some $10 million in relief funds have been set aside by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and two teams of experts are being dispatched immediately to Libya’s borders to assess the refugee crisis and organize the delivery of aid. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, these are not any of the things that Clinton’s husband did when hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were murdered – arguably a much larger crisis than Libya. The only difference is that the Libyans have oil and production has declined considerably in preceding weeks. At the pumps, Americans are feeling the pinch as gas soared seventeen cents in the last week. Of course, there’s no Halliburton or Dick Cheney or evil genius idiot McBushitler to blame, so no one is really interested in gas prices…well, except you and me.<\/p>\n

Besides, Obama is doing all of the things that Bush did to Hussein in the run up to the Iraq War – isolating Qaddafi, cutting off his money, planning no-fly zones to protect dissidents, and Obama gets to do all of that stuff without members of Congress standing on the roof of Gaddafi’s palace announcing that Gaddafi is more trustworthy than Obama. There are no human shields streaming towards Libya. <\/p>\n

You’d think Code Pink would have something to say about the US military forming up for war fighting with Libyan military…but you’d be wrong. Code Pink was marching across the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge today “in solidarity” with the Egyptian people.<\/p>\n

Obama just a few minutes ago, without ceremony, issued the first deep water drilling permit<\/a> since the Deepwater Horizon exploded. Too little too late. <\/p>\n

So after voting present on Libya for weeks, he’s counting on the military to pull his narrow ass out of a jam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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