The lies used to justify the NATO war against Libya have surpassed those created to justify the invasion of Iraq. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both had honest observers on the ground for months following the rebellion in eastern Libya and both have repudiated every major charge used to justify the NATO war on Libya.
According to the Amnesty observer, who is fluent in Arabic, there is not one confirmed instance of rape by the pro-Gadaffi fighters, not even a doctor who knew of one. All the Viagra mass rape stories were fabrications.
Amnesty could not verify a single “African mercenary” fighting for Gaddafi story, and the highly charged international satellite television accounts of African mercenaries raping women that were used to panic much of the eastern Libyan population into fleeing their homes were fabrications.
There were no confirmed accounts of helicopter gunships attacking civilians and no jet fighters bombing people, which completely invalidates any justification for the No-Fly Zone in the Security Council resolution used as an excuse for NATO to launch its attacks on Libya.
After three months on the ground in rebel controlled territory, the Amnesty investigator could only confirm 110 deaths in Benghazi, which included Gadaffi supporters.
Only 110 dead in Benghazi? Wait a minute, we were told thousands had died there, ten thousand even. No, only 110 lost their lives, including pro-government people.
No rapes, no African mercenaries, no helicopter gunships or bombers, and only 110 ten deaths prior to the launch of the NATO bombing campaign; every reason was based on a lie.
Today, according to the Libyan Red Crescent Society, over 1,100 civilians have been killed by NATO bombs, including over 400 women and children. Over 6,000 Libyan civilians have been injured or wounded by the bombing, many very seriously.
Compared to the war on Iraq, these numbers are tiny, but the reasons for the Libyan war have no merit in any form.
Saddam Hussein was evil; he invaded his neighbors in wars that killed up to a million. He used Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in the form of poison gas on both his neighbors and his own people, killing tens of thousands. He was brutal and corrupt and when American tanks rolled into Iraq the Iraqi people refused to fight for him, simply put their weapons down and went home.
Libya under Col. Gadaffi hasn’t invaded their neighbors. Gadaffi never used WMD on anyone, let alone his own people. As for Gadaffi being brutal, in Libya’s neighbor Algeria, the Algerian military fought a counterinsurgency for a decade in the 1990’s that witnessed the deaths of some 200,000 Algerians. Now that is brutal and nothing anywhere near this has happened in Libya.
In Egypt and Tunisia, western puppets like Mubarak and Ben Ali had almost no support amongst their people with few if anyone willing to fight and die to defend them.
The majority of the Libyan people are rallying behind the Libyan government and “the leader”, Muammar Gadaffi, with over one million people demonstrating in support on July 1 in Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Thousands of Libyan youth are on the front lines fighting the rebels and despite thousands of NATO air strikes, authentic journalists on the ground in western Libya report that their morale remains high.
In Egypt, the popular explosion that resulted in the Army seizing power from Mubarak began in the very poorest neighborhoods in Cairo and other Egyptian cities where the price of basic food items like bread, sugar, and cooking oil had skyrocketed and led to widespread hunger. In many parts of Egypt’s poor neighborhoods, gasoline/benzene is easier to find then clean drinking water. Medical care and education is only for those with the money to pay for it. Life for the people of Tunisia is not that much better.
In contrast, the Libyan people have the longest life expectancy in the Arab world. The Libyan people have the best, free public health system in the Arab world. The Libyan people have the best, free public education system in the Arab world. Most Libyan families own their own home and most Libyan families own their own automobile. Libya is so much better off than its neighbors every year tens of thousands of Egyptians and Tunisians migrated to Libya to earn money to feed their families, doing the dirty work the Libyan people refused to do.
When it comes to how Gadaffi oversaw a dramatic rise in the standard of living for the Libyan people despite decades of UN inSecurity Council sanctions against the Libyan economy, honest observers acknowledge that Gadaffi stands head and shoulders above the kings, sheiks, emirs and various dictators who rule the rest of the Arab world.
So why did NATO launch this war against Libya?
First of all, Gadaffi was on the verge of creating a new banking system in Africa that was going to put the IMF, World Bank, and assorted other western banksters out of business in Africa. No more predatory western loans used to cripple African economies; instead, a $42 billion dollar African Investment Bank would be supplying major loans at little or even zero interest rates.
Libya has funded major infrastructure projects across Africa that have begun to link up African economies and break the perpetual dependency on the western countries for imports. Here in Eritrea, the new road connecting Eritrea and Sudan is just one small example.
What seems to have finally tipped the balance in favor of direct western military intervention was the reported demand by Gadaffi that the USA oil companies who have long been major players in the Libyan petroleum industry were going to have to compensate Libya to the tune of tens of billions of dollars for the damage done to the Libyan economy by the USA instigated “Lockerbie Bombing” sanctions imposed by the UN inSecurity Council throughout the 1990’s into early 2000’s. This is based on the unearthing of evidence that the CIA paid millions of dollars to witnesses in the Lockerbie Bombing trial to change their stories to implicate Libya, which was used as the basis for the very damaging UN sanctions against Libya. The government of the USA lied and damaged Libya so the USA oil companies were going to have to pay up to cover the cost of their government’s actions. Not hard to see why Gadaffi had to go, is it?
Add the fact that Gadaffi had signaled clearly that he saw both Libya’s and Africa’s future economic development linked more to China and Russia, rather than the west, and it was just a matter of time before the CIA’s contingency plan to overthrow the Libyan government was put on the front burner.
NATO’s war against Libya has much more in common with NATO’s Kosovo war against Serbia. But one still cannot compare Gadaffi to Saddam or even the much smaller-time criminals in the Serbian leadership. The Libyan War lies are worse than Iraq.
Not to mention the United States of Africa etc.
Imagine if he knew he would be tripled crossed
would he have deposited $32 Billion to have Goldman
Sachs rip the country off?
Would have have kept $30+ billion in U.S. Banks?
Just a few years ago Condi Rice was on a WSJ
special edition of Libya investments. Many Americans
vied for a piece of the infrastructure billions
What happened to make them EU force America to
go and try to take him out? In time more will be written and history will reveal, the nature of
the crimes against the Libyan people
So they pick the wrong reasons to find excuses to have a regime change. Dont they ever learn ; they killed tens, hundreds, of thousands of civilians just to walk out of the war with tails well tugged in , even when they are forced to hand over the regime to others, and always to the ‘wrong’ people.
If it is as conspiricy theories go,they too failed, neighter do they get the right regime change,nor aquire the spoils of war /oils or territores /
e g.
LIBYA: Probable outcomes , a) either side win, a few thousands died,tens of thousands wounded, combatants and innocent civilians; cities, infrastructures distroyed, land contaminated forever by D U. Skermish continues for decades.b)If rebels win, Al Quada, thugs and opportunist, fanatics, fundamantalist all have their go to involved in the Regime, some mess.No stability nor new well run civil admin formed, coruptions, looting, exploitation etc c) if Gaddafi won, some stabality, but UN , Nato may not just lick their own wounds alone.Libya also may not recover fast.
IRAQ, Millions killed, country completesly distroyed, by the silly ‘shock and Awe” and then in the occupation and the country was left to aarmless thugs who are willing just to temporarily ammuse and condome to the occupiers. End story, the invaders will still get little terrorites and oil. Civil war will continue and their adverserise (shites} may replace sunnies and sadam.Iran may be the one that would be gleeful
AFGANISTAN; country back to Talabans,’Osama’? dead or alive, not much different, he would be a force to recon with,pratically immune to DU, Predators,Kaizais, We have created a new breed of social fighters, little seen little heard but dedicated and ernest /angel-may-care adversories/.
SUDAN. Black hawk down
PAKISTAN. An enemy in the making /not cheap to make. probably hundreds of billions
VIETNAM. ‘VIETNAM” still a term that shivers the thinkers of wars, ‘shock and awe’technologies and power against pajamas peasents,with holes against tanks and daisycutters and napalm /well, at least these people bears us no grudges
KOREA N Korea still N Korea. Thousands dead, both sides. War still not settled
(suppose us are like the british and french, they like long wars (100 years war) Korea %0 years? Afganistan ? Vietnam? Libya ?
“GODS, WE DO NOT NEED ENEMIES; please un-create them”
I’m a big fan of Thomas C Mountain. This guy says what no journalist can say (if they want to lose their jobs that is). The real irony is out of all the African reporters, it’s an American white guy from Eritrea defending Africa with nothing but the truth.
God bless you Thomas, you are the man!
Qadafi invaded Chad – But the post-colonial anti-democracy Thomas Mountain, probably an Islamist, and certainly a friend of fascism has to lie about that.
And then he reports from the propaganda machine of Qadafi in barrels.
Some “journalist”.
The Gaddafi death clan have been oppressing Libyan lives for 42 years. There is NO Al Qiada in Libya, Al Qaida does not thrive in a country with 6 million and an income of $100 billion. Come to your senses all you naysayers. The new Libya will be a friend of America and a beacon of democracy in the Middle East and Africa. It is a country of educated people who crave democracy after decades of terrorism from its clinically insane leader. Just look at his face.. would you trust this person? All Western nations, at one time or another, suffered from Gaddafi. Enough is enough.
Dear Mr. Mountain, regardless of the motivation behind your fabricated “reporting”, you should refrain from public dissemination of your wayward personal views, and instead, stay home and pound salt up your behind. I would consider this a personal favor. Thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Jim
Perhaps you should follow your own advice, Jim.