Since when is Gaddafi a good guy? Niteclub bombings? Lockerbie? Do people really think the average Libyan supports this terrorist thug?
There are no “good guys” in that part of the world. Gaddafi is secular and the enemy of the Islamists, who are the greater threat. Gaddafi himself can burn in hell.. but again, he was a counterbalance to the Islamist threat, just as Mubarak was in Egypt.
He never was good, but he became an ally several years ago, just like Saddam was an ally before the first gulf war. However the rebels are worse,