This will have to be quick, but I think it's noteworthy to the community so I'm going to do a driveby diary. Maybe someone else will pick it up.
The gist of it is that Kucinich is questioning the validity of the events in Libya based
on the fact that a set of war games was planned for a Libya like location at this exact time in late 2010. He questions how the response was made so quickly and whether Libyan anti-government groups were given notice.
In short was this another manufactured incident?
The piece starts with this. I recommend a complete read (it's towards the bottom of the page).
On November 2, 2010 France and Great Britain signed a mutual defence
treaty , which included joint participation in "Southern Mistral"
(www.southern-mistral.cdaoa.fr), a series of war games outlined in the
bilateral agreement. Southern Mistral involved a long-range
conventional air attack, called Southern Storm, against a dictatorship
in a fictitious southern country called Southland. The joint military
air strike was authorised by a pretend United Nations Security Council
Resolution. The "Composite Air Operations" were planned for the period
of 21-25 March, 2011. On 20 March, 2011, the United States joined
France and Great Britain in an air attack against Gaddafi's Libya,
pursuant to UN Security Council resolution 1973.
Have the scheduled war games simply been postponed, or are they
actually under way after months of planning, under the name of
Operation Odyssey Dawn? Were opposition forces in Libya informed by the
US, the UK or France about the existence of Southern Mistral/Southern
Storm, which may have encouraged them to violence leading to greater
repression and a humanitarian crisis? In short was this war against
Gaddafi's Libya planned or a spontaneous response to the great
suffering which Gaddafi was visiting upon his opposition?
Members of the United States Congress are wondering how much planning
time it took for our own government, in concert with the UK and France,
to line up 10 votes in the Security Council and gain the support of
the Arab League and Nato, and then launch an attack on Libya without
observing the constitutional requirement of congressional
authorisation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...