Facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about !

[PufPuf23]

147. If you read the thread my point was about the intervention and

that the harm done to the common Libyan people by the covert support given the Islamic radicals to destabilize Libya followed by a bombing campaign supposed to protect the Libyan people instead destroyed their country and made them less well off than with Gadaffi.

I do not support Gadaffi nor do I make Libya under Gadaffi a black and white issue as I have repeated said when folks want to make this thread about Gadaffi rather than the harm done to the people of Libya almost surely under false pretenses to steal their wealth.

Libya was far from perfect but was one of the more successful countries in Africa for its people.

The intervention left Libya devastated and under the influence of radical Islamists and then Libya served as a staging area for ISIS fighters and equipment into Syria,

Prior to the covert ops and bombing, the intervention by western powers, Libya enjoyed a much freer society with fairer wealth distribution than the monarchies of the Persian Gulf such as our allies Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, Conditions in particular much better for women and blacks.

Many good Democrats and DUers provided links regarding some nuance on what occurred in this thread.

Note what the State Department's own webpage said about Libya.:

Speaking of the breadth of Gaddafi’s record, that ought to resist simplistic, revisionist reduction, some might care to note that even now, the U.S. State Department’s webpage on Libya still points to a Library of Congress Country Study on Libya that features some of the Gaddafi government’s many social welfare achievements over the years in the areas of medical care, public housing, and education. In addition, Libyans have the highest literacy rate in Africa (see UNDP, p. 171) and Libya is the only continental African nation to rank “high” in the UNDP’s Human Development Index. Even the BBC recognized these achievements:


“Women in Libya are free to work and to dress as they like, subject to family constraints. Life expectancy is in the seventies. And per capita income—while not as high as could be expected given Libya’s oil wealth and relatively small population of 6.5m—is estimated at $12,000 (£9,000), according to the World Bank. Illiteracy has been almost wiped out, as has homelessness—a chronic problem in the pre-Gaddafi era, where corrugated iron shacks dotted many urban centres around the country”.