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121. I made that OP and do not nor have ever been a Gadaffi supporter as

stated repeatedly in the thread and ignored by those that did not like the post.

The OP title was not written by me but was the title of one of the articles posted.

Yes, the post was meant to get attention.

But not to glorify Gadaffi, rather to point out the wrongness of covertly destabilizing nations then bombing them to bits and walking away.

The post was against international neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism and the use of the shock doctrine for questionable motives.

The post was not about Hillary Clinton (nor Trump for that matter).

Many good Democrats that are frequent and long term posters at DU joined the thread and added a wealth of quality substantiation.

If one cannot be a liberal anti-war Democrat at long standing without being called a Gaddafi lover or right wing, some at DU have gone way off the rails.

From the Department of State's website:

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 centers around the country”.