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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Kadhafi says Saddam still legitimate Iraqi leader Well, sure. As long as it's a homegrown despot, then there's no problem. Torture, rape, plunder and murder to your heart's content. But a government that was elected under the "occupation regime" of America -- the country that actually wants to put an end to the crimes against humanity that constituted the fabric of life in Iraq under Saddam -- has no legitimacy, according to Kadhafi, even though the citizens stepped up and voted for it at the risk of their lives. I guess it all makes perfect sense to someone like Kadhafi, who happens to be one of the world's longest reigning dictators. Few will even remember that he took over Libya in a military coup in 1969. If you're into nostalgia, that was the same year the "Brady Bunch" debuted on network television and man landed on the moon for the first time. In other words, the almost inconceivably distant past. In the interview, Kadhafi elaborated that it "is dangerous to send troops to eliminate heads of state who are not appreciated, because tomorrow it could be the turn of Castro, Kadhafi or Mugabe . . ." "Not appreciated?" That's kind of like saying that the U.S.S. Titanic's maiden voyage didn't quite live up to its fullest expectations. How many millions have those three oppressed, robbed, wrongly imprisoned, exiled, tortured and murdered? And this is his argument against eliminating heads of state? Who on that list doesn't need to be eliminated, and yesterday rather than tomorrow? He spelled out a list of despots whose eliminations would make the entire civilized world -- not to mention Cubans, Libyans and Zimbabweans -- swoon with delight. But the towering Libyan thinker gave yet another reason why Saddam should not have been overturned: "The invasion of Iraq was not justified because Saddam had already abandoned weapons of mass destruction." The only problem is he didn't bother to tell anybody, including his own generals. He preferred that everyone believe he had the weapons in the hope that it would deter any possible attacks from those who had "not appreciated" his particular rough-hewn style of leadership. But give Kadhafi credit for outing his own WMD program. It was the pragmatic thing to do for someone who saw what happened to Saddam and didn't want to risk his own reign coming to an end after a measly 37 years. Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/ Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Greg Strange at 7:30 PM |
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