Posted on 10/21/2011 11:47:37 PM PDT by ReformationFan
In the 1980s, I was an unrefined adolescent from blue-collar Butler, Pennsylvania. I knew nothing and cared nothing about politics. I had no idea if I was a conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican, or much of anything else. But I knew one thing: Moammar Kaddafi was a bad dude. This was expressed in a rather unsophisticated way by the bumper-sticker affixed to my white Chevy Chevette, which declared simply and succinctly: "Kaddafi Sucks."
Yep, Moammar Kaddafi was a bad dude. And now, three decades later, and some 40-plus years after coming to power, he is gone, dispatched to the ash-heap of history with other murderous terrorists and dictators: Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Joe Stalin, Vladimir Lenin.
I will not here add to reports of how Kaddafi met his final fate, but I would like to share a valuable piece of information that was revealed to me by Bill Clark, Ronald Reagan's right-hand man and national security adviser when Kaddafi was ramping up in the 1980s.
It was early 1981. President Reagan had just been inaugurated. Alexandre de Marenches, the director of France's external intelligence agency, SDECE, came to the White House with a highly sensitive plan to remove Kaddafi. The plan was to assassinate the Libyan dictator during a parade, by use of an explosive device placed near the reviewing stand. "Our answer," said Clark, "was that we understood their feelings toward the man, but we don't do assassinations."
That was because there was an executive order banning assassinations, first signed by President Gerald Ford and supported by President Carter. The Reagan team had no intention of violating the order as one of the first acts of the new administration.
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So basically, Kengor’s article gives the impression that no president since has had the cojones to simply rescind Ford’s executive order for fear of looking publicly bloodthirsty?
Let’s see, any sitting president can rescind any previous president’s prior executive orders, yes?
It was far too late for those people on Pan Am 103.
Talking to some younger folks who have graduated from college in the past five years, I was stunned that none of them had ever heard of PanAm 103. Few even had an idea what PanAm was.
Geez, lets go out and hire more history teachers who couldn’t find the a$$ with both hands.
Egypt is firmly under control of the Muslim Brotherhood. They are committed to destroying Israel. Obama has given Egypt $Billions in loan forgiveness and wants to give Egypt US Tanks.
Libya was attacked illegally by an American President. Hardly a word was said. Al Qaeda is very strong in Libya, expect them to control Libya.
Obama has demanded Israel withdraw to pre-1967 borders.
Obama didn't say a word about Iranian protests yet he was a huge supporter of Egyptian and Libyan overthrows.
Is it starting to fit together who Obama really is? Probably not, Americans will not figure out who Obama is and what his real goals are until the NY TIMES finally let's it slip. By then, it will be too late.
Kadaffi Sucks? I guess that was before Obama came on the scene.....
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