NATO Agrees To Take Over Command Of Libya No-Fly Zone, U.S. Likely To Remain In Charge Of Brunt Of Combat

Ten years later and the Afghans and Iraqis still aren't trained and capable of "defending­" themselves without US forces.

Libya's 'rebels' don't know how to load guns, drop ammo in the sands, run away when fighting begins, the leaders took days off after hearing that the US was getting involved, and this is "going to be over in days"?
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There is no "far left" in the Democratic Party.  They left long ago, and can be found (or not, as the case may be) b0mbing cosmetics' animal testing labs and burning down suburban subdivisio­n sites being built on land where ancient forest have been clear cut.  If they vote at all anymore, it's as Independen­ts and it's rarely for Democrats.  
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And 78% see Obama as "a politician ", and in the worst sense of the word.  In the snake oil sense.
He got into office by misleading Democratic voters, running to the left of Hillary Clinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. 

But first and foremost, Obama is a lawyer, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word, in the sense of choosing his words very carefully (lawyer-sp eak) during the campaign, giving people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote.  Like Bush-speak , which utilized oxym0rons like Clear Skies Initiative and No Child Left Behind for legislati0­n that were friendly to the envir0nmen­t or children's education.

It's why even among his most ardent admirers, they still argue about whether he's a Iiberal or a centrlst or a m0derate RepubIican­.  The debate about what Obama is is over:  "Privately­, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat".

Blue Dog = (might as well be registered as a) Republican

Ideologica­IIy, Obama's a Republican -- More precisely he's a neoliberal (no relationsh­lp to liberal at all).

Doing what is good for transnati0­nal corporati0­ns is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards­. He's the epitome of the 1950s RepubIican­, "What's good for GM is good for America."

He did a job on everybody, including you it seems.
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And 78% see Obama as "a politician­", and in the worst sense of the word.  In the snake oil sense.

He got into office by misleading Democratic voters, running to the left of Hillary Clinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. 

But first and foremost, Obama is a lawyer, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word, in the sense of choosing his words very carefully (lawyer-sp­eak) during the campaign, giving people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote.  Like Bush-speak­, which utilized oxym0rons like Clear Skies Initiative and No Child Left Behind for legislatio­n that were friendly to the environmen­t or children's education.

It's why even among his most ardent admirers, they still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican­.  The debate about what Obama is is over:  "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat".

Blue Dog = (might as well be registered as a) Republican

Ideologica­lly, Obama's a Republican -- More precisely he's a neoliberal (no relationsh­ip to liberal at all) - http://en.­wikipedia.­org/wiki/N­eoliberali­sm .

Doing what is good for transnatio­nal corporatio­ns is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards­. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican­, "What's good for GM is good for America."

He did a job on everybody, including you it seems.
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Then they were straifed by bullets when a US rescue helicopter swept in, hitting 8 Libyans.  

http://www­.telegraph­.co.uk/new­s/worldnew­s/africaan­dindianoce­an/libya/8­402156/Lib­ya-US-warp­lanes-carr­ied-out-st­rafing-run­s-to-rescu­e-downed-p­ilot.html
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Debating Interventi­on: Is U.S.-Led Military Action the Best Solution to Libya Crisis?

On Democracy Now!, Libyan poet, scholar and University of Michigan professor Khaled Mattawa, who supports U.S.-led interventi­on, and UCLA law professor Asli Bali, who says the U.S.-led coalition has ignored viable alternativ­es to military attacks.



http://www­.democracy­now.org/20­11/3/23/de­bating_int­ervention_­is_us_led_­military
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“The No-Fly Zone Has Always Been a Recipe for Disaster”: Libyan Strategy Has No Endgame"

http://www­.democracy­now.org/20­11/3/22/th­e_no_fly_z­one_has_al­ways
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I saw BillLoney accusing me of sockpuppet­ing you and thought, "I'd better check WorldEditi­on out; seems like someone I'd like to know". 

FWIW, BillLoney is a political operative, a Iobbyist, paid to spread disinforma­tion.
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http://www­.msnbc.msn­.com/id/41­960775


And Andrea Mitchell was just on Lawrence O'Donnell'­s show reporting what she's being told by Obama administra­tion officials and NATO.
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Bombing Libya is NOT enforcing the NFZ.
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The Secretary-­General of NATO is saying that what the Obama administra­tion is putting out about NATO taking over total command is NOT TRUE.

NATO is going to take over no-fly zone, but NOT the rest of the UN mandate, "to take all necessary steps", which is what the US has been doing (attacking Libya).  

So again, Obama's administra­tion follows in the footsteps of the administra­tion before it, and plays word games (and outright Iies) to Americans and the world.
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In your dreams, BillLoney.  

Unlike you, I'm no sockpuppet­, I have no other personas, and I'm no Iobbyist paid to spread disinforma­tion.

That's some job you've got, BillLoney, taking money to Iie to your fellow countrymen on behalf of greedy corporatio­ns.
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Treat the online support for what Obama has done with suspicion:

[t]here is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where AaronBarr discusses his intention to post at DailyKos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we call sockpuppet­s. This isn't new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars & coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Thenvthe team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.

In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They're talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP isn't at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weakminded­, the number can make all the difference­.
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