Posted by Norad on March 19, 2011, 4:53 pm, in reply to "US attacks Lybia"
"Not a criticism as such,but, I heard the Prez., yesterday say we would be performing only a supporting role and today we are bombarding the crap out of them"
Uh, the U.S. is performing a supporting role. The 110 Tomahawk missiles launched today by the U.S. and British forces strictly targeted air defense positions and facilities. It's not like downtown Tripoli is being wiped out.
The French military is taking the lead role of actually flying fighter jets over Libyan airspace and engaging Gadhafi's forces.
The Obama Administration took great pains to show the international community that this was not a unilateral, go-it-alone cowboy attack like the one on Iraq. Even the Arab League signed off on this action.