Posted on 03/29/2008 1:30:21 PM PDT by james500
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi poured contempt on fellow Arab leaders at a summit Saturday, and warned that they might be overthrown like former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Gadhafi's rambling, off-the-cuff speech to the opening of the Arab summit both bewildered and brought reluctant smiles to the faces of the other leaders.
The maverick Libyan's litany of insults at Arabs and his undiplomatic railing at the disarray of Arab regimes have become almost a tradition at the annual gathering.
Dressed in lush purple and pink robes with a traditional Libyan cloak and cap, Gadhafi blasted Arab countries for doing nothing while the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 and overthrew Saddam.
"How can we accept that a foreign power comes to topple an Arab leader while we stand watching?" he said. He said Saddam had once been an ally of Washington, "but they sold him out."
"Your turn is next," Gadhafi told the leaders, some of whom looked stunned while others broke into laughter at his frankness. "Destruction will be yours."
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Sounds like he’s the Don Rickles of the group, eh?
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi attends the opening session of the Arab Summit in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 29, 2008. Saturday's opening session came amid anger among pro-U.S. Arab countries over what they say is Syria's obstruction of the election of a new president in Lebanon. Ten of the Arab League's 22 heads of state are absent from the summit. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are represented by low-level officials in a snub to Syria. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
(L-R) Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi chats with Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the opening of the two-day Arab Summit in Damascus March 29, 2008. The Arab summit opened in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday in the absence of Lebanon and of conservative Arab leaders critical of Syria's role in the Lebanese crisis. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (SYRIA)
Helter Skelter is comin' down!
amazingly enough, for all his crap, he has sway at the UN these days.. not that says much about the UN when ya think about it. ;-)
I think he’s the closest thing to a super-hero with his amazonian guard:
a group of 200 women that protect him. LOL!!!!!
Da Tree Stoogees! Moammar, Amr un Bashar!
LOL!!! Look who's talking... the little squirt who couldn't give up his WMDs fast enough as soon as Bush SHOCKED-N-AWED Baghdad.
ok, we accomplished absolutely nothing as usual, arab summit finished! (claps hands twice) Bring in the russian hookers and bottles of scotch. Allah Akbar!
Well, that, and his “lush purple and pink robes”.
Darn right. And they best not forget it either.
“warned that they might be overthrown like former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.”
Perhaps that’s exactly WHY they “stood by” and didn’t hitch themselves to that loser.
This guys Life story is pretty Bizzaro to the extreme if you ask me.
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