Hell no, we shouldn't have gone.

A good friend of mine has already covered this subject in his most excellent Blog but I like redundancy and am somewhat repetitive so I am going to fling in my $20.00 worth. (Used to be 2 cents but inflation got a hold of it. The topic is Libya or What The Fudge Are We doing?

I was okay when we hit Afghanistan because like most everyone else I was royally cheesed off after 9/11. Sure it was a knee-jerk response to the death and destruction, but I felt it was a justified response. I was NOT okay with the attack on Iraq. Even to my limited experience with military and political situations, I could see that this was just some ill-advised ploy by the powers that be. (As an aside here, let me state as an American, I was sorely disappointed with our propaganda mills. Hells in my Daddy's day if the US had gone to find "WMDs" and there weren't any, we'd still have darned well found hundreds of the buggers. Shows you just how incompetent old Dubya was.

Now we are leading the front on an attack against a SOVEREIGN nation to help the forces that are REBELLING against the Legal government. Sure it's not a very nice government and is led by a Madman but it is still the legally appointed government. Last time I checked, fomenting and aiding rebellion in an attempt to overthrow any nation's government was a distinct no-no but here we are firing missiles and such to stop the government from defending itself.

Now people argue that KaDAFFY is a crazed, megalomaniac with a list of delusions longer than my right arm. They argue that he has, will and probably commit horrible crimes against his people and these people would be right. However, he has currently committed no crimes against the US or committed no over acts of violence against us. We have no justifications for launching an UNPROVOKED attack against Libya but we have. What ever their reasons or justifications, the Rebel forces at work there are the "legally" in the wrong so why are we supporting them?

You can bet if "dissidents" in say New Zealand (Sorry picked the most unlikely place I could that still has people in it) suddenly decided that they didn't like the way things were going and staged an armed rebellion, no one in NATO or the UN would be rushing in to enforce a no-fly zone. We'd be supporting the government in any way possible. The same goes for any of our "friends" in the world.

The plain and simple fact is, we and the rest of the countries active in this WAR are doing this because we don't like Daffy and his ilk. We would love to see a more PC and friendly government take over in Libya. (Sure history shows this won't happen, but hey hope springs eternal) Daffy offends us and maybe scares us a little so our government leaped on the band wagon to try and get rid of him. Hey we did it in Iraq and look how well that turned out.

I like Obama and generally support him, but this is easily one of the dumbest things I have seen any president pull off. Starting a 3rd war when we are still fighting two other disastrous ones is stupid. Obama has promised that America's lead in the attacks will only last for a few days, but already that is showing signs of being a lie. Most countries don't want to take over and the few that do, no one wants to be in charge. So now, we are stuck in yet another war. Come on folks, lets just call this all a really bad deal and bring everyone home.