Images of a captured Gadhafi, bloodied and dazed, broadcast

[Playinghardball]

Source: MSN

SIRTE, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi, the man who ruled Libya with a dictatorial grip for 42 years, was seen on Arab television pinned against a car, being struck on the head with a pistol while a group of fighters manhandled him.

Video footage showed Gadhafi, dazed and bloodied but still clearly alive and gesturing with his hands as he was dragged from a truck by jostling government soldiers who hit him and pulled his hair.

He then appeared to fall to the ground and was enveloped by the crowd. NTC officials later announced Gadhafi had died of his wounds after capture.

One of Gadhafi's sons, Muatassim, also was killed and had been hiding with his father, Libya's interim government information minister told Reuters. The fate of his other son, Seif al-Islam, as well as other top figures of his regime remained unknown.


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[TheWraith]

1. Good.

If they know the alternative is being chased down and kicked to death by an angry mob, maybe the next dictator will give up sooner and flee into exile.

[Roy Rolling]

9. Sorry, I disagree

Being beat to death by an angry mob is for the uncivilzed. Of course he was a violent despot---but civilized people are better than that and should not degrade themselves by imitating uncivilzed behavior.

I'm sure he deserved it, but angry mobs handing out street justice is wrong.

[nbcouch]

10. agree 100%

[TheWraith]

11. I've no sympathy for him. It's the end he himself chose.

He had just about every chance someone can: decades in which he could have reformed, months in which he could have stepped down and fled, weeks in which he could have surrendered for trial.

Instead, he chose to fight to the last, and even when he could have lived the rest of his life in extreme comfort somewhere, he chose to make war on his own people in order to continue oppressing them. And for that, at the end he received the results of how his people felt about him.

[surrealAmerican]

12. I have no sympathy for him either, but this ...

... reflects very poorly on the people who captured him.

It would be reassuring to think that the people who will be in charge would be more humane than he was. This, suffice to say, is not reassuring.

[humbled_opinion]

15. WOW really?

Even Bush had Saddam captured and brought to trial before he was hung..... Interesting this new Foreign policy of... catch them and assasinate them seems to be resonating........ but as long as we don't pour water up their nose I guess it's all good... Right?

[karynnj]

16. This was neither the US or NATO - it was the Libyan fighters

I agree that once they could capture him, he should have been treated as a prisoner. However, to assign what they did to Obama is wrong.

[humbled_opinion]

18. I didn't assign it to Obama....

It is simply a fact... haven't you noticed that the new foreign policy when dealing with rogues, Pirates, Terrorists etc shows little to interest in bringing in Prisoners for trial or interrogation and therefore plays right into the NEOCons talking points....

Look I talk to Teaheads everyday at my job and it is so difficult for me sometimes, like today, because during BUSHCO I really laid into Bush for his foreign agressiveness and warned of the danger of the President of the USA coordinating, sponsoring or backing or applauding, the asassination of the bad actors in the world. I was engaged in tons of arguments regarding cowboy diplomacy post 911.....

Now I am in a position, where I look like a flaming hypocrite if I applaud the President for getting the job done.....

Personally, I don't believe we should be the world police and all the troops need to come home ASAP and we should not engage in any of these conflicts.... The wars all cost money, you can argue that some cost more than others but I will tell you I get seriously conflicted talking about how much we need to be helping out the people here at home and then off we go again into another foreign incursion....

[EFerrari]

19. Fine. Assign it to Hillary. She called for it yesterday in Tripoli.

[denverbill]

14. He chose this end for himself.

He could have left the country. He could have surrendered to the Red Cross or some neutral organization. He could have laid down his arms and stopped fighting.

He chose to fight to the bitter end. How many of the men who killed him knew someone who died in the last few days because he had ordered his men to fight? How many of them had friends or relatives killed by him during their initial uprisings?

[Raschel]

17. Very true.

[fascisthunter]

20. what's creepy is the desire to look at a man after being beaten to death

regardless of who it is.

[alfredo]

2. You reap what you sow.

[JimDandy]

3. Video showing him clearly alive is now gone off Al Jazeera site

But the one showing him inexplicably, but clearly dead from two bullets is all over the place. Alive in the rebel's custody then dead in their custody is probably not a juxtaposition they want out there. In any case, a dead Kadaffi dictator is preferable to an alive dictator.

[EFerrari]

5. McClatchy has it:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/10/20/127808/world-waits-on-reports-that-moammar.html

[plumbob]

4. Another leader who trusted the US. Why do any of them, I wonder?

I'm sure the next government will be a howling success of a democracy, and so we can count the billion or so spent killing Gadhafi as money well spent.


Right?

[EFerrari]

6. Must be something in that big ego that goes with being a leader

gets hooked on the relationship and can't take in that it's over when it's over.

[Xipe Totec]

7. From leader to bleater to bleeder. nt

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

8. Yeah, right...

... so the billion$ that Cheney dumped in Iraq (remember Bremer?) to get rid of Saddam were noble, right?

[plumbob]

13. I think maybe you need to reread my post.

Every dime we spend on useless wars overseas adds to unemployment and sickness here.

How's that?