Reply #66: Me too because the way it's heading now, I c no better alternatives. Read this

[Catherina]

I think there's a lot of food 4 thought here. Even if you disagree, this is clearly, after decades of experience, how the Libyan people see it and that's all that matters.

If you have time, please read the entire article and look at Peace Patriot's posts here and in an LBN thread I didn't comment in so I can't find it now.

We know how terrible our govt has been over the decades to the Arab World, why beat on Hugo Chavez who might be able to really help here? I'm sick of ppl dying and tired of seeing the govt I subsidize pursue a reckless imperial strategy that hurts us and hurts other people- all for the financial profit of very few people (oil companies and the MIC in this case) who own the western govts.

Imperialist hands off Libya!
1 March 2011

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The pace of the shift in American policy, in particular, is extraordinary. Washington has moved from relative silence on the movement against Gaddafi to leading the charge for outside intervention.

The United States made a major political and financial investment in the cultivation of friendly relations with Gaddafi, regarding his sudden rapprochement with Washington and US foreign policy after 2003 as a major strategic gain. Hillary Clinton recently feted one of Gaddafi’s sons in Washington and appointed the founding chairman of the US-Libya Business Association to be the State Department’s coordinator for international energy affairs.

VIDEO of Hillary and Mutassim Gaddaffi
Gaddafi’s son visited the United States in 2009. Secretary of State Clinton ensured he was made suitably welcome.

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The momentum toward military intervention is accelerating. The Berlusconi government in Italy—the former colonial power in Libya and the biggest customer for its oil—officially repudiated its non-aggression pact with the Gaddafi regime Sunday. This is the necessary legal preparation both for Italian military action inside Libya and the unleashing of US warplanes at Aviano and other NATO air bases in Italy.

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In other words, Libya is to be turned into a semi-colony, ruled by the United States and its fellow predators from Western Europe, who will seize control of the oil reserves and transform the country’s territory into a strategic base of operations against the mass uprisings now sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/pers-m01.shtml