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Re: Bashar Assad emails leaked by Anonymous

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afterburner wrote: post #46
powertower wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look at what happened in Libya. Gaddafi spent the last 10 years working with the UN and the US, disarming his country, going on camera shaking hands and smiling with US, French and Italian delegates, ambassadors, and presidents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856HOHH5UJE Then he became a "despot" overnight that has been torturing and murdering everyone for the last 40 years... First a group of people attacked a milit…

"Gaddafi spent the last 10 years working with the UN and the US" Yeah, and before those 10 years of rapprochement, Gaddafi was a pariah on the world stage for 30 years, to the West and Arab countries, who allowed terrorists to train on his soil. He is one of the worlds most succesful despots, and one of the least benevolent; he amassed massive fortunes over 40 years of reign, and his people barely benefited from the…

I see the media has helped you understand the way the world really is, and how Libya was before the liberation and enlightment process happened.

Before this intervention, Libya was considered to be the Switzerland of the African Continent (relatively speaking of course).

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26686

You're notions that it was some type of a hell hole, are misplaced to the wrong pivotal point in its history.

It's all been the same formula...

1. Arm a number of "protestors". 2. Get said protestors to attack military and gov personnel and vehicles with ak47s and rocket launchers. 3. Let them go back into their homes. 4. Claim response is unprovoked mass slaughter of innocent lives. 5. Get video showing innocents caught in the cross fire. 6. Start calling the leadership despots and monsters. 7. Claim that our side is now the majority of the populace. 8. Fight the evil! 9. Divvy up the tasty pie.

Re: Bashar Assad emails leaked by Anonymous

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Post by afterburner »

powertower wrote: post #51
afterburner wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Gaddafi spent the last 10 years working with the UN and the US" Yeah, and before those 10 years of rapprochement, Gaddafi was a pariah on the world stage for 30 years, to the West and Arab countries, who allowed terrorists to train on his soil. He is one of the worlds most succesful despots, and one of the least benevolent; he amassed massive fortunes over 40 years of reign, and his people barely benefited from the…

I see the media has helped you understand the way the world really is, and how Libya was before the liberation and enlightment process happened. Before this intervention, Libya was considered to be the Switzerland of the African Continent (relatively speaking of course). http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26686 You're notions that it was some type of a hell hole, are misplaced to the wrong pivotal poin…

You're either willfully ignorant, or not looking back far enough. I think it's option 1. (You also speak as if foreign ground troops landed in Libya, which they did not.) But here's a taste anyways:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#Libya_under_Muammar_Gadda...

Re: Bashar Assad emails leaked by Anonymous

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Post by powertower »

afterburner wrote: post #53
powertower wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the media has helped you understand the way the world really is, and how Libya was before the liberation and enlightment process happened. Before this intervention, Libya was considered to be the Switzerland of the African Continent (relatively speaking of course). http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26686 You're notions that it was some type of a hell hole, are misplaced to the wrong pivotal poin…

You're either willfully ignorant, or not looking back far enough. I think it's option 1. (You also speak as if foreign ground troops landed in Libya, which they did not.) But here's a taste anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#Libya_under_Muammar_Gadda...

> or not looking back far enough

So you're using the past, and not the reformed Gaddafi, as an excuse for causing more mayhem and deaths than the evil Gaddafi could have imagined in his wettest dreams?

> (You also speak as if foreign ground troops landed in Libya, which they did not.)

Sorry, not interested in defending against made up conversations.

> But here's a taste anyways:

Most of that is debatable, but if it is true, then: 1) that's way in the past and 2) that sounds like pretty much the norm for that region and time and 3) not even close to what the US has been involved in / has caused.

From your link and section:

> From 1977 onward, per capita income in the country rose to more than US $11,000, the fifth-highest in Africa, while the Human Development Index became the highest in Africa and greater than that of Saudi Arabia. This was achieved without borrowing any foreign loans, keeping Libya debt-free. In addition, the country's literacy rate rose from 10% to 90%, life expectancy rose from 57 to 77 years, equal rights were established for women and black people, employment opportunities were established for migrant workers, and welfare systems were introduced that allowed access to free education, free healthcare, and financial assistance for housing. The Great Manmade River was also built to allow free access to fresh water across large parts of the country. In addition, financial support was provided for university scholarships and employment programs.

> You're either willfully ignorant

Some would claim that the ignorant one is the one who thinks Libya is now in a better position, or the one who can't see pass what is spoon fed to him.

Re: Bashar Assad emails leaked by Anonymous

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Post by afterburner »

powertower wrote: post #54
afterburner wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're either willfully ignorant, or not looking back far enough. I think it's option 1. (You also speak as if foreign ground troops landed in Libya, which they did not.) But here's a taste anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#Libya_under_Muammar_Gadda...

> or not looking back far enough So you're using the past, and not the reformed Gaddafi, as an excuse for causing more mayhem and deaths than the evil Gaddafi could have imagined in his wettest dreams? > (You also speak as if foreign ground troops landed in Libya, which they did not.) Sorry, not interested in defending against made up conversations. > But here's a taste anyways: Most of that is debatable, but if it i…

You are defending Gaddafi. A dictator who has ruled for 40 years, and threatened to slaughter thousands (recently) when his rule was threatened. That behaviour is not indicative of any kind of major shift from his earlier self. I guess you think Gaddafi bombing his own people would have been preferable?

That the country was rich because of oil is not very comforting given the ruthlessness of the man at the top. Can you imagine that a people might not want to be ruled by such a man? A man that would bomb them to hold on to power indefinitely?

And do you really think that the only possibilities here are dictatorial rule by a power-hungry asshole vs negligent puppet kingdom?

This is not a defense of interventionism. It is amazement at your defense of a tyrant.

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