Comments on: Cynthia McKinney’s truth dispatches from Libya: Days 1-3

By: guest2

guest2 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:48:25 +0000

Your prayer was clearly not answered!

By: Ibrahim B. Gulam

Ibrahim B. Gulam — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:36:06 +0000

it is clear that President Obama violated international law and three executive orders signed by three past presidents – Ford, Carter, and Reagan – in trying to assassinate the Libyan head of state.
The preceding statement were disclose by the author. What is this Three Exec Orders signed by the three past president? Would it be possible that somebody may charge the Obama presidency by means of impeachment?
Bombing by NATO made worst because as if you are driving a car you may go to the wrong way, like these bombs dropping you CANNOT estimate the radius or circumference that the bombs spreading. On the other end children, innocent men and women were hit and brought to hospitals and after the died. Is these an essential activities of NATO, or a politically interest of Libyan having huge oil. WE PRAY FOR THE SAFE OF QADDAFI AND THE REST OF HIS FAMILIES AND MAY INCLUDE THE FAITHFUL FORCES, AMEN…

By: Ibrahim B. Gulam

Ibrahim B. Gulam — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:58:49 +0000

Who ever have a faith in Islam thoroughly will win. We believed that Qaddafi regime assisted numerous people everywhere in this four corner of the world. We muslims in Mindanao Minsupa, Philippines received assistance from the faithful administration of Qaddafi. Mosques, Madrasah, Hospitals and other assistance were implemented financially shouldered by Qaddafi. NATO now helping the Libyan Protesters and many children, women, men and innocent civilians were killed by the NATO bomb, this is a criminal act as far as I am concern. You see right after NATO bombing to the innocent people Earthquake and Hurricane Irene hitting the places in United States of America because God is not sleeping but the problems is the Innocents people were killed in USA areas like what happened in Libya Bombing of NATO killed Innocent People. Please let NATO returned and face the possible charges from International Criminal Court let them punished because the problems of Libyan people is not there problem, why it need to interrupt. Killing people is not the solutions peace without hindrance will ultimately resolved. Ibrahim B Gulam, Da-Designer907

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:03:17 +0000

You can't import revolution.

By: john mcglynn

john mcglynn — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:32:54 +0000

how did you get in and out were you dreaming this ?
I cannot imagine thirty guys lining up with their dicks out,bullets flying everywhere
while you were watching. tell me did it turn you on you fibbin pillock

By: john mcglynn

john mcglynn — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:24:30 +0000

what Bounty?welfare,rain ,thugs thieves including pompous politicians,overbearing coppers,
no jobs ,go back to your beer and skittles nanny lover

By: libyan

libyan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:19:56 +0000

ursula complete lies libya has been under a corrupt ruler for 42 years stolen all of its wealth killed many innocent people . benghazi is free nato is helping libya . shut the F up . lies lies lies the only sociopath is Geddafi andhis supporters

By: libyan

libyan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:17:16 +0000

dear keris , who the f*** do u think u are . benghazi is free u can go there if u want . listen to tributefm they are from benghazi . only rat is geddafi ppl like u make me sick
ignorant person ! u contribute to the bloodshed by spreading these lies and kinney is a horrible person for visiting gedafi

By: libyan

libyan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:15:09 +0000

Mder tells the truth , other ppl why are u defending a maniac who kills ppl he is not for africa he only pretends to be to survive

By: dxxxxxxx

dxxxxxxx — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:13:43 +0000

this article is repeating geddafi propaganda . Nato is saving lives the ONLY RATS ARE GEDDAFI AND HIS ARMED THUGS the african mercanaries were brought by geddafi to kill and rape . go pick up a newspaper or go read .

By: Selina

Selina — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:10:27 +0000

"Thanks for the Western led coalition that saved Libyans like it saved countless people from other facist regimes. "

OH REALLY!!! WHo has Amerikkka saved in IRAG, VIETNAM, GRENDA & PANAMA, AmeriKKKan Back
Samuel K Doe and Charles Taylor who armed their armies w/AmeriKKKan weapons killing millions of Liberians

THE WEST Savior more like an Economica destroyer and murder of people of African descent

By: Keris

Keris — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:51:57 +0000

Dear MDerr , please do not write such lies , you never been in libya – In Misurata the whole people call the rebels with only one word . RATS !

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:51:08 +0000

I wouldnt say she is a nut job, but I would say that she and people like her in the Professional Left are "useful idiots". No doubt some of these people would have been hanging around Serbia in 1999, or perhaps in the future they will visit the Dear Leader or whoever leads North Korea when their time comes.

Luckily….we know this will end…. Gaddafi will lose…. Libya and the wider Middle East will be better in 5-10 years time….

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:48:14 +0000

Oh my god is all I can say in response to this post. Question for you Ursula: since you seem to ally yourself much more closely to Libya than the UK, why dont you put all your trust in Colonel Gaddafi and move there, instead of living in the UK and enjoying the bounty of the country?

By: MDerr

MDerr — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:42:23 +0000

I too visited my home country Libya during the siege of Misratah – a town of just under 600,000 people, the third largest in Libya. I can tell you that Gaddafi forces raped hundreds of females usually in groups of 20 to 30 on one or two girls. They also shot the male members of these girls' families in the legs so they and any children in the family can see but not defend. The torture and abuse was on a huge scale. This also happened in Ejdabiya (East Libya) and Zawaya (West Libya). For some people the idealism is pitiful. How can you expect people in such circumstance not to ask for help. Fellow Arabs and Africans did not help the Libyans who are tired of 42 years of dicatatorship. Perhaps they should have just got all raped and killed to satisfy such naive idealism.

The Libyan people started in February peaceful demonstrations against Gaddafi's regime asking for more freedom and justice and less corruption. The response by what is a very insecure regime was to shoot using antil armour and anti aircraft weapons. Yes, against unarmed civilians. This has insensed Libyans all over from Zawya to Zintan, to Tarhuna to Misratah. Gaddafi managed to suppress Zawya in a vile fashion, again using rape as a weapon of war. Tarhuna calmed down without a fight but Misrata's civilians in two months learnt how o defend themeselves and in an epic battle defeated Gaddafi forces estimated at around 9000 with 200 tanks. Zintan also stood strong and Gaddafi failed to take it despite continuing effort.

I am really disappointed that Cynthia cannot find sympathy for Libyan women. May be she can find sympathy for the tens of thousands killed in black Africa in wars funded by Gaddafi and carried out by the likes of Uganda's Amin, Liberia's Charles Taylor, and Sierra Lione's Kabbah, and many others. If some Libyans support Gaddafi, and I am sure there are some, then I think fighting them is like fighting Nazi Germany, the ultimate facist regime the world had seen. Long live freedom, long live Libya. Thanks for the Western led coalition that saved Libyans like it saved countless people from other facist regimes.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:15:46 +0000

ok people she is certified, completely bonafied nut job. She espouses the down trodden and hangs with this mafia thug ? Did she realize how the Colonel got his job ? So now she hangs with flush murders for a hand out, how nice.

By: Ursula Riches

Ursula Riches — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:10:42 +0000

How can anyone see that it is the freedom of Libya that is being lost! Libya had her revolution in 1969.
There ius room for improvement in the country and under the present system too. It ahs been a new experience, a unique form of democracy. Can a govt ever be perfect or please all of te people all of the time? Gaddafi has done WELL and deserves to be saluted and proaised. The people of Libya are meant to govern Libya within a system so let them get on with reforms of their country.
Shame be upon the UK my country for siding with traitors who commit larceny against their people and invite NATO to attack and bomb innocent civvillians and children, Sociopaths and psychopaths are the category of people our government comes in.

By: Der Kosmonaut

Der Kosmonaut — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:24:08 +0000

How can one be a progressive claiming to support a "revolution" backed by NATO war planes and bombs from former colonial powers? You are the one that lacks consistency. Then you repeat the propaganda myths about the situation in Dafur which if you have done a bit of research will understand that there is not a genocide happening there but rather a battle over natural resources. Hence the reason why Europe and North America is keen to break up Sudan in order to gain a monopoly over the oil in that south of that country.
The reason why McKinney has not gone to Benghazi is precisely because it's a dangerous area for Black people to be. By your reasoning, it is like asking a Jew to go to Nuremberg after Kristallnacht to talk to the Nazis and get their side as well.
What exactly do you know about Revolution? "Revolution is messy" is simply an empty statement which does not illuminate, substaniate or provide any analytical insight what so ever into the social and political dynamics of what is actually going on in Libya and the Middle East as a whole.
As far as Revolutions without major tragedies one only needs to go back to 1989 and the overthrow of the Stalinist states of East Germany and Czechoslovakia which were mostly peaceful and non-violent revolutions. Now whether the results of the restoration of capitalism have been positive since then is another debate. Still, I just provided two famous examples of revoutions which occured without tragedy.
I am afraid that your comment has left you exposed as "coca-cola intellectual" at best.

By: John Owens

John Owens — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:35:00 +0000

I respect Rep. Cynthia McKinney among women. She is fighting for the voiceless and the defenseless who are being bombed or driven away from their homes by NATO bombs. Poor Africans and Poor Libyans. They don't even want them in the US but Gadhafi was helping them.

If a deer is traumatized by the air strikes, what about the children of Tripoli who cannot sleep at night because of the thundering bombs from skies? Imagine your own children in that kind of a situation?

And this is mainly the work of the presidents of the Britain, US, and France who will not stop assaulting the African nation even after Gadhafi has agreed on numerous occasions that he is willing to negotiate.

These three presidents have lost my respect for encouraging violence, they have no respect for human life. It's as if they are immune to human suffering under the guise of defending civilians. Is this how to defend civilians? This is an unjust war but they don't want to stop. It's scary. Life is almost at a standstill Tripoli.

The day of judgment is coming. Stop the bombing.
I guess they don' t believe in the day of judgment, while they think its a proper think to inflict their own judgment on Gadhafi.

Folks, it is scary because you don't know what they will do next.

Thanks to Rep. McKinney for standing up for the truth.

By: JAyR

JAyR — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:15:50 +0000

It would seem that "truth" like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or what you don't want to "beleive" you ignore. Ghadaffi has admitted that the men connected with the Pan Am flight were members of his "Security and Intelligence" forces….now maybe, just maybe these men decided on their own to do what they did, but how do you explain the steps taken by the Libyan Government to deflect and defend them. I won't even comment on the rest of the silliness of the former respons