That Libya problem is an African problem is unquestionable! That other Africans in this forum do not see it that way is sad!! That other Africans do not see the Western
neocolonial ambitions is an intellectual bankruptcy and pitiful!!! That other Africans do not see the evil of NATO as a robber is equally sad and pitiful!!!! That other Africans do not see that the next armed robbery will take place in Nigeria is spiritually bankrupt!!!!!
This intensification of the neocolonial ambitions by the Western imperial club with institutional support by The UN, The World Bank, The IMF and others is just beginning.
May peace rest in justice.
KOFI
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Congressman Dennis Kucinick on Libya
Lily.
US lawmaker: NATO must account for Libyan deaths
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/08/23/kucinich-on-nato-in-libya-gangsterism/
As much of the world celebrated the apparent fall of Libya’s Col. Gaddafi, Kucinich on Tuesday released a statement calling for NATO commanders to be hauled before the International Criminal Court.
“If members of the Gaddafi Regime are to be held accountable, NATO’s top commanders must also be held accountable through the International Criminal Court for all civilian deaths resulting from bombing,” said the seven-term Cleveland congressman.
“Otherwise, we will have witnessed the triumph of a new international gangsterism.”
Kucinich delivered a spirited defense of the dictator’s foreign policy while claiming he does not “sympathize with Colonel Gaddafi’s brutality.” He also seemed to blame foreign investment for social conditions that led to the anti-Gaddafi rebellion.
“On December 19, 2003, Libya voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapon-making capability and on January 6, 2004 ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,” he wrote. “Its relationship with the US on the mend, Libya then opened up to international investment and began the wholesale privatization of its industries, leading to massive unemployment and dissatisfaction with the state of things, particularly among younger Libyans.”
Kucinich charged that the U.S. and its NATO allies “deliberately avoided” a negotiated settlement with Gadaffi’s regime and “illegally pursued regime change.”
“NATO chose sides, intervened in a civil war and morphed into the air force for the rebels, who could not have succeeded but for NATO’s attacks,” he added.
Kucinich is likely to lose his seat as Ohio downsizes by two congressional districts.
He has been a constant visitor to Washington, lately delivering a New Age-style speech to Hempfest and talking populist to the Washington State Labor Council’s annual convention.
But Kucinich has also found time to visit Syria, talking with that country’s embattled dictator President Assad.
In March, Kucinich suggested that President Obama was committing “an impeachable offense” by authorizing air strikes on Libya.
Kucinich had earlier called for impeachment investigations against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. In his latest statement, he deploys against Obama the same hyperbole used on his Republican predecessor:
“As the Administration indulges itself with wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan — spending hundreds of billions of dollars on military adventurism — the United States has massive economic problems at home,” he said.
“The Amerian people get myths, rhetoric and unemployment while war profiteers get the gold. Can you imagine what the people of Libya will get.”
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