Thread: educate me about al-Gaddafi plz

I remember an episode of The Young Ones where Mike tried to sell the bomb that fell out of the plane and landed in their kitchen to al-Gaddafi by locating his name in the phone book. just a thought - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_al-Gaddafi

why would i read that

I think he's right what he said comparing the Taliban's move for a religious state to the Vatican. It's not exactly a false comparison, just socially sensitive.

don't know much, really. Libyan dictator known to sponsor and promote terrorism many years ago, sort of wacky, has committed crimes against his own people, religious (but not really. like Saddam Hussein), and one of our President's (forget which) ordered an air strike against him which kiiled his entire family, including children yeah so he used to hate us but we brought him and his ...

Gaddafi is badass and a pimp, if I could be a head of state I would be him. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317812,00.ht ml

holy hell the man knows how to travel edit: oh my But much like a popular music icon, no entourage is complete without the right women. For Qaddafi, that means a menacing group of 30 female body guards. Easily mistaken as hopefuls for “America’s Next Model,” his unit of gorgeous, gun-toting women are actually trained killers. The bodyguards, who are also reputedly virgins, made their ...

he is a great man and a great leader for libya. he nationalised the oil resources in his country and pissed off the oil companies so much so that they feared other oil rich countries would follow suit and use their resources to benefit all their people. they made an example of him and bombed libya to show others that libyas behaviour was not acceptable. he took his countries resources and ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Det_Nosnip lol. Explain...? Which part? The latter part, the guy who heads the organization is gay (as in homosexual) and apparently an anarchist. And he supports the Iranian regime, Iran getting nuclear weapons, the destruction of Israel, etc. and marches alongside Islamists who would ...

What does being gay have anything to do with that lol.

My thoughts exactly. The fact that Steve is using it in this negative context kind of invalidates his argument as far as I'm concerned.