[TheRealVille]

Hoot, Gaddafi was shelling his own people, entire cities! NATO was created to keep things like that from happening!

I know what you support and what you don't, I've paid attention, and on Iraq and Afghan we have agreed almost always. I'm not criticizing you for criticizing Pres. Obama and his admin for how they went about Libya, I am talking about the fact that you always talking about how the Dems try to make the Republican side look bad purposely by overstating certain events, over and over, when you are doing the same thing. You can't compare Pres. Bush going before congress to receive approval before "committing" troops to Iraq to our part in the conflict in Libya...we INVADED Libya, we staged hundreds of thousands of troops in Kuwait and the build-up took months. The conflict in Libya was alot faster, and the international community had to do something. He was ordered to stop shelling and killing his own people, he refused, so NATO stepped in. Not the U.S., NATO. Yes, U.S. units were under NATO command, but you can hardly call cruise missiles and airstrikes "at war with Libya". And it wasn't "NATO, mostly the U.S." that began airstrikes. It was as much the British and French as it was U.S., and if the U.S. did have more forces in the first few days/weeks than the Brits and French, it was because of our first-strike capabilities that are much bigger and better than any other country on earth. Pres. Obama made perfectly clear that we did not want to be involved in this and weren't to be involved in it for very long, and that was the case.

There is hardly anything comparable about the conflict in Libya and the war in Iraq, there just isn't.

Pres. Obama would have surely went before Congress for approval if he would've had the time. If you remember, this was a conflict that was getting worse day by day, and something needed to be done. You are acting like we were in it alone or something...the British and French were easily the top players in this and in wanting to intervene in Libya, not the United States.

Hoot's never wrong, so don't expect him to admit it.