Reply #94: Well, I suppose that was my point. That our interests [View All]

[sabrina 1]

are not necessarily the interests of the people who are rising up against our allies. And there is suspicion around the world, and especially in those countries themselves as to what our motives are. Eg, once the West realized it could not defend its friendly dictators successfully anymore, do you think they gave up the idea of 'influencing' the outcome of these revolutions?

In Egypt eg, an attempt was made to install a man who was a known torturer. It failed, but had it succeeded that is who the West would have supported once again, against the interests of the people who were fighting and dying to have the right to choose their own governments.

The suspicion now is that the West is influencing the outcome in Libya. That Libya will end up with a government very similar to the Government of Iraq. Are those fears unfounded? I don't think so.

So, since I fully support the revolutionaries' right to choose their own government, I am very opposed to any interference from those responsible for what happened in Iraq. And I'm wondering if the original revolutionaries have already been betrayed.

Last week, the Iraqi people went out across the country in their thousands, to protest their government's policies on corruption, on jobs etc. They were unarmed and peaceful. The western backed government brutally cracked down on those protesters, killing 29 of them and jailing many, many more.

If our efforts in Libya were humanitarian, or if we could be trusted to 'bring democracy' to Libya, we have only to look at Iraq to determine whether or not that is true. The U.S. did not condemn the crackdown in Iraq to my knowledge. Is this what anyone who supports the Libyan people would want for them?