Stopping the bombing in Libya is as important as withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan, ending the occupation of Iraq, and bringing to a close the "war on terror" waged by the US and its allies for the past ten years.

Any moves towards a diplomatic solution in Libya would be welcome, but one thing is for sure, for them to have any chance of success the NATO bombardment will have to end.

Israel's attack on Lebanon in 2006 rates as history's most ill-thought out air war, until this year when France and Britain decided to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.

NATO's commanders are still hoping that a lucky bomb may kill Gaddafi, but to date the staying power has been with the Libyan leader, whereas it is the NATO powers who are fighting among themselves.

We left the streets too early. We were victorious, and yet we left with nothing. We should have stayed and demanded that power be vested in a government of the revolution, says Ahdaf Soueif.

Successive British governments supplied Bahrain with sniper rifles, submachineguns, smoke canisters, stun grenades, tear gas and riot shields, used, with murderous effect, against unarmed civilians.

For three months French and British fighter jets have been bombarding Tripoli, trying to kill Gadaffi; now the French want to stop the military action and get him sat at the negotiating table.

Nato is out of control, says Dennis Kucinich, using a UN mandate allowing for protection of civilians as the flimsy pretext for an unauthorised mission of regime change through massive violence.

Pepi Escobar says the name of this game is not Libya; it's Long War, aimed at turning the Mediterranean into a Nato lake and dealing with the non-players, Syria and Lebanon.

Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan have been "won", nor will they ever be, but here are western powers again seizing control of an Arab country by main force with no clue as to how it should be governed.

Remembering iraqi "babies ripped from incubators" and the Gulf of Tonkin attack that never happened in Vietnam, were the media sceptical about claims that Gadaffi issued troops with viagra and told them to use rape as a terror weapon? Not a hope.

US Congressman Dennis Kucinich has been in the forefront of the campaign to get the US Congress to end Obama's war in Libya. When George W Bush was president Kucinich tried to get him impeached for misleading Congress into the Iraq war.

When Arab public opinion has any influence on policy, the US and Britain have been tossed out of the Middle East. That's why they are terrified of democracies in the region.

Libya was going to be different from all previous wars. Strikes would be 'targeted', 'collateral damage' would be negligible, and of course, just as the British government said in 1914, the war would be so swift that it would all be over in a couple of months.

"It is time to listen to military advice, review the review and provide our forces with capabilities which match our foreign policy ambitions.” - Jim Murphy Shadow defence secretary

The regime change war Obama is waging in Libya is illegal under the American constitution because he hasn't got approval from the US Congress. No problem: he's rebranded it as "not really a war".