Another Iraq is born today. I see this as another western invasion under the guise of UNSC n in pretence of protecting the Libyan peoples. OIL OIL OIL-42 billion barrels of proven reserves, with much larger areas remaining unexplored. Why havent they come to save somalis 21 yrs down the line since the fall of Siad Barre? Anyway, a french Jet allegedly shot down(france refutes). US fires over 100 cruise missiles into Libya. French Jets fire the 1st shot on Libyan troops outside Benghazi. Gaddafi must go, bt is the UN (the west) genuine? What will happen to these armed rebels? What will happen to the the legitimate national army? Tough.

I watched Obama's speech and I was like wtf!!! Apparently they are bombing Libya to protect the civilians! I was like HOW ABOUT 'WE' START BOMBING ISRAEL!! Have you seen what they do to Palestinian CIVILIANS? These punks bomb a block of flats full of women and children just because they suspect an 'extremist' lives in one of the houses there!

Libya is in a power struggle. And the west is supporting the rebels. There is no way the US/WEST will leave the Libya better than they found it. And if they are honest, can they start bombing ISRAEL to protect Palestinian civilians! Bure Kabisa.

this has got nothing to do with oil israel icc or all that. they just dont want europe to be inundated with african refugees, of arab and muslim descent no less, full stop. ask mubarak and the other one. no african madman is going to cause them that headache by distressing their citizens no thank you. whoever has eyes will see these things.

The guy also said he will open up barracks to civilians to arm themselves n fight for Libya..

Believe me, the west has just pushed him to do exactly that. The west can get away with attacking his troops but not civilians. Gadaffi will DEFINITELY arm the civilians. The west will have no balls to bomb them.

And believe me, Gadaffi will fight till he's dead, captured or the west retreats. Given that he is now an outcast, he has no where to go! I hope the west has concrete plans and plan Bs and Cs

Obama says the US has strategic interests in Libya....then again he says they are interested in protecting civilians..what a contradiction!!

@simo, maybe we should blame the love for money not power. At the end of the equation is money, money, money...

I don't believe in this line that most are trying to sell here between the west and the rest of the world.

Gaddafi is a sick man who has no business running a Kiosk, let alone controling a country, whatever reasons the West give for invading Libya are fine by me.

Libya's oil may be the cleanest, the last time I checked it only represented 3% of the world supply!!!!

@Obi, you don't have to believe the reasons but they are there. The Western media is asking the very same reasons. BBC, ABC, CNN, you name it. The Western governments keep saying they are not targeting Gaddafi, just trying to stop him from turning against his people, but so are Yemen and Bahrain. So what's the logic behind it?

Gaddafi may not be fit to run the country, but so is Al Bashir (Darfur). Yet the US never invaded Sudan. Another Iraq may be looming due to an unnecessary war.