So now we've attacked Libya

[Frybrid 524td]

Where the FUCK was the UN when POLPOT murdered and torured hundreds of thousands innocent Cambodians WTF OVER!?

No oil in Cambodia.

X2

This all boils down to ensuring stability in the oil commodity market. It has little, if anything, to do with "saving civilians."

Yep.

[Duke]

I like to touch myself!

[Lee in MD]

A week too late.
Thanks Barry, many innocent people killed while you worked on lowering your handicap.
Unacceptable.

Now, oldskool; be fair. He was also working on his Final Four picks.
/sarcasm

How many innocent people, including American citizens, were killed when our very own Saint Reagan didn't have the stones to finish Gaddafi in 1986 when our F-111s botched the first attempt? Two hundred and seventy to be exact, when Gaddafi's agents subsequently bombed Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.

Are you two so naive that you can't see that all Western leaders have been playing footsie with Gaddafi ever since he first came to power? In that part of the world it's all about the oil and gas folks, plain and simple. Western foreign policy in that region has always been dictated by the desires of the multinational oil companies. All this talk about democracy freedom fighters, liberation is just horseshit to keep the Joe Sixpacks of the world from raising a stink at the polls.

Duke may laugh about job security but I'll bet that in his heart of hearts he knows damn well that if his ass got shot down and sent to Valhalla in one of those middle east conflicts, that it was all for some oil company's quarterly earnings report.

[Sparkeysf]

Regardless of the other issues, I would like to point out that in a time of extreme budgeting:

112 Tomahawk cruise missiles @ $60k each = $6.72 million.

Thanks Libya.

$6.72 million would be quite a bargain. Hell, there are houses on my street that cost that

Actually, I've heard it to be something like $1.5 million per missile if R&D costs are taken into account. Pure production costs per missile are about $500k each.