[org.whodat]

"Bush Calls Gaddafi It looks like President Bush has taken a page from his successor's playbook. The AP reports that Bush called Libya's Moammar Gaddafi yesterday—the first time an American president has spoken with the African leader. Bush congratulated Gaddafi on completing an agreement to pay $1.5 billion into a fund that will pay claims for the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Scotland and the 1986 bombing of a German disco. According to the AP, "The payment cleared the last hurdle in restoration of full normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya."

So one president makes an agreement, the next president comes along and treats it like toilet paper. And you wonder why the world has problem trusting the United States. And the wanted list BS would be a direct violation of the Bush agreement. But then return the money and we can put him on that list.

[unseen1]

bush had many many flaws. Gaddifi being one of them. Bush should have kept the Reagan policy on Libya. Maybe then he wouoldn’t hav eleft office with less than 30% approval. Bush’s doctrine was a mishmash wothin a mishmash just like Obama’s. We attack Iraq but not Iran or Syria, we cozy up to Libya and China but not other enemies. Bush had no overriding policy and was trying to place a cold war ideaology fit into a terrorism model.

Personally I think 300 lives is worth more than $1.5 billion don’t you?