[Rhodes22-list] Politics--Rik

[Steve]

Bill
Like I said, he's a mad dog but if you read the full
quote - you will see that we have him running scared.
Exactly where he needs to be! 

"I hope that we shall not be prompted or obliged by
any evil to go back, or to look backwards," Gadhafi
told a news conference. "We do hope that we shall not
be obliged or forced one day to go back to those days
where we bomb our cars or put explosive belts around
our beds and around our women so we will not be
searched or harassed in our bedrooms and in our
homes." 

He did not explain what he meant, but referred to
violence in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. 

There, he said, "The victims are women and children
and the battlefield has become the kitchen and bedroom
and the lounge. We don't want to be forced to do
that." 

Gadhafi declared his readiness to work with the West
peacefully after years of championing armed struggle
against it. 

"I would like to seize the opportunity today and
declare before you ... that Libya is determined and
committed to play a leading role in achieving world
peace," he said in a rambling address to a room packed
with reporters at the European Union headquarters. 

Libya "did its duty" in the past by supporting and
training violent liberation movements around the world
and was "unjustly accused of terrorism" for it, he
said. 

"But now, the time has now come to reap the fruits of
this armed struggle, namely peace, stability,
development," he said through a translator. "Now we
are facing different or new challenges which are
common enemies to all of us." 




--- Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bill
> Interesting quote.  I don't know where you got it
> but
> here is my take on it.  Gaddafi is a terrorist.  The
> only reason he is coming around is that he is scared
> that the good old USA will jump on him & do to him
> what we have done to the other 2 countries.  He
> wouldn't be compling at all if it wasn't for our NEW
> show of force with our GREAT President Bush:-) It
> looks like he is trying to send us a message that if
> we push him to much that he will go back to
> terrorist
> activities.  Think of it like this, Arafat is a
> terrorist and will always be a terrorist - Gaddafi
> is
> the same way.  However, as long as we hold our big
> stick above his head; even a dog will mind.  But
> never
> turn you back on a mad dog - that what we are
> dealing
> with.
> Steve
> 
> --- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> > Rik,
> > 
> > It didn't take long.  Gaddafi, or Qaddafi is
> already
> > flipping the bird at Bush.  This is no way to run
> > foreign policy.
> > 
> > Here's what the "mad dog of the middle east" said
> > yesterday:
> > 
> > 
> > "I hope that we shall not be prompted or obliged
> by
> > any evil to go back or to look backwards," Gaddafi
> > said, after defending his past support for
> militant
> > Third World "freedom fighters."
> > 
> > "We do hope that we shall not be obliged or forced
> > one day to go back to those days when we bomb our
> > cars or put explosive belts around our beds and
> > around our women so that we will not be searched
> and
> > not be harassed in our bedrooms and in our homes,
> as
> > it is taking place now in Iraq and in Palestine."
> > 
> > 
> > Bill Effros
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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