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sabrina 1

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41. I am sorry, but you are mistaken completely. That was the early propaganda we were
Mon Feb 13, 2012, 09:57 PM
Feb 2012

given. The truth and there is plenty of history to back it up, was that Gadaffi himself was viewed by these same bigots because of his 'curly hair' to be not 'one of us' and they hated him as they hated the darker skinned Africans whom Gadaffi invited to Libya paying them very good salaries, allowing them to join the military where the had security and money to send home. Just like the US. We have over 30,000 foreign people in our military, maybe more now, from S. America and elsewhere. They are NOT mercenaries they are legally in the army.

Many of those who escaped the slaughter once Gadaffi lost control, have spoken out from their home countries, explaining how they were protected and how a majority of Libyans accepted them. However, the 'rebels' who were used by NATO to depose Gadaffi were loyal to the old king of Libya, a western friendly ruler who was deposed by Gadaffi in a bloodless coup. I'm sure the NATO member countries knew just where to go and who to go to, to get a revolution started.

Really, you need to study the history of Libya and not listen to much of what we are told on our media. Black Africans were making good money in Libya and were able to send it back to their families living in poorer countries. Gadaffi was trying to help strengthen the African continent so that it could be independent of the west and poured money into other countries there. That made him an enemy of the West, particularly European nations.

The people who were presented as 'rebels' to us, are bigoted, fundies who were not a large majority in Libya. They never could have overthrown Gadaffi on their own, he had too much support in the country.

Ghanan workers have called Gadaffi a hero and protector and mourn his death. We need to stay out of places whose history and culture we know nothing about which is why it is so easy for our government to distort facts when they want our support to invade these countries.

We go into these countries like bulls in china shops, we get nothing but distorted news and we think we know best what is good for them. And generally they are far, far worse off after we leave.

The tragedy of the slaughter, lynching, torture of the Black Africans in Libya began early on in the 'revolution' or invasion which is what it was, reported by Human Rights Orgs, will go down in history along with those other murderous attacks on groups of people because of their ethnicity. That is when I stopped supporting this war realizing after taking some time to find out more, that we were getting zero facts about the whole situation.

And where is NATO now? Wasn't the excuse that they were there ONLY to protect civilians? Are Black Africans, in the country legally, not civilians? No, NATO was not there to protect civilians, they killed thousands of them, they were to depose another African government and as soon as that was done, they left the civilians to the mercy of the murderers.

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Kick Bonobo Feb 2012 #1
These are the thugs that Gadaffi was keeping under control until sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #2
Just more "bad apples". You can't judge based on that... Bonobo Feb 2012 #3
Behavior is always judged. LanternWaste Feb 2012 #39
Gaddafi, who called blacks "sluggish" and "backward," and who blackmailed EU with opening... joshcryer Feb 2012 #4
Well, Gaddafi is gone now. It is weird that you have such anger over racism and bigotry but Bonobo Feb 2012 #5
Arguments based on "good guys" or "bad buys" are too shallow to refute. eom boppers Feb 2012 #11
Boppers, thanks for chiming in but... Bonobo Feb 2012 #12
You created a non-existent contradiction in #5. boppers Feb 2012 #16
If persons who were relatively secure from attacks before the revolution Vattel Feb 2012 #29
They were the thugs before. boppers Feb 2012 #34
This is a bit like comparing an uncle who tells racist jokes.. girl gone mad Feb 2012 #31
No, it's like claiming the 60's were better than now. boppers Feb 2012 #35
This is also the result of Gaddafi exacerbating race relations. Bucky Feb 2012 #37
I am sorry, but you are mistaken completely. That was the early propaganda we were sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #41
Libya Struggles to Curb Militias as Chaos Grows EFerrari Feb 2012 #6
And then, there's the destabilizaton of Western Africa. EFerrari Feb 2012 #7
The naiveté about this intervention being for the people of Libya reminds me of... Bonobo Feb 2012 #8
My favorite piece of naivete is how the sock puppetry of the Libya fiction is so glaringly obvious EFerrari Feb 2012 #9
I tend to stay out of these discussions, but... Kaleko Feb 2012 #10
Please explain how is this not racist. boppers Feb 2012 #17
You are so far off in left field, there is no point. Bonobo Feb 2012 #20
What is the frog. What is the scorpion. boppers Feb 2012 #23
What do YOU think it is? Bonobo Feb 2012 #28
I think you are implying that Lybians are both the scorpion, and the frog. boppers Feb 2012 #33
It's not racist. We're all scorpions at least a little bit. Bucky Feb 2012 #38
Nope. Bonobo Feb 2012 #40
Oh, another post from that unbiased Russian website - RT tabasco Feb 2012 #13
Facts are facts are facts. No matter where they come from. Are you ending the story? nt Bonobo Feb 2012 #14
Here is a video showing the ethnic cleansing mentioned in the article. Hard to deny video. Bonobo Feb 2012 #15
A Ghaddafi supporter stronghold was emptied and burned... boppers Feb 2012 #18
It doesn't sound like you watched the video. Bonobo Feb 2012 #19
I watched it for a while. boppers Feb 2012 #21
Jesse Jackson Jr. called it ethnic cleansing Bonobo Feb 2012 #22
The 'Gadaffi lovers', the 'Saddam Lovers' 'The Osama Bin Laden Lovers'. sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #43
The hypocrisy is amazing WonderGrunion Feb 2012 #24
Seems pretty consistent to me. Bonobo Feb 2012 #26
And now Redstate Bluegirl Feb 2012 #25
And now the Libya interim government is demanding Bonobo Feb 2012 #27
Fuck war. Seriously, it is so seldom worth the harm that comes from it. Vattel Feb 2012 #30
Thanks. That is basically what I want to say. Bonobo Feb 2012 #32
Wow...didn't see THAT one coming.... Taverner Feb 2012 #36
"This is what you want, this is what you get" Redstate Bluegirl Feb 2012 #42
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