'West owns Libya opposition'

The CIA with the help of the Egyptian military took control of Libyan opposition forces, arming and funding them against the forces of Libya's long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi.  So the intervention had as the pretext the nominal brutality of Gaddafi not merely helped and advised by special forces of the US, but deployed like it was against Saddam Hussein and before that with Noriega as a cat's paw pretext for intended design to seize control of the uprising and deploy it as an opportunity to put troops on the ground.  There is no ambiguity about this; Gates has already declared in the teeth of the UN Security Council resolution that there is no time limit; that it is not reasonable to say the time line for the war to end and indeed the war in Libya is what he called open-ended.    link