Reply #70: I BEG you to do some background reading (see cites). The lack of knowledge is PAINFULL

[Distant Observer]

Please refer to standard texts on Kaddafi and Libya written prior to current dissinformation campaign.
Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution, 1987, David Blundy, Andrew Lycett
Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction, 1997, Mansour O. El-Kikhia

Or even do a simple search and read some commentary on the current dissinformation campaign.

http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2011/03/24/disinformation-on-libya-what-the-imperialist-western-media-is-hiding/

Disinformation on Libya: What The ‘Imperialist’ Western Media is Hiding
Posted on 24 March 2011
By: Miguel Urbano Rodrigues

Two weeks have elapsed since the first demonstrations in Benghazi and Tripoli. The disinformation campaign about Libya has sown confusion in the world.

First a certainty: the analogies with events in Tunisia and Egypt are misplaced. These rebellions contributed obviously to depoliticize street protests in both neighboring countries, but the peculiar Libyan process has characteristics inseparable from the conspiring strategy of imperialism and what can be defined as the metamorphosis of a leader.

Muammar Gaddafi, unlike Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, took an anti-imperialist position when he seized power in 1969. A puppet monarchy was abolished, and for decades he has practised a policy of independence, beginning with the nationalisation of oil. He has practised a strategy that promoted economic development and reduced egregious social inequality.