Poll: Rebels rolling into Tripoli

[HEADRAT]

Sorry the old fellas dead (not really), now how do we get our hands on all that lovely oil!

 

[Domo]

I'll construct some more lengthy responses just for you to validate if you wish?

That's the general idea.

 

[Westyfield2]

Call me a hippy, but I am a little bit disappointed he's dead. I'd have preferred a trial.

 

[ubersonic]

I'm sure thousands of dead innocents isn't a consideration when it comes to oil contracts.

As I said, nauseating.

Yeah I know what you mean, all those poor innocent prehistory creatures who died and who's fossils were compacted underground over the millennia eventually becoming the black gold that fuels our society...

 

[RoboCod]

A pitiful response

 

[do_ron_ron]

No money for UK problems. Plenty for cruise missiles, mavericks and paveways it seems.

It is nauseating at times.

A well known political tactic. When all at home is in the **** divert people's attention by starting a foreign adventure. Nothing new. There is always a magic money tree put aside for such times.

 

[Hedge]

People would be naive to think we would ever wade into a battle without anything to gain.

Its nice to think we are freeing people, but it basically comes down to how we benefit from it. Would be completely pointless spending our money on fighting in a country that wont ever reap any rewards.

 

[ubersonic]

A well known political tactic. When all at home is in the **** divert people's attention by starting a foreign adventure. Nothing new. There is always a magic money tree put aside for such times.

Maybe they were worried people were getting bored of being menaced with the man made global warming myth

 

[Kazz]

...has petrol gone down yet?

 

[dannyjo22]

So are the rebels that executed a surrendered man facing war crime trials?

 

[elmuzzy66.]

The UK already had already access to Libyan oil with Gadafi, if anything it's all been jeopardised through our intervention.

I think getting involved has secured that access. The ones that are going to get screwed are the small firms that did work for gaddaffi.

 

[mmj_uk]

So are the rebels that executed a surrendered man facing war crime trials?

Hopefully, then we won't have to pay them the bounty.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

So are the rebels that executed a surrendered man facing war crime trials?

A good point - it makes them no better than him tbh. A great start to their "new" country

 

[Biohazard]

Let me just jump in ramdomly here, you do know what a handshake means dont you? not what you'd like it to mean, not what some people in business or friends use it for.

For centuries across many many different cultures it means, and has always meant to negotiating under truce/ I come in peace/ I bear no arms.

It has almost universally come from people who have butchered thousands to speak to others who have butchered thousands as a symbol of peaceful discussion.
Thats its point.

Sorry I'm not sure what the point in this is.

Are all handshakes then, given your disaproval of some in business and society, related to the slaughter of thousands?

Aren't you doing yourself what you somehow accuse me of? Making it mean what you would like it to mean?

It can mean anything subjectively at the end of the day, but I'm not sure the thought train with many using the gesture is somehow convoluted into 'negotiating peace perhaps as a result of mass slaughter and bloodletting'. That may certainly be the historic sentiment although I would suggest that times have moved on a little bit.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

...has petrol gone down yet?

You git ..... This is serious business.

 

[Sunbed]

Got wrong guy/cat maybe?

 

[Guile]

The UK already had already access to Libyan oil with Gadafi, if anything it's all been jeopardised through our intervention.

Exactly.

Why are there so many of these drones who troll out the 'oil' theory? They havn't even looked at any of the facts before they open their mouths.

Look who got most of the oil contracts in Iraq - it wasn't US/Euro firms.

 

[Guile]

It will be funny to dig up this thread in 10 years time and see how Libya goes and see how many people swallowed the 'freedom fighter' portayal of the rebels in the mass media.

Al Qaeda in the Maghreb and Islamist forces were at the forefront of this military operation. Now Europe has a very unsafe Southern border.

 

[Robbo]

I think the rebels are just as bad as the Gadaffi regime was. They're all savages at the end of the day.

 

[*Moangroan*]

Gadaffi is really demonised in our media....

Very poor country in 50's NOW best living in Africa
Literacy rate as Gaddy took power 3% NOW 80%
Free schooling/university
U want to be a farmer....u get free land and seed/tools livestock etc
Interest rate 0% by LAW
Free high quality health care.
Cant fix something in their healthcare....goverment will pay for health abroad
Gaddy and mates will pay for learning abroad as well.
Petrol approx $0.15
Gaddy and friends newly weds $50,000 towards your new house.
Electricity is FREE
Gaddy and friends pay 50% towards cost of new car
Green sq ddemonstration 1.7mil turned out for Gaddy...thats 95% of tripoli
Gaddy was working on changing oil from $ to african dinar...

Where is the financing from...mostly oil...unlike our system,

There did however seems to be a problem with free press recently from libya....

Who would I trust NATO or libya. Well I dont know either so I go on past record and say I would rather live with Gaddy after seeing what Nato have done now and in the past.