Hillary’s baby. We came, we saw, he died!
What did that do for us as Americans? What did our tax dollars buy?
330 tons of the gold that he was going to use to bypass the petro dollar, for one.
LOLOL.. That hysterical.. That was just an ignorant conspiracy theory. REALLY ignorant.. Libya imports 90% of their food. If they paid for it in gold the interest would eat the alive.
Two things.
First of all, someone got this confused, because it was Saddam who was hoarding gold and wanted to bypass the US petro dollar, not Qaddafi. Saddam had enough oil to do it, Qaddafi did not.
Second is that moving to a gold standard decreases interest payments, not increases them.
But I really don't see how it matters if any country has 330 tons of gold or not, because the US could not legally get its hands on any gold any country might have. In Iraq the gold had to go to the Shiite government we created, and in Libya never had any control on the ground at all.
Nobody transfers gold to pay bills.. It takes too much time and runs up the interest. They made up a bunch of crap about Saddam and then used the same lies against Gadaffi.
Transferring gold is as trivial as transferring credit.
You don't have to actually move it, just change who owns it in the vault manifest.
There is only interest if you negotiate it that way.
Qaddafi was not running up interest because he was paying in oil.
But I agree they used the same lies on Qaddafi that they made up about Saddam.
It really started with Desert Storm, because Saddam had asked for and been given permission to attack Kuwait first, and the US said we did not care.
We set up Saddam, and then turned on him.
We are evil liars.
You're right about setting up Saddam. The US and the Brits and the Israeli wanted Saddam gone.
Obama was part of that nor did he have that mindset. The US had NOTHING to do with the Arab Spring in Libya.
If the US had nothing to do with toppling Qaddafi, then why was it most people in Libya were relatively happy with Qaddafi, why was it the press said the west was worried about Qaddafi about to be massacring the civilians in Benghazi with an attack, and why was it the press said western coalition of military forces wiped out Qaddafi's forces in the desert, between Tripoli and Bengazi?
Just look at the number hundreds of missiles and thousands of bombs, enough to murder hundreds of thousands in the open desert.
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On 19 March 2011, a multi-state
NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya, to implement
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, in response to events during the
First Libyan Civil War. The United Nations' intent and voting was to have "an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians, which it said might constitute crimes against humanity ... imposing a ban on all flights in the country's airspace – a no-fly zone – and tightened sanctions on the
[Muammar] Gaddafi regime and its supporters."
[20]
Coloured in blue are the states that were involved in implementing the no-fly zone over Libya (coloured in green)
American and British naval forces fired over 110
Tomahawk cruise missiles,
[21] while the
French Air Force, British
Royal Air Force, and
Royal Canadian Air Force[22] undertook
sorties across Libya and a naval
blockade by Coalition forces.
[23] French jets launched air strikes against Libyan Army tanks and vehicles.
[24][25] The intervention did not employ foreign
ground troops.
[26]
The Libyan government response to the campaign was totally ineffectual, with Gaddafi's forces not managing to shoot down a single
NATO plane despite the country possessing 30 heavy
SAM batteries, 17 medium SAM batteries, 55 light SAM batteries (a total of 400–450 launchers, including 130–150
2K12 Kub launchers and some
9K33 Osa launchers), and 440–600 short-ranged air-defense guns.
[9][27] The official names for the interventions by the coalition members are
Opération Harmattan by France;
Operation Ellamy by the United Kingdom;
Operation Mobile for the Canadian participation and
Operation Odyssey Dawn for the United States.
[28] Italy initially opposed the intervention but then offered to take part in the operations on the condition that NATO took the leadership of the mission instead of individual countries (particularly France). As this condition was later met, Italy shared its bases and intelligence with the allies.
[29]
From the beginning of the intervention, the initial coalition of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Qatar, Spain, UK and US
[30][31][32][33][34] expanded to nineteen states, with newer states mostly enforcing the no-fly zone and naval blockade or providing military logistical assistance. The effort was initially largely led by France and the United Kingdom, with command shared with the United States. NATO took control of the arms embargo on 23 March, named
Operation Unified Protector. An attempt to unify the military command of the air campaign (whilst keeping political and strategic control with a small group), first failed over objections by the French, German, and Turkish governments.
[35][36] On 24 March, NATO agreed to take control of the no-fly zone, while command of targeting ground units remains with coalition forces.
[37][38][39] The handover occurred on 31 March 2011 at 06:00
UTC (08:00 local time). NATO flew 26,500 sorties since it took charge of the Libya mission on 31 March 2011.
Fighting in Libya ended in late October following the
death of Muammar Gaddafi, and NATO stated it would end operations over Libya on 31 October 2011. Libya's
new government requested that its mission be extended to the end of the year,
[40] but on 27 October, the Security Council voted to end NATO's mandate for military action on 31 October.
[41]
...}
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