Why Do Liberals Say the US is not at war with Libya?

Are they really that dumb and they just believe whatever Obama says or do they really think that bombing a country with 500 thousand dollar missiles and sending in ground troops is not a war? Some will say there are no ground troops but I keep reading articles like this a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8039326" rel="nofollow"http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?sectio…/a that say different.