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2003-12-24 Africa: North

Muammar says North Korea, Iran and Syria should follow Libya's lead

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-24 00:22|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If Iraq, the most powerful Arab state lasted about a week what chance would Libya have against the US. The population and the oil is oh so close to that long shoreline.

And the French and Russians couldn't stop the US.

Kadhafi was enough of a soldier to know he had no chance. He's been aiming to seperate himself from the Arabs and become more Africa-centric for some time now. This is simply the finaly divorce.

I hope the thugs listen to his wisdom.

Posted by ruprecht 2003-12-24 12:53:13 AM|| 2003-12-24 12:53:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The campaign ribbon -- fourth row, second from left, blue with the white tips -- wonder what that one was for?

Posted by Steve White 2003-12-24 1:44:47 AM|| 2003-12-24 1:44:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ...wonder what that one was for?

Probably for the Glorious Shoot Down of An Entire Naval Air Wing of F-14s by 2 Libyan Su-22s back in '85. Don't you read the papers?

Or possibly for his excellent job of collecing camel dung for fertilizer back when he was a butterbar. Either way, the medal is entirely justified.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2003-12-24 2:06:49 AM|| 2003-12-24 2:06:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Has Libya fought enough wars during his career to even have that many decorations? Still sounds like doubletalk to me. I would not buy a used car from that man.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-24 3:27:08 AM|| 2003-12-24 3:27:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "...and that nations such as North Korea, Iran and Syria, suspected of having nuclear arms, should follow its lead."

Hey, we're in Nobel Peace Prize country here!

Posted by Jack is Back! 2003-12-24 6:10:10 AM|| 2003-12-24 6:10:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Is that Mo or Richard Dreyfuss in "Moon Over Parador"?

Posted by tu3031 2003-12-24 8:25:53 AM|| 2003-12-24 8:25:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The campaign ribbon...wonder what that one was for?

And to think he's only a colonel. I'm surprised though, where's that all-female security team? (or is that the wrong dictator I'm thinking of)

Posted by Rafael 2003-12-24 8:26:42 AM|| 2003-12-24 8:26:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, great. Another sequel to "Weekend at Bernie's"?

Posted by Dar 2003-12-24 9:47:52 AM|| 2003-12-24 9:47:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The top one on the left is the "Barney Fife" deputy badge. The top one on the ribbon is the "I Bagged a Beauty Queen" medal from the last contest that he sponsored. The bottom one on the ribbon is the "I Caught the Clap" medal, from the same contest. The blue one in the lower right is the "I Got My Ass Kicked by the Foreign Legion" medal. The one with the red points in the lower left is the "I Got My Ass Kicked by Ronald Reagan" medal. The white one on the left, in the middle, is the one for selling the most Girl Scout cookies in 1957. Finaly, the green one, on the right next to the ribbon, is the "I Got My Ass Kicked by the Egyptian Army" medal. The rest of the medals are probably for other, lesser-known ass kickings.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-12-24 10:41:31 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-12-24 10:41:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 The programs to be dismantled, Kadhafi said, "would have been for peaceful purposes â but nevertheless we decided to get rid of them completely." I am unaware of a peaceful use for drums of mustard gas. Nort African food is often spicy, but let's not go overboard.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-24 3:16:35 PM|| 2003-12-24 3:16:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I did a Midshipman Cruise on the USS Saratoga in the summer of 1987. The ship's store sold tee-shirts that read, "Saratoga 7 Libya 0." the words were puncutated by deatil that looked like seven bullet holes ripped through rivitted aluminum sheet. I wish I had bought one.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-24 3:20:21 PM|| 2003-12-24 3:20:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 AOL sends me a lot of stuff that MG has hanging on the right (our left) of his sash.

SH did you get to visit Jacksonville? We should have saved the Sara... ;(

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-24 4:51:29 PM|| 2003-12-24 4:51:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Good grief! Someone needs to explain to that idiot that it's tacky to over-accessorize.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-12-24 7:26:12 PM|| 2003-12-24 7:26:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Shipman, I did a YP cruise on the East Coast that stopped in Little Creek, Morehead City, Willmington, Charleston, Savanah and Mayport. I loved the entire trip.

I met the Saratoga in the Med on teh cruise after they torqued of Kadaffy. It was an excellent cruise to be on as well. They visited Cannes, Benidorm, Alexandria and Naples in the six weeks I was aboard. It was a blast. We cruised down across the "line of death" once, probably for crew nostalgia.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-24 8:46:22 PM|| 2003-12-24 8:46:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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