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Facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about ! [View all]
PufPuf23
May 2016
OP
install client regimes that will subordinate the country’s wealth and labor to imperialist corporate
arcane1
May 2016
#1
Gadaffi was involved in a lot of military adventures in other North African countries.
Nitram
May 2016
#70
Gadaffi and every bullet point in your OP simply did NOT fit Hillary Clinton's business plan.
CentralCoaster
May 2016
#71
It's what NeoLiberals call "Humanitarian intervention". Funny how sufferring is actually much worse
newthinking
May 2016
#138
And what do you know about the suffering that wopuld have occired if Gaddafi had been left to...
Nitram
May 2016
#178
You of course, have an objective and peer-reviewed source to support your allegation, yes?
LanternWaste
May 2016
#187
"That's all of American history, summed up in a single sentence." I thought this was?
Glassunion
May 2016
#20
Maybe that's why Saint Hillary of Walmart wanted to get Ghaddafi out of the way:
Betty Karlson
May 2016
#161
Huh? Gadaffi was removed and killed in 2011 under the Obama Administration with Clinton SOS.
PufPuf23
May 2016
#9
How can one argue that in total the people and women of Libya are far worse off now and live in
PufPuf23
May 2016
#23
She is perhaps the most horrible democratic canddate in my lifetime of 72 years...
pangaia
May 2016
#99
A lot of our actions seem to be around fears of losing control of the monetary system (competition)
newthinking
May 2016
#139
Or maybe Hillary wanted to install a client regime to subordinate the country’s wealth...
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#18
The Libyan opposition were expat groups aligned with fundamentalist muslim groups
newthinking
May 2016
#141
Thanks Polly. I also posted a link about it. Most of the so called "arab springs" were not really
newthinking
May 2016
#143
I don't think life in Libya was quite the utopian experience as described above.
LonePirate
May 2016
#16
It wasn't too shabby either: Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa under Gadaffi
CJCRANE
May 2016
#21
What is the matter with you that you support what happened to the common people who live in Libya?
PufPuf23
May 2016
#27
From Africa’s Wealthiest Democracy Under Gaddafi to Terrorist Haven After US Intervention
polly7
May 2016
#28
"Democracy"? "US-led bombing campaign"? Try "dictatorship" and "French-led bombing campaign". nt
ieoeja
May 2016
#89
Sigh. Criticizing the NATO led bombing is not synonymous with whitewashing Gaddafi.
cali
May 2016
#190
Reductio ad absurdum is valid rhetoric. It is NOT a fallacy. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2016
#157
Pinochet? The guy Nixon, Kissinger and CIA installed as a model for USA's future?
Octafish
May 2016
#43
Clinton was against Gaddafi, therefore DUers need to find excuses to be for him.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2016
#81
Mussolini was a competent administrator. The first Kim was a hero in the fight against Japan.
ieoeja
May 2016
#100
All my adult life I have watched these foreign interventions in slow motion knowing that,
PufPuf23
May 2016
#61
Thank you for this incredible post. What we did to Libya is such a war crime.
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#104
For a Dictator, he was doing a great job of making life better for Libya's neighbors, too.
Octafish
May 2016
#47
that individuals and corporations and others try to profit off this shit, is fact
cali
May 2016
#189
So? If CNN did not at least in part respect the document, why continue to carry it on their website
PufPuf23
May 2016
#69
Several times in this thread I have stated I regarded Gadaffi a dictator but deliberately
PufPuf23
May 2016
#78
The main point I meant to make in this thread is that the common people of Libya
PufPuf23
May 2016
#112
You are conflating lots of things. Bottom line: Qaddafi was a greedy dictator
Albertoo
May 2016
#123
Not to excuse the unnecessary intervention, but some of these "facts" sound too good to be true.
TacoD
May 2016
#122
I am disappointed by those at DU that spin that because Gadaffi was an asshole
PufPuf23
May 2016
#127
Agree the points were incomplete initiatives and serve as anti-intervention propoganda.
PufPuf23
May 2016
#142
Yes, it was a classic oil state dictatorship. The government bought the loyalty of the people with
Zynx
May 2016
#146
I have made at least 10 posts in this thread stating the intent of this OP is
PufPuf23
May 2016
#150
"... it turned out well enough, eventually." < If you are white, perhaps. For a person of color, or
jtuck004
May 2016
#192
Given that your OP is a 16 bullet point plus extolling of the virtues of Gadaffi....
Tommy_Carcetti
May 2016
#164
I think if you repeat it all about 10 more times you are certain to have a great impact.
jtuck004
May 2016
#193
And, and then there's that little human rights issue and sponsoring terrorism
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#158
I spoke about this numerous time right here at DU several years ago...before Obama was
Jitter65
May 2016
#162
It's the same sort of binary thinking you saw when people praised Putin a few years back.
Tommy_Carcetti
May 2016
#166
Look at history. Gadaffi had renounced terrorism and was attempting to modernize Libya and
PufPuf23
May 2016
#199
Gadaffi is a tyrant who fleeced his country and murdered his citizens. He is the ultimate 1% asshat
hueymahl
May 2016
#201
My own idea of a socialist paradise would be closer to the Scandinavian countries
bhikkhu
May 2016
#169
Its pretty obvious to everyone now that this is the wrong way..or is it?
LiberalLovinLug
May 2016
#179
Yes, Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie 270 dead and his treatment of the Libyan people?
Lady_Chat
May 2016
#188
Gadaffi had renounced terroism, turned over perps for prosecution, and was paying damages to victims
PufPuf23
May 2016
#194
I did read the ridiculous OP. I regret wasting my time on this shameless Qaddafi apologia.
SunSeeker
May 2016
#208