Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
Compared to this Qadaffi is a pussy cast.
Shiite Uprising & the Marsh Arabs
At the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, southern Shiites and northern Kurds rebelled against Hussein's regime. In retaliation, Iraq brutally suppressed the uprising, killing thousands of Shiites in southern Iraq.
As supposed punishment for supporting the Shiite rebellion in 1991, Saddam Hussein's regime killed thousands of Marsh Arabs, bulldozed their villages, and systematically ruined their way of life. The Marsh Arabs had lived for thousands of years in the marshlands located in southern Iraq until Iraq built a network of canals, dykes, and dams to divert water away from the marshes. The Marsh Arabs were forced to flee the area, their way of life decimated.
The support for pushing Qaddafi out is weak if one wants to use his supposed crimes against his own people.
To be for this war and against Bush's cluster-f campaign is hypocrisy.
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At the time, it seem that the Libyans who support Qaddafi, have no voice or are irrelevant in the eyes of the babbling politicians.
National Public Radio is finally mentioning those who support Qaddafi, and why.