Hooray!… Obama Finally Sees That Gaddafi Is a Brutal Tyrant

Hooray!… Obama Administration finally discovers that Gaddafi is a brutal tyrant.

The families of prisoners killed in the 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre hold up pictures of their disappeared relatives calling for truth and justice. (Khaled Mehyar -HRW)

Gaddafi has been a horrible tyrant for over 40 years.
According to BOPA: Libya has been ruled for 42 years by a cunning, repressive, eccentric dictator who has frequently described his own people as “backwards.” More than half of his 6.5 million subjects are under 18. Despite Libya’s Libya’s plentiful oil revenues, which represent most of the national budget, many children suffer from malnutrition and anemia. Corruption is rampant, dissidents are brutally suppressed, and many citizens are afraid to say Qaddafi’s name in public or in private for fear of attracting suspicion. Instead, Qaddafi is often referred to as “the leader” and to his son Seif (until now heir-apparent) as “the principal.” Discussing national policy with a foreigner is punishable with three years in prison. Reporters Without Borders describes press freedom in Libya as “virtually non-existent.”

But this was apparently lost on the Obama Administration.
It took the death of hundreds of protesters in the street for the Obama Administration to understand that the Gaddafi is a brutal tyrant.
USA Today reported:

The president called on Gadhafi to step down for the first time, saying the Libyan government must be held accountable for its brutal crackdown on dissenters. The administration also announced new sanctions against Libya, but that was overshadowed by the sharp demand for Gadhafi’s immediate ouster.

“The president stated that when a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now,” the White House said.

The statement summarizing Obama’s telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel came as Libya’s embattled regime passed out guns to civilian supporters and sent armed patrols around its capital to quash dissent and stave off the rebellion that now controls large parts of the North African nation.

Gaddafi has been killing and jailing dissidents for years. The fact that Team Obama is just noticing this is disturbing.

#1 February 27, 2011 at 11:39 am
Bobbi commented:

I’m sorry ti sat
#2 February 27, 2011 at 11:39 am
Khan Krum commented:

Well, at least he can meet up with his old friend Jeremiah Wright now that al-Bama has tossed al-Qadhafi under the bus too. That bus must be a Terex Titan or a monster truck bus given the number of rogues IWonWTF has tossed under it.
#3 February 27, 2011 at 11:41 am
Bobbi commented:

I’m sorry to say but Gapddaf-nut needs to be arrested before he releases the mustard gas on his people.
#4 February 27, 2011 at 11:41 am
cutlers bad knee commented:

How long before America finally wakes up and see’s that Obama is an America hatingl tyrant ?
#5 February 27, 2011 at 11:42 am
ogee commented:

by a cunning, repressive, eccentric dictator who has frequently described his own people as “backwards.” More than half of his 6.5 million subjects are under 18. Despite Libya’s Libya’s plentiful oil revenues, which represent most of the national budget, many children suffer from malnutrition and anemia. Corruption is rampant, dissidents are brutally suppressed,

Doesn’t this seems strangely familiar in US of A? Hint: BHO

Agreed-the fact the BHO admin are just seeing this is distrubing.

They need to repent and apologize to citizens of USA. NWO is an IDEA that WILL NOT WORK. REPENT!!!!

O/T: AZ just passed a law saying dual citizens are ‘natrual born’..that is so false. It’s wrong!
#6 February 27, 2011 at 11:43 am
Daniel commented:

Baloney. I don’t trust this “new” Obama – not. One. Damn. Bit.

He messed us up for two years (more if you count his senatorial “present” business.) and anyone going to give him a passs?

Not me.
#7 February 27, 2011 at 11:49 am
TexasFred commented:

Obama has always been a bit slow, like a 30 minute *flash to bang* slow… It takes a few days of polls and public opinion before he throws his buddies under the bus…
#8 February 27, 2011 at 11:52 am
AuntieMadder commented:

I’m with Daniel @ #6. Who knows what Barky really thinks of Gaddafi today or what he thought of him in the past. By Barky’s/White House latest statement on Gaddafi, all we know is that Barky sees it’s politically expedient today to denounce Gaddafi.
#9 February 27, 2011 at 11:54 am
cutlers bad knee commented:

The Obama’s will be at the Academy Awards tonight….Barry will accept the oscar for best actor for the portrayal of a president…..
Seabiscuit will recieve the oscar for best supporting actress for the portrayal of a first lady……
AHHHHH so many party’s so little time , i’m sure they will enjoy the Red Carpet, that’s their favorite color you know…….
#10 February 27, 2011 at 11:54 am
kansas commented:

Hooray!… Obama Administration finally discovers that Gaddafi is a brutal tyrant.
Suggested edit.
Hooray!..Obama Teleprompter finally discovers that Gaddafi is a brutal tyrant.
#11 February 27, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Scott commented:

I just read where British Commandos rescued 150 Brits from Libya. Even China has a warship in the Med standing by for its citizens who may be in harms way. Yet, the world’s only Superpower sits idle whilst its commander in chief enjoys a party blitz from Motown nite to the Oscars…
#12 February 27, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Granny commented:

#5 February 27, 2011 at 11:42 am
ogee commented:

O/T: AZ just passed a law saying dual citizens are ‘natrual born’..that is so false. It’s wrong!
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Where did you read that ogee? Today is Sunday so nothing would have been passed today or yesterday. The last immigration law I heard about in Arizona would disallow citizenship to anchor babies.
#13 February 27, 2011 at 12:21 pm
SLDAV commented:

Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood told Obama that is is now time to throw Gaddafi under the bus so they can begin to take over.
We know Trumka is bragging(caught on video) about how ofter he goes to the WH – so who knows what deals are being made and with who.
#14 February 27, 2011 at 12:25 pm
bg commented:

++

albeit strictly for the publics benefit.. have to give credit where credit it
due, i mean, tossing his Green Bible, uh, pal Qadaffi under the bus has
got to be the hardest thing Obama has ever had to do thus far..

via AJ-E

Live Blog – Libya Feb 27

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#15 February 27, 2011 at 12:30 pm
AuntieMadder commented:

Granny #12: The AZ bill is still in the AZ state Congress and is not yet a law. You can read about it here: http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2011/02/arizonas-proposed-interstate-birth.html
#16 February 27, 2011 at 12:38 pm
katy commented:

“The president stated that when a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule

WOW serious chutzpah on our own dear leader’s part. I guess the unions thugs using violence on the American people proves him correct in every way.
#17 February 27, 2011 at 12:49 pm
bg commented:

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re: #14

Obama’s Green Bible

(please scroll down for more, thanks)

Muhammad’s Green Bible

“we are superior”, ergo, convert, pay up or die infidel..

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#18 February 27, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Mark commented:

I have a feeling what replaces Gaddafi could be much worse for us.
#19 February 27, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Andreas K. commented:

Does Gaddafi need to go?

Hell yes.

But look at the image. They want truth and justice? The justice will be islamic. The truth… nowhere to be seen.
#20 February 27, 2011 at 2:31 pm
bg commented:

++

ht AJ-E

protests in Oman (over jobs, not regime), 2 killed with rubber bullets..

also in Hong Kong

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#21 February 27, 2011 at 2:36 pm
bg commented:

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re: #14

Libya opposition launches council

[Ex-minister taking lead

Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Benghazi, said there was an
understanding that the uprisings in different cities that have fallen into the
hands of the opposition need to be concentrated under one umbrella to
counter the regime.

"The ex-justice minister is taking the lead in this movement," she said.

"They have five representatives of each city or town and each time a new
one falls, they immediately establish contact to have that city or town join
this national council.

"There is a feeling here in the east that if they stay separated from the rest
of the country, then it will soon look like a secessionist movement rather
than an uprising."

Ghoga said the newly formed council was not contacting
foreign governments and did not want them to intervene.]

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#22 February 27, 2011 at 3:57 pm
archer52 commented:

Hmm… A Middle Eastern dictator/king/president for life who brutalizes his people and thinks they are a backward bunch of ninth century nutjobs.

Sounds more like normal over there than abnormal! Who is the say he’s wrong about his people? Are they backward, ninth century loving thugs? Are the people who will seize power after he is deposed going to be this kind of person? I’m thinking yes.

I’m just not impressed with the quality of knowledge, education, worldview or humanity of the people in that region. On a one to one basis most are probably decent, but as a group they are quite dangerous as McCarthy points out in the NRO article.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260786/oic-and-caliphate-andrew-c-mccarthy

This guy gets it and has for a while. It would be good to pay attention to him.

Here is part of the key passage.

Muslims are taught to think of themselves as a community, a single Muslim Nation. “I say let this land burn. I say let this land go up in smoke,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini famously said of his own country in 1980, even as he consolidated his power there, even as he made Iran the point of his revolutionary spear. “We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah.” Muslims were not interested in maintaining the Westphalian system of nation states. According to Khomeini, who was then regarded by East and West as Islam’s most consequential voice, any country, including his own, could be sacrificed in service of the doctrinal imperative that “Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”

I tried to get Jason Lewis to grasp this concept and quit thinking like a Westerner.

They ain’t us..
#23 February 27, 2011 at 4:03 pm
bg commented:

++

archer52 #22

ergo, it’s way past time for them to pick themselves up by their bootstraps
& get educated, once the people are educated vs repressed perhaps they’ll
look upon US as being throwbacks so to speak..

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#24 February 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm
bg commented:

++

archer52 #22

here is a hopeful, yet realistic read..

“Religion is for God, country is for all.”

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#25 February 27, 2011 at 6:34 pm
dunce commented:

Doesn’t anybody else find it passing ironic that obama is defining “legiticmacy to rule” ?
#26 February 27, 2011 at 8:01 pm
kato commented:

Google “Outflanked by France,” a piece from Saturday’s Wall Street Journal that calls the subprime commander-in-chief “missing in action.” Yet again.

“Mr. Obama’s first instinct in these crises invariably is to declare that the “international community,” whatever that is, must “speak with one voice.” What the world really needs is for an American President to lead.”

It’s hard to lead when you’re only an errand boy.