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The US is deploying armed Predator drones to Libya, but Col Gaddafi’s government says these will cause more civilian casualties. – BBC

Mark Levine is incensed that Obama would not pay military troops as a political stunt to attempt to put pressure on congress to keep spending cuts low.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, faced a grilling in front of Congress over the Libyan campaign. Gates said Washington shouldn’t assist the Libyan rebels, and should instead leave nation-building to other countries.

“Is this why we send our men and women into battle, to act as a celestial referee of a civil war” “They have not given any answer that is credible”

The CIA has sent small teams of operatives into Libya, and the White House said Wednesday it was assessing “all types of assistance” for rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi’s troops.

Sarah Palin pummeled President Obama on his confusing speech tonight to the nation. The former Alaska governor told Greta Van Susteren, ” why in the world would our military might be used according to the UN and Arab League’s desires and NATO’s leadership in this skirmish or this war or whatever it is that Obama calls it?”

The president certainly can’t derive the authority to bomb Libya from the commander-in-chief clause. As Hamilton explained in Federalist 69, that provision merely indicates that the president is the “first General and admiral” of US military forces. Important as they are, generals and admirals don’t get to decide whether and with whom we go to war.

“Absurd” says Krauthammer of the decision to hand over control of Obama’s Libyan war to NATO.

Leftist hypocrites! When the ring of power is on their own hand everything becomes acceptable.

The United Nations has devolved into a cesspool of evil and irrelevance.