QADDAFI: 'I COULD NOT HAVE LASTED 40 YEARS WITHOUT THE

QUIET SUPPORT OF THE LIBYAN PEOPLE'

[The Economist, U.K.]

Sotal Iraq, Iraq

Muammar Qaddafi is No Better than Saddam

"Qaddafi not only refuses to recognize the new Iraq and persist in criticizing the fate of Saddam, he has also connived with opportunists and mercenaries to undermine the government, helping to establish militant groups in a bid to achieve a foothold on Iraq's political landscape."

By Noor al-Harby

Translated By Ahmed Naoual

September 26, 2009

Iraq - Sotal Iraq - Original Article (Arabic)

Although six years have passed since the downfall of the Baath Party dictatorship, their words and attitudes show that Arab heads of state still long to wade in the blood of the Iraqi people. In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi (rightly) cast doubt on the seriousness of the major Western countries in addressing the world’s difficulties. But he failed to mention how his own dictatorial regime, very much like Saddam’s defunct government, supports terrorism and terrorists. Just as the Lockerbie incident proved beyond doubt Qaddafi’s links with terrorism, sooner or later evidence will emerge that with money and weapons he has fomented and supported warring factions in numerous civil wars in Africa. And all for the sake of achieving the illusory and meaningless leadership of a continent where people don't believe in unity or the African Union, an institution which has singularly failed to deliver them from hunger, poverty and disease. These are things Qaddafi cannot provide these distressed peoples. [Qaddafi is this year's chairman of the African Union, which is why he said he had to come to the U.N. for the first time this year].   

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To put it simply, Qaddafi only understands the language of a single commander who squanders the wealth of his people and utilizes his country's power to serve his own criminal personal desires and whims, just like Saddam used to do. It's no wonder that we saw Qaddafi passionately defend the Iraqi dictator [see photo box below left], expressing shock at the way he was treated by the United States and Britain, although Saddam was a creature of their intelligence services. Qaddafi was in fact pondering his fate aloud, being of the same ilk and having just celebrated forty years of rule over the Libyan people.

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Qaddafi not only persists in using the same language [about the wrongfulness of Saddam's demise] and refuses to recognize the new Iraq, but he has also connived with opportunists and mercenaries to undermine the government, helping to establish militant groups in a bid to achieve a foothold on Iraq’s political landscape. This he does along with other Arab states that have been paying off and recruiting Iraqis for their own war against the Iraqi democratic experience. Most of these are remnants of the Baath Party or are devoted to the rule of a single sect over others, regardless of the choices and desires of the Iraqi people - taken notably during free elections.

Perhaps Qaddafi meant to ask: Why are sacred, infallible leaders executed when no one has a right to question the way they assassinate their adversaries, their starvation of their own people and their heaping of booty on creeps and scum?

Qaddafi’s opposition to the will of the Iraqi people, who executed their torturer after a fair trial that wasn't provided to any of his victims, is an indirect provocation and a blatant interference in Iraqi affairs. No one should tolerate this, because petty rulers and usurpers like Qaddafi won't rest until criminals and assassins return to subjugate Iraqis.

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Oblivious as he is to the wishes of his own people, Qaddafi's comments are yet another indication that Arab nationalists have a hatred and fear of Iraq and its experience. This is just another example of the scale of the meddling and provocations by Arab governments inside Iraq. Perhaps the terrorists and suicide bombers entering Iraq - many of whom carry Libyan nationality and are under the influence of this trigger-happy commander, are willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their leader, who wishes to prove that Iraq's democratic project will fail as long as rulers like him are in power. When will the likes of Qaddafi stop harming Iraq and the Iraqi people?

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US October 4, 1:35pm]