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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: skinowski who wrote (153329)12/4/2004 12:39:05 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
LOL, MW... Gaddafi didn't give up anything until the day Saddam Hussein was behind bars.

Thanks for the comment, but respectfully I have to suggest that you to take a step back and look deeper at what I said. Why not start at looking at the Libyan time line? All the information is out there for the looking and remembering.

Libya had been negotiating for a loooooooooooong time to pay reparations for its involvement in two airline bombings - Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie and French airline ATA blown up over Niger in 1989. Libya had turned over suspects for trial. That process started in the last decade (last century sounds even more dramatic).

Libya's economy, wrecked by international sanctions dating back many years, forced Gaddafi's hand. That's what sanctions were designed to do. They worked.

Libya had been *long* trying to stage an international comeback, long before Saddam was captured or Iraq was invaded and indeed even before 9/11 happened.

The UN, IAEA, and international community had been applying force for years and had been making significant progress, long before Iraq was invaded. To claim that Ghadaffi came clean only as a result of Iraq being occupied by the US is to fall neatly into our own propaganda trap (that propaganda is designed primarily for domestic consumption).

I'm sincerely and extremely pleased that you responded to this as the issue is one of the clearest examples of how "popular knowledge" or group think - folk lore in fact - pervades our culture. Propaganda sounds like an ugly word, but its accurately descriptive. Facts tend to be messy and not support the administration's goal of the day.
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