getreal1:

Helloooo??? Do you understand sarcasm?

This is just too ironic not to laugh.  Qadaffi’s foreign minister quits and, noooo, I’m sure it’s got nothing to do with his seeing the writing on the wall and saving his ass before the CIA whoops it.  But anyway, you gotta give Qaddafi credit for being as crazy as the outfits he wears and hiring a…hmmm…foreigner to replace the Foreign Minster.  ROFL!  Only Qaddafi.

Anyone who cheers Qaddafi on(take note rico, suave, March 30 at 11:03 pm), that thug with the botched-up face job, might well read up on the brutal history of his regime; not to mention his direct involvement in the Lockerbie incident (info recently revealed by one of his defecting ministers) and the 70 billion he has stolen from the Libyan people who mostly live at the poverty level. Go ahead root for the other side, just don’t complain if he blows your plane up next rico.

Uhhhh Robert:

Bloomberg News isn’t silent.

And Gaddafi’s clothes.

“Huh! I’d like to meet his tailor.”- Warren Zevon

American Media Silent on CIA Ties to Libya Rebel Commander

By Patrick Martin

“March 30, 2011 “WSWS” - -It has been six days since Khalifa Hifter was appointed the top military commander for the Libyan rebel forces fighting the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. His appointment was noted by reporter Nancy Youssef of McClatchy Newspapers, a US regional chain that includes the Sacramento Bee and the Kansas City Star.

Two days later, another McClatchy journalist, Chris Adams, wrote a brief biographical sketch of Hifter that left the implication, without saying so explicitly, that he was a longtime CIA asset. It headlined the fact that after defecting from a top position in Gaddafi’s army, Hifter had lived in northern Virginia for some 20 years, as well as noting that Hifter had no obvious means of financial support.

The World Socialist Web Site published a perspective March 28 taking note of both the McClatchy articles and earlier reports providing more details of Hifter’s connections to the CIA. These included a 1996 article in the Washington Post and a book published by the French weekly Le Monde diplomatique. (See A CIA commander for the Libyan rebels”)

Both the McClatchy sketch of Hifter’s background and the WSWS perspective have been widely circulated on the Internet. The WSWS perspective has been linked to by a myriad of left-liberal and antiwar web sites, although, significantly, there has been no mention of Hifter in the press of the International Socialist Organization and other pseudo-socialist groups that adapt themselves politically to the pro-Obama liberal milieu.

Hifter has been interviewed and his appointment reported by the European press, including the Independent of Britain, the German weekly Stern, and newspapers in Spain, France, Italy and Turkey (with variant spellings, including Heftar and Haftar). But not in America.

Hifter’s name has not appeared in the bulk of the corporate-controlled US media. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times have all been curiously silent, despite having more journalists in the war zone than McClatchy. The US television networks have likewise kept quiet on the identity of the Libyan rebel commander, with the exception of a brief interview with Hifter on ABC News March 27, which made no reference to his previous long-term residence within five miles of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

There is no credible explanation for this silence from the standpoint of journalism. There is no security reason to keep the name of the Libyan commander secret—it was publicly announced by the Transitional National Council in Benghazi, and Hifter is certainly well known to Gaddafi, who employed him as a commander of Libyan-backed forces in the civil wars in Chad in the 1980s.

The obvious conclusion is that the American media is keeping silent in order to deprive the American people of information that would help clarify the nature of the US military intervention in Libya—and trigger opposition to it. The selection of a longtime CIA collaborator as commander of the rebels makes nonsense of the official claim that the United States is intervening militarily in Libya to protect civilian lives, rather than taking sides in a civil war in order to gain control of Libya’s oil assets and strengthen the position of American imperialism in the region.”

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Click on link for the rest:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27796.htm

What a fine mess the US has gotten into, yet again!

Now we’re supporting the rebels. And for years we’ve supported/tolerated Gaddafi. So what we have now is the US vs. the US. The CIA vs. the Pentagon and the rest of the government.

So no matter the outcome, we’re sure to lose. Just like the rest of the wars we have going. Why don’t we, just once, pick a war we can win? Like trying ‘Shock and Awe’ on Monaco? Or Aruba?

Just to boost our morale.

Now we find out the CIA is helping the rebels. Go Gaddafi!!! Kick rebel ass!!!

When the CIA picks a team, you KNOW you gotta root for the other side!

Boo NATO. Yay Moammar!

What were we doing all those years when we were trading weapons for oil?