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Originally posted by lokdog
Have you guys actually listened to his speaches, he rambles on like a madman. He reminds me of speaches Hitler gave towards the end like he is not in touch with realty.
Originally posted by lokdog
Have you guys actually listened to his speaches, he rambles on like a madman. He reminds me of speaches Hitler gave towards the end like he is not in touch with realty.
Originally posted by lokdog
Have you guys actually listened to his speaches, he rambles on like a madman. He reminds me of speaches Hitler gave towards the end like he is not in touch with realty.
Originally posted by zuul000
reply to post by Skittle
If, in a country of 6 million people, there isn't enough support for an uprising to overpower an Army of 50,000 - half of whom, according to the media, have defected - then the uprising is most definitely not a "popular" uprising.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
People are calling from the ground explaining what is happening there. They are uploading video and sending messages. If this fight was a "minority", you would know it. Or do you think only anti-Gadaffi people, while under sustained attack, somehow manage to be the only ones connected to the net?
It's recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda.
If no other government does their job and actually takes some action against this psychopath I hope the Arab nations carry out their threat and wipe out the Libyan army along with their "Leader". We need to see planes in the air and their military being removed to help the people. In fact, we needed to see that a week ago. UN meetings and "harsh words of criticism" do nothing.
And once this crisis is over and the dust has settled, we all need to take a harsh look at the UN and decide if having endless meetings while actually taking no action of any note is worth the billions they cost. They are a complete waste of skin and should be replaced by fundamental law which dictates immediate action when a gun, tank or plane opens fire on innocent civilians in ANY country, no vote, no debate, just response.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Originally posted by zuul000
reply to post by Skittle
If, in a country of 6 million people, there isn't enough support for an uprising to overpower an Army of 50,000 - half of whom, according to the media, have defected - then the uprising is most definitely not a "popular" uprising.
119,000 according to Wikipedia
In a region with a history of rulers who strengthened their armies to keep a grip on power, Muammar Qaddafi has been doing the opposite. Qaddafi spent an average 1.2 percent of gross domestic product on the military in the three years through 2008, the lowest in the Middle East and North Africa and also less than Sweden or Denmark, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute or Sipri, which tracks defense spending. Before it was split by an uprising that started last month, Libya’s army had 50,000 men, half of them draftees, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Originally posted by detachedindividualI don't know what your deal is, but please don't try to bluff people who know how to use Google themselves. Giving false data makes most of us highly suspicious, and your motives for seemingly "defending" this dictator certainly raise red flags i my mind.
Originally posted by detachedindividualSpeaking of which, I wonder what holes the rest of his sick family have crawled into?
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Gaddafi has been talking about the NWO and American/Zionist conspiracies since years.
Tyrants who love conspiracy theories
So as you know I've long asked for someone -- anyone -- to present some actual evidence that Iran's presidential elections in 2009 in which Ahmadinejad was re-elected, was in any way "rigged" or "fraudulent" as has been widely claimed. This claim has taken on a life of its own, becoming true merely because it has been repeated so often, but to date no one has been able to explain how (or even why) the regime resorted to fraud in order to keep Mousavi -- a regime-insider who was specifically vetted and cleared to run for office by the same regime and who was shown conducting a live debate with Ahmadinejad -- out of office for unknown reasons.
www.iranaffairs.com...
Originally posted by zuul000
You hit Iran in the second line of your post by saying they've suppressed free elections.
This is argumentum verbosium, a logical fallacy. I, personally, choose to deal in reason and logic.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Originally posted by zuul000
You hit Iran in the second line of your post by saying they've suppressed free elections.
This is argumentum verbosium, a logical fallacy. I, personally, choose to deal in reason and logic.
Im fully supporting your notion that Gaddafi has been fighting what he perceives to be the NWO, and this is how you respond?
Are you saying that Iran supports free elections and free Internet and democratic protests?