rhouses Too many assumptions and lies in that piece for me, Rhouses. He mentions “the rebels” as if they were a bunch of oppressed citizens rising up against tyranny. He never mentions that they were paid and supplied for by the US and coming largely from Northern Iraq and other areas of the Middle East.
The thing with Qaddafi and other leaders like this is that you’ll never find they have 100% support of the people. There were many Libyans who wanted US influence or culture absorbed into their country, they’re usually the ones who appeared on CBS news or BBC denouncing Qaddafi as a Dictator etc, used to paint him in a certain light mainly. The truth is most people didn’t want to be sold out to the US like other raped economies of the world.
Ultimately if you don’t play ball with the Yanks they’ll turn you over in the end. Sign on the dotted line or have a crooked branch shoved up your arse hole by an angry mob.
Read Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins, it’ll give you an idea in layman’s terms of how they got to Qaddafi in the end, without it being exclusively about him. I don’t know of any pro-Qaddafi book that isn’t written in Arabic.
