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2004-03-04 Africa: North

Muammar sez Libyans do not want animosity with America

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Posted by Fred 2004-03-04 00:05|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2004-3-4 12:09:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-3-4 2:12:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-3-4 2:16:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-3-4 2:29:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-3-4 5:02:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-3-4 9:52:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-3-4 11:03:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-3-4 11:33:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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