occupyeverywhere
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Fri Oct-21-11 06:58 PM
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Why didn't Gaddafi go into exile in Switzerland? |
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Or someplace. Live off all his stashed wealth in a neutral country, chase models and eat chocolate.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:01 PM
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1. Makes one wonder doesn't it? My guess is that he truly thought that |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:01 PM
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2. Because he was a blood thirsty arrogant bastard... |
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Who had no respect for God, the Libyan people, or human decency.
:evilgrin:
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:02 PM
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3. And give up power? Nevahhhhh! |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:02 PM
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4. He was a dictator, holding on to what seems to be power is everything |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:02 PM
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5. Lot's of hidden skeletons all over (or under) the sands. |
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Maybe kenny-boy's island would have been 'hidden away' thus invisible enuf.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:04 PM
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6. Because a sewer pipe was more appropriate for his ilk. n/t |
occupyeverywhere
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:06 PM
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How can you say something like that? You sound as if Ghaddifi himself twisted your brother's nuts in a vice and threw him in a jail cell for 30 years.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:10 PM
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He got what was coming to him. By his own people.
WTF is your problem anyway?
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occupyeverywhere
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:12 PM
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:15 PM
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15. Sorry your boy got his comeuppance, but them's the breaks sometimes |
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.
That's life.
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occupyeverywhere
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:20 PM
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17. You make a lot of presumptions. |
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"your boy"? Do you use that terminology a lot?
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:26 PM
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:27 PM
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21. You are a man of few words. |
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I like that about you! :-)
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:17 PM
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16. You didn't ask me, but I think that someone who announced |
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he would kill his own citizens who were getting in his way of his hold on power doesn't deserve any more sympathy than he showed those he massacred.
Do you feel differently?
Please elaborate.
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occupyeverywhere
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:20 PM
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Fri Oct-21-11 10:52 PM
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36. But I'm so very interested to hear your opinion on this. Please |
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forgive me for barging in on a private conversation and let me know what I should be thinking.
Thank you.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:05 PM
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7. he probably didn't really realize until it was too late that he wasn't getting back in power |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:06 PM
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:08 PM
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11. Dude, or Dudette, you cracked me up. |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:07 PM
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10. What’s considered a secret town hall meeting? |
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Edited on Fri Oct-21-11 07:08 PM by donco
If it is a tele town hall meeting I participated in couple of them myself with Representative Russ Carnahan.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:15 PM
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14. Right after Reagan bombed his family? Or some other time? |
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Edited on Fri Oct-21-11 07:15 PM by L. Coyote
Maybe he was busy being a progressive leader and a thug opposing global domination and random bombings by the US? Guess that didn't work out too well! :rofl:
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:21 PM
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19. Because President Obama froze his assets. |
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That 34 Billion will now go to the Libyan People,
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occupyeverywhere
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:30 PM
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26. Where is Obama> Barrow, Alaska? |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:29 PM
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22. Seeing as how not one of actually knows, why not he loved his country so much he could not leave? |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:35 PM
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29. So much so that he killed thousands of his countrymen. |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:50 PM
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34. You don't have to love your countrymen to love your country. |
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I despise the majority of the people around here, bunch of right-wing fundamentalists for the most part and some of the nutcases around these parts are even worse. But this is the best place to live I have found and I've been all over this country.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:29 PM
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23. I saw Christiane Amanpour (sp) on some news channel |
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yesterday and she said that people of Gaddafi's ilk really do live in a bubble. They surround themselves with "yes men" and truly cannot see how bad things are. He really thought this would end,he would remain in power, and it would be business as usual.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:29 PM
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24. Not clear he had that option |
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I do not recall any nation saying they would accept him and not allow extradition for trial at the Hague or elsewhere. It was discussed here at the time.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:32 PM
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You would think his money, and I'm sure not ALL of it was frozen, would buy him a ticket to anywhere.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:47 PM
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33. There were countries that said they would accept him. |
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Burkina Faso, Uganda, Venezuela.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:29 PM
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25. Because by the time he realized he couldn't murder away the people aligned against him |
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It was too late.
Quite the miscalculation for someone so modest and rational.
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:33 PM
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:38 PM
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30. it would seem that having unlimited power over a multitude is addicting |
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:41 PM
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Go back and watch the reports from Rixos Hotel. Pretty remarkable.
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occupyeverywhere
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Fri Oct-21-11 07:42 PM
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I just can't see it though, I'm just me but self preservation trumps ego for me every time.
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Fri Oct-21-11 08:07 PM
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35. Then he should've taken the Venezuela offers. He would've had a quiet exile... |
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...and while Venezuela is a signatory to extradition treaties, they reserve the right to keep their people (there was a recent outrage when one of their terrorist connected guys got busted), and Gaddafi spent a lot of time in Venezuela. It would've been easy enough.
I think he truly believed the west had his back, he spent almost a decade aligning his country to western economics, and indeed, toward the end he kept telling Obama that he respected him and that he should stop the war, etc. It's mind boggling how the man thought, to be sure, but self-preservation probably wasn't at the front of his mind.
Until he found himself in a drain pipe and surrendered (and I honestly believe he just got unlucky, if he got picked up by a more disciplined brigade he probably would still be alive right now).
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