Yes, more senseless death incoming. You may as well rely on Tom and Jerry as Cameron and Clegg to make any worthwhile moral stance on this.

Have just watched the Libyans responce to the UN resolution on Sky News. Them 2 were like Morecom and Wise. Backtracking on everything Gadaffi said about showing no mercy, and then shots of pro-gadaffi supporters inside the hotel where the news conference took place. Staged to the hilt, and they were probably paid to do this. Lets hope the allied forces just weaken Gadaffis army and not go in on the ground.

Pretty poor show in taking this long to take some action IMO.

10 For, 5 Abstentions, 0 Against.

No hope of reprisal against that utter twat in Bahrain. It's okay though, this one's in the news so we'll be popular. We probably won't have to invent any imaginary WMD's this time around which is good.

Yep, here we go again!  The economy is tanking due to small state dogma and the ConDems are screwing everything up, so what now for Cameron?  Let's pee away lots of ££££s on a good old fashioned war!  Cameron gets to strut around the world stage like the war leader pater always told him he could be.  Next stop... Iran.

The Guardian is reporting that this is not simply about a no-fly zone.  Actual air strikes have also been passed.

Men should never have been given the vote imo 

Wall Street Journal reporting that Egypt is passing weapons over the border to the rebels.

Totally agree. If this had been agreed a week ago Gadaffi would have gone by now.
Not surprised China Russia ad Germany vetoing the resolution. Hope this comes back to bite them in the ass when arms deals with the arab league, who asked for a no-fly zone to be implemented, refuses to buy arms from them.

  Seems to recall Thatcher and the Falklands?

Menzies Campbell saying a couple of minutes ago that there's no appetite for sending troops in on the ground.  That it's just to stop Gaddafi bombing the shit out of everything and everyone.

Well, he never actually said bombing the shit but that was the jist. 

Thatcher was NO woman 

Just help the rebels with taking out the ground troops (Tanks/heavy weapons with air strikes.)

Glad to hear we agree Slim.

Apparently they're mad for it on the streets of Benghazi so they're pleased at least.

I don't understand why they just can't send in a SAS sniper team - fire a few sneaky shots - Job done !!

The terms of the resolution don't allow for invasion

Aye, the recent SAS mission in Libya was such a conspicuous success. 

Think that might have been what they were trying when they got caught with explosives and fake passports  and kicked out!

And that was by the people whose side we're on ... bahahahaaaaa 

Bloody hell see! you men can't even get that right 

You couldn't make it up

There will be Special Forces from the US and UK already in there on the ground IMO. They will have GPS info on specific sites.

It's nice to know that while we're in the deathly grip of a recession and financial hardship that we can always waste a few hundred million (and countless 'expendable' British lives) on helping out one group of crazed lunatics defeat the other (slightly worse) group of crazed lunatics.

Not that we're mugs, or led by complete incompetents or anything.

But we are not calling the shots on here.
Now if we as a Forum had been in charge, this would have been done and dusted by now-friends all round - and more FMs thanking us from Libya for doing a great job.

 

Going nuts in Benghazi firing their guns into the air and that.  Be a bit unfortunate if they accidently shot down one of 'our' planes as it makes it's first sortie into Libyan airspace.

Could it be that that the Govts have Oil interests through companies operating in Libya?

We would send Blizzie in first to dazzle the enemy with her obvious beauty...get them off guard !

Surely not 

Then the discussions would be something like this...


Insert name here: "OMG you just made a personal attack on me!"

Insert name here: "Yeah, but you did it to me first!"

Insert name here: "No it was you who started it!"

Insert name here: "OK lets agree to disagree..."

*thread locked and thrown in troll tank*

You missed out the list ..

Aye and once Gaddafi goes to ground each new member joining would be accused of being him under a new ID. 

I wondered that? How will the Rebels distinguish betwwen Gadaffi planes and other aircraft

But his spelling of english and asking for loans coz he has money probs ATM would make us all suspicious.