Gaddafi asks US to leave Iraq

[floda]

TRIPOLI: The United States should pull its troops out of Iraq as soon as possible, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Friday after a meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

“It would be the best thing for Iraq and America to withdraw from Iraq,” Gaddafi told reporters in the Libyan capital. When asked if that withdrawal should be done quickly, Gaddafi said: “It should be.”

Gaddafi said that relations between Libya and the United States were nevertheless improving. “We have a good relationship with America. The relations are progressing.” He said Libya would continue to cooperate in the international fight against terrorism.

Services to peace: Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi called on the West to thank him for making the world a safer place and said his country supported the war against terror as German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visited on Friday. Schroeder’s trip to Libya was the first ever by a post-war German chancellor and the latest by a Western leader since the former pariah state returned to the international fold last year.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-10-2004_pg4_5

[ogradda]

1. some one better tell libya

not to hold their breath.

[Born Free]

2. Comments like that will get them in trouble

They better watch out or they may end up on the axis of evil list - it doesn't take much for the bush coward to turn on someone - Ha! if they want to get the bush coward really mad just tell him is not half the man his father is, the bush coward hates being compared to his daddy because throughout his life he was always a "mommy baby"- yes let the bush coward know he isn't even equal to a wart on his daddy's ass and he will go crazy with anger!

[TaleWgnDg]

3. hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . now, this is interesting . . .

Gaddafi and his Libya just paid a huge (and I mean ENORMOUS) amount of money in order to get back into the "good graces" of the European countries . . . it honored court settlements/judgments for the plane explosion a few years back . . . Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland . . .

http://www.apathyincorporated.com/archives/000301.html

With that it gave Gaddafi a "leg up" . . . and now Gaddafi feels strong enough to challenge George Walker Bush? What does THAT say? Gaddafi knows that Europe and the rest of the world are correct and GWBush is wrong? I think so. Indeed.

Here'e to Gaddafi sticking his finger into GeorgeW's eye.

[aneerkoinos]

4. Indeed

Expect Libya to negotiate quickly the association agreement with EU so that it can join the Euro-Mediterranean free trade area as full member with others in 2010. US can do very little to stop EU peacefull strategy of deepening ties with her neigbours in mutually beneficient ways, and thus gaining more influence in the wider area. US is island far far away and can only bribe (Egypt) and threaten (Syria and Iran), and no sustainable influence can be build on such tactics. US is the giant with feet of clay, and that truth is becoming increasingly evident day by day.

[SaintLouisBlues]

5. After all, Libya is now the voice of reason

as Shrubco has been spinning for months.

[tinanator]

6. but he's a madman

worse than Hitler.