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In reply to the discussion: Military "intervention" in Libya. THIS is what you get. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)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.