Muammar Qaddafi is No Better than Saddam: Sotal Iraq, Iraq
Oct 4th, 2009 | 2 responses
Libyan Despot Muammar Qaddafi succeeded in amusing and ticking off quite a few people last week with his rambling speech at the United Nations, which he made, according to him, not due to his role as dictator of Libya or president of the U.N. Security Council [yes - Qaddafi presently holds the rotating presidency of that body], but in his capacity as African Union chairman.
According to Noor al-Harby, a columnist for the newspaper Sotal Iraq, before and after becoming African Union chairman, Mr. Qaddafi has been hard at work complaining about the ouster of Saddam Hussein and seeking to undermine the new, democratic, Iraq.
For Sotal Iraq, a peeved Noor al-Harby writes in part:
“To put it simply, Qaddafi only understands the language of a single commander who squanders the wealth of his people and utilizes his country’s power to serve his own criminal personal desires and whims, just like Saddam used to do. It’s no wonder that we saw Qaddafi passionately defend the Iraqi dictator, expressing shock at the way he was treated by the United States and Britain, although Saddam was a creature of their intelligence services. Qaddafi was in fact pondering his fate aloud, being of the same ilk and having just celebrated forty years of rule over the Libyan people.”
Then, targeting Qaddafi for seeking to undermine ‘the Iraqi democratic experience,’ al-Harby writes:
“Qaddafi not only persists in using the same language [about the wrongfulness of Saddam's demise] and refuses to recognize the new Iraq, but he has also connived with opportunists and mercenaries to undermine the government, helping establish militant groups in a bid to achieve a foothold on Iraq’s political landscape. This he does along with other Arab states that have been paying off and recruiting Iraqis for their own war against the Iraqi democratic experience. … Oblivious as he is to the wishes of his own people, Qaddafi’s comments are yet another indication that Arab nationalists have a hatred and fear of Iraq and its experience.”
By Noor al-Harby
Translated By Ahmed Naoual
September 26, 2009
Iraq – Sotal Iraq – Original Article (Arabic)
Although six years have passed since the downfall of the Baath Party dictatorship, their words and attitudes show that Arab heads of state still long to wade in the blood of the Iraqi people. In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi (rightly) cast doubt on the seriousness of the major Western countries in addressing the world’s difficulties. But he failed to mention how his own dictatorial regime, very much like Saddam’s defunct government, supports terrorism and terrorists. Just as the Lockerbie incident proved beyond doubt Qaddafi’s links with terrorism, sooner or later evidence will emerge that with money and weapons he has fomented and supported warring factions in numerous civil wars in Africa. And all for the sake of achieving the illusory and meaningless leadership of a continent where people don’t believe in unity or the African Union, an institution which has singularly failed to deliver them from hunger, poverty and disease. These are things Qaddafi cannot provide these distressed peoples. [Qaddafi is this year's chairman of the African Union, which is why he said he had to come to the U.N. for the first time this year].
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