As you and I slept, American Armed Forces began Operation Odyssey Dawn.

Per reports, heard this morning on Fox New’s Fox and Friends, Admiral Mullen has announced that stealth bombers from our shores hit Libya’s runways last night, dropping dozens of bombs, and crippling the madman’s Moammar Kadhafi’s ability to launch airstrikes against his own people.

The Pentagon has also announced that 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from U.S. and British ships in the Mediterranean, hitting more than 20 Libyan targets along the Mediterranean coastline.

Our country has at least 11 naval vessels in the Mediterranean, including three submarines, two destroyers, two amphibious warfare ships and the USS Mount Whitney, a command-and-control vessel that is the flagship of the Navy’s 6th Fleet. Also in the area are Navy P-3 and EP-3 surveillance aircraft.

The U.S. military strikes are supposed to clear the way for European and other planes to enforce a no-fly zone designed to ground Kadhafi’s air force and cripple his ability to inflict further violence on rebels, according to U.S. officials said.

President Obama gave the go-ahead for limited military action against Libya Saturday.

He did not ask for a vote from Congress, as, in his mind, a UN consensus trumps whatever his country’s elected representatives think.

In his statement from his vay-cay in Brazil, he said:

We cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people there will be no mercy.

The president also assured us that the U.S. will not be deploying ground forces into Libya.

Is it just me, gentle reader, or, did you also think that it was inappropriate for the President of United States to announce that we were going to war, while he was on a trip with his family in Brazil?

Explosions and gunfire were heard in the Libyan capital of Tripoli Sunday morning as Kadhafi proclaimed on state-run radio that the allied bombings were “acts of terrorism”.

He also claimed that all of Libya’s people were now carrying weapons to defend the nation:

We will not leave our land and we will liberate it.

The madman announced that he has opened up the weapons depots to Libyans, and he said that everyone is armed with “automatic weapons, mortars, bombs.

It is now necessary to open the stores and arm all the masses with all types of weapons to defend the independence, unity and honor of Libya.

We promise you a long war.

I thought Obama said that this would only take “a few days”?

Pro-Kadhafi forces are fighting back, firing anti-aircraft weapons back at the allied forces bombing them. Thousands of these forces have gathered in the huge

Bab al-Aziziya military camp in Tripoli where the madman lives to protect against attacks.

According to a New York Times report, supporters have also packed the interior halls of Kadhafi’s compound as human shields, offering to protect the leader against bombings.

And yet, on Fox and Friends this morning, Admiral Mullen said that the goal was not to oust Moammar Kadhafi from his throne of power.

Then, what are we doing? The Libyan rebels do not have the firepower to oust the madman on their own. Given the opportunity, Kadhafi’s thuggish ground forces will murder them all while they sleep…and their loved ones, too.

President Reagan knew exactly who Kadhafi was. He called him “the mad dog of the Middle East”

But, I digress…

British forces have launched air attacks on Libya early Sunday, U.K. defense officials said.

Our other “allies” are not quite so bold. NATO is trying to decide whether the alliance will join in on the strikes in Libya. According to diplomats sources, NATO’s military planners are due to present final action plans to the North Atlantic Council on Sunday.

Libya’s state television claims that 64 people have been killed during the military attacks. So far, that report cannot be verified.

There are a total of 25 coalition ships in the Mediterranean, 11 of which are U.S. warships.

It is the largest international military action since the beginning of the Iraq war, launched almost exactly eight years ago.

Fox News is now reporting that Russia is demanding that America and our allies stop this war against Libya. 

Let’s review.  After 31 days of sitting around and making vague threats while Libyan madman Moammar Kadhafi murdered his own countrymen, the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, seen here shaking hands with Kadhafi at the G2 Summit, his administration, and a coalition from the UN, who, just recently, suspended Libya from their Human Rights Council on March 1st, made the decision to prosecute a “limited war” against the madman Moammar Kadhafi.

The goals of this war are uncertain, as Admiral Mullen announced this morning that Kadhafi may still be in power when this conflict is over. 

Everything about this “limited war”, the timing, the “coalition”, and the prosecution, smells like week-old fish.  Meanwhile, our Best and Brightest are the ones over there in harm’s way.

What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a-goin’ on here?