{"id":3351,"date":"2011-08-30T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2011-08-29T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T03:58:28","slug":"those-libyan-freedom-fighters-we-paid-for-theyre-murdering-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=3351","title":{"rendered":"Those Libyan &#8216;freedom fighters&#8217; we paid for? They&#8217;re murdering thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libyan-rebels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3352\" title=\"Libyan rebels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libyan-rebels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libyan-rebels.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libyan-rebels-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time the U.S. military (or U.S. taxpayer money) is used to knock off some government around the world, we&#8217;re told that it has to do with freedom or self-determination for the people or whatever else politicians think it takes to get us to let them have their own way. When will we learn that they&#8217;re lying to us?<\/p>\n<p>Now that Libyan rebels have overthrown the dictatorial regime the U.S. opposed, members of the rebel groups are going around the country rounding up <em>suspected<\/em>\u00a0sympathizers of the old regime. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/rebels-settle-scores-in-libyan-capital-2344671.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read this account of people working for The New Boss going into a hospital and summarily executing wounded men who they believed worked for The Old Boss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is this what you want your tax money being used for?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If you call yourself a liberal or a Democrat, I&#8217;d like to know why you&#8217;re not up in arms &#8212; figuratively speaking &#8212; about this. If it were a Republican president whose actions had brought this about, you&#8217;d be outraged. Why am I hearing nothing from the anti-war left about these murders? You are being hypocrites and cowards.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to oppose U.S. involvement in foreign wars of this sort no matter who gives the order to attack. It&#8217;s not a partisan thing. If those people are going to be acting like murderous thugs, I don&#8217;t want my tax money paying for the bullets. Do you?<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, I&#8217;m talking in particular to supporters of Barack Obama who have gone strangely mute on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time the U.S. military (or U.S. taxpayer money) is used to knock off some government around the world, we&#8217;re told that it has to do with freedom or self-determination for the people or whatever else politicians think it takes to get us to let them have their own way. 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