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As to where Republicans stand on Libya, consider the following paragraph:

[Representative Allen West (R-FL) said that in speaking about Libya] he's addressing what he considers his area of expertise. Indeed, House Republicans recently put him on the House Armed Services Committee because of his knowledgeable background on military matters.

But now look at what West advocates:

"I don't know why we're shooting $567,000 a piece Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya. You know, back two or three weeks ago, we could have taken care of this situation if we had done the exact same thing that Ronald Reagan did back in the early 80's to Muammar Gaddafi, when he dropped the bomb in his back yard. Muammar Gaddafi didn't say a word for the next 30 years."

The piece where Rep. West is quoted then goes into a point-by-point refutation of what he says.

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Stop The Wars claims we had about 1500 people at the protest and in the march.

Daily Kos has a short round-up of opinions on whether to support the bombing of Libya. They're mostly opposed, but one of the opinions is pro-bombing. A consistent theme is the question of: "What is the endgame? What is the US trying to achieve?"

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Good thinkpiece on Libya:

Regardless, I do generally support the current military effort, not least because it is not a unilateral effort but an international one with the British and French taking lead roles. The Iraq War in particular soured our appreciation for military intervention of any kind, and perhaps rightly so, but ask yourself this: Do you not want Qaddafi removed from power? Do you not think we should be not just expressing our support for the Libyan opposition but, given that Qaddafi has the power to crush it but actively supporting its efforts? Sure, there is inconsistency here. Again, we're intervening in Libya but not in North Korea, a far more horrendous state. But there will never be consistency. Almost by definition, military intervention must be ad hoc. And not intervening in North Korea, or even in Bahrain, does not mean that all intervention is thereby illegitimate.

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Whoa! That's a cool truck!

Facebook photos from DelValVets buddy Bill Perry. His stuff is good because he tends to get lots and lots of close-up photos. Of course, he either knows peoples' names or asks them at the scene. I tend to focus on getting long or medium-range shots.

War Is A Crime.org has a whole list of links to actions citizens can take to oppose wars.

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TPM Editor takes a look at just who the Liban rebels are.

But Engel's comments do give me the sense that what you have are 'rebels' in the incredibly inchoate sense of a bunch of people thinking and acting somewhat in unison as sometimes happens when a government seems on the verge of collapsing.

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Protesters stream back into Lafayette Square, where Bill Perry's second set of photos documents the civil disobedience that took place at the fence.

John Bolton, the big, heroic, brave and dashing man of action (That's snark, of course. I looked at his Wikipedia page. Nope, he may have gone to a rifle range and seen other people shooting at paper targets, but "he's never heard a shot fired in anger.") criticizes the Arab League for "grumbling" about civilian casualties.

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A small group of Syrians decided to take advantage of the protest to conduct their own protest against their government.

Syria has had a summer of power failures and electricity shortages, and recent suggestions by Prime Minister Muhammad Naki al-Otari that American and French economic pressures are to blame are being greeted with skepticism by a weary public.

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