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Originally Posted by DWB
I hope they enjoyed all that while they had it, cause it's gone.
Whatever the media raised us to believe about Gaddafi is probably no different than what Americans were raised thinking about Cuba, which was mostly propaganda.
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As part of the demonization process, in February and March Libya's debt rating was downgraded. This on a country with zero debt. I imagine a country with zero debt is harder for big business/banks to control, which may be another reason, aside from spending its oil revenues on its people, rather than on Western goods and weapons, why Libya needed to be taken care of.
Russia has US troops stationed on its territory?
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Originally Posted by DWB
[Building empires] didn't work out so well for the Romans or British when they tried it.
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It did for a while, but all things must pass. From the Roman Empire came European Empires; from European Empires came the United States. From the dying European Empires came the US Empire. And from the currently dying US Empire will come the Islamic Empire. Way to go, Uncle Sam.
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Originally Posted by J. Falcon
Yup, they were just dandy.... that's why 90% of the country took up arms against the government. And he has been in power for like 40 years, so yes he was a tyrant.
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If 90% of people were armed and against him, how did he last 40 years? If the "rebels" had real popular support, why did NATO have to provide close air support and special forces on the ground, as well as supply the "rebels" with uniforms, helmets and heavy weapons, under the premise of a "no fly zone"?
BTW the UK has had the same unelected head of state for almost 60 years. Apparently it's okay for Western heads of state to live in palaces or castles or palatial White "Houses", while homeless people beg nearby. However Gaddafi is expected to live in a tent or a mud hut, judging by the media reaction to the "luxurious" bunkers in his compound, which look no better than Osama's "mansion" in Pakistan.
In fact not only did Gaddafi provide proper housing for everyone in Libya, who previously lived in tents or shacks, he insisted that even his own parents, living in a tent, had to wait until every other Libyan was properly housed before they could be.
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Originally Posted by porno jew
don't let your hatred for the US blind you to the fact he was a tyrant and made the lives of his people miserable.
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As the list above shows, it's quite clear that Libya was a model African/Arab country, with one of the highest standards of living in the developing world; in fact superior to the likes of Saudi Arabia, Russia and Brazil.
As to the people Gaddafi opposed, internally it was Islamic fundamentalists in the East of Libya; a menace Gaddafi has been resisting for years. Gaddafi was in fact the first person to issue an arrest warrant for Osama Bin Laden, long before 9/11 even happened.
However there are also external enemies of Gaddafi. Privileged westernized traitors, who don't live in Libya, won't be moving back there from their comfortable western homes, and have the interests of their American and European paymasters in mind, rather than Libyans.
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and no revolution has happened without some kind of outside support.
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For example: Iran, Guatemala, Chile, etc etc etc etc etc