long read..I don't agree wth all of this exactly,but you get the main idea.Gaddaffi wasn't THAT bad a guy .. a screwloose yes .. and he had previously supported terrorists himself .. long in the past .. but he had largly changed his bad boy ways after seing his buddy Saddam Hussain pummeled .. remember it was george bush and his connection to 'yellow cake' in libya ..
Well Gaddaffi straightened up .. He had shut down all the budding nuclear sites and allowed inspectors in and surrendered all his nuclear weapons material stockpiles ..
His sons were living largely in England and Europe and were Westernising .. they had abundant wealth in budget surplusses in their economy ..
All this said .. Gaddaffi did assist in bombing the Pan Am flight over Lockerbe some 30 years ago .. but .. he was currently playing by the rules and had 'turned over a new leaf'
This here was the next epicenter of the 'arab spring' where the western funded and inspired jihaadist began uprising against their dictator ..
When it was clear that Gaddaffi did in fact have large support and was driving the opposition into the sea .. the US proposed a 'no fly zone' be created in the UN security council ..
It's mandate was very limited and defined in only allowing western jets to shoot down or otherwise keep grounded the libyan air force to somewhat even the level of the battlefield .. And allow for humanitarian assistance .
Well as soon as they arrived the american french and british jets broke the boundries of the mandate limitations ..
so the big bad air planes showed up to ''stop humanitarian suffering and attacks on civilians" when infact .. beyond just shutting down the libyan air force .. they began wholesale bombardment of ground forces .. infrastructure .. weapons systems .. and everything and anything else the wanted to destroy on a whim ..
Gaddaffi and his loyalists were pounded day and night in an undeclared war .. but there was nothing he could do .. eventually he was dwindled down to a convoy escaping his home town Sirte with around 100 vehicles ..
The car in front of his was hit directly with a missle his car was disabled and he was seperated from the group .. injured he and one or two of the surviving men with him crawled into a concrete road pipe ...
they were surrounded and captured by Jihadis .. he was seen on a phone camera being beaten and bloodied .. they shot him several times and cut his face .. shoved some sword up his ass .. and generally tortured him until he bled out ..
hillary clinton remarked on this illegal and unauthorized war 'we came . we saw . he died . shrill laughter of a mad woman '
Moamar Gaddafi's Aire and Son Saif al Gaddaffi was captured and taken to a makeshift Ziltan militia prision where he is still held and routinely tortured .. several of his fingers have been cut off ..
IsIs and radical islamists are now controling most of the country .. the ''secular freedom fighters'' are pretty much been co-opted or killed by now and the country is now in dissaray and destroyed ..
in this case the administration was successful . ..
Yep. they also bombed civilians in Misrata