Gadhafi is a G... no doubts from the outfits we wore, the iron fist in how he control his people, the virgin female body guards, and his sons even had Beyonce, Mariah Carey and others perform for them.
But, it will do just that with this war. That is the point of it.
Ok, let me know when the no-fly zone and 100 tomahawk missiles are landing in Israeli cities.
[h1]Arab League chief condemns killing of Libya civilians by Western powers [/h1] [h2]Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa calls for emergency meeting to discuss situation in Libya, says Arabs did not want military strike on Libya by Western powers when the League called for a no-fly zone. [/h2] ByNews Agencies
The Arab League chief said on Sunday that Arabs did not want military strikes by Western powers that hit civilians when the League called for a no-fly zone over Libya.
In comments carried by Egypt's official state news agency, Secretary-General Amr Moussa also said he was calling for an emergency Arab League meeting to discuss the situation in the Arab world and particularly Libya.
"What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone, and what we want is the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians," he said.
"He requested official reports about what happened in Libya in terms of aerial and marine bombardment that led to the deaths and injuries of many Libyan civilians. He pointed out that he asked for the full data to know what actually happened," MENA said.
Western forces have unleashed their biggest military attack in the Arab world since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, targeting Muammar Gadhafi's air defenses and armored vehicles near the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in the east of the country.
A few hours after the first missiles struck, Gadhafi called on "citizens of the Arab and Islamic nations" and other developing countries to "stand by the heroic Libyan people to confront this aggression".
But Arabs from North Africa to the Gulf, many demanding political rights for the first time, dismissed the appeal from a leader whose four decades of authoritarian and capricious rule have exhausted any reserves of sympathy.
"It is now clear and understandable that Arab people want to get rid of their leaders, so leaders should simply leave and not fight their people and force foreign nations to interfere," said Mohamed Abdel Motaleb, a bank employee in Cairo, where mass protests toppled veteran president Hosni Mubarak last month.
"I am very much against foreign troops fighting in Libya, but Arab leaders should not let that happen through their stubborness and refusal to quit power".
A Libyan government official said 64 people died in the Western air strikes and the head of the Arab League, which supported Libyan no-fly zone, said the organization had not endorsed attacks on ordinary Libyans.
The overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt and Tunisia's Zine al Abidine bin Ali -- as well as mass protests against leaders in Yemen and Bahrain -- have restored a dormant Arab pride which was crushed by decades of autocracy and foreign intervention.
But many people in the Arab world, while anxious to see the end of Gadhafi's rule, felt that the resort to Western military action has tarnished Libya's revolution.
"Who will accept that foreign countries attack an Arab country? This is something shameful," said Yemeni rights activist Bashir Othman.
Support for military action was also muted by deep-seated suspicions that the West is more concerned with securing access to Arab oil supplies than supporting Arab aspirations.
"They are hitting Libya because of the oil, not to protect the Libyans," said Ali al-Jassem, 53, in the village of Sitra in Bahrain, where protests by the Shi'ite Muslim majority against the Sunni ruling Al-Khalifa family have triggered military reinforcement by neighboring Gulf Arab forces.
A spokesman for Bahrain's largest Shi'ite opposition party Wefaq questioned why the West was intervening against Gadhafi while it allowed oil-producing allies to support a crackdown on protesters in Bahrain in which 11 people have been killed.
"We think what is happening in Bahrain is no different to what was happening in Libya," Ibrahim Mattar said. "Bahrain is very small so the deaths are significant for a country where Bahrainis are only 600,000."
In Iraq, where U.S.-led forces invaded eight years ago to topple Saddam Hussein, opposition to Gadhafi was tempered by the years of violence which Iraq endured after Saddam's downfall, as well as anger at perceived double standards.
Criticism of the West has not translated into support for Gadhafi, who has bemused or infuriated leaders across the Arab world during his four decades in power.
Saudi Arabia accused him of plotting to kill King Abdullah in 2003, Lebanese Shi'ites hold him responsible for the disappearance of charismatic cleric Musa al-Sadr, and in the 1990s he expelled thousands of Palestinians.
Libyan and Egyptian forces also clashed on their border in the early years of Gadhafi's rule, and he regularly harangued Arab presidents and kings at meetings of the Arab League, before turning his back on them in favor of closer African ties.
"Our friends, our brothers are in Libya and we need to support them there," said 42-year-old Mohammed Abdullah, sipping coffee in the business district of the Qatari capital Doha. "Gadhafi needs to be out. He kills his own people".
Certainly, all of the cases you mentioned qualify, and more should be done at an international level to prevent the violation of internationally guaranteed human rights. In Gaza, especially. I have been there, and the actions of the Israeli military are unnecessarily brutal, and clearly, violate international law. BUT-- and this is a enormous but-- the United States will never take military action against Israel. This is an unfortunate fact. Moreover, as the Clinton experience shows, attempts to mediate the Israel-Palestine conflict are futile.Originally Posted by tkthafm
Ok, let me know when the no-fly zone and 100 tomahawk missiles are landing in Israeli cities.
Secondly, this is not a genocide. Stop believing Western imperialist propaganda and diluting the meaning of the word for people really suffering through genocides. Is Bahrain a genocide ? (pretty sure live ammo is being used and protesters are constantly getting shot in the head with sniper rounds, sound similar to Libya ? why we ignoring it ?) Was Gaza a genocide ? Was Iraq a genocide ? Was Lebanon a genocide ? Just stop for your own sake.
Thirdly, saying we got some other countries (most of whom sold arms to Gaddafi) to thug it out with us means nothing and does nothing to strengthen your argument. We went in with a "coalition" in Iraq, no ?
That'd be the day. Americans now aren't down for that.
Originally Posted by rashi
Also, let me poise a question to you War mongoring Neocons.
What happens if Gaddafi doesn't leave? Air strikes aren't going to remove Gaddafi, the military was saying this even in Iraq. They knew Air strikes wouldn't remove Saddam.
Do ya'll understand the repercussions? Do you guys understand that if Gaddafi doesn't leave you have just opened the door to an increase in "terrorist" attacks? I mean you guys are advocating an illegal and unjust invasion of this guys country and expect nothing to happen?
"no ground troops"Yeah, ok. We'll see what Hillary pushes Obama into.
