NATO is continuing its barrage of the Libyan capital, with no sign there will be any let-up until Colonel Muammar Gaddafi goes. Western and Arab countries are showing their support for the Libyan opposition by pledging more money. The rebels say they need $3 billion over the next several months to pay salaries and buy supplies. Although the rebels have managed to get financing from their first oil exports to the US, writer and filmmaker Patrick Henningsen believes the oil business coming out of Libya is not the main driver of this NATO operation.
In 2003, Saddam Hussein did an interview with the media where he stated he had no weapons of mass destruction and the US knew this and was propagating a lie to instigate regime change. Nobody believed Saddam, and we were outraged that he could lie about something "everyone knew" so obviously to be true.
Fast forward about 9 years, to what's happening in Libya. Gaddafi is claiming that the United States is lying, using fanatical and overexaggerated media claims, to go to war with Libya. Nobody believes Gaddafi.
The question is: why do we trust CNN, Fox, and all others who previously lied to us?
Fast forward about 9 years, to what's happening in Libya. Gaddafi is claiming that the United States is lying, using fanatical and overexaggerated media claims, to go to war with Libya. Nobody believes Gaddafi.
The question is: why do we trust CNN, Fox, and all others who previously lied to us?
(Info and following video courtesy of Housekater Claudio)
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