Gaddafi at Columbia University

Little Green Footballs ^ | march 23, 2006 | Little Green Footballs

[george76]

Columbia University’s Middle East Program had a very special guest for their conference today, noted Libyan strongman/babe magnet/erstwhile terrorist Muammar Gaddafi, who lectured them on democracy.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lectured a U.S. audience on democracy on Thursday and said Libya is the only real democracy in the world.

Via a video link, Gaddafi addressed an unprecedented gathering of U.S. and Libyan academics prompted by a thaw in relations since the former pariah state decided in 2003 to abandon nuclear weapons and took responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

He touted Libya’s political system as superior to “farcical” and “fake” parliamentary and representative democracies in the West.

And you thought some of the Columbia profs were crazy.

The director of the program thinks Gaddafi just doesn’t understand how he’s coming off.

Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, one of two U.S. moderators, said some of Gaddafi’s comments might have sounded jarring to Americans. [Actually, they sound stark raving bug-eyed nuts, but what do I know? —ed.]

[george76]

Libya's Jamahiriyah system...

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I've heard Osama was offered a teaching position at Berkley, while he works on his Phd, but he's holding out for better offers. Entering the country, won't be a problem for a student.

[Meadow Muffin]

He needs his table cloth head set changed more often....

[george76]

" stark raving bug-eyed nuts..."

[Sometimes A River]

** "One of the hard things when you haven't talked to somebody for more than 30 years is we don't really understand how we sound to them and they don't understand how they sound to us," he said. "We obviously have a way to go until we're speaking the same language." **

There's no talking to these people, period.

It's a waste of time.

[Grampa Dave]

This Klown has been a Krazy Kooky Klown Kook for decades.

[billorites]

Coincidence? I think not.

[stormlead]

babe magnet?

[george76]

[Cboldt]

BBC version -> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602495/posts

Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has given US academics a lecture on democracy, declaring his country's government freer than any in the West.

"There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet," he told an audience at New York's Columbia University via live satellite link. ...

[Valin]

Shameless Plug
Gadhafi lashes out at 'backward society' in Middle East
Asharq Al-Awsat / AP ^ | 3/24/06
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602357/posts
/Shameless Plug

[SlowBoat407]

I'm glad I haven't been back there in a lo-o---ong time.

[gleeaikin]

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