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Were we right to get involved in Libya?

  • Yes

    Votes: 306 50.9%

  • No

    Votes: 295 49.1%
  • Total voters
    601
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Wow, the BBC really misquoting that Libya Watch interview. He said that 90% of people are against Gaddafi - they say "90% of the Libyan people across the country are not only happy to see Gaddafi go, but would be happy to see him dead".

Very, very clumsy.
 
What were the Arabs expecting?

It sounds as if they backed it without thinking about what was going to happen.

It's a bit late for them to change their minds.
 
They're even questioning this supposed 7pm ceasefire on sky. They're wondering if the ceasefire was meant to be anti aircraft fire, or, if it's meant to be ceasefire on the ground between rebels and pro gaddafi twits.
 
OldCoals said:
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Tony Blair is a massive hypocrite.

Quite frankly he should never be listened to again let alone beso-called 'peace' envoy.
 
EdGey said:
What were the Arabs expecting?

It sounds as if they backed it without thinking about what was going to happen.

It's a bit late for them to change their minds.
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They were expecting a no fly zone to protect civilians from air attack as we were all led to believe it would be, not a full blown air campaign against all of his forces tanks and all.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if we now arm the rebels and pay some mercenaries to go in and help them.
 
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OldCoals said:
Maybe there were not told the truth?
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I imagine they were aware of what was going to happen but chose to create a fuss over it as thats what they do.

mmj_uk said:
They were expecting a no fly zone to protect civilians, not a full blown air campaign against all of his forces tanks and all.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if we arm the rebels and pay some mercenaries to go in and help them.
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The no fly zone agreement had the civilian protection as part of it, if the air restricitons werent working it was surely obvious that other measures were going to be taken to protect the Libyan people.
 
I can imagen planes enforcing the no fly zone will be capturing footage of war crimes or something simular that will result in a ground invasion!
 
OldCoals said:
Maybe there were not told the truth?
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Yes, i bet The UK / US / France got in a pre meeting and said, you know what lets lie to these chaps in the arab world, just make sure they don't get to see the written resolution if we are going to lie to them.

Take off the tinfoil hat and give it a break for gods sake.

Biohazard said:
Why has the coverage been poor?
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Not had the leading stuff sky news has, loads of reporter gaffs and line errors, lots of communication problems most of the day even with reporters stationed in the uk.

The BBC is usually top notch, but this has been poor.
 
Biohazard said:
Why has the coverage been poor?
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I've heard them misquote quite a few people, another example is them saying that the presentation in the pentagon stated that the strikes have been "quite successful" when in fact he stated that they have been "very successful".

Pretty sloppy if you ask me.
 
Sky News has in my experience always broke the news first and had much better commentary. The likes of Tim Marshall really knock the bbc into a cocked hat.
 
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