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2012-09-29 Africa North

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Posted by Pappy 2012-09-29 00:27|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Libya has oil. Why do you think the Euros were so interested in the place?/rhet question.
They just need proper management to get it and the money flowing again.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-09-29 09:24|| 2012-09-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Totten's off on this one. As P2k points out, Libya has oil. Manage the country and the oil responsibly and they don't need aid, they can pay for whatever they need.

Posted by Steve White 2012-09-29 10:54|| 2012-09-29 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Precisely Steve and P2k. Remember the NATO call for action? It was loudest heard from Paris. Chad is strongly in play here.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-09-29 10:59|| 2012-09-29 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Libya has oil. Why do you think the Euros were so interested in the place?

And Col. Khadaffy openly threatened to send on the hordes of Africans who wanted to settle in Europe. It was that threat which galvanized the forced regime change.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-09-29 11:29|| 2012-09-29 11:29|| Front Page Top

#5 'In the Camp of the Saints' - pretty bad book, but scary and probably valid premise.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-09-29 12:24|| 2012-09-29 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Give it back to the taxpayers.

Posted by Perfesser 2012-09-29 19:17|| 2012-09-29 19:17|| Front Page Top

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