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footfootfoot

10-20-2011 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 765590)

I do. I celebrate it when it's a bad, evil, dark, hate-filled pustule on the world.

Maybe I'm teh eval, but I don't care.

Time's up, motherf8888er. :D

I love the highbrow "hate-filled pustule" (excellent word choice)
combined with the earthy honesty of "Time's up, motherf8888er."

I'd like to see you after class.

Pete Zicato

10-20-2011 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 765599)

I'm too old to lie about my feelilngs.

It's a privilege of crone-hood. (deep, deep wish for crone smilie)

cellar is now #1 on google for the phrase crone smilie.

glatt

10-20-2011 01:50 PM

well let's not disappoint.

A crone is like a bottle of fine aged wine.

edit: Ah, shit I read that as simile, not smilie.

Trilby

10-20-2011 02:52 PM

:)

sometimes I just love it here.

TheMercenary

10-20-2011 04:38 PM

For $1 Billion, One Dictator

Quote:

Call him the billion dollar man. One billion for one dictator.
According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi’s head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department.
And that’s just for the Americans.
The final totals will take some time to add up, and still do not include the State Department, CIA, and other agencies involved or other NATO and participating countries. NATO does not track the operational costs to each member country, but the funds directly taken from a common NATO account for Libya operations have totaled about $7.4 million per month for electronic warfare capabilities and $1.1 million per month for headquarters and command staff, a NATO spokesman said.

http://nationaljournal.com/for-1-bil...ddafi-20111020

DanaC

10-20-2011 04:46 PM

Compared to the cost of Saddam...if this trend continues, soon we'll all be able to afford our own dictator's!

Griff

10-20-2011 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 765595)

Yeah. Celebrating a death is unbecoming, but this is good news.

They captured him, but he did not survive in custody. Believe what you want, but those are the kind of people we just put in charge.

TheMercenary

10-20-2011 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Griff (Post 765693)

They captured him, but he did not survive in custody. Believe what you want, but those are the kind of people we just put in charge.

Yup. There is the Democracy everyone wanted to foist on the tribal peoples of the Middle East and North Africa.

TheMercenary

10-20-2011 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 765689)

Compared to the cost of Saddam...if this trend continues, soon we'll all be able to afford our own dictator's!

I agree!:3eye:

Aliantha

10-20-2011 05:34 PM

Thank you America. The world is a better place today because of what you did yesterday.

piercehawkeye45

10-20-2011 05:47 PM

An article about Qaddafi that almost makes you feel bad for him. Almost...

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-world/247078/

tw	10-20-2011 06:13 PM

Never forget the 'misspoke' he did to cause his own eventual death. NATO would never have authority to do what it did had Kaddafi kept his mouth shut. When he said he would massacre all rebels, then he was advocating mass genocide. Only then did the UN authorize NATO to provide direct military support for the TNC (Transitional National Council). Without that air support, the rebels probably would have been crushed. Without Kaddafi advocating mass genocide, that air support probably could not have been authorized.

Now, the still pending second question. Discussed long ago an extended war so that TNC politics could stabilize. The question remains. Did this war last long enough for all Libyans to share in a common country? Or was it too short for various parties to unite in a common nation? We shall see. It appears war was long enough for the TNC to become a foundation for a united Libya.

TheMercenary

10-20-2011 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45 (Post 765703)

An article about Qaddafi that almost makes you feel bad for him. Almost...

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-world/247078/

Read this one....

http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/20/gaddafi-snuff-footage

ZenGum

10-20-2011 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 765588)

Nope. Strawberry Festival Queen is forever.

Let me take you down,
cause I'm goin
strawberry queens
strawberry queens forever!

Oh yeah and in general, tacky to celebrate deaths, but ... fuck'im.

News radio here says he was captured with bullet wounds in both legs (kneecaps? :eyebrow:) and head, and died en route to hospital.

classicman

10-20-2011 07:33 PM

Liveleak had video footage showing him getting kicked and pistol-whipped earlier today.

Pretty graphic link here
and another here

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