Ghaddafi, Western companies and countries had begun the plan to
"share" Libya amongst themselves: they begun to appropriate the
country's resources. Libya is not Egypt, Libya is not Yemen, and Libya
is not Syria. This was a country – in spite of Ghaddafi's shortcomings
and inadequacies – that was far better run and better managed than
virtually every African country. President Barack Obama, who is so
bloody scared of the Republican/Tea Party, saw it fit to vandalize,
destabilize and destroy an African country. May be oil will be cheaper
now in America. Oh what a shame…shame on Barack Obama!
Sabella Abidde
On Aug 22, 11:28 am, MsJoe2...@aol.com wrote:
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> Libya: Some observations
>
> 22.08.2011
>
> You do not lose a cause by fighting for what you believe is right, you do
> not win a game by playing with four times as many players on an uneven
> playing field; you do become a hero if you managed to keep playing in these
> conditions for six months. What is happening in Libya right now isn't about
> winning or losing, it is about right and wrong.
> I do not support an international community which uses two sets of weights
> and measures to resolve international issues, I do not support an
> international community in which the proper forum for crisis management - the UN
> Security Council, simply does not work because it is a Chamber for trading
> interests among the powerful while the developing world is not represented
> equally.
> I do not support an international community in which a clique of military
> powers band together and yet again invent a war based upon lies, I do not
> support an international community in which the rule of law is bent to
> favour the strongest and the greedy.
> This is not my international community, I did not vote for it. Mine is not
> a community of bullies, mine is not a community of murderers who arm, aid
> and finance groups of terrorists to take power, interfering directly in an
> internal conflict by bombing the legitimate government forces so that their
> "terrorists" can advance, then claim victory. That for me is not a manly
> way to fight, it is cowardice.
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> It is sheer, yellow-bellied, snivelling cowardice, it is the law of the
> jungle, it is mob rule. Mine is not an international community in which
> nations can feel free to make or break the law, breach the UN Charter, breach
> the UNSC Resolutions, breach the Geneva Conventions, set up kangaroo courts
> and claim they represent right and reason and justice.
> It is not noble to fight unfairly, it is not noble to steal, it is not
> noble to covet the resources of your neighbour, it is not noble to gang up and
> attack a weaker foe. It is not righteous to purposefully target civilian
> homes occasioning the murder of children, it is not righteous to strafe
> civilian structures with military equipment and it cannot be right in any code
> of law to attack food supplies and water resources to "break people's
> backs".
> NATO can claim what it likes, it can claim it did not put boots on the
> ground on August 22, it can claim its death squads did not enter Tripoli from
> the sea, it can claim it did not carry out an act of cyber terrorism by
> taking out the Internet in Tripoli, it can claim it did not carry out an act
> of electronic terrorism by hacking into the telephone and communications
> networks, it can claim that its controlled media did not use fake images based
> upon models to shape public opinion, while really behind the scenes its
> assassination squads used the notion that the streets were full of cheering
> "rebels" (many of them foreigners) as a smokescreen to wipe out the
> opposition within 48 hours.
> Quite how successful this Operation Siren was, we shall see in the
> forthcoming two days. Whatever the outcome, it doesn't make it legal, it doesn't
> make it righteous, it doesn't make it right. No boots on the ground, no
> arming of "rebels". Those were the rules that were established by international
> law. You do not win by playing dirty, you show quite how vile and low you
> are.
> You can play a soccer match by shooting seven members of the opposing
> team, bribing the referee and linesmen to say they saw nothing and then play on
> with six balls and sixteen players. Does that mean you won? And if the
> opposing team keeps a clean sheet for six months, does that mean it lost?
> Supporting what is right also means we should not gloat over the deaths of
> human beings, it also means we should adhere to the fight using
> international law, it means we should carry on this fight through the properly
> instituted legal channels. This is not about winning or losing. It is about good
> beating evil.
> And in the history of Mankind, all Gods have always won the fight with the
> Devil. And after what NATO has done, we see very clearly that this
> sinister and evil organization has sold its soul to the Demon and cavorts with
> Satan every hour of every day of every week. As for those responsible for this
> act, which as we read and write is costing human lives, on whatever side
> of the divide they may be, they will be brought to justice.
> Whether or not anything happens to them is not for me to say. I do not
> take the law into my own hands. Whatever happens to them will be a telling
> remark on the state our international community has reached, and then if needs
> be, the onus will be upon us to change what is wrong. If they have the
> right, then so do we.
> These last six months have been depressing as yet again we witnessed a
> wholesale travesty of justice and reconfirmed the notion that our politicians
> are no more than a marketing team which puts the gloss on the product
> cooked up by the lobbies that control them and those who they represent. This is
> not my democracy.
> However we, as an international community of brothers and sisters, have
> come through this stronger. It is perfectly clear that NATO can never, ever
> again be trusted because since the voluntary dissolution of the Warsaw Pact
> (how naïve can you get?) NATO has lied time and time and time again. Never
> again can the UNSC take NATO's word or allow a diploma to pass without the
> proper and a complete scrutiny.
> No more accepting that the details will be filled in later. So on the
> diplomatic front, NATO is weaker.
> In military terms, it took NATO six months to reach Tripoli and even as I
> write, there are signs the fight is far from over. On the military front,
> NATO is a joke. The rule today is, arm yourself to the teeth and NATO, like
> the bunch of cowards they are, will not dare to attack you. A coward only
> attacks someone who is defenceless and even so, Colonel Gaddafy withstood 6
> whole months of savage battery - and as I write, is showing signs that the
> fight is not over.
> Finally, it is clear that international public opinion does not reside
> with NATO, the hearts and minds of the international community were and shall
> remain with Muammar al-Qathafi and his tremendous anti-imperialist,
> anti-colonial and social development projects across Africa. This conflict has
> brought the international community closer together (and I refer to the 6.9
> billion people of the world, not the less than 1,000 people who govern us).
> We have seen the tremendous solidarity of the citizens of the world behind
> their Libyan brothers - particularly so in the case of Serbia - and today
> we all have new contacts, we have made new friends, we have come into
> contact with other like-minded people who respect human life and dignity and who
> deride those who behave like thugs. We are the international community, we
> are the people of the world, the world is ours.
> I do not know which God those Libyan terrorists invoke when they chant
> "Allahu Akhbar". But after the way they have behaved, I see that my God does
> not rape women, my God does not commit acts of arson, my God does not
> condone looting, my God does not kidnap women, my God does not murder children,
> my God does not behead people, my God is not racist, my God does not
> torture, my God does not steal. I believe, then, that the name they invoke is not
> God, but Satan.
> And that, certainly, makes me stronger.
> Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
> Pravda.Ru
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