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Obama Sends CIA Into Libya Ground Operations; Andrew Sullivan Stunned

Posted on | March 31, 2011 | 34 Comments

New York Times:

The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and contact rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials.

And don’t you know it’s just breaking Sully’s poor little heart?

I’m still absorbing this news and don’t want to vent immediately, because there is still part of me that simply cannot believe that president Obama has already ordered covert action in Libya on one side in a civil war . . . It’s so surreal, so discordant with what the president has told the American people, so fantastically contrary to everything he campaigned on. . . . I simply cannot believe it.

Heh. More salt for that fresh wound? Because we’re going to keep rubbing it in, you gullible rube.

Go ahead. Have another bite of that “turd sandwich“!

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  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    …there is still part of me that simply cannot believe that president Obama has already ordered covert action in Libya on one side in a civil war…

    That would be the same part that would throw a tantrum in day care on discovering that the kid he took that wonderful toy from, wanted it back.

  • Blake

    heh.

  • Doriangrey

    The rebels in Libya are Al Qaeda members, last time I checked we are still at war with Al Qaeda, Obama sending them weapons and material support amounts to nothing less than TREASON.

    It is time to file Articles of Impeachment against President Obama

  • http://ace.mu.nu/archives/279942.php Andrew Sullivan

    I know the president is not against all wars – just dumb ones. But could any war be dumber than this – in a place with no potential for civil society, wrecked by totalitarianism, riven by tribalism, in defense of rebels we do not know and who are clearly insufficient to the task?

  • http://www.whitehouse.gov President Barack Obama

    I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to are dumb wars. What I am opposed to are rash wars. What I am opposed to are cynical attempts by armchair, weekend warriors to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

  • Blair

    Is it too early to use the word ‘Quagmire’?

  • http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html Bill Maher

    You are a dumb twat.

  • DaveO

    Regardless, up to November 2012 Sully and rubes like him will defend this President to their last, dying mouse-click because the alternative: folks (especially females) with an R, may have been right in 2007-present is ego-shattering.

    The ego is such an inflexible thing.

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    I don’t through life worrying about what Andrew Sullivan thinks about government. I am, however, very worried about the return of the draft.

    Fucking neocon bullshit.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    [It had to be said, 'cause you know y'all were thinkin' it:] That ain’t the only thing he wants to shove down your throat.

  • http://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa Governor Sarah Palin

    The covet ops are encouraging signs but it’s very disappointing that we didn’t hear commitment from our president in his speech, that America’s interests lie in Qaddafi being ousted. And without that being met, you know, I have to again ask why in the world will our military and CIA might be used according to the U.N. and Arab League desires and NATO’s leadership and the President’s whims in this SKIRMISH! or this war or whatever it is that Obama calls it or doesn’t want to call it.

    Its the $600 million! dollar-a-day question that is being asked now because that’s the cost incurred by Americans as we support the no-fly zone, which, of course, the no-fly zone, the intervention or enactment is turning into more than that.

    Who is funding CIA ops? The patriotic tax payers or the poppy masters of Afghanistan?

  • http://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa Governor Sarah Palin

    Bill, i thought you were a sexist partisan pervert, but i see you are just an equal opportunity jackass.

    You know liberals, Alaska bloggers, bred on free internet porn call me a milf and what not, but Obama, for me, is a pilf.

  • Charles Norrie

    The only thing the CIA wants from Libya is that its lies about Pan Am 103 don’t come out. That aircraft was downed by a deal bwteen the US and Iran to give Iran its one and one only deal for the downing of IR655, which was deliberate.

  • http://www.newtexplore2012.com/ Newt Gingrich

    My position on Libya? Same as RSM’s. I’m against anything Obama is for. I’m so intelligent you see.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    No, but you might want to hold off on using the phrase “quagmire <bloodcurdling scream>”

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    Somebody’s been cleaning out their sockpuppet drawer.

  • http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20049229-503544.html Donald Trump

    How far away is Libya from Kenya? Did Gaddafi’s enemies fund Obama’s college education? Release the transcripts!

  • http://rightnetwork.com Van der Leun

    Slap Sullivan in a dress and a toe-tag and he’d look just like Peggy Noonan.

  • http://twitter.com/vermontaigne Dan Collins

    You think Sully is turned off by the idea of a turd sandwich? Sheesh!

  • Anonymous

    Contrary to the new editorial position of the Weekly Standard, O’Sputnik is not a neocon, I would love for him to suggest the return of the draft.

  • Anonymous

    Really, I wonder what the record for different sock puppets in one thread is here.

  • http://thegunsreport.com Editor

    OK, I don’t get it: What part of “Andrew Sullivan Stunned” is news?

    Then again, sending in the CYA might not be (cough) so… intelligent. (cough)

  • JeffS

    Fucking neocon bullshit.

    The only bullshit around here emanates from you, AngelaTC. The only political party that has called for the return of the draft has been the Democrats.

    And there’s no way the Demonrats will call for it now, what with O!bama applying his community organizer skills to war.

    So please take your strawman and go play in the corner. The adults are having an adult conversation.

  • JeffS

    Andrew Sullivan will rationalize his way into forgiving Obama of his transgressions. Or at least a way to hold off on final judgment until he sees how this war turns out (which makes him more stupid than I previously believed, given what a Charlie Foxtrot Obama is turning Libya into).

  • Sockpuppet

    Hey! I can speak for myself!

  • Sockpuppet

    OK, that didn’t work out……guess I don’t have the sockpuppet mojo.
    :-(

  • sockbugget

    I wonder who that may be? hmm…

  • JeffS

    I think not.

  • Anonymous

    Since when did Charlie Rangel become a neocon?

  • Anonymous

    This is the worst troll yet. You make me long for the days when gg polluted the information stream here.

  • JeffS

    :-D

  • JeffS

    Oh oh!

  • Anonymous

    Speak in haste repent in leisure.

  • gg

    Be careful what you wish for!

    LMAO!

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