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To: ifinnegan

I’ll say it again I only post about Ukraine to expose some of the kook things they say.
On this thread, they cannot resist defending Khaddafi’s Libya (several called it a paradise), Saadam’s Iraq, and now the Taliban Afghanistan.
Enough said. They are kooks and they are not conservatives.
BTW most of them will not answer when asked if they are conservatives or if they support Donald Trump.


149 posted on 09/28/2023 6:08:29 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams
Libya under Khaddafi was great. I learned about it in high school. It made me want to visit. Have you never studied history? How old are you? Do you understand how incredulous we are to see you post and challenge basic facts of history 101? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

"Gaddafi also wanted to combat the strict social restrictions that had been imposed on women by the previous regime, establishing the Revolutionary Women's Formation to encourage reform. In 1970, a law was introduced affirming equality of the sexes and insisting on wage parity. In 1971, Gaddafi sponsored the creation of a Libyan General Women's Federation. In 1972, a law was passed criminalizing the marriage of any females under the age of sixteen and ensuring that a woman's consent was a necessary prerequisite for a marriage.[62]

On 25 October 1975, a coup attempt was launched by some 20 military officers, mostly from the city of Misrata.[63] This resulted in the arrest and executions of the coup plotters.[64] On 2 March 1977, Libya officially became the "Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya". Gaddafi officially passed power to the General People's Committees and henceforth claimed to be no more than a symbolic figurehead.[65] The new jamahiriya (Arab for "republic") governance structure he established was officially referred to as "direct democracy".[66]

Gaddafi, in his vision of democratic government and political philosophy, published The Green Book in 1975. His short book inscribed a representative mix of utopian socialism and Arab nationalism with a streak of Bedouin supremacy.

From 1977 onward, per capita income in the country rose to more than US$11,000, the fifth-highest in Africa,[69] while the Human Development Index became the highest in Africa and greater than that of Saudi Arabia.[70] This was achieved without borrowing any foreign loans, keeping Libya debt-free.[71] The Great Manmade River was also built to allow free access to fresh water across large parts of the country.[70] In addition, financial support was provided for university scholarships and employment programs.[72]

Much of Libya's income from oil, which soared in the 1970s, was spent on arms purchases and on sponsoring dozens of paramilitaries and terrorist groups around the world.[73][74][75] An American airstrike intended to kill Gaddafi failed in 1986. Libya was finally put under sanctions by the United Nations after the bombing of a commercial flight at Lockerbie in 1988 killed 270 people.[76] In 2003, Gaddafi announced that all of his regime's weapons of mass destruction were disassembled, and that Libya was transitioning toward nuclear power." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya

153 posted on 09/28/2023 6:31:13 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: Williams

Syria had a Christian population of 1,500,00 in 2011 and today it is 300,000. Iraq had a low estimate of 1,200,000 Christians in 2002 and today it is 150,000. Libya had a Christian population around 300,000 in 2011 and today it is around 30,000. These brutal dictators kept the Islamic fanatics in line and prevented them from unleashing their campaigns of terror.


155 posted on 09/28/2023 6:33:03 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Williams

Your position is the same as Hillary Clinton, George Soros, biden, all neocons, and Zelensky the coke addict.

You are the kook that does not belong on this forum.

Do you understand the difference between true conservatives and neocons?

Did you ever even read what the founding fathers said about foreign policy?

What do you actually know? Anything?
Because everything you post here is drivel and regurgitated LIBERAL garbage.


162 posted on 09/28/2023 6:47:03 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: Williams
BTW most of them will not answer when asked if they are conservatives or if they support Donald Trump.

Check my home page, Dad.

198 posted on 09/28/2023 9:25:20 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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