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Monday, April 11, 2011

Kucinich: The war in Libya is not in our national interest.


In a statement released on April 8, Dennis Kucinich called the rationale used for bombing Libya “positively Orwellian”:

The Obama Administration has prosecuted a war that is “not a war.” The assertion that U.S. military actions in Libya do not constitute war belies the significant use of military force in Libya.  The Administration’s own Secretary of Defense, while testifying before Congress last month, admitted that enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya was an act of war: “A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses.” The United States, thus far, has spent well over $550 million on the war in Libya, using at least 112 long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, estimated to cost up to $1.5 million each, in the first day alone.  The U.S. also used Joint Direct Attack Munitions – 2,000 pound bombs – to bomb Libya.  The characterization of the use of force in Libya solely as a humanitarian intervention cannot hide the reality of what war is. The attempt to assert that this is not a war does violence to cognition and violence to the English language. It is positively Orwellian. See the wholestatement.
Posted by Kim Carlyle

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