- 22 Feb 2011 21:02
#13637652
When Gaddafi came to power he was nearly immediately an enemy of the West starting when he expelled all foreign military and stole oil and commercial interests. He then went onto be a major financier of terrorism, the PLO, IRA, ETA and black September were both financed by Gaddafi as well as his public supporter for the likes of Idi Amin. The Munich massacre and the 1986 Berlin Bombings were funded by this man but were a more foreshadowing of what was next. The bombing of UTA 772 killed 170 and was then followed by the bombings of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie that killed 100 more than the previous bombing. He was found on top of his support, financing and direction of terrorism to be pursuing WMDs, chemical and nuclear weapons. Libya was quite rightly isolated and shunned by most of the world.
Then he apparently changed his mind and agreed to pay compensation for his previous evil (but never fully accepted responsibilty) and abandoned the WMD pursuit. This was of course because that year he had seen the whirlwind that Saddam had reaped for his previous similar actions.
This coincided with a great amount of commercial interest in Libya, interest and negotiations in which Libya and Gaddafi always had the upper hand and with it they pushed for the return of a man convicted of killing 270 people and his hero's welcome. This was rightly met with disgust throughout the world. It was a selling of a soul, the West had made a deal with the devil. This man had not changed all that had changed was the West's financial interests.
And now he is attacking his own people with artillery and war planes, flooding the streets of the capital with foreign mercenaries set up on violently murdering all that oppose Gaddafi. Hundreds if not thousands have been killed by a man a few weeks ago we called an ally.
Was it ever right to befriend this monster?
Then he apparently changed his mind and agreed to pay compensation for his previous evil (but never fully accepted responsibilty) and abandoned the WMD pursuit. This was of course because that year he had seen the whirlwind that Saddam had reaped for his previous similar actions.
This coincided with a great amount of commercial interest in Libya, interest and negotiations in which Libya and Gaddafi always had the upper hand and with it they pushed for the return of a man convicted of killing 270 people and his hero's welcome. This was rightly met with disgust throughout the world. It was a selling of a soul, the West had made a deal with the devil. This man had not changed all that had changed was the West's financial interests.
And now he is attacking his own people with artillery and war planes, flooding the streets of the capital with foreign mercenaries set up on violently murdering all that oppose Gaddafi. Hundreds if not thousands have been killed by a man a few weeks ago we called an ally.
Was it ever right to befriend this monster?
- By Unthinking Majority
- By ingliz
- By Puffer Fish
- By wat0n