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Originally posted by MikeboydUS
reply to post by DSSONE
There was a change after 9-11. Gaddafi was scared, as was everyone was after 9-11. Much of the world thought we were going to nuke someone in retaliation. He helped suppress Al Qaida in response.
Then after Saddam fell he made outright overtures to the UK and the US. He essentially bought, with oil money, a new relationship with the US and UK.
Things started to sour though after he buddied up with Chavez and acted like a loon at the UN. Money can only go so far.edit on 18/3/11 by MikeboydUS because: he
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
The Mujihadeen we supported later became the Northern Alliance which fought the Taliban. Pakistani ISI supported Al Qaida.
I never said Gaddafi was related to Al Qaida, I said he suppressed them, meaning he made sure they had no presence in Libya after 9-11.
Originally posted by TribeOfManyColours
Update 21.04: The declaration (20.41 and 20.52) states that if Gaddafi does not meet the demands, the UN resolution "will be imposed by military means". The countries reiterated again that the Libyan leader "immediately" to stop attacking the people.
Originally posted by CordDragonzord
It's funny how similar Obama is to Bush, hell, they even look the same to me.
Instead of taking troops out of the middle east he is sending more, great.
Originally posted by truetrigger
Would they care or implement this If there biggest export was cocktail
Umbrellas????
No......
It's ALL about the oil ......
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
And one last thing...off topic but important....its a little disrespectful to the agonising japanese people who have suffered great hardship with little logistical and technical help from any official body...to be bypassed and made irrellevant.
Originally posted by LilDudeissocool
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
I am ashamed as an American that we fight some third world country without a modern military. We need to pick on someone our own size. I am a man dammit, I love my country, but my country needs to act like a man and pick a fight with Russia, china and GB all at the same time for it to be interesting. We should be ashamed...its like a tank vs a Hyundai.
If it was a modern war we would be seeing body bags by the plane full coming, even a possibility of a carrier loss. state of the art SAM systems...but noo..we have to pick on some third world rag tag African country with a lot of oil...
I'm thinking that might happen one day. China and Russia conduct joint military exercises. For what reason do you think they are conducting them for? It's all about controlling the global energy trade, and China and Russia eventually want to own it all.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Al-Queda and "the west" are bed buddies and it goes back to ruso-afgan war when america aided them with anti-aircraft weapons. Al-Queda paid back the USA by attacking the twin towers and the pentagon, with american supervision of course. The people "arrested" shrotly after 9-11 were subsequently realised and now live in the middle east.