Libyan Civil War Megathread

[Caliga]

So it sounds like the French are planning military strikes....?  Wow, go France.

[CountDeMoney]

Super Etendards FTW

[Caliga]

I've decided to reduce my France mockery by about 15%.  I may reduce it more depending on how well they do in Libya.

[Legbiter]

Kadaffi declared a ceasefire, asked for NGO's to send him hostages in case things went south. 

[The Brain]

So it sounds like the French are planning military strikes....?  Wow, go France.

Wrong kind of strike.

[Caliga]

Libya has declared an immediate cease-fire, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa said today.

Moussa Koussa

[DGuller]

Wow, those cascading alliances are really out of whack.  Qaddafi is toast.

[Mr.Penguin]

Libya has declared an immediate cease-fire, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa said today.

Moussa Koussa

Almost as good as Biggus Dickus and his wife Incontinentia Buttocks...

[Caliga]

I kinda wonder if his real name is like Moussa Muhammad Ali or something but Gadhafi likes to call him Moussa Koussa as a nickname, and he thought it would be a good idea to legally change his name.

[Berkut]

My boss:

"ZOMG! This is all about oil! The US is only getting involved in order to get the oil! The US doesn't get involved when countries without oil have revolts!"

You mean like Kosovo? Or Haiti? Or Panama? Or Vietnam? Or Korea?

"Yeah, well, we had other interests their! The US never did anything about Gaddafi before!"

Yeah, true - did this uprising create oil that wasn't there before? If this is all about oil, why did we wait for this uprising before we are doing anything?

"You are too naive - the US doesn't do anything in the Middle East unless there is oil!"





OK, I give up.

[Josephus]

If they were going to do this, they should have done it two weeks about when the rebs were winning.  Now that they're almost all crushed, I doubt this will do much.

Qadaffi's elite units are small though, wouldn't take much to rip them apart from the air. Once that's done the rebels should be able to retake the initiative.

But they're not going to do that unless Gadaffi's elite units take to the sky. This is a no-fly zone, not intervention.

[Viking]

I've decided to reduce my France mockery by about 15%.  I may reduce it more depending on how well they do in Libya.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. France is led by a Hungarian Jew. According to the First Law of French Warfare we are dealing with a nasty BBB right now, not the Cheese eating surrender Monkey's of the Chirac era.

[Berkut]

If they were going to do this, they should have done it two weeks about when the rebs were winning.  Now that they're almost all crushed, I doubt this will do much.

Qadaffi's elite units are small though, wouldn't take much to rip them apart from the air. Once that's done the rebels should be able to retake the initiative.

But they're not going to do that unless Gadaffi's elite units take to the sky. This is a no-fly zone, not intervention.

The US has a long history of accidentally bombing things we don't really mean to though...

[Kleves]

Why would Libya call a ceasefire now? On the one hand, if he's winning, you wouldn't think Qaddafi would give up; on the other hand, if he's afraid of losing, you wouldn't think he'd be rational enough to quit, especially without trying to call the West's bluff.

[Caliga]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. France is led by a Hungarian Jew. According to the First Law of French Warfare we are dealing with a nasty BBB right now, not the Cheese eating surrender Monkey's of the Chirac era.

Sarko is a Jew?  Who leads France?  Are you sure about this?