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 Libyan Protest Tops 200Posted on Feb 19, 2011
The death toll in protests against the four-decade-plus rule of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya is now more than 200 people, with 900 injured amid warnings from government media that anyone opposing the regime risked “suicide.” —JCL Update: BBC reports that the death toll now exceeds 200. (The above text has been updated with this information).
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By rico, suave, February 23, 2011 at 2:58 pm Link to this comment
PS:
Why was Obama so quick to criticize mubarak/Egypt, a purported ally, and mum regarding Gadhafi/Libya, a purported enemy?
Don’t tell me. It’s the new foreign policy dispensation- maybe if we make nice to the people who hate us they won’t kill us, and who cares about the people who won’t hurt us because we’re already “friends.”
Report thisBy rico, suave, February 23, 2011 at 2:52 pm Link to this comment
Mr Barnett,
Let’s go with the joke… “The left should do all it can to support him,”
Then let’s go with your comment, which is absolutely true… “So far, not a word of condemnation regarding the slaughter in Libya…”
The funniest jokes always allude to some well-understood truth. My comment is a joke insofar as it slightly exaggerates the truth of your comment.
Report thisBy Alexander Barnett, February 22, 2011 at 12:09 pm Link to this comment
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The comment by Rico , Suave is either a rotten joke or beneath contempt. Gadhafi is a brutal monster and everything possible should be done to oppose and remove him. Regarding human rights, Obama is as big a phony and hypocrite as Bush was. So far, not a word of condemnation regarding the slaughter in Libya and renditions are still be carried out and we are till torturing.
Report thisBy rico, suave, February 21, 2011 at 10:32 am Link to this comment
Elli:
You must remember that Gadhafi is anti-US and that is the highest consideration. The left should do all it can to support him, since, if he fails, there is no guarantee that his replacement will not be a CIA/Mossad/Exxon shill. Surely the left can accept a few thousand nameless Libyan lives in exchange for keeping an enemy of the US in power, don’t you agree?
It will be just a matter of time before it is discovered that the “foreign troops” Gadhafi hired are rouge Blackwater contractors, pissed of at the US government for terminating their contracts in Iraq.
Report thisBy Elli Davis, February 20, 2011 at 6:00 pm Link to this comment
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What is worst is the fact that he has ordered foreign troops to fire at people of his own country. The international community should be quick to react in order to prevent other atrocities caused by this terrible dictator in Libya.
Report thisBy unnamable, February 19, 2011 at 7:33 pm Link to this comment
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The whitedove needs a pot, or some pot, or a psychiatric treatment.
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