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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by netsharc on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:06AM (#25619631)
Heh, to defend Obama on Gaddafi, it's not like he's got crystal balls. And if he had done an Iraq War II deployment into Libya, the American public (presumably you too) would've screamed for his head, after suffering 8 years of the clusterfuck that is Iraq (and 10 of Afghanistan), which was started and kept in "fucked" state for 5 (7 for AF) years by people like Rumsfeld and Cheney.
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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by busterarm on Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:21AM (#25619950)
Even at the time most people thought his removal was a bit odd and unneccessary.

Later on with the leaked cables, we found out that it was largely because he was trying to create a gold-backed pan-African currency that would have harmed French central banking interests in the region.

One of the first things the "revolutionaries" that ousted Gaddafi did was create a central bank. While they were still fighting for territory.

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