Posted on 10/20/2011 2:11:03 PM PDT by Cardhu
There are dictators who defy anecdotes, lead bureaucratic lives or never reveal the person behind their stiff public persona. And then there was Moammar Gadhafi, the general born to Bedouins in 1942, a dictator with whom one hardly knows where to begin when it comes to describing the man.
To this day, it remains unclear whether the digestive emissions were a provocation. Such behavior, at least, would not have been out of character. Once, during an Arab League Summit, in front of rolling cameras, Gadhafi chose to enter the bathroom instead of the meeting hall, as if to show just how little he thought of the event. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced to haul him into the meeting.
Eccentric and Merciless
And then there was his inexhaustible need to communicate. One of his most famous bouts of expression came in the form of his political philosophy, "The Green Book," which practically enjoyed constitutional status in his country. In it he wrote, in all seriousness: "Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period." He ends the paragraph with the phrase: "End of gynaecological statement!" He also had his fanciful uniforms tailored in Paris.
Perhaps it is best to begin with just one of his legendary television appearances -- the time he farted his way through a BBC interview. The flatulence was reportedly so loud and odiferous that reporter John Simpson later said the cameramen were startled and Gadhafi's assistants lit incense. "Does Libya's revolutionary leader have an uncontrollable digestive problem?" German daily Bild asked at the time.
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Great Photos at the link.
His hot-chick assassin posse of killer go-go girls was very Tarantino.
It is time for a new crazy dictator in Libya. The muzzies are never short of crazy people.
If he had gone into Directing, he wouldn’t be dead but living like Hugh Heffner.
Maybe Obammy will go in just like Bush did in Iraq and steal Lybia’s oil.....oh wait. That never happened. Never mind. Thank you France for leading the way!!!
Very Tarantino? Great. Now we’re getting our zeitgeist from a movie director.
I did good raising that kid.
Water-boarding a horrible crime
Capture and murder liberals hold a press conference and gloat????
Now to get rid of our tyrant.
I’ve long thought that, if he hadn’t become a movie director, Brian de Palma would have had no career option other than serial killing....
I wonder what happened to those chicks.
Few will shed tears for the death of Gaddafi. But what will follow? The current administration may soon prove to have been criminally short-sighted with its active involvement in removing authoritative - yet stable - Middle East leaders, handing countries that are vital to the stability of the region over to Muslim radicals bent on the destruction of Israel. That’s a recipe for World War III.
The end of a tyrant and the beginning of a Shariah-ridden conglomeration of of miscellaneous elements of militant fundamentalism and extremism.....anyone celebrating the death of Gadhafi would also celebrate the end of the rule of law. =.=
Where have you been? It's been that way since at least the 1930s.
On the other hand, Italy did rather better after than before Mussolini.
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