[Cboldt]

It's not scrappleface, but it sure reads like it.
Here is another example of truth being stranger than fiction.

The article is worth a read, if for nothing more than a laugh!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Col Gaddafi was appearing as a panellist at a two-day conference on democracy at Columbia University."

Yet we wouldn't let Cat Stevens in?

[jpl]

Thanks a lot for blowing up Flight 103, "Colonel".

Our government may have forgiven you, but I haven't.

[wolfpat]

This reminds me of the old joke in the Soviet Union. An American and a Russian are trying to one-up each other. The American says, "I can walk into the White House, right up to the President of the United States and call him a SOB."

The Russian responds, " I, too, can walk into the Kremlin, up to the Premier, and call the President of the United States a SOB."

[Tamar1973]

Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy

This should be in the humor section (there isn't one, but FR needs one) rather than the news section. ROTFLOL!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

It's not scrappleface, but it sure reads like it.

You mean this is for real?? Oh Lord...

[Redbob]

Well, we don't have a democracy...

[NormsRevenge]

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the media in Khartoum, Sudan January 24, 2006. Gaddafi lectured a U.S. audience on democracy on Thursday and said Libya is the only real democracy in the world. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)