The US military has just announced that cruise missiles have been used. At the same time, reports of large explosions around Tripoli.

Yup, it's definitely going on now.

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Love the man or hate the man but to me Sarkozy and the French DELIVERS!!:yeah:

I've always thought that Merkel and Sarkozy as the two best world leaders well until Obama and Cameron came to the world stage. :DL

I would gladly trade Obama for Sarkozy... :yeah:

you put cameron in the top two world leaders:eek:

what do you know about him that we don't?

They're calling it "Operation Odyssey Dawn."

Sounds like some sort of New Age focus group. :hmmm:

Whatever happened to cool operational names like Overlord and Downfall?

LOL :DL

Pentagon just announced 112 Tomahawks fired at 20 targets in the "integrated air defense system", from both US and British ships in the med.

"First time of impact was approximately 1500 Eastern Standard Time", according to the spokesman.

Also apparently, we now have a name for the coalition op: "Odyssey Dawn"

*whistles*

That's a helluva opening salvo.

Reporter: "How long will the bomb damage assessment take? Hours or Days?"
Vice-Admiral: "Between Hours and Days"

:haha:

EDIT: The Libyan propaganda machine has started "The Zionist air forces have hit a hospital with terminally ill patients. Forward! And the struggle continues!"

At least we know where Comical Ali has gone...

oh boy here we go again...

Libyan TV is live again with statements.
:damn:

Seriously, what I want to know is, who are they trying to convince with THAT kind of language?
They really do sound amazingly stupid and insane by any objective measure - and certainly making the Western propaganda's job (and let's face it, there is propaganda on all sides) substantially easier. It's just too easy to dismiss them as screaming quacks.

[edit] yup, now it's Zionist Crusaders allied with illegal militias of the Al Quaeda bombing hospitals full of terminal patients... :roll:

Gaddafi's propaganda machine has started to let

Good old daffy, so it is al-qaida and the zionists working together that is behind the civil war.
Were these terminal patients suffering from that drug overdose that started the civil war

Libyan state TV says that a French warplane has been shot down over Tripoli.
Hopefully that is a lie, we will see what the French say.

Of course, many will now be saying "Well, what about Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Syria, China and so on?" Which is a good question...but the die is cast and we shall continue to watch this unfold.


EDIT: And there it is! "The fighting inside Benghazi is those in the city wanting to cleanse the city of the rebels. The Libyan army has kept its word on the ceasefire."

Spanish F-18s taking off from Madrid.

As for Sarkozy, he is a good public face for this operation, you have to admit. He's got the sophistication and at least the appearance of being sharp and informed of what's going on - something which for example Bush as a spokesman for the Iraq campaign lacked. He also seems to deliver a lot of tough talk, whereas Cameron and even Obama have been much more evasive and indirect.

Obama however may have been more instrumental to this. I would give him some credit for maneuvering the Arab League's support and bringing us to where we are today - for good or worse. For him, if this operation proves to have at least the appearance of effectiveness, it may well be a big political win on foreign policy in the long run.

But I for one hope that the currently spokesperson-less Lybian people aren't forgotten. Whatever the case, they'll be the ones paying a tragic price here.