Posted on 08/21/2005 7:09:42 PM PDT by gpapa
Libya has opened a new phase in its journey from pariah state back to the international fold by calling for US President George W. Bush to visit and pledging action on human rights.
The moves are the latest in a dramatic turnaround by the oil-rich nation, which was bombed by the United States in the 1980s, since Tripoli renounced its quest for weapons of mass destruction.
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... via Lockerby...
Looks like Kadhafi sees a chance to capitalize economically.
His country has been suffering for quite a while, and they have a great deal of oil. He could really cash in with a dirt-cheap deal, so to speak.
Bush's dad was vice president of the man who killed his (Kadhafi's) daughter.
If it were me, I'd never play that down, and I'd always seek revenge. I so want to appreciate Kadhafi's efforts, but I just can't trust him for that fact alone.
Yah....NOOOOOO thanks! We'd like him alive thank you very much!
We'll send stuff and you send oil, okay?
(and we'll check and recheck the tanker over and over and over again before we let it deliver the oil anywhere NEAR America)
Didn't Saddam once offer Bush a chance to debate via sattelite?
Dubya in Libya? I doubt it.
---"Bush's dad was vice president of the man who killed his (Kadhafi's) daughter.
If it were me, I'd never play that down, and I'd always seek revenge. I so want to appreciate Kadhafi's efforts, but I just can't trust him for that fact alone"---
I would, too. But it's Kadhafi, and she was a female. He'd probably have been angrier if we smashed his car.
I think that it's time Bush opened-up the oil market with him. It's at least worth a cordial conversation.
I am nervous when he goes to New York, never mind Libya. He is only safe because everybody knows if they hurt him, President Cheney would get them.
Man, I'd hate to be on the advance team for THAT one.
I think sending Rice would be a good move and positive signal.
Good One. Well, if the President decides so, he has to be well secured. In Islam, it is best to attack the enemy when he least expects it...
...I'd say.."Don't go George!"
Bush will go to San Francisco before he goes to libya.
Bush ought to get some of the pilots and airmen who work for him to visit Libya in his place.
He's got all women bodyguards.
They look sexier than the Robert Palmer dancers.
Scenario for you: Bush visits Libya, and gets killed. President Cheney follows the Bush Doctrine. Libya becomes a glass parking lot. I can see Col. K. still being P.O.ed about his daughter, and the bombing, but I don't see him missing that little bit of possibility. After all, it's what he'd do in a similar position, don't you think?
I think GW should take a battalion of Marines to help out the Secret Service, but I also think he should go.
Hey, why not? He might as well visit him. Khadaffi's back in the good guy column. He has undergone a stunning metamorphosis and is no longer an insane madman. Amazing how that works.
The President should go. This would be the ultimate conclusion and showing that Bush Doctrine works. Do what's right for the world, and you will be forgiven. Ironically, a semi-Christian attitude.
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