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| Muammar sez Libyans do not want animosity with America | |
| 2004-03-04 | |
| Jana Libyan News Agency The Leader of the Revolution confirmed the Libyans do not want animosity with America, the superpower. The Leader of the Revolution, addressing the opening session of the General Peoples Congress, said the Libyans say we do not wish to remain hostile to advanced Europe and advanced America. We want to co-operate with them in industry, agriculture, medicine, education and all areas. He added that Libya is strong in the Mediterranean area. It is a major effective factor in Euro-African and Euro-Mediterranean co-operation in the Barcelona process and in the group of five plus five. It is a highly influential factor. They used to rush to us: the President of the European Commission, the Italians and the Spanish. They all said for your own sake and in Libya's interest do not leave Barcelona. Let us resume five plus five. Let us engage in co-operation in the Mediterranean. We used to say "no - we have a position". They replied those for whom you have adopted such a position are reconciled with us.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 gromky, I gather that you're from some other country that is a recipient of "NOT ENOUGH" American taxpayer dollars. Send some of your own carrots. We've been sending carrots for decade after decade, to an ungrateful, backward world, determined to remain that way. It's time some of you other countries bear some of the burden. Ante up, dude. Put your money where your big mouth is. |
| Posted by: Danny 2004-3-4 11:33:06 PM |
| #7 Great discussion. It would be interesting to think that in twenty years our relationship with Libya would be the same as our relationship with Japan in 1965. Heck, maybe the Libyans will start manufactoring small, inexpensive, well-made cars for export. Kimmie, on the other hand, must die for all the reasons DPA noted. Anyone -- anyone -- who builds concentration camps can never be allowed to have a peaceful relationship with the United States. My hope is that whatever GWB and Co. say in public to further our diplomacy, when he, Condi, Rummie, Colin etc sit around a table for a private meeting, the agreed bottom-line is that Kimmie must die. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-3-4 11:03:19 AM |
| #6 Ally, no. But as a living example of what happens when you throw down your WMD and start playing nice, yes. We just have to hope that the U.S. actually gives some carrots for this, instead of merely insiting that proper behavior is its own reward as it tends to do. |
| Posted by: gromky 2004-3-4 9:52:19 AM |
| #5 Well written, DPA. I am not suggesting friendship with Libya or North Korea. I am interested only in neutralizing the nations as WMD threats and state sponsors of terrorism without our guys having to shed American blood to do it. Absent an untimely death of the self-described "rat turd": If Kim takes the decision to do a verified Kadaffy 180, I'll feel a whole lot less like a USEFUL FOOL providing humanitarian aid to North Koreans. |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-3-4 5:02:12 AM |
| #4 Garrison I concur. The carrot and the stick. Watch Qadafi closely but if he continues to walk the walk then I'll be glad to end our antagnostic relationship. I've got to same I'm a little stunned regarding his actions... never would have dreamed he would turn 180 that fast, or at all to be honest. Then again maybe he hasn't... Kim in North Korea is a different issue. His leadership is causing millions of north koreans to starve and he runs torture/death camps that remind me of the type that hitler ran. He is an evil bastard and needs to die. We can't stand by and make friendly with a regime that tortures it's own people. It's immoral. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-3-4 2:29:05 AM |
| #3 Agreed, Garrison. We can be pals with 'em after he's had his giggle juice therapy and squeaks when he walks. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-4 2:16:09 AM |
| #2 Folk in the West who want to hold grudges strike me as not much different from Muslims still smarting over some "humiliation" that occurred seven hundred years ago. We get along with the f-ing Japanese and Germans, we can get along with the Libyans. Yesterday reports indicated the North Koreans were looking into getting the same deal Moammar got. If bad regimes can be neutralized without firing a shot in anger or a US soldier dying, God bless President Bush. |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-3-4 2:12:10 AM |
| #1 Well then "Come on Barbie, let's go party." Let bye gones be bye gones. "So sorry for the massacre." It was a something thing, Ya know, No big deal now, Ya know, shake, hugs, Pop the keg, it's party time. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-3-4 12:09:58 AM |