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In reply to the discussion: Clinton: U.N. Palestine Vote ‘Unfortunate And Counterproductive’ [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)'bringing him back into the fold'. Africa is none of our business, so what are we doing there?
Talk to the world leaders who, if as you say he was a brutal dictator, had no problem strengthening his power right up to the beginning of the invasion. And we do not know who killed him. Which is, we are told, why no one has been arrested yet for that war crime.
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Just a few of the world leaders who regularly dealt with this dictator over the objections of people like me. Not to mention all the Big Corps who were in Libya making money, who didn't have much to say about what he was doing to his own people.
And all of the US Entertainers who regularly performed for him and his sons.
Were you yelling then about associating with and taking money from and paying this man you are now so outraged over? The time to be outraged was then.
We have a few other brutal dictators many of us have been asking that the US stop supporting right now. Karamov of Uzekistan eg. Why are we sending him money as he brutalizing and kills his own people?
We have been asking for years that the US stop supporting dictators, like Mubarak and Ben Ali and the Bahrain Royal family, the Kuwaitis.
I take seriously people suddenly having a problem with supporting dictators who have always had a problem with it.
I imagine you will be calling, as many people do, Congress to ask that we stop supporting one of the world's worse dictators, who is currently one of our best friends, Karamov. That man should be on trial for genocide and torture among other things and he makes Gadaffi look like Santa Claus.
We have zero problems with dictators until they get out of line. So long as they are willing to cooperate, it is US policy to support them. So don't dare accuse me of supporting dictators, I have been opposed to those policies ever since I first found out about them.