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Moammar Qaddafi, ‘Winning’?

Posted on | March 7, 2011 | 10 Comments

Nobody can decide how to spell his name, and yet Moammar Qaddafi continues to hold on in Libya, while oil jumps past $100 a barrel, endangering The American Way of Life. (Ah, for the good ol’ days, when U.S. foreign policy was outsourced to Halliburton and the Mossad.)

Frankly, I expected the Libyan strongman’s regime would collapse shortly after his voluptuous Ukrainian nurse skipped town, but a week later Moammar keeps hanging in there like Charlie Sheen surrounded by a coterie of enablers. So this compels us to update you on the latest news from Benghazi:

Libyan forces attacked rebel-held areas again on Monday, reportedly seizing control of the oil town of Ras Lanuf after most residents evacuated.
But even as troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi tried to reverse the rebels’ territorial gains, a former Libyan prime minister appeared on the state-controlled television station and called for negotiations to end the weeks-long uprising.
In Washington, President Obama warned Libyan officials close to Gaddafi that they would share the blame for “unacceptable” violence against civilians, and he noted that NATO is holding consultations in Brussels on a wide range of options, “including potential military options.”

Which is to say, we’ve got no freaking clue how this thing is going to turn out. I’m sure Qaddafi’s just shaking in his shoes: “A NATO meeting in Brussels? Oh, noes!” Meanwhile, he’s getting support from a fellow member of the Evil Dictators Club:

Moammar Gaddafi is hunkered down, some once-loyal aides have abandoned him for the rebel side, and President Obama and other leaders are demanding he step down.
But he still has a friend – the man who received the al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. . . .
Chavez has in recent days venerated Gaddafi for his revolutionary credentials and asserted that the United States is about to invade the North African country to seize its oil. He also convened a meeting Friday in the Venezuelan capital in which his allies, including Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia, agreed to a vague peace mission to end the violence in Libya.
“The countries of the Bolivarian alliance are demanding the United States and the world powers respect the people of Libya,” Chavez said to cheering, red-shirted supporters. “No to imperialist intervention in Libya! No to a new imperialist war that looks for oil over the blood of innocents!”

Hugo and Moammar, sittin’ in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! Here’s an Associated Press video report on the fighting in Libya:

On other fronts, it looks like Libya’s neighbors are trying to horn in on some of that “imperialist intervention” stuff:

Egypt Quietly Invades Libya
The rebellion against the Kadaffi dictatorship in Libya has not produced any official outside help, but Egypt has apparently sent some of its commandos in to help out the largely amateur rebel force. Wearing civilian clothes, the hundred or so Egyptian commandos are officially not there, but are providing crucial skills and experience to help the rebels cope with the largely irregular, and mercenary, force still controlled by the Kadaffi clan. There are also some commandos from Britain (SAS) and American (Special Forces) operators are also believed wandering around, mainly to escort diplomats or perform reconnaissance (and find out who is in charge among the rebels).

So we’ve got Egyptian commandos leading anti-Qaddafi forces, while Qaddafi gets love-notes from Hugo Chavez and Obama apparently expects a NATO meeting in Brussels to strike fear into the dictator’s heart.

How’s that Hope and Change workin’ for ya?

Forgive me for suggesting that, in the good ol’ days, this problem would be solved by Dick Cheney picking up the telephone and speaking a single sentence: “Find Qaddafi and blow his ass away.”

And we’d be paying no more than $2.39 a gallon for regular unleaded by the end of next week.

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Comments

  • Anonymous

    It’s a little-known fact that Mo has tiger blood and Adonis DNA, but the Vatican assassin warlock thing came as a complete surprise.

  • Serfer1962

    $2.39! In Hawaii we haven’t seen that in years. Its $4,09 at Costcos,,,

  • Joe

    Winning in the Webster’s definition of the word; or Winning in the Charlie Sheen definition of the word?

    But I would like to see a meeting of Qaddafi, Chavez, Sean Penn, and Charlie Sheen. Because that would be a dream team of tiger blood and Adonis DNA.

  • Anonymous

    I too thought Godaffy would be gone by now. At the rate his supporters were turning on him it appeared his doom was sealed. The fact that he is able to counter attack means he’s been able acquire more assets or at least move them around the country. Don’t know what this says about his military’s capabilities but it seems Godaffy is in control of it.
    Calling for him to “step down” as O’Sputnik does without offering him an exit strategy isn’t much incentive for him to do so. With some help from Egyptian intelligence or some other intel-service it shouldn’t be that hard to locate and take him out.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    At least we know who’s been wading in the shallow end of the gene pool what with all this ‘tiger blood’ and “Adonis DNA”. Very easy to spot. Meiosis took a holiday on those folks.

  • Polichinello

    I tend to prefer Obama to Cheney in this case. We know nothing about who’ll replace the Khadaffy Duck, which does not mean we should support him, but it’s not much support them either. If we do get involved, we’ll get all the blame for what goes wrong and none of the credit for what goes right. If the Egyptians want to settle the Libyans’ hash, fine. Let them earn all that aid we’ve been sending them since the seventies as bribe to make nice with the Israelis.

  • Anonymous

    Preferring Obama to anything including slow painful death confuses me.

  • Anonymous

    Serial ineptitude emanating from both US and EU ‘leadership’ quickly extinguished any hope the opposition held of winning- and what was “Gaddafi must step-down” supposed to mean without consequences to back it up…? That same Gaddafi then predictably told them to shove it.

    Now the clueless US administration -via John Kerry- is still standing around making hawkish noises about a NFZ that will never happen while gas prices go ballistic and Gaddafi moves to roll-up what’s left of the insurgency… that’s right, Gaddafi IS winning.

    Reportedly the mood of the rag-tag rebels -a largely emotional and inexperienced bunch living on junk food and bottled water- swings wildly between elation and terror- while their military prowess has been compared to “paintballers”.

    But the overall level of spirit and appetite for combat after taking heavy casualties and being strafed/bombed by MiG jet fighters is withering amongst many of them… a lot are turning around on the coastal highway and heading right back home, hoping to avoid the Saddam-style mass executions… that’s next

    And Egypt isn’t going to help them, either…

  • Peop

    oh well, so the rebels lost. not a huge loss really, i mean who exactly are these rebels anyway ? are they islamic fundies…who knows, but its very likely. there is a tiny slimmer of hope that they are democracy minded rebels…but yea i really doubt it. in this case its probably better Gaddafi wins. we atleast know who he is and he is/was working with the West…the was part of my last sentence is there because when Gaddafi wins im sure he wont forget the backstabbing the west did to him.

  • Peop

    as far as he g0es f0r standing his ground and not just leaving his office, i cant blame him on that point either. think about it, if a US city has a riot and that riot demands Obama steps down…and those rioters get violent, grab guns and take over a city…Does anyone really think Obama would step down ? hell no. he would call in the national guard, and failing that, call in the army. obama is a hypocrite.

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