Sunday, July 31, 2011

The Libyan Situation


I Know, I know we've heard almost more than we can stand about this but, oh well here's my 2 cents.  Ignore the government lines (lies?) about why they're there we all know the truth, it's about the oil and the fact that Gadhafi is pretty isolated politically and therefore vulnerable.  The western countries, including my own of Canada, think we're idiots and believe they're going in there to help civilians.  If saving innocent lives was their goal there are a dozen or more countries around the world committing crimes against civilians than in Libya.

Add to this the constant claims of the NATO powers of not harming civilians, well that's just a blatant lie.  Just because a person, or child, is a supporter of Gadhafi or a family relation of Gadhafi doesn't mean they're not innocent or a civilian, no matter how they try to spin it.  There's no question Gadhafi 's exaggerating the number of civilian deaths attributed to the NATO forces, the true numbers are probably somewhere in the middle.

The fact that a country has friend or alies in the west, has no oil or other resources for the west to steal doesn't mean they are innocent and good.  Our governments should try to wake up and do the right thing, the honest thing if they are going to act as a world power and interfere in other countries politics.  Stop lying, stop making up stories, stop making excuses.  If you're going to do it anyway just tell the truth, the whole truth and do it.  If you have to lie, make up stories, feed us a line or engage in cover-ups, they its obviously not the right thing to do.

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