Blogs Feb 22, 2011 at 3:26 pm

The Madman of Libya

Charles Mudede
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"I had no idea he was a madman."

Seriously?
Mahtli69 on February 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM Report this
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He needs a piano wire neck tie.
Vince on February 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM Report this
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"I had no idea he was a madman"

That is simply because you are very, very stupid, and you hang around with naive white Seattle libtards all day who fawn all over you and kiss your ass only because you are black and they are white Seattle libtards! Duh!
on February 22, 2011 at 3:39 PM Report this
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It's a shame Bush let this dictator - and all the others - stay in power due to his personal obsession with Saddam Hussein and the Two Unfunded Wars of Republican Foreign Adventure.

Or ignored the cold hard fact that al-Qaeda wasn't in either Iraq or Afghanistan half a decade ago on his watch.

But, hey, what's a few international war crimes between friends?
Will in Seattle on February 22, 2011 at 3:43 PM Report this
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@1 Agreed. The dude screams MEGALOMANIA from all angles, and has since he hit the world stage. It's pretty hard to miss.
Sir Vic on February 22, 2011 at 3:45 PM Report this
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For future reference, Charles, and just as a rule of thumb, when the ratio of the number of decades a person rules over a country to the number of political parties permitted to exist in that country exceeds oh, say, five, the leader of that country is likely to have personality issues that can be characterized more harshly than "eccentricities."
kk in seattle on February 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM Report this
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The difference is, Ghaddafi is not an ethnic group with a long and uneasy history with their rivals, unlike the Hutus and Tutsis. So, not very similar at all.

Whatever happened to Ghaddafi's son, who wanted to be a footballer, but wasn't good enough, so his daddy bought him a team and put him on the squad?
Fnarf on February 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM Report this
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you're right, an eccentric does not a madman make. but he's no castro. he really doesnt give a shit about anyone but himself.
interesting perspective though, that people had even until recently thought of him as a benign weirdo. is this the behavior that finally makes his last allies turn against him, irrevocably? how long can he last??
aardvark on February 22, 2011 at 4:13 PM Report this
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#6: Well here in the good old USA, we let everyone form political parties. We just don't let them actually hold power. We like to concentrate the mandate of the wealthy and powerful into a few political parties, and let people freely tweet their irrelevant opinions all day. It's called liberal democracy, and it works every time.
on February 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM Report this
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Apparently he has ordered security services to destroy oil facilities. It will be interesting to see if they obey or disregard. Two battleships have arrived in Malta after refusing his orders to shell Benghazi, the Libyan city already rumored to be completely under rebel control.
rob! on February 22, 2011 at 4:37 PM Report this
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The original Bunga Bunga
The BTB on February 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM Report this
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Now we see whether it's all about the oil or not, @10.
Will in Seattle on February 22, 2011 at 4:47 PM Report this
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quit playin'. you knew.

his son's right though; given how he's divided the military up amongst the tribes, this could easily turn into a civil war.
Max Solomon on February 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM Report this
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At this point it looks like Qaddafi is going down. And unlike Ben Ali or Mubarak, there's a good chance he's deluded enough to stay until he gets dragged out of his palace and stoned to death in the public square. In general I'm against capital punishment, but this guy is bringing it on himself.
I have always been... east coaster on February 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM Report this
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@4 - You're bitching about how Bush "let" Qadaffi stay in power while simultaneously bitching about how he started a bunch of wars elsewhere. That's stupid.
shabadoo on February 22, 2011 at 8:34 PM Report this
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@1 He said he did not think he was a mad man because Reagan vilified him. My enemy's enemy is my friend or something like that.

Either way it's a bunch of bullshit. Charles is too willing to jump into viewing conservatives as literally and purely evil. He can't imagine they would ever do anything right.
Packeteer on February 22, 2011 at 8:57 PM Report this
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Come on, Charles! This is perhaps a sign that, from time to time, it helps to get out of the world of ideas in your head and visit the external world.

If the "decades in power" part did not alert you to the craziness, then the "fancy" military costumes and Michael Jackson sunglasses should have...pay more attention to the details next time!
robwolf on February 23, 2011 at 5:13 AM Report this

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