We have a madman to deal with, and the world leaders are begging him to show "respect" and "restraint", and asking him please to punish officials responsible for the violence (that's the US's position). What a joke.
From Al Jazeera analysis on what he said in his speech:
"Muammar Gaddafi is the leader of the revolution, I am not a president to step down ... This is my country. Muammar is not a president to leave his post." [Which is very true, as he has no official position to resign from.]
"You men and women who love Gaddafi ...get out of your homes and fill the streets," he said. "Leave your homes and attack them in their lairs ... Starting tomorrow the cordons will be lifted, go out and fight them."
Gaddafi said "peaceful protests is one thing, but armed rebellion is another". [Ummm, it's your thugs who are armed.]
But the most chilling comment is this:
"cleanse Libya house by house"
A tweet by OmarAlmu5tar yesterday said:
"We have reached the point of no return. We know if we don´t die in the streets they´ll kill us in our houses"
He is afraid that Gaddafi is about to use chemical weapons on them, as Saddam Hussein did on the Kurds.
I am afraid there will be unspeakable atrocities, so unspeakable that no one outside Libya will talk about, and the so-called leaders of the so-called West and the UN will issue a statement regretting the atrocities but "hey it's time to move on...."
Now, have you heard of any country that has frozen the assets of the Gaddafis? None.
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