plumbob (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 12:35 PM
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5. Another leader who trusted the US. Why do any of them do it?
Well, another day in Paradise. Thank gawd all Americans have jobs, health care, and good education and we have money to blow on useless overseas wars.
ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 12:47 PM
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9. A letter to Goldman Sachs:
Yo, rich guys.
You had something in common with Khaddafi. Both of you controlled BILLIONS, Both believed that money buys you security, and both of you are wrong.
Unless you mend your ways, you, too will lose your power and your riches.
People power always wins out in the end.
Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:00 PM
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14. If true, poor little Hugo Chavez has lost a friend
WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:02 PM
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15. Did I miss the part about Chavez's being a terrorist or sponsoring any? Well, maybe if you're an
oil-igarch.
Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:11 PM
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22. 10/1/2011: Hugo Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Syria
(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he was praying for Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against "Yankee" aggression.
Chavez -- who has inherited Fidel Castro's mantle as Washington's main irritant in Latin America -- views the wave of uprisings in the Arab world as Western-led destabilization and has been a strong ally of Gaddafi.
"The Libyans are resisting the invasion and aggression. I ask God to protect the life of our brother Muammar Gaddafi. They're hunting him down to kill him," he said.
"No one knows where Gaddafi is, I think he went off to the desert ... to lead the resistance. What else can he do?"
more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/us-venezuela-...
ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:06 PM
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18. You said something "good!"
Agreed, in every way.
Some people here think that we treated Libya as an ally. Nothing could be further from the truth. Libya, despite what McCain, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and others might have said in public, or in photo ops with Khaddafi.
He was a cruel, deadly, and unpredictable tyrant. The world is better off without him. Now, if Libya can hold its shit together long enough to prevent another strong man from taking it over, even better.
LuvNewcastle (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:05 PM
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17. Send in the next tyrant.
rfranklin (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:46 PM
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34. 100% USDA Approved!
Someone of the stature of Karzai in Afghanistan for sure!
walerosco (298 posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:14 PM
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25. "terrorize Africa" my ass
I bet you are one of those who think Africa is a country. Truth be told, he did not terrorize any African country, he infact gave employment to lots of African from professors, to engineers to unkilled workers. Its only the west who did not like him. Yes, he was a tyrannt, but unlike 90% of the African leaders/tyrannts/elected presidents, he actually brought his people together and made improvement on the lives of his people.
American does a lot of good in the world but he should try and mind his business with the internal affairs of other countries. Especially since he back worse tyrannts in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Baharain and Jordan
msanthrope (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 02:09 PM
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53. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis....nt
DUmmie said, "I bet you are one of those who think Africa is a country. Truth be told, he did not terrorize any African country, he infact gave employment to lots of African from professors, to engineers to unkilled workers."
DUmmie knows his tyrants.... :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 01:00 PM
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14. If true, poor little Hugo Chavez has lost a friend
Fuzz (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 02:32 PM
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Freepers lamenting the passing of Gadaffi
Obama wanted him dead so he could hand lybia over to his radical islamic buds.
8 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:14:49 AM by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
Gadaffi was no nice guy, but he and his all-girl guards and bizarre costumes are going to look pretty good to Libyans after a couple of months of Islamist dictatorship. And that’s what’s coming, as Obama and his minions are well aware.
9 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:17:49 AM by livius
I think the Obama people are expecting a huge bump in the polls off of this, something he’s hoping he can keep up and stable until Nov 2012. In other words, he’s hoping this will revitalize his campaign... except no one really cares. It’s hard to get support from Americans for this when none of them (including members of Congress) have any idea or were given any justification whatsoever for Obama’s illegal war there. Yet another failure by the president who yesterday was telling Jake Tappert just how amazing he is as president.
15 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:07:55 AM by wrhssaxensemble (We need an electable conservative in 2012!)
Obummer will be in mourning.
18 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:17:20 AM by RasterMaster ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln)
The people rising up to boot out a megalomaniacal, tyrannical ruler !!!
Perhaps Obama and the leftoids were right - it does look as if we could learn something from these foreign cultures.
21 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:31:12 AM by Iron Munro ('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
Obama to hold a press conference in a few moments to explain how he was actually on the missioin that got em’
Along with the names and addresses of all the soldiers that were on the mission.
24 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:14:36 AM by dfwgator
NATO and foreign insurgents got rid of Gadhafi, the people didn't rise up.
26 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:21:52 AM by dfwgator
So what was the reason Obama wanted him taken out again? Was it the hijackings back in the day, did he play a part in terror attacks or resources (linked to our national security), did he put the underwear on the Christmas bomber?
What was the rationale besides R2P?
I’m no fan of him. I see Christians killed and churches burned; girls and women raped, killed, acid thrown in their faces, more visas for Iranians and other terror pushing countries and nada.
Is it me?
7 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:11:17 AM by AliVeritas (Pray.)
If any of his female bodyguard need immediate asylum, I volunteer. I’ve got room.
11 posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:35:25 AM by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2795432/posts
warrior1 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 02:34 PM
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1. they have
always been on the wrong side of history.
SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 02:35 PM
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2. They cannot admit to the FAIL of xCommander AWOL Bush (R)
Edited on Thu Oct-20-11 02:40 PM by SpiralHawk
...and his war-profiteering fatcal oil crony, Dickie 'Five-military-deferments' Cheney (R).
Freepers, Baggers, and other assorted Republicon SuckerPuppets luv their quisling chickenhawk so-called 'leaders' but they are (understandably) ashamed to admit it, and to admit the EPIC FAIL they brought to Iraq, Afghanistan, bin Laden (R - Saudi), and Col. QuackDaffy (R - Libyan Variety)
fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 02:37 PM
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6. their schtick is to oppose a political party... no thought... no consideration for truth
just purely simpleton opposition and they spin a story to suit that opposition to make it digestible for their brainwashed conservative dweebs. Manufactured outrage...
lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 02:51 PM
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12. Do freepers think in bumper-sticker-ese? n/t
SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-20-11 02:35 PM
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2. They cannot admit to the FAIL of xCommander AWOL Bush
Ummm, dickweed, perhaps you failed to notice that when Bush was President, Moe the Q foreswore terrorism and abandoned his nuclear ambitions, without us expending a single million-dollar-per-each cruise missile on him? No, I thought not. That would have involved paying attention and remembering things for more than 30 seconds.
DUmmie said, "I bet you are one of those who think Africa is a country. Truth be told, he did not terrorize any African country, he infact gave employment to lots of African from professors, to engineers to unkilled workers."
DUmmie knows his tyrants.... :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Who's Obama gonna kill next year, when it will start to actually matter in the election? My money is on a lot of the Arab Spring having turned into the Islamist Dawn by then.
(http://www.moonbattery.com/obama-gaddafi.jpg)
[paranoia generator] Who's shadow is that between them ? Why, it looks like Cheney ! or maybe Rove ? [/paranoia generator]
Who's Obama gonna kill next year, when it will start to actually matter in the election? My money is on a lot of the Arab Spring having turned into the Islamist Dawn by then.I respectfully disagree. The DUmmies are not only OK with their President killing despots and dictators, and though they will not put it in writing, I'd bet money that you'd hear at many Occupy gatherings that this is just one more step to paving the way to aid the Middle East in getting rid of the Joooooooooos.
The MSM hasn't named him/her yet.
I respectfully disagree. The DUmmies are not only OK with their President killing despots and dictators, and though they will not put it in writing, I'd bet money that you'd hear at many Occupy gatherings that this is just one more step to paving the way to aid the Middle East in getting rid of the Joooooooooos.
Edited to add, I thought the inaction of the killing of the Coptic christians in Egypt spoke volumes.