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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
Nato did invade Libya for humanitarian reasons (humanitarianism is not selfless by definition, by the way) as Gadaffi had explicitly promised to massacre the city of Benghazi.
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No he didn't. Unless you can provide a link to prove this.
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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
The mandate only covers the prevention of genocide, which was what Gadaffi was going to do.
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Again this information came from the US backed rebels only.
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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
I would ask you what you want the Libyans and the citizens of Syria, Iran etc. to do. If you want the regimes of those countries to change (which im assuming you do) you'd much rather they rose up of their own accord and attempted to resolve the matter without outside military force being involved, right?
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This is the only way it should be. US/UK only ever get involved to insure US/UK friendly regimes are installed/maintained.
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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
It worked in Egypt,
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Not yet it hasn't!
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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
The UK expelled all Libyan diplomats today as a matter of fact and recognised the resistance movement as the authority, which i think is a good move.
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Why? Who are the resistance movement? Why are they better than the present regime? They are lead by people who were Gaddafi loyalists until recently. That makes them what exactly? Representative of the ordinary people?
And also this:
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Originally Posted by kinnikpasswordforgetter
Gaddafi was removed from power because he was planning to socialize his industries, stop using the dollar and start selling his oil to eastern countries. This was a powerplay by the US who want to make inroads in Africa before the Chinese get too strongly established there.
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