2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary rejected Saif Qaddafi plan to democratise Libya; bombed it into chaos instead
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/10115#efmBESCALhttps://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/710447304197672960
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)He bragged in a TV-interview that the libyan army will destroy the rebels in Benghazi before the international community had even finished debating the situation.
How trustworthy is such a person?
If you were the crown-prince of a dictatorship, what would you do and say to stay in power?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)AFTER Obama banned him from access/influencing his regime.
Then (if I get this right) Hillary's team did the old "cut-n-paste" and didn't SOURCE the "banned guy" when presenting data to Obama.
I am not sure why Obama isn't cutting her throat over this ...?
ON EDIT: Plus bonus, if the ousting of the bad guy could have been done without bloodshed via democracy, the whole "bomb the citizens" is bad judgment/disrespect of human lives but that part is speculation.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)and a champion of democracy?
L-O-fucking-L.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/27/muammar-gaddafi-arrest-warrant-hague
The court, which is based in The Hague, also issued a warrant for the Libyan intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, at the request of the ICC's chief prosecutor.
Libyan sources said Belarus, which is not a signatory to the ICC treaty, may be an exile location for Gaddafi, though Gaddafi himself has insisted he will not leave Libya. In power since 1969, he is only the world's second serving head of state to be issued with an ICC arrest warrant.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Real victims, all of them.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)this accusation is a complete, utter lie
might as well blame Hillary for 9-11 and the contras under Reagan. Just because.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)after civilians were being targeted by the Libyan military.
can we at least stick with facts.
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)Sums it up rather nicely. An international war criminal is not an opinion for nation-rebuilding.