Kadhafi warns US allies could suffer Saddam's fate

[Barrett808]

Source: AFP

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned Arab allies of the United States that they could meet the same fate as former Iraq president Saddam Hussein, hanged in 2006 three years after the US-led invasion.

"A foreign force occupied an Arab country and hanged its president and we stood by and watched," he told an Arab summit in the Syrian capital.

Saddam was hanged in December 2006 after being sentenced to death for crimes against humanity over the mass killing of Shiites in the 1980s.

"How can they execute a prisoner of war and the president of a member of the Arab League?" Kadhafi asked.

He said Saddam had been a friend of the United States during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s "before they turned against him and executed him."

"You could all suffer the same fate," he warned.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080329/wl_mideast_afp/arabsummitkadhafi

[Andy823]

1. He may have a point

The whole object of invading Iraq was to start a process of taking over the oil rich countries in the Middle East. Iraq was first, then it was to be Iran, and the rest would topple like dominos. Since it was so terribly planed, it hasn't worked the way they thought, but the same idiots that thought this up have not given up, they still want control of the oil, and who knows what Bush will do before the end of the year.

[RedSock]

28. why do you think iraq was "terribly planned"?

seems like everything is going as the planners planned.

[superkia]

32. I totally agree with you and dont understand why more people...

don't see this. They are getting exactly what they want and have not suffered one bit. Now some will reply that they have suffered because it hurt the republican party, but I hate to break it to them, this isn't a one party problem. We have a corrupted government that is leading the elites agenda along with the E.U. and it has nothing to do with letters in front of peoples names.

I am amazed at the pace the agenda has moved forward, soon enough we will all be run into poverty if Americans don't wake up before its too late.

[Demeter]

34. I'm Sure That's Cheney's Second Favorite Threat

Right after he sings "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran!"

[acmavm]

2. I think that Khadaffi is just saying out loud what every leader of every nation

in the Middle East has been thinking since the run up to Shock and Awe.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Well, since we've already turned on the Kurds and bombed them,

I think most of our 'allies' wear that label with considerable nervousness.

[indimuse]

3. Is this the same Kadhafi Rev Wright and Farrakhan ( together) went to Syria

for a visit in the 80's ?? Rezko is Syrian...isn't he?

[High Plains]

7. Why do you ask?

And what difference does Rezko's ethnic background make?

Slimy race-baiting and GDP ugliness.

[indimuse]

9. NOt about race!

It's about WHERE Obama got his money...READ MUCH? Obama was picked up in college and carried up the political latter by a corrupt gang of influence peddlers. very simple...

[nichomachus]

15. Read much

I assume you're talking about the Obama hit piece by Evelyn Pringle, who is an ardent Hillary propagandist. I try not to read too much of that type of crap -- full of guilt by association and campaign smears dabbed on with a wide brush.

Had Pringle done the same with Hillary's shady connections, Hillary would have had to leave the country in disgrace -- wait a minute, scratch that, nothing is too slimy to shame those two.

[Wilms]

16. Meanwhile, Hillary, draped in a white gown, is ushered from the clouds by a band of angels.

Cue the trumpets!

[nichomachus]

18. Are you saying she became a Mormon? n/t

Sounds like the Temple Ceremony to me.

[skepticscott]

26. Uh, that would be political ladder..

I assume every other word was also misspelled before you edited and you just missed that one...

[angel123]

10. Qaddafi, rev. wright, minister farrakhan

the same. in a peace peace mission that resulted in the freeing of united states navy pilot, lt robert goodman, who was shot down over lebanon. he traveled to libya and syria with rev. jessie jackson and minister farrakhan. u.s. president ronald reagan welcomed lt.goodman to the white house january 4, 1984 hours after he arrived back in the u.s. president reagan said the mission of mercy had earned the nation's gratitude and admiration.

[pocoloco]

27. Funny how they never get "The rest of the story".

And it always ends up biting them on the ass.

[Kelvin Mace]

13. Delete Dupe

[Kelvin Mace]

14. Could we leave the veiled racism to the

Republicans, please? If you want to snipe at Obama, go to GD:P

[countryjake]

29. You got a problem with missions of peace & freedom?

The freeing of United States Navy pilot Lt. Robert Goodman, after he was shot down with his plane full of bombs, is something I would imagine this country should be mighty grateful for, don't ya think? Old Reagan certainly thought so.

Careful, your bigotry is showing loud and clear in those two short lines.

Tell me, what exactly do you think was wrong about Rev. Jesse Jackson's mission back in 1984, which Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Minister Louis Farrakhan accompanied him on, along with several others?

Is there something wrong with either being from Syria or traveling there?

Please, what point are you trying to make with your post?

[peacetalksforall]

4. Wow! He threw a word bomb! That took guts. He must not know that

you don't say more than what the Corporate Propaganda Networks in the U.S. say.

[Turbineguy]

5. As long as Bush and Cheney

are there anyway.

[crim son]

6. George W. Bush - hanged.

It sounds utterly barbaric, doesn't it? Yet Americans didn't question Saddam's hanging, not that I noticed. Who is responsible for more deaths, Bush or Hussein? Do Bush's crimes warrant the death penalty? Strange thoughts.

[bulloney]

8. The gag order on Khadaffi must have expired since Ronnie Raygun's bombing of Libya and his family.

He became strangely quiet after that attack. Until now.

Makes me wonder if Bush's antics have crossed the line to the point where Khadaffi finally had to speak out.

[MetaTrope]

12. Bush Camp Seeks Libya Waiver

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1725495,00.html

The Bush administration is asking Congress to exempt Libya from a law allowing terrorism victims to seize the U.S. assets of state sponsors of the attacks.

...Gordon Johndroe, Bush's national security spokesman, said the seizing of assets provision in the law could discourage nations like Libya that have renounced the export of terrorism from now helping the United States to fight terrorism. There is potential for billions of dollars in investment by U.S. companies in Libya's oil sector, as well as in other areas, meaning Libyan assets increasingly could wind up on American soil.

"Commercial relationships ... provide important continuing incentives for them to cooperate with us on counterterrorism," Johndroe said. "This will deprive the U.S. of investments helpful to our economy, deny U.S. companies international business opportunities and reduce the opportunities for us to engage with these states on a wide range of issues including claims."

[cascadiance]

11. Woops! Now time to invade Libya again!

... and similarly, Dubya's going to want to occupy them and not just bomb them.

[nichomachus]

17. I thought Bush had "tamed" Kadhafi

I thought Bush had brought him to his knees. What happened with that?

[shain from kane]

21. Basra, too. It was pacified by the British. Right?

[lumpy]

19. Kadhafi should know. Remember the 1986 US bombing raid on

Libya pulled off by Ronald Reagan? Reagan was out to get Kadhafi over a personal spitting match. Kadhafi got away with his life although lost some of his children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_El_Dorado_Canyon

[shain from kane]

22. Collateral damage. Doesn't count for anything. Everybody still friends.

[shain from kane]

20. Saddam killed his own people, so his own people hanged him. Right?

[darue]

24. so can the iraqi's now hang bush ? a million dead is more than saddam ever did

oh and saddam had a working healthcare system, electricity, water and sewage (when we'd let him buy the parts to keep it working)

[NOLALady]

30. He also made sure that the citizens

weren't starving in spite of sanctions.

[RaleighNCDUer]

23. But the US didn't hang Saddam!

The US's hand-picked puppet government hanged Saddam.

Don't you see the difference?

[MidwestTransplant]

25. But I thought he and Bush were friends?

[CANDO]

33. Might makes us right

It's the Neo-conservative way. To hell with the consequences.