"The south of the country, which is predominantly black, mainly backs Col. Gadhafi." (para. 19) Why did the GOP congress overwhelmingly vote to continue transferring $9 million American tax dollars per day to carry out what is obviously in part a genocide?
6/21/11, "Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud," Wall St. Journal, Sam Dagher
- (Article is subscription. It is found on other web sites such as IMC-Africa)
"Other rebel leaders are also calling for drastic measures like banning Tawergha natives from ever working, living or sending their children to schools in Misrata....
There are also accounts of rape, with one rebel commander putting the
number at more than 150, but they are harder to prove given the stigma
attached to the crime in the conservative muslim nation and the lack of testimony.
Some of the hatred of Tawergha has racist overtones that were mostly latent before the current conflict. On the road between Misrata and
Tawergha, rebel slogans like
- "the brigade for purging slaves, black skin"
- have supplanted pro-Gadhafi scrawl.
The racial tensions have been fueled by the regime's alleged use of
African mercenaries to violently suppress demonstrators at the start
of the Libyan uprising in February, and the sense that
- the south of the country,
- which is predominantly black,
- mainly backs Col. Gadhafi."...(item 19 paragraphs down)
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6/24/11, "House votes against defunding Libyan War," AP, via WVEC.com
"The House has turned back a Republican-led effort to cut off money for military hostilities in the Libyan war.
The vote was 238-180."...
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Then Boehner turned around and proved he's happy to let Obama spend whatever he wants doing whatever he's doing in Libya or anywhere else for that matter. ed
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Commenter to CNS article
So, Congress is saying that Obama is not authorized to continue... but if he does anyway, they'll give him the funds he needs to continue... America, if
you vote for anyone that is currently in office in Washington, YOU are
the problem. Than includes voting for anyone that has ever held office
in Washington."
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6/16/11, "Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?" LA Times, Andrew Malcolm
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“Libya bad for the black....” said a Malian arrival at the camp, “rebel chase us....Gadaffi chase us.”
3/18/11, "Border Blues," Think Africa Press, by Ben Judah, reporting from the Tunisia side of the Libya-Tunisia border
3/18/11, "The 15,000 people already in the Ras Ajdir camp are joined by 2,000 new arrivals a day: providing food for everyone is a huge challenge." Ben Judah, photo and text, Think Africa Press
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