ABC’s Christiane Amanpour landed an interview with Libya’s lunatic Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (or Gadhafi, as ABC spells it) and learned a little something about love.
ABC, obviously, has the details:
I interviewed Col. Moammar Gadhafi this evening, when he told me he could not step down because he is not a president or king, and denied there were demonstrations against him anywhere in Libya.
“My people love me. They would die for me,” he said.
We conducted the interview at a restaurant in the Corniche, a coastal road on Tripoli’s Mediterranean coast. Gadhafi, dressed in a brown-orange robe, drove up in a small convoy of sedans, got out and greeted us. He said he wanted to get the truth out, and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story for us.
Libya’s longtime leader laughed when I asked him whether he would step down in response to calls against violence by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama. He invited the United Nations and any other organization to come to Libya and do a “fact finding mission” and questioned how they could freeze assets, impose sanctions and implement a travel ban based purely on media reports.
There you have it. Muammar hates the media.
Maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all.
Source: ABC News
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Here's a guy who came to power in the 60's and then made it illegal for his own military to train it's men above the brigade level. He was a brigade level commander when he led his "populist" revolt and didn't want any future military commader to have more strategic experience than he had. His hero, Gamal Abdul Nasser, had taken over Egypt, in like fashion, a few years earlier and all that 60's pan Arabism crap started, but old Muammar hasn't really been himself since Nasser died. In fact I think it made him delusional..go figure.
At one point in the early 80's Muammar even proposed buying Nasser's grave site and moving it to Tripoli or Benghazi, but the Egyptian government nixed his idea. Shortly after that, if memory serves me, Anwar Al Saddat was assassinated...hmmm...wonder if there's any connection? Yeah, this guy's been a reliable source of information for about 40 years now. (sarcasm intentional)
"The people love me. They would die for me."
...and if they don't die for me, I'll kill them!
Gadhafi deserves to be strung up by his heels, just like Mussolini.
Gaddafi must have bumped his cranium, again.
One good bombing from American F111s shut him for 25 years, it's time to reiterate our dislike for terrorists and shut him up again.
OMG! That's not Gaddafi...it's Charlie Sheen, you can tell by the sunglasses and delusional behavior
“My people love me. They would die for me"
Bagdad Bob, all over again!
It looks like someone has been beating Gaddafi with the ugly stick. That face of his would make onions cry.
"Christiane Amanpour ... not invited to join his virgin bodyguard squad."
No, but he DID invite her to join his Royal Stable of well-fed but uniquely ugly camels.
and while this is happening Obama is dancing to Motown.
Keep it real, yo!
"Bull-goose looney"
“My people love me. They would die for me."
I've heard bad jokes before, but this is the worst!
I actually watched his big speech at the UN last year. So I know all I need to know about him. He's a freakin' lunatic.
Kinda reminds me of Charlie Sheen - delusional!
Oh!
Charlie Sheen can TOTALLY play Q in a movie!