justwise:

Are you joking or what? Who are the rebels? I take your whole post as a bad joke anyway.

darkman200:

I wonder if some people like you actually understand what is going on. You probably didn't realize that the so called rebels were peaceful protesters that were being unnecessarily gunned down by Qaddafi's gun totting thugs, and as it is in all human natures, the instinct to survive and fight back kicked in and we are here we are today, Qaddafi is the terrorist and the so called rebels are the real Libyans, the opposition is made up of intellectuals and well respected members of the Libyan society compared to this lunatic and egomaniac Colonel and his sons.

Residents in the city of Benghaz were hours away from being
assaulted by Gaddafi's troop. If not for the intervention of the Allies forces
God knows what would have happened.
Imagine Gaddafi telling his own citizens that he will have no mercy.
And the AU sat there doing nothing,
Now they want to feel important.
I am tired of African leaders,

Blazing99:

No I'm not joking. Please change your Id, your statements dont reflect the poster.

Blazing99:

No I'm not joking. Please change your Id, your statements dont reflect the poster.

Survivalists carry guns to fight the government when diplomacy is on the table. I agree Ghadaffi's forces were wrong to gun down the protesters. But this is not the only country where dat happened. Have u heard of what happened in Bahrain, where 2000 troops from Saudi arabia were imported to deal with protesters with many dead till date. U think if Bahrainians carry guns against their king and do the same that happened in East Libya, they won't be suppressed by killings? But there are better ways of solving situations rather than going on with violence and renouncing your country's government. Diplomacy is on the table, that's what im advocating for. Violence never yields good.

On the opposition, please remember Libya is a Nation of about 7 million people. The population of the East where the revolt is going on are less than 2 million. So you wanna tell me those who are not fighting Ghadaffi are dumb?

Remii:

I think enforcing "no Fly Zone" should mean ensure "nothing flies", why are all the war planes in the world heading towards Libya , flying over the country freely and dropping bombs over so called targets, killing innocent souls. One would think that they would shoot down Gadaffi plane if they tried to break the "no fly rule". Arab leaders have been deceived again with "Oyinbo".

Remii:

I think enforcing "no Fly Zone" should mean ensure "nothing flies", why are all the war planes in the world heading towards Libya , flying over the country freely and dropping bombs over so called targets, killing innocent souls. One would think that they would shoot down Gadaffi plane if they tried to break the "no fly rule". Arab leaders have been deceived again with "Oyinbo".

Remii:

I think enforcing "no Fly Zone" should mean ensure "nothing flies", why are all the war planes in the world heading towards Libya , flying over the country freely and dropping bombs over so called targets, killing innocent souls. One would think that they would shoot down Gadaffi plane if they tried to break the "no fly rule". Arab leaders have been deceived again with "Oyinbo".

So you mean rising oil prices benefit the West? Western countries already harvest the bulk of libyan oil. Its actually more profitable to leave ghadaffi there than to handover to a more patriotic government elected by Libyan voters.

In an attempt to justify rabid hatred of the West, people support all manner of things. You dont mind having a dictator kill his people as long as he makes the right noises about imperialism and resisting the invaders

loco2no:

I love my Country no B small. I LOVE NIGERIA. I always make time to read people's comments, not going to judge anyone in particular but some where pretty dumb. That is democracy, people are free to write whatever they want but the big difference b/w us and developed countries is simply ACTIONS SPEAKS LOUDER VOICE. IF we can act on 30% of our voices, this country will b a Great Nation.
250 tribes and languages living as 1 nation no b small thing o.Since we have not managed to kill ourselves this far, to me we are the best nation on planet earth
LONG LIVE NIGERIA! LONG LIVE MY COUNTRY!! E GO BETTER!!!

ncpat:

this is my opinion in libya crisis, let say the fact here, some of the people are of the opinion that gaddafi should step down from power after a long time in,yes good and fine, they should have demonstrated that by marching on the street and not by carrying weapon fighting against the government of the day making them to be called rebels, now we all know that rebel is a bad name so why is the western supporting rebel now, every body knows their interest is the libyan oil so united nation expect rebels with weapon who chase government security and was killing them in order to chase gaddafi out so gaddafi should fold his hands and watch them, no, if there is nobody behind this why did`nt they behave like their egyptian and tunisian neighbour . now africa expecially nigeria the giant of africa, which african nation is better than libya in terms of good living and income, since the crisis began, i have not seen any one complain of poverty or unemployment, all the people i have been seeing were all living fine, i heard that every libyan citizens collect salary, well someone should tell me if i`m going wrong, they only complain that they don`t have freedom of speech to critised gaddafi, we all know that all over the world u can not talk against government of the day, you have job, live in a good house drive nice car,good water and steady power supply and that is not enough, you want to change government that will say no more payment of salary to you if you are not working. here in my country you will work for ten years and you cannot afford to buy a car not to talk of building your own house, what i`m happy for gaddafi for is that nobody have accused him of corruption so libyan take my advice and let the sleeping dog to lie

justwise:

ncpat how old are you?

eghost247:

lol at justwise what do u mean by that now lol

O.J Onuh:

@justwise sorry bo! no laugh oh! Just got to know that i have to open the pages. I posted a reply and when i joined the room i couldn't see the reply making me to post same over and over again.

Chyz*:

The AU has been very vocal in the Ivory Coast issue.I'm surprised you are even insinuating that they did/are doing nothing. The tragedy of what is going on in Ivory Coast is due to the interference of the EU and UN in the elections. I am shocked at your statement. You are Igbo as am I. You should be aware that the same thing the the "international community" a.k.a. western powers are doing in Ivory Coast and Libya is the same thing they did to us during the civil war which caused millions of us to die. You should be ashamed of yourself. Were the "rebels" helped then by the west? Please open your eyes.

O.J Onuh:

@justwise sorry bo! no laugh oh! Just got to know that i have to open the pages. I posted a reply and when i joined the room i couldn't see the reply making me to post same over and over again.

Builder:

It is absolutely crazy for anyone to think the west are in libya to fight for democrazy or the rights of libyans,  the west in their corrupt wisedom are in libya for the obvious which is oil, in as much as i despise Ghadafi and his sons the west actions are reminiscense of iraq. Afterall, its it the west arming the rebels of libya with weapons of all sorts to sort out Gadafi, and when they fail to succeed David Cameron decided to join patnership with france et al at the UN to bomb God knows what.

Noam Chomsky said so himself in a recent BBC interview, In the quest for oil and power, the US and its allies will pull out the stops to prevent any really functioning democrazy from developing in the arab world

Its good to see the the rebels in Libya happy, i just hope their happiness last, before the NATO bombs starts crushing them, and God knows what will happen when the bombs eventualy stops,  the weapons supplied to the rebels by the west and suicide bombing then take over,   why the world is sooo forgetful about the happenings in iraq baffles me a great deal. Like a great mind once said, we live in a beautiful world but ugly souls press the button.

And with regards to the AU, i rest my case

PS. To understand more on what happened in iraq and libya, this film says it all     www.zeitgeistaddendum.com

justwise:

Is America  invading  Libya now? America refused to get involved untill the UN sactioned it. Is not America that started shelling innocent Libyans, its not America that used African mercenaries to slaughter his own pple. I ask again: What has the AU done when all these were going on?

solajacobs:

i wonder what the african union were doing when gadafi was killing his people,

deji.ariyo:

Tell me one single country America has invaded and brought change in favour of the citizens of the said Nation??

DeeJay20:

JUstwise, Justwise, of all people i would expect you to have a calmer head,
this situation that has developed it not good for Libya, Africa or
the wider world as a whole.

It started out as protest and then the protesters were given weapons by whomMore People are dying now because of these so-called No-fly zone air-strikes whichis just a blank cheque to bomb any part of Libya as the EU/NATO/USA desire.
Let us all be sober and mature in our comments here as our
back-yard is being bombed and could well set an *uncalled fore Precedent*
in Africa,

DeeJay20:

The Bharanian Military are shooting/killing their own people to put down the
protest, and what is the EU/USA doing about that? Go on youtube and see
people being slaughtered by the Bharanian Military, Stop
having selective myopia and see the wider picture.