By "CavalierZee"
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says Washington wants to see the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi captured or killed. Professor Paul Sheldon Foote says that the Obama administration believes this killing would be a justified one.
The statement came during her surprise visit to Libya at a meeting with senior members of the country's National Transitional Council.
She has also pledged millions of dollars in new aid, including medical care for wounded fighters and additional assistance to secure weaponry, which many fear could fall into the hands of extremists.
Most of the new aid money will go toward finding and destroying thousands of Gaddafi-era shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles that are unaccounted for since the fighting began.
"The United States was proud to stand for you in your fight for freedom and we will continue to stand with you as you continue this journey," Clinton proclaimed during talks with National Transitional Council Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril and interim leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil.
Addressing leaders of the interim body, Clinton noted that the fighting wasn't over yet but vowed that NATO would continue to protect civilians as long as the threat continues.
Clinton is the most senior American official to visit Libya since the uprising against Gaddafi began in February and only the second secretary of state to visit in the past 50 years.
Speaking of the legitimacy of killing Colonel Gaddafi, Professor Paul Sheldon Foote from California State University says that if it is okay for Americans to kill current leaders, they will not have any problems with killing former ones.
"Warmongers in the Obama administration will argue that he [Gaddafi] is a former leader and therefore he's fair game," he declared. "Don't forget who Hilary Clinton is. In 2008 as a candidate for president she threatened to kill every man, woman and child and turn Iran into a waste basket."
Foote believes that behind this unannounced visit there is the desire of the Obama administration to put some American 'fingerprints' on the success.
"In addition to saying that they've killed Bin Laden, they want to say next year in Obama's campaign for re-election that they've brought a great victory in Libya," he said.
Keith Harmon Snow, a war correspondent and independent investigator, believes that killing Gaddafi would be an illegal targeted assassination and that there is obviously a hidden agenda behind Hilary Clinton's apparently spontaneous visit.
"There is a lot of fighting in Libya at present and almost everything we've been told, everything we've seen, is false. We are getting just a complete propaganda story of what's going on in Libya," he said. "Why is she there? Clearly to make it look to the American public like we are in absolute control of Libya. Cover up the atrocities, put a white, clean, shiny, happy, lovely face on the death and destruction."
¬Watch full interview with Keith Harmon Snow
Western Hugs With Gaddafi End With Shot To Head
This is the end result when you make deals with the devil, you are used, abused then discarded like trash.
1. Remember what was done to Saddam Hussein after all his years of loyal service to the West.
2. Remember how the Shah of Iran was left Nationless and was refused entry by Washington after his years of loyal service.
3. Remember what was ultimately done to Manuel Noriega.
4. Remember how Ben Ali of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt were abandoned by the West after all they did for us.
That was just a partial list.
Libya's chief forensic pathologist says an autopsy has confirmed that Moammar Gadhafi was killed by a shot to the head. NATO wraps up its campaign hailing a free Libya after Colonel Gaddafi is killed - but disturbing images of his final moments raise questions about the nation's future.
This week marked the end of Colonel Gaddafi's grip on Libya. But the mystery surrounding his death in captivity has sparked international calls for an investigation, with the official account that he was killed in a crossfire widely questioned.
Libya's now looking to hold elections within eight months. But as RT's Anissa Naouai reports from Tripoli, there is much cynicism over whether things will change post Gaddafi.
Then, Hillary Gloats at Qadaffi's demise:
"We Came, We Saw, He Died!"
The following is my retort in reponse to the below comment which was posted to my entry titled:
"Gaddafi’s Last Moments Alive"
COMMENTS:
- That the last words of Ghaddafi ji should have been 'Don't shoot' is enough to prove that Ghaddafi ji was a peaceful non-violent man. He wanted his peaceful religion to spread far and wide in Europe and America not by violence but by peaceful means of legal or illegal immigration, and then production of more and more children by the immigrants. He was a master strategist, who could beat the manipulating non-believers by his sheer presence. His dream of Islamization of Europe and America is certainly going to be fulfilled; only Ghaddafi ji would not be there to witness the scenes.
1. Allowing the Libyans to exterminate each other for several months.
2. Killing quite a few of them in the process, via: air strikes, targeted killings, through drones.
3. Bombing Libya's infrastructure back to the stone age.
WE should be praised for our master strategy:
1. Dealing with that dictator for 42 years. Using him, then discarding him like trash after he was no longer of any use to us.
2. Selling him weapons, and "WMD's"
3. Applying economic sanctions for many years.
4. Welcoming him back into the "international community" as a rehabilitated hero (forget about his so-called "terrorist" past).
5. Destroying Libya and demanding his killing.
Like our great stateswoman, Hillary Clinton said:
a) "we prefer that he is captured or dead." then,
b) "we came, we saw, he's dead."
Now, we swoop in like vultures, to "rebuild" Libya, after aiding in its destruction. Install another dictator, or better yet, some terrorists, so we can remain in that area for another few decades, sell them weapons again, apply more sanctions, destroy the country again, regime change again , and repeat the process again.
I tell ya, the West is the best. Aren't we?
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