One can only be proud about our involvement in Libyan civil war!! WE helped thugs and religious extremists gain access to power and created a nightmare for a lot of innocent civilians. Moreover, some areas of the country declared themselves "autonomous", making this country's new government a joke.

Same thing will happen in Syria, no doubt. Do we think this is good because following revolutions new markets usually open, making the world economy booming for a while?

Total confusion? Was it not the aim of NATO to destroy Lybia and usher a new era of confusion in order to exploit its OIL?

Eight months ago I wrote the following:
Now that the "ENEMY" # 1 is gone, they will go at each other for the spoils. They are not going to wait for those little, "BOXES" and little pieces of paper courtesy of State Department, which is known as "DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS". All Libyans are armed to the teeth now and mark my words - they are going to go for each other. That is the norm of a tribal society. The "petite Napoleon" of France, the European clown, the "DEUCE" of Italy & the arrogant British Prime Minister will enjoy the oil right at their door steps and live happily ever after while the country they have bombed to the stone ages is going to bleed for many years to come.#76 - Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:00 PM EDT

This is supported by the obama administration. Had obama followed the rules, and had a vote prior to taking action instead of being the UN's lap-dog this wouldn't be all on obama.

Yea!

Libya has it's problems and I have mine to.

Usually when this happens and I see it on TV I just turn off the TV or change the channel.

Make note to self:

Self do not send any money to Libya. Do not buy anything from Libya. Don't name next child Libya.

Live and let live. Can't we all just get along?

by Felicity Arbuthnot / March 18th, 2011

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

— George Orwell.

The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March, in Europe. Libya too will be destroyed – its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, municipal buildings. There will be numerous "tragic mistakes", "collateral damage", mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, blind and deaf schools and on and on. And the wonders of the Roman remains and earlier, largely enduring and revered in all history's turmoils as Iraq, the nation's history – and humanity's, again as Iraq and Afghanistan, will be gone forever.

The infrastructure will be destroyed. The embargo will remain in place; thus rebuilding will be impossible. Britain, France and the US., will decide the country needs "stabilising", "help with reconstruction." They will move in, secure the oil installations and oil fields, the Libyan people will be an incidental inconvenience and quickly become "the enemy", "insurgents", be shot, imprisoned, tortured, abused – and a US friendly puppet "government" will be installed.

The invaders will award their companies rebuilding contracts, the money – likely taken from Libya's frozen assets without accounting – will vanish and the country will remain largely in ruins.

And the loudest cheerleaders for this, as Iraq, will be running round television and radio stations in London, Europe and the US, then returning to their safe apartments and their UK/US/Europe paid tenures, in the knowledge that no bombs will be dropping on them. Their children will not be shaking uncontrollably and soiling themselves with terror at the sound of approaching planes.

And this Libyan "Shock and Awe"? Shame on France, shame on Britain and the US and a UN avowed: "… to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." Every shattered body, every child maimed or blown to bits, every widow, widower, orphan, will have the name of those countries, and the UN written in their blood in their place of death.

And the public of these murderous, marauding Western ram raiders, will be told that we were bringing democracy, liberating Libya from a tyrant, from the "new Hitler", the "Butcher of Bengazi."

The countries who have ganged together these last days to overthrow a sovereign government have, again, arguably, conspired in Nuremberg's: " … supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole", and yet again, plotted to overthrow a sovereign government, with a fig leaf of "legality" from an arm twisted UN. We have seen it all before.

In time, it will emerge who was stirring, bribing, de-stabilizing, and likely few will be surprised at the findings. But by then, Libya will be long broken and its people, fleeing, displaced, distraught.

When it comes to dealing with the usual "liberators", be careful what you wish for. In six months or so, most Libyans, whatever the failings of the last forty years rule, will be ruing the day.

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Felicity Arbuthnot is a journalist with special knowledge of Iraq. Author, with Nikki van der Gaag, of Baghdad in the Great City series for World Almanac books, she has also been Senior Researcher for two Award winning documentaries on Iraq, John Pilger's Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq and Denis Halliday Returns for RTE (Ireland.) Read other articles by Felicity.

I feel sorry for the 100,000 blacks we killed there last year.