ok the tuesday march 29 show of democracy now had a pretty good debate on
who the rebels are…Khalifa Hifter, who’s supposedly the new rebel leader, was a
former top military officer for gaddafi, but spent the last 20 years in virginia
before flying back over…yea i’m not sure how most libyans would feel about that

expat:

Did you not say “freshly minted new design Libyan flags”? Did I not say, no they aren’t a new design? I only disputed their provenance, not the date or quantity of their production. Why do you feel it necessary to make up something in order to refute it?

expat:

I’m confused by your post. Who are the crooks I’m supposedly apologizing for? And lose the flying references- you don’t know what you’re talking about and they sound stupid coming from you.

This intervention was wrong, wrong, wrong. Now NATO is the de facto rebel Air Force, providing close air support for their drive toward Tripoli. Who signed up for THAT mission?

I saw a picture of a “rebel” in his truck with a Che Guevara poster hung inside. Tells me all I need to know about that guy’s “democratic” bona fides.

“BTW” expat, I think the flag is the old original pre-Gaddafi Libyan flag, and their PR department is the fawning world media. Oh, the romance of it all.

i’m curious at what point the protesters became “rebels”...was the uprising in libya
a planned failure from the beginning and the “rebels” unaware pawns? is there now
a split among pro-democracy protesters and these “rebels?” i have to say, i’m a bit
disappointed with amy goodman and democracy now who, so far, have been
glamorizing the rebels and not really asking questions about the West having
possibly manipulated the situation.