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Isolated Iran risks the same fate as Iraq -Gaddafi
Reuters, via Gulf In The Media ^ | Aug. 5, 2008 | Reuters

Posted on 08/05/2008 10:48:37 AM PDT by norcal joe

TUNIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Iran risks going the same way as Saddam Hussein's Iraq in its confrontation with the West and is too weak to meet the challenges it faces alone, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday.

"What Iran is doing is pure vanity," said Gaddafi. "If a decision is taken against Iran, it will suffer the same fate as Iraq... Iran is no stronger than Iraq and will be unable to resist."

(Excerpt) Read more at gulfinthemedia.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gadaffi; gadafi; gaddaffi; gaddafi; geopolitics; iran; islam; khadafy; mohammedanism; proliferation; qaddafi
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Gaddafi, whose relations with the West improved when Libya scrapped its weapons of mass destruction programmes in 2003, said countries that chose isolation were doomed to fail. "No country will survive on its own in the future -- it will disappear," Gaddafi said. "The challenges facing Iran are greater than its ability to overcome them alone."

Interesting.

1 posted on 08/05/2008 10:48:37 AM PDT by norcal joe
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To: norcal joe

Hear hear Muhammar.


2 posted on 08/05/2008 10:52:37 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: SolidWood

What a strange person Gaddafi is. One moment he can be lucid and say something rational, the next he’s a raving lunatic. Go figure.


3 posted on 08/05/2008 10:56:26 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: norcal joe

Of course, who’s talking here is none other than brilliant philosopher and eminent head-of-state Muhammar Gaddafi, with a beautiful humanitarian track record, and a surefire future Nobel Peace Prize winner.


4 posted on 08/05/2008 10:56:52 AM PDT by Apollo 13
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“Gaddafi, whose relations with the West improved when Libya scrapped its weapons of mass destruction programmes in 2003”

No, Gaddafi’s relations with us improved when we almost got him in a bomb attack that killed several of his relatives.

The cross-dressing narcissist, saw how close we came and VERRRY quickly changed his tune.

Dictators are like liberals, so full of self love, that all they care about is the preservation of their own butts.

Toooo funnny, the way the presstitutes like to re-write history.


5 posted on 08/05/2008 10:57:55 AM PDT by OhhTee5
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To: OhhTee5

No because after the bombing in 1986 he blew up that plane over scotland in 1988.


6 posted on 08/05/2008 11:03:35 AM PDT by Philly Nomad
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To: reagan_fanatic
What a strange person Gaddafi is. One moment he can be lucid and say something rational, the next he’s a raving lunatic. Go figure.

Maybe he's like me, a functioning psychopath.
A slip of the tongue every once in a while reveals the secret.

7 posted on 08/05/2008 11:05:32 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: norcal joe

Ghadaffi is completely wrong. Iran is nothing like Iraq and is in an ideal strategic position right now.


8 posted on 08/05/2008 11:06:40 AM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: norcal joe
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[ I have posted this only once before, 4 years ago, but dusting it off today :) ]
[ Most folks didn't get the Terrorist Campaign Finance ref ]
9 posted on 08/05/2008 11:09:19 AM PDT by davidlachnicht ("IF WE'RE ALL TO BE TARGETS, THEN WE ALL MUST BE SOLDIERS.")
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To: OhhTee5
No, Gaddafi’s relations with us improved when we almost got him in a bomb attack that killed several of his relatives.

The cross-dressing narcissist, saw how close we came and VERRRY quickly changed his tune.

No, Qaddafi did not very quickly change his tune when we bombed lybia. He was an important supporter of terrorists, likely involved in the Lockerbie bombing , until 2004, 18 years later.

10 posted on 08/05/2008 11:17:10 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: rjp2005

You mean like being encircled by American troops and allies? Sure they have their proxies to cause mayhem, which they use extensively, but WE are in an ideal strategic position against Iran. The problem is unlike Iran we apparently have qualms using our assets.


11 posted on 08/05/2008 11:19:05 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: SolidWood

Having the political will is part of the equation. When it comes down to it, Iran will use a nuke before we ever would, and we probably wouldn’t even retaliate in kind if they did.


12 posted on 08/05/2008 11:25:30 AM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: OhhTee5

His change of tune in 2003 can hardly be dismissed. he apparently threw in the towel completely on his WMD program, and provided intelligence of publicly unknown quantity and value as well.

I know there is a FR tendency to just say he was afraid we would attack him next in 2003 or something silly (the US is not in a position to start another unilateral war in the region with a country not named Iran), but I suspect it is more complex than that in reality.

Possible variables include the development of terrorism as a non-nationally directed force, concern that eventual NBC weapon attack would result in immediate retaliation against any and all suspect NBC developers, and possible concerns on the mental state of his apparent successor if he were to have such weapons.


13 posted on 08/05/2008 11:50:10 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: norcal joe

” Gaddafi took power in 1969 in a military coup in his oil
producing North African state and was shunned for decades by the
West, which accused him of supporting terrorism.”

Accused him??? What doubt is there?


14 posted on 08/05/2008 11:52:36 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: reagan_fanatic

He is Oxford educated and no dummy. The outrageous rants are for domestic consumption. He has to keep the people of Libya stirred up about someone else to keep office. The moment he stops, the masses will over throw him.

At least this is how it was explained to me twenty years ago by some fairly high level oil professionals that worked there…


15 posted on 08/05/2008 12:31:22 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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To: El Laton Caliente

Is he still a colonel? Man, it is tough to advance in Libya’s military.


16 posted on 08/05/2008 2:16:30 PM PDT by Defiant (Democrats complained that the war was for oil. Now they make war ON oil.)
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To: norcal joe

It looks like the beating that Reagan gave him knocked his marbles in line with straight thinking.


17 posted on 08/05/2008 3:44:47 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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