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Qadaffi, UN presidency in hand, calls for Switzerland to be abolished
Geneva Lunch ^ | 3 September 2009 | Ellen Wallace

Posted on 09/03/2009 11:52:06 AM PDT by SolidWood

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Relations between Switzerland and Libya remain strained, with Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi repeating a call he made at the G8 summit in Italy in July 2009, for Switzerland to be considered a non-country and its linguistic districts to be shared among its neighbours. The rhetoric itself has ruffled few feathers, given Qadaffi’s widespread reputation for stepping outside the usual boundaries of diplomatic talk, but Libya’s upcoming turn as president of the United Nations General Assembly, which opens its new session 15 September, gives him a platform.

It will be the first time he has joined a General Assembly since coming to power 40 years ago, according to Swiss television TSR.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaddafi; lybia; qaddafi; switzerland

Colonel Clown!

1 posted on 09/03/2009 11:52:08 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: SolidWood

After 40 years you’d think he’d make general.


2 posted on 09/03/2009 11:54:19 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: SolidWood

3 posted on 09/03/2009 11:54:54 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: SolidWood
This is the Onion right? The Swiss have been tunneling in those mountains for the better part of a century. And who is going to dig them out the French and the Italians? I'm not seeing a whole lot of military risk there. Although the over under on who surrenders first should make Las Vegas happy.
4 posted on 09/03/2009 11:58:04 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
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To: SolidWood

Strange how quiet this ass was after Ronald Reagan tried to kill him. Perhaps just a coincidence, huh?!


5 posted on 09/03/2009 11:58:28 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

“High promise, low achievement...”


6 posted on 09/03/2009 11:58:45 AM PDT by texmexis best (uencynd no)
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To: SolidWood

This turkey is a certified fruit cake. I imagine his ears are still ringing from the near miss booms while camping out in 1986.


7 posted on 09/03/2009 11:58:52 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: SolidWood

“Shoot twice and go home.”


8 posted on 09/03/2009 12:00:10 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: SolidWood
I challenge Qadaffi to send his entire Libyan army to drive the Swiss from the Alps.

Not a one of them would die even within sight of a cuckoo clock.

9 posted on 09/03/2009 12:01:12 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: texmexis best

Sounds sorta like someone from the US (or Kenya)


10 posted on 09/03/2009 12:03:09 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: jazusamo
"I imagine his ears are still ringing from the near miss booms while camping out in 1986."

He doesn't need his ears, he has the ears of the current apologist & chief.

11 posted on 09/03/2009 12:03:10 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: SolidWood

Dont screw with the Swiss.

They can drop you with a rifle from 200 yards blindfolded, while being able to tell that your watch is 20 seconds off by the way you hit the ground.


12 posted on 09/03/2009 12:05:29 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum

Yep, as does the rest of the radical Muslims in the world.


13 posted on 09/03/2009 12:08:42 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: SolidWood

This probably explains why Obama, who is going to preside over the Security Council session in September, was involved with the release of the Libyan terrorist.


14 posted on 09/03/2009 12:08:58 PM PDT by livius
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

He can’t promote himself, it would be nepotism.


15 posted on 09/03/2009 12:12:52 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: SolidWood

I think that to the general mideast Islamic world, what exists outside their area has a certain unreality. Whether it is due to the historic embarrassment from failure to conquer Europe over a 500 year period or that Israel has existed for 60 years in spite of multiple combined attacks, their views sometime skew history. I wonder how Kadaffi (how many ways are there to spell this loon’s name) feels about Spain, Malta, Greece and other former Islamic controlled territories.


16 posted on 09/03/2009 12:13:59 PM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: SES1066
Kadaffi (how many ways are there to spell this loon’s name)

How many combinations are possible when you start with "K", "Q" or "G", all of them either with or without "h", and use either double or single "d" and "f" and finish with either "i" or "y"? Do the math. LOL.

17 posted on 09/03/2009 12:19:30 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: SolidWood
Oliver Stoned runs Libya now?


18 posted on 09/03/2009 12:27:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: SolidWood

I think the bigger issue here is that the USA must get out of the UN.


19 posted on 09/03/2009 12:27:18 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

He pledged to behave after we took out Saddam too. Promised to drop his WMD program.


20 posted on 09/03/2009 12:27:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: SolidWood
Oh, my goodness, none of the letters work ~ what you do is CLEAR YOUR THROAT. That's right, just clear your throat, and you've got the essence of Arabic. Now, for Hebrew, move that effort forward a tad and then you'll have that one down. Aramaic is in there somewhere.

There's a reason these languages did without vowels!

Now, for your first spelling lesson, just write it down like you hear it.

21 posted on 09/03/2009 12:40:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Oldpuppymax

I hope there is another attempt made.


22 posted on 09/03/2009 12:42:13 PM PDT by Merlinator (Teddy in Arlington?... WTF were all the Massachusetts landfills full?)
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To: Oldpuppymax

So quiet for so long that Bush’43 was able to send Baker over to him after Hussein and his briefcase was captured and docilely get him to give up his nuclear program.

Dear Leader would not have had a chance to accomplish that, nor would the German or the French.


23 posted on 09/03/2009 12:49:52 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: SolidWood
I think this is his response to Switzerland urges Libya to release Swiss nationals
24 posted on 09/03/2009 12:55:29 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: SolidWood

When I first started to read this, I thought surely this must be from the Onion or some other satirical site. Alas, truth is stranger than fiction —— and scarier too.

Look up your resemption draweth nigh


25 posted on 09/03/2009 12:56:56 PM PDT by the long march
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To: RichInOC

That’s the first thing I thought of, too.


26 posted on 09/03/2009 1:02:39 PM PDT by jim_trent
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To: jim_trent; cardinal4

I got transferred to a base on the Yorkshire moors in 1969, the same year this moonbat took over Libya. The following year, he somehow or another got wind of our presence on that base and accused us of using the base as a laboratory to breed poisonous flies to be dropped over Libya. This report was in one of the London tabloids, so its authenticity is suspect.


27 posted on 09/03/2009 1:13:33 PM PDT by Ax
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To: The KG9 Kid
Yeppers! There is a reason nobody tries to invade Switzerland, and it gives truth the the old Roman maxim...

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”

The Swiss are prepared, and everybody knows it; thus they live in peace.

28 posted on 09/03/2009 1:15:48 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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To: SolidWood
3*2 = 6 combos for the first sound (K, Kh, Q, Qh, G, and Gh)

6*2= 12 combos going with either double d or single d.

12*2= 24 combos with either double f or single f.

24*2= 48 with either a i or y ending.

48 combos!

When the English editor pointed out to Lawrence of Arabia that he had used several alternate spellings for his camels name, Lawrence recommended adding a few MORE variants that he had not used.

He really liked that camel, but ended up accidentally shooting his own camel. He was taking aim on a Turk as his camels head went up and down in the cadence of its trotting, just as he pulled the trigger the camels head went up and down he went as his camel stumbled dead with a bullet to the back of the head.

The man wrote his own story, you think he might have left off some of the more embarrassing things like shooting your own camel in the back of the head.... but no.

29 posted on 09/03/2009 1:25:40 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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To: SolidWood

You would think the old fart would be able to afford a better wig than that.


30 posted on 09/03/2009 1:29:04 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: Ax

I guess your poisonous flies didn’t work out so well, huh?


31 posted on 09/03/2009 1:31:57 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: SolidWood

Why are we still in the U.N.?


32 posted on 09/03/2009 1:36:24 PM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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To: PureSolace

To be bullied around by the likes of Chavez and Ghaddafi.


33 posted on 09/03/2009 1:37:22 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: expatpat

We had to go back to the drawing boards.


34 posted on 09/03/2009 2:41:03 PM PDT by Ax
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To: SolidWood

35 posted on 09/03/2009 10:57:19 PM PDT by John Will
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To: a fool in paradise

They ALL look like they need a bath.


36 posted on 09/03/2009 11:13:40 PM PDT by Siouxz
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To: Ax

Really? Based on some of the nasty black flies I’ve encountered in Canada, I thought you had been successful.....


37 posted on 09/04/2009 7:19:41 AM PDT by expatpat
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