France Withdraws Aircraft Carrier From Libya

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Boy, we sure showed them Libyans!
I bet every dictator in the ME is quaking in his boots right now,except for Assad in Syria,who seems to have a “pass” for his slaughter of civilians.
I wonder what happened in Libya,did France make a back door deal with the leader of the Democratic People’s Rebel Front to ensure their oil supply?
Or did Obama simply calm the waters with his magnificence?

Behind the snark, some actual facts:
“France said Thursday its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle would return home for maintenance next week from the NATO-led mission over Libya, but insisted there would be no respite for Moamer Gadhafi. The vessel, France’s only aircraft carrier and Europe’s biggest warship, will leave on August 10 to head for its home port of Toulon for several weeks of work, defence minister Gerard Longuet told Var-Matin newspaper…French warplanes would keep up their strikes and reconnaissance flights from land bases.

Suuuuure it is.

Actually, it is Britain’s turn to practice using the bi-national aircraft carrier. I just wonder how many Brit pilots have completed their bilingual simple service language training in order to fly on/off the Charlie de Gaulle.
It is nice to see that davenport is extolling the military un-war that is over in Libya.

Actually the arm-chair generals overlook an important principle….you cannot occupy ground with an airplane, a helicopter, a gun (with wheels), or a tank…..you need “boots on the ground”. In that NATO ruled out “boots on the ground” ab initio…it is nothing more than harrassment and always was been.
Actually it has ammounted to our providing close air support to AL QAIDA…..

While I don’t doubt the veracity of Davenport’s statement,we DO have to consider the source,the French military.
And I MUST say,it’s damned odd for a front line ship to be taken out of the war zone for “maintenance” right in the middle of a hot war.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1654968.php/France-pulls-Charles-de-Gaulle-aircraft-carrier-from-Libya
This article says it’s possibly due to “mounting costs”,as France isn’t exactly awash in revenue at this moment.

Well, at least they didn’t anchor it the harbor at Tripoli, and bravely row home in the life boats.

I really haven’t paid any real attention to this, but my understanding is that the French & Italians are heading this up. If not, I am wrong & stand corrected. If so, then no more needs to be said.

Can we now please quit the French/0bamugabe war-for-oil?
PMSH, bring those planes home.
And where are all those peace protester types..?
crickets…

Sorry, boys, but Davenport is right on this one. You can’t keep a carrier in combat action for much more than three months, and the French have stretched it with theirs. Truth is, the French were pretty much let down by the US backing out of its military commitment, but what can you expect from Obama.
I wish that some of you people would think for even a microsecond before feeding the trolls.
TC, it is indeed Britain’s turn. It would be nice if Britain actually had an aircraft carrier. They were building two. One was delayed in completion for two more years, while they are deciding whether to sell or scrap the second one. Falkland Islands redux.
RGB, Italy’s principal contribution lies in providing basing facilities for other air forces, not in flying strike missions by its own air force.

So what happened did a French pilot get a stray bullet up his afterburner?

WhackyDaffy joined forces with the Islamists, MSM speakezze for Alquacka, and they’ll butcher the leftwing secularists in no time flat.

There is no stomach for anything other than bombing missions which Ghadafi knows how to avoid. The fact that troops loyal to him are still there speaks volumes to the stupidity of getting involved in wars (with the UN and USA) we are not prepared to win.
Bring our troops home.

Sorry, boys, but Davenport is right on this one. You can’t keep a carrier in combat action for much more than three months
That and isn’t the CDG basically a drydock queen of the first order? Isn’t this the boat where the propellers cracked first trip out, and that has been plagued with other problems? Or is that the other one?
On the other hand the French ARE the only European nation with a a decent size carrier, capable to real naval aviation > Harrier jump-jets.

Libyan affairs are not the business of the West.
Or the Chinese.
The current Time cover shows the end of American dominance.
Wasting treasure in ventures like this, is a large part of the reason.

Actually, Fred, the CDG has had a good service life. It’s France’s first nuclear powered carrier, and it’s sea trials were routine. After completing sea trials in ’99 it didn’t need its first major refit until 2007. Some of the refit work was not up to standard, including its propellers, which was fixed in ’09.
There is no other one. France had two carriers built in the early 1960s, both of which were retired late in the 1990s.

cgh:
thank you

I still don’t know why where even there?

Chesterfield – The country is at war and it withdraws its aircraft carrier for maintainance. I have some ocean front property in Arizona for you – – cheap!

sasquatch has it right. The intention all along was to support the rebels with air power alone hoping that this would give the rebels enough of an edge to get rid of Gaddafi.
cgh seems to know what he is talking about and like it or not, Davenport apparently does also.
This whole intervention was not well thought out. Half measures never accomplish the goal.
Now it appears there is a stalemate.

There’s Davenport gleefully dancing on still smouldering Libyan graves. Yes, hopefully the AC can get back into the action soon.
Of course it’s “Obambas war” so carry on, no one notices the hypocrisy.

Ken Kulak: “This whole intervention was not well thought out. Half measures never accomplish the goal.”
Exactly. What makes it even worse is when the real goal is not the one that the public was told. We were told it was protection of civilians, but the real goal was regime change.
If protection of civilians was the object, what has been the response to thousands dying in Syria?
Crickets.
What was the response to the smashing of demonstrations in Bahrain?
Crickets.
Yemen? More crickets.

Conservative Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak gave into rebel demands and now is looking at getting his neck stretched..
All K-Daffy has to do is dodge NATO jets for 3 months and he will be stretching many of the rebel necks..
Anyone wonder why thug dictators always give the West a one finger salute?

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