Drone Attack

On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:10:28 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:c19356c7-2620-471e-b6e5-4629297b72ed@googlegroups.com:

On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 3:59:25 PM UTC+2, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:01:14 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f2c0a22c-cdfe-41cf-a4a3-a0bfa4d66257@googlegroups.com:

Not for many years. The US had taken Libya off the list of
state sponsors of terrorism.



Ask Scotland if they think he was not a terrorist.

Oh and yes, for that alone, he deserved death, regardless of
the
moments elapsed between his act and the act that killed him.

Sure, but bringing one despot to justice is not worth flinging
millions of people into chaos and civil war. K was being
leveraged around to better behavior, and he did hold his country
together.

The whole problem with Gaddafi was that - after the Arab Spring,
he couldn't hold his country together. The population (or
substantial proportion of it) had gone into armed rebellion.
Nobody in the West had encoruaged that.

It was Gaddafi's enthusiasm for particularly brutal rebellion
suppresion that prompted Sarkozy to mobile his NATO allies to use
air-power to impede Gaddafi's capacity to move his armed forces
around to kill off everybody they could get at.

Ditto Sadaam and Tito.

Tito died of natural causes. Sadaam got a bit too ambitious.

Some countries need a dictator, to glue them together in the
short term.

Sadly for Gaddafi, he couldn't keep his country glued together
after the Arab Spring. He'd stopped provoking his neighbours, but
wasn't doing enough for the people he rulled to saty in power
after the Arab Spring.

Several of our more right-wing lunatics blame Obama and Clinton,
as if they'd set the Arab Spring unwinding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

sees it as as home-grown phenomenon, quite possibly help by the
new social media which seemed to have played a significant role in
sreading the protests.


Thank you for getting it right.

We did nothing to get it going it was Gaddafi himself sealing his
own fate.

We certainly encouraged it and then bombed. This is like saying because
someone else started an assault and you only joined in the attack,
the guy getting killed had nothing to do with you.
 
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 10:52:46 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in news:ae10cfd7-c4ab-4126-a419-
aadf6eeb7c41@googlegroups.com:

The deal didn't just slow Iran down, it halted
their development for 15 years.

15 years.

What part of "that IS merely a slowing down" do you not understand?

So, according to you, a car traveling from NYC to Boston is not halted
while the driver has lunch along the way? It's just "slowed down"?
That would be a new version of physics, but then you are always way out
there.


ROFL

Wrong, always wrong.




It is NOT a halt. Period.

A HALT is what IS needed.

Look up the definition.
And so far, what Trump got is an end to the halt and a resumption of
enrichment to 20%. Nice work Trump! He also managed to get Iran, UK,
France, Germany, Russia, and China all agreeing and on one side, saying
what Trump is doing is wrong, that Iran was complying. They are all
on one side, against
the US. Now that is some achievement. And we shall see where big mouth,
big balls Trump, who talks like you do gets with Iran. So far all we
have to show for what he's done is Iran returning to enrichment, the US
isolated from our allies, 4 tankers
hit and on fire, one Saudi power plant blown up, one US drone fired on,
one shot down. Trump is like Charlie Sheen, I'm winning!, I'm winning!
At least Sheen's insanity could be attributed to drugs.
 
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 10:57:19 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:70cb756f-b2e9-4e58-876e-22595fdc4cd2@googlegroups.com:

On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 11:30:31 PM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f005cfc5-d876-48f6-90ac-ebb179d5170d@googlegroups.com:

We don't tell you how to hump kangaroos, why do you persist in
trying to tell us what we should do? The founding fathers knew
exactly what they were doing with the electoral college process
and it works fine. It's just that libs like you don't like one
result, where they lost, so now any excuse will do, let's
change the rules, etc.


Decades of collegiate analysis decidedly shows you for the
guess-
as-you-go, make-shit-up, know-nothing-asshole we all know you to
be.

The reason folks want it gone, and it was long before THIS
election cycle, you putz, is because they have done the analysis,
and have found it to be one of the most corruptable aspects of
our government.


That's just another lie. Wrong, always wrong.



The current cycle is a perfect example thereof.


I've asked you to provide us with evidence that anything improper
went on in the electoral college, as opposed to them just casting
their votes as the voters in their states determined. As usual,
you provided nothing. You're just pissed because
Trump won, so now you want to claim it wasn't fair. Sore loser.


That is exactly what I said you would say.

You are a fucking pussy, and you would lose teeth if we met.
Likely lose more than that.

I'll add that to your list of threats made, for possible referal
to the authorities. And I'll have it available when you again deny
that you make threats.




You never asked me anything, fucktard.

And "voting like they are supposed to do" means nothing if the
circumstance is ALREADY CORRUPTED going in.

Which it's not. Again, I asked you for evidence of this alleged "corruption"
with the electoral college now many times, there is none. You're just
a sore loser.




Also, the entire premise is not needed. Popular vote works fine.

The thing was implemented so THEY could exercise control over what
WE vote for. It should have been tossed out from the get go.

It was implemented so states rights were protected and smaller states
could not as easily be ignored. So, one time it your candidate loses,
and now you're a whining sore loser.
 
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:16:55 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:eb9485ab-0611-4616-83f9-49f435fb4314@googlegroups.com:

Of course they are. If Gaddafi had nukes, the US and France would
not have gone to war against him and he may have very well
prevailed.




You are so stupid. You make shit up based on your bent impressions.

He would never have had nukes.

Look up the definition of "if"? Apparently Obama, Kerry, the UN believed
he could have developed nukes, they were hell bent on getting him to stop.
And if NK, one of the most backward, depressed, isolated countries on the
planet can get them, why not Libya. Pakistan has them, are Pakistan and
NK so greatly advanced compared to Libya?

Wrong, always wrong.
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:01:02 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:01:43 AM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:07:11 PM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:30:13 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 9:59:25 AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:01:14 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f2c0a22c-cdfe-41cf-a4a3-a0bfa4d66257@googlegroups.com:

Not for many years. The US had taken Libya off the list of state
sponsors of terrorism.



Ask Scotland if they think he was not a terrorist.

Oh and yes, for that alone, he deserved death, regardless of the
moments elapsed between his act and the act that killed him.

Sure, but bringing one despot to justice is not worth flinging
millions of people into chaos and civil war. K was being leveraged
around to better behavior, and he did hold his country together. Ditto
Sadaam and Tito.

Some countries need a dictator, to glue them together in the short
term.

+1

One of our more obvious idiotic right-wingers agrees with John Larkin expressing a favourite right-wing misconception.

No misconceptions, you just ignore the facts, the results, what actually
happened in places like Iraq, Syria, Iran and Libya.

No. You are ignoring the fact that these were popular uprsings, not engineered by any foreign power.

You are ignoring that when major powers encourage them, it gets noticed
and helps. And how they started doesn't matter, the US participated in
BOMBING the country to HELP the opposition. And at the time they were
doing it, Obama/Hillary were calling for regime change. Capiche?
No, libs never can. And are you happy with the results? First they
sent a message to Iran, NK, that if you make a deal with the US, turn
over your nukes, turn over your WMDs, then we come and kill you.
Second, Libya is now a hell hole, with millions fleeing to Europe,
drowning on the way. Why aren't the libs blaming Obama for those
deaths? Every illegal alien that dies at the US border, they try to
blame Trump for.




Your right-wing fantasies can't handle that idea, so you invent some foreign intervention or other -for which there is absolutely no evidence.
And helping overthrow Gaddafi sent a terrible message to Iran, North Korea
and anyone else considering nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons aren't a lot of help when it's your own population that is rebelling.

Of course they are.

How? Is the regime going to supress a popular uprisng by blasting it's own economy and infra-structure inot non-existence?

You really are quite stupid. I never suggested that a country would use
nukes on rebels. I said that if the country has nukes, then Obama and France
would not have been bombing them to support the rebels. Capiche? Can
you cite for us any country with nukes that we have bombed?




If Gaddafi had nukes, the US and France would not have
gone to war against him and he may have very well prevailed.

If Gaddafi had nukes, the rebels could well have turned them on him.

A total diversion into the wilderness. IT's what libs do.



That's the problem with authoritarian regimes - if there's one obvious head, you can always cut it off.
If you cooperate with the US,
do what we demand, make an agreement, hand over your nuclear material,
allow inspections, then when you're clean, we kill you.

Gaddafi was killed by rebellious Libyans. The NATO airstrike that broke up his convoy left him vulnerable to his own people, but the airstrike was aimed at stopping Gaddafi moving his troops around to terrorise the population at large. It wasn't directed at Gaddafi himself - nobody outside the convoy would have known that he was in it.

Yes, they can put that on Gaddafi's tombstone, the US air strikes were not
meant to kill you, but they sure help. And Hillary sure took credit and
gloated.

Only when the famous interview is looked at through the eyes of a addict to right-wing conspiracy theories.

ROFL

"We came, we saw, he died" Hah, hah.

But heh, it's Hillary a big lib, so it's all OK, that wasn't gloating
just brilliant statesmanship. Of course if Trump said it......




If you have nukes, like NK, we won't.

Perhaps. If you've got nukes and your country is in disorder there's going to be a temptation for better organised countries to go in and grab the nuclear weapons before some criminal gang gets hold of them and sells them to the highest bidder.

Yeah, sure, go in and grab the nukes from a country that has nukes.
That's probably the stupidest thing you've posted here yet.

If a country is in disorder, the nukes aren't necessarily going to be in the hands of the regime that is being revolted against. As soon as that happens, international intervention becomes very likely, purely as a precautionary measure.

--

Sure, countries are going to send troops into a nuclear power country
to grab their nuclear weapons. Please keep representing for the libs,
they must be proud.
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 2:49:51 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:16:55 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:eb9485ab-0611-4616-83f9-49f435fb4314@googlegroups.com:

Of course they are. If Gaddafi had nukes, the US and France would
not have gone to war against him and he may have very well
prevailed.




You are so stupid. You make shit up based on your bent impressions.

He would never have had nukes.

Look up the definition of "if"? Apparently Obama, Kerry, the UN believed
he could have developed nukes, they were hell bent on getting him to stop.
And if NK, one of the most backward, depressed, isolated countries on the
planet can get them, why not Libya. Pakistan has them, are Pakistan and
NK so greatly advanced compared to Libya?

Wrong, always wrong.

Says the mindless idiot.

Population of Pakistan - 197 million. They got nuclear weapons quite a while ago.

Population of North Korea - 25.47 million. The entire country is poor and depressed because a lot of their GNP has been devoted to getting nuclear weapons.

Population of Libya - 6.375 million. They weren't in the hunt - Gaddafi did have oil money, but nobody would have trusted the guy with nuclear weapons.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 2:49:42 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:01:02 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:01:43 AM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:07:11 PM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:30:13 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 9:59:25 AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:01:14 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f2c0a22c-cdfe-41cf-a4a3-a0bfa4d66257@googlegroups.com:

<snip>

One of our more obvious idiotic right-wingers agrees with John Larkin expressing a favourite right-wing misconception.

No misconceptions, you just ignore the facts, the results, what actually
happened in places like Iraq, Syria, Iran and Libya.

No. You are ignoring the fact that these were popular uprisings, not engineered by any foreign power.

You are ignoring that when major powers encourage them, it gets noticed
and helps.

And your evidence for the claim that the major power helped the uprisings is?

You are fantasising - as usual - and expecting the rest of the world to take your fantasies seriously.

And how they started doesn't matter, the US participated in
BOMBING the country to HELP the opposition.

In Libya, the bombing was confined to Gaddafi's terrorist columns.

It might have helped the various rebels, but the main aim was to stop Gaddafi from killing civilians.

> And at the time they were doing it, Obama/Hillary were calling for regime change. Capiche?

Were they? Where's your evidence? What they were calling for was a negotiated ceasefire - and granting Gaddafi's somewhat psychotic behaviour that was necessarily going to involve a regime change - but the main aim was to get back to some kind of peace and stability, rather than some specific new regime.

> No, libs never can.

Sane people - not just liberals - aren't going take your fantasies seriously.

And are you happy with the results? First they
sent a message to Iran, NK, that if you make a deal with the US, turn
over your nukes, turn over your WMDs, then we come and kill you.
Second, Libya is now a hell hole, with millions fleeing to Europe,
drowning on the way. Why aren't the libs blaming Obama for those
deaths?

Because the problem wasn't created by Obama, and there doesn't seem to have been anything he could have done to prevent any of thse deaths.

Every illegal alien that dies at the US border, they try to
blame Trump for.

Who? Where? Post a link to this implausible claim.

Your right-wing fantasies can't handle that idea, so you invent some foreign intervention or other -for which there is absolutely no evidence.

And helping overthrow Gaddafi sent a terrible message to Iran, North Korea and anyone else considering nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons aren't a lot of help when it's your own population that is rebelling.

Of course they are.

How? Is the regime going to supress a popular uprisng by blasting it's own economy and infra-structure inot non-existence?

You really are quite stupid. I never suggested that a country would use
nukes on rebels. I said that if the country has nukes, then Obama and France
would not have been bombing them to support the rebels.

I have to keep reminding you that NATO wasn't bombing Gaddafi's murderous flying columns to support the rebels, but to minimise the number of civilian deaths.

The targets would have been different if supporting the rebels had been the main aim.

> Capiche? Can you cite for us any country with nukes that we have bombed?

There aren't any, but a country that had fallen apart to the extent that Libya had wouldn't have had a enough control of any of the nukes that they might had to be able to use them to deter foreign intervention.

If Gaddafi had nukes, the US and France would not have
gone to war against him and he may have very well prevailed.

If Gaddafi had nukes, the rebels could well have turned them on him.

A total diversion into the wilderness. It's what libs do.

What makes you think that? Apart from congenital stupidity, of course.

That's the problem with authoritarian regimes - if there's one obvious head, you can always cut it off.

If you cooperate with the US,
do what we demand, make an agreement, hand over your nuclear material,
allow inspections, then when you're clean, we kill you.

Gaddafi was killed by rebellious Libyans. The NATO airstrike that broke up his convoy left him vulnerable to his own people, but the airstrike was aimed at stopping Gaddafi moving his troops around to terrorise the population at large. It wasn't directed at Gaddafi himself - nobody outside the convoy would have known that he was in it.

Yes, they can put that on Gaddafi's tombstone, the US air strikes were not
meant to kill you, but they sure help. And Hillary sure took credit and
gloated.

Only when the famous interview is looked at through the eyes of a addict to right-wing conspiracy theories.

ROFL

"We came, we saw, he died" Hah, hah.

But heh, it's Hillary a big lib, so it's all OK, that wasn't gloating
just brilliant statesmanship.

It was a spur of the moment improvisation, and not all that good.

The gloating is all in your imagination.

> Of course if Trump said it......

It's a play on Caeser's "Veni, vidi, vedici". Trump isn't well enough educated to know the original (and you don't seem to be either).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni,_vidi,_vici

If you have nukes, like NK, we won't.

Perhaps. If you've got nukes and your country is in disorder there's going to be a temptation for better organised countries to go in and grab the nuclear weapons before some criminal gang gets hold of them and sells them to the highest bidder.

Yeah, sure, go in and grab the nukes from a country that has nukes.
That's probably the stupidest thing you've posted here yet.

If a country is in disorder, the nukes aren't necessarily going to be in the hands of the regime that is being revolted against. As soon as that happens, international intervention becomes very likely, purely as a precautionary measure.

Sure, countries are going to send troops into a nuclear power country
to grab their nuclear weapons.

A country in enough disorder that they haven't got control of their nuclear weapons is a rather softer target, and the downside of letting some third part get them is considerable.

> Please keep representing for the libs, they must be proud.

Please keep demonstrating what an idiot you are. I respond to your moronic points in order to persuade you to damn yourself even further with even more moronic reactions.

It does seem to be working remarkably well.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 2:50:16 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 10:57:19 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:70cb756f-b2e9-4e58-876e-22595fdc4cd2@googlegroups.com:

On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 11:30:31 PM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f005cfc5-d876-48f6-90ac-ebb179d5170d@googlegroups.com:

We don't tell you how to hump kangaroos, why do you persist in
trying to tell us what we should do? The founding fathers knew
exactly what they were doing with the electoral college process
and it works fine. It's just that libs like you don't like one
result, where they lost, so now any excuse will do, let's
change the rules, etc.


Decades of collegiate analysis decidedly shows you for the
guess-
as-you-go, make-shit-up, know-nothing-asshole we all know you to
be.

The reason folks want it gone, and it was long before THIS
election cycle, you putz, is because they have done the analysis,
and have found it to be one of the most corruptable aspects of
our government.


That's just another lie. Wrong, always wrong.



The current cycle is a perfect example thereof.


I've asked you to provide us with evidence that anything improper
went on in the electoral college, as opposed to them just casting
their votes as the voters in their states determined. As usual,
you provided nothing. You're just pissed because
Trump won, so now you want to claim it wasn't fair. Sore loser.


That is exactly what I said you would say.

You are a fucking pussy, and you would lose teeth if we met.
Likely lose more than that.

I'll add that to your list of threats made, for possible referal
to the authorities. And I'll have it available when you again deny
that you make threats.

You never asked me anything, fucktard.

And "voting like they are supposed to do" means nothing if the
circumstance is ALREADY CORRUPTED going in.

Which it's not. Again, I asked you for evidence of this alleged "corruption"
with the electoral college now many times, there is none. You're just
a sore loser.

The elctoral college was a bad idea when it was thought up. Nobody else has copied it.

Also, the entire premise is not needed. Popular vote works fine.

The thing was implemented so THEY could exercise control over what
WE vote for. It should have been tossed out from the get go.

It was implemented so states rights were protected and smaller states
could not as easily be ignored.

That's how it was sold. In fact it was one more bribe to get the smaller startes to ratify the 1788 constitution, and it was a thoroughlyt bad idea even then.

> So, one time it your candidate loses, and now you're a whining sore loser.

Trump's a particularly horrible example of a minority president, but Dubbya was pretty bad too.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 2:57:35 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:10:28 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:c19356c7-2620-471e-b6e5-4629297b72ed@googlegroups.com:

On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 3:59:25 PM UTC+2, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:01:14 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f2c0a22c-cdfe-41cf-a4a3-a0bfa4d66257@googlegroups.com:

Not for many years. The US had taken Libya off the list of
state sponsors of terrorism.

Ask Scotland if they think he was not a terrorist.

Oh and yes, for that alone, he deserved death, regardless of
the moments elapsed between his act and the act that killed him.

Sure, but bringing one despot to justice is not worth flinging
millions of people into chaos and civil war. K was being
leveraged around to better behavior, and he did hold his country
together.

The whole problem with Gaddafi was that - after the Arab Spring,
he couldn't hold his country together. The population (or
substantial proportion of it) had gone into armed rebellion.
Nobody in the West had encoruaged that.

It was Gaddafi's enthusiasm for particularly brutal rebellion
suppresion that prompted Sarkozy to mobile his NATO allies to use
air-power to impede Gaddafi's capacity to move his armed forces
around to kill off everybody they could get at.

Ditto Sadaam and Tito.

Tito died of natural causes. Sadaam got a bit too ambitious.

Some countries need a dictator, to glue them together in the
short term.

Sadly for Gaddafi, he couldn't keep his country glued together
after the Arab Spring. He'd stopped provoking his neighbours, but
wasn't doing enough for the people he rulled to saty in power
after the Arab Spring.

Several of our more right-wing lunatics blame Obama and Clinton,
as if they'd set the Arab Spring unwinding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

sees it as as home-grown phenomenon, quite possibly help by the
new social media which seemed to have played a significant role in
sreading the protests.


Thank you for getting it right.

We did nothing to get it going it was Gaddafi himself sealing his
own fate.

We certainly encouraged it

Evidence?

and then bombed. This is like saying because
someone else started an assault and you only joined in the attack,
the guy getting killed had nothing to do with you.

Not exactly what happened. Gaddafi's anti-rebel tactics starting killing off a lot of more or less innocent civilians, and the interventions were aimed at mininising deaths amongst innocent civilians.

It isn't exactly a subtle differenc from the story you want us to believe, but you are too stupid to appreciate it.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 5:49:42 AM UTC-7, tra...@optonline.net wrote:

[on the old Libya siuation]

... how they started doesn't matter, the US participated in
BOMBING the country to HELP the opposition.

Only in the sense that preventing a military force with artillery
from using those area weapons against civilian targets (towns) is 'help'.
Preventing terroristic, genocidal violence is worthwhile regardless of
any merits of 'the opposition'.

Bombing (area weapons) wasn't the nature of the effort, but
interdiction of heavy weapons systems; civilian casualties were
light, under 80, because people weren't targeted.

So, bombing is the wrong descriptive word, and 'help the opposition' ignores
the fact that the opposition wasn't identified, wasn't a single group, and
wasn't coordinating any of the efforts. These aren't fine distinctions, the
above statement is... a deception.
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:37:25 PM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 2:49:51 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:16:55 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:eb9485ab-0611-4616-83f9-49f435fb4314@googlegroups.com:

Of course they are. If Gaddafi had nukes, the US and France would
not have gone to war against him and he may have very well
prevailed.




You are so stupid. You make shit up based on your bent impressions..

He would never have had nukes.

Look up the definition of "if"? Apparently Obama, Kerry, the UN believed
he could have developed nukes, they were hell bent on getting him to stop.
And if NK, one of the most backward, depressed, isolated countries on the
planet can get them, why not Libya. Pakistan has them, are Pakistan and
NK so greatly advanced compared to Libya?

Wrong, always wrong.

Says the mindless idiot.

Population of Pakistan - 197 million. They got nuclear weapons quite a while ago.

Population of North Korea - 25.47 million. The entire country is poor and depressed because a lot of their GNP has been devoted to getting nuclear weapons.

Population of Libya - 6.375 million. They weren't in the hunt - Gaddafi did have oil money, but nobody would have trusted the guy with nuclear weapons.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

Population of Israel, 8 mil. Doh! There goes another dopey argument.
And here is some of what Libya was doing to develop nuclear weapons,
including getting help from the infamous A Q Khan. I should add you to
the list of wrong, always wrong.

https://www.nti.org/learn/countries/libya/nuclear/


In 1997, Libya began receiving nuclear weapons-related aid from Dr. A.Q. Khan, the chief architect of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program and confessed proliferator of nuclear technologies to several countries of concern, including Iran and North Korea. This cooperation continued until fall 2003, when Khan's clandestine collaboration with these countries became public following Libya's disclosures about its efforts to build nuclear weapons. In 1997, Khan supplied Libya with the 20 assembled L-1 centrifuges, [29] and components for an additional 200 more intended for a pilot facility. In 2001, Libya received almost two tons of UF6; while some reports claim that Pakistan provided the UF6, [30] others cite evidence that it originated in North Korea. [31] IAEA sources believe that amount of UF6 is consistent with the requirements for a pilot enrichment facility. If enriched, the UF6 could produce a single nuclear weapon. [32] In late 1997, Libya also renewed its nuclear cooperation with Russia, and in March 1998 Libya signed a contract with the Russian company Atomenergoeksport for a partial overhaul of the Tajoura Nuclear Research Center. [33]

In late 2000, Libya's nuclear activities accelerated. Libyan authorities have informed the IAEA that at that time, Libya began to order centrifuges and components from other countries with the intention of installing a centrifuge plant to make enriched uranium. Libya also imported equipment for a fairly large precision machine shop (located at Janzour) and acquired a large stock of maraging steel and high strength aluminum alloy to build a domestic centrifuge production capability. [34] In September 2000, Libya received two L-2 centrifuges (European-designed centrifuges more advanced than the L-1). In late 2000, Libya began to progressively install 9-machine, 19-machine, and 64-machine L-1 centrifuge cascades into a large hall at Al Hashan. [35] Only the 9-centrifuge machine was completely assembled in 2002. [36] Libya also ordered 10,000 L-2 centrifuges from Pakistan. By late December 2002, component parts for the centrifuges began arriving in Libya. [37] However, in October 2003, U.S. intelligence agencies seized a subsequent consignment of centrifuge-related equipment bound for Libya in a northern Mediterranean port. [38] Investigations revealed that many of these components were manufactured by the Scomi Precision Engineering SDN BHD plant in Malaysia with "roles played by foreign technical, manufacturing, and transshipment experts, including A.Q. Khan and his associates at A.Q. Khan Laboratories in Pakistan, B.S.A. Tahgir in Malaysia and Dubai, and several Swiss, British, and German nationals." [39]

Libya sought not only the capability to enrich uranium to weapon-grade levels, but also the know-how to design and fabricate nuclear weapons. [40] In either late 2001 or early 2002, A.Q. Khan provided Libya with the blueprint for a fission weapon. [41] According to the February 2004 IAEA report, Libya acknowledged receiving from a foreign source in late 2001 or early 2002, documentation related to nuclear weapon design and fabrication. "The documents presented by Libya include a series of engineering drawings relating to nuclear weapons components, notes, (many of them handwritten) related to the fabrication of weapon components. The notes indicate the involvement of other parties and will require follow-up." [42] U.S. intelligence analysts believe the documents included a nuclear weapon design that China tested in the late 1960s and allegedly later shared with Pakistan. Reportedly, the design documents produced by Libya were transferred from Pakistan, contained information in both Chinese and English and set forth the design parameters and engineering specifications for constructing an implosion weapon weighing over 1,000 pounds, that could be delivered using an aircraft or a large ballistic missile. [43] Libya ultimately told IAEA investigators that it had no national personnel competent to evaluate these designs at that time, and would have had to ask the supplier for help if it had decided to pursue a nuclear weapon. [44]
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:29:44 PM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 2:49:42 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:01:02 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:01:43 AM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:07:11 PM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:30:13 PM UTC+2, tra...@optonline.net wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 9:59:25 AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:01:14 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f2c0a22c-cdfe-41cf-a4a3-a0bfa4d66257@googlegroups.com:

snip

One of our more obvious idiotic right-wingers agrees with John Larkin expressing a favourite right-wing misconception.

No misconceptions, you just ignore the facts, the results, what actually
happened in places like Iraq, Syria, Iran and Libya.

No. You are ignoring the fact that these were popular uprisings, not engineered by any foreign power.

You are ignoring that when major powers encourage them, it gets noticed
and helps.

And your evidence for the claim that the major power helped the uprisings is?

They bombed the Libyan govt military, fool.



You are fantasising - as usual - and expecting the rest of the world to take your fantasies seriously.

And how they started doesn't matter, the US participated in
BOMBING the country to HELP the opposition.

In Libya, the bombing was confined to Gaddafi's terrorist columns.

They weren't terrorists fool, they were the Libyan military.
Of course some commie like Fidel, defending Cuba against rebels,
why those would be "freedom fighters". ROFL




It might have helped the various rebels, but the main aim was to stop Gaddafi from killing civilians.

And at the time they were doing it, Obama/Hillary were calling for regime change. Capiche?

Were they? Where's your evidence?

I live here and I heard what she and Obama were saying, Kangaroo humper.
Google it.





What they were calling for was a negotiated ceasefire - and granting Gaddafi's somewhat psychotic behaviour that was necessarily going to involve a regime change

And yet above you try to deny it!




- but the main aim was to get back to some kind of peace and stability, rather than some specific new regime.

I didn't say they wanted a "specific regime". I said they wanted a regime
change.




No, libs never can.

Sane people - not just liberals - aren't going take your fantasies seriously.

And are you happy with the results? First they
sent a message to Iran, NK, that if you make a deal with the US, turn
over your nukes, turn over your WMDs, then we come and kill you.
Second, Libya is now a hell hole, with millions fleeing to Europe,
drowning on the way. Why aren't the libs blaming Obama for those
deaths?

Because the problem wasn't created by Obama, and there doesn't seem to have been anything he could have done to prevent any of thse deaths.

Boy, if Trump ever does similar, well, then you libs will have a very
different opinion.





Every illegal alien that dies at the US border, they try to
blame Trump for.

Who? Where? Post a link to this implausible claim.

Why do you just spout ignorance instead of following what is actually
going on?




Your right-wing fantasies can't handle that idea, so you invent some foreign intervention or other -for which there is absolutely no evidence.

And helping overthrow Gaddafi sent a terrible message to Iran, North Korea and anyone else considering nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons aren't a lot of help when it's your own population that is rebelling.

Of course they are.

How? Is the regime going to supress a popular uprisng by blasting it's own economy and infra-structure inot non-existence?

You really are quite stupid. I never suggested that a country would use
nukes on rebels. I said that if the country has nukes, then Obama and France
would not have been bombing them to support the rebels.

I have to keep reminding you that NATO wasn't bombing Gaddafi's murderous flying columns to support the rebels, but to minimise the number of civilian deaths.

Sure, you can continue to try to stick to that fig leaf.





The targets would have been different if supporting the rebels had been the main aim.

Capiche? Can you cite for us any country with nukes that we have bombed?

There aren't any,

Nuff said.




but a country that had fallen apart to the extent that Libya had wouldn't have had a enough control of any of the nukes that they might had to be able to use them to deter foreign intervention.
If Gaddafi had nukes, the US and France would not have
gone to war against him and he may have very well prevailed.

If Gaddafi had nukes, the rebels could well have turned them on him.

A total diversion into the wilderness. It's what libs do.

What makes you think that? Apart from congenital stupidity, of course.

That's the problem with authoritarian regimes - if there's one obvious head, you can always cut it off.

If you cooperate with the US,
do what we demand, make an agreement, hand over your nuclear material,
allow inspections, then when you're clean, we kill you.

Gaddafi was killed by rebellious Libyans. The NATO airstrike that broke up his convoy left him vulnerable to his own people, but the airstrike was aimed at stopping Gaddafi moving his troops around to terrorise the population at large. It wasn't directed at Gaddafi himself - nobody outside the convoy would have known that he was in it.

Yes, they can put that on Gaddafi's tombstone, the US air strikes were not
meant to kill you, but they sure help. And Hillary sure took credit and
gloated.

Only when the famous interview is looked at through the eyes of a addict to right-wing conspiracy theories.

ROFL

"We came, we saw, he died" Hah, hah.

But heh, it's Hillary a big lib, so it's all OK, that wasn't gloating
just brilliant statesmanship.

It was a spur of the moment improvisation, and not all that good.

Sure, poor widdle Hillary, any excuse will do, she's a lib.
Fortunately we have her on tape gloating about killing Gaddafi.




The gloating is all in your imagination.

Of course if Trump said it......

It's a play on Caeser's "Veni, vidi, vedici". Trump isn't well enough educated to know the original (and you don't seem to be either).

I know what Hillary said, how she gloated, we have it on tape.
Why must libs always lie?




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni,_vidi,_vici

If you have nukes, like NK, we won't.

Perhaps. If you've got nukes and your country is in disorder there's going to be a temptation for better organised countries to go in and grab the nuclear weapons before some criminal gang gets hold of them and sells them to the highest bidder.

Yeah, sure, go in and grab the nukes from a country that has nukes.
That's probably the stupidest thing you've posted here yet.

If a country is in disorder, the nukes aren't necessarily going to be in the hands of the regime that is being revolted against. As soon as that happens, international intervention becomes very likely, purely as a precautionary measure.

Sure, countries are going to send troops into a nuclear power country
to grab their nuclear weapons.

A country in enough disorder that they haven't got control of their nuclear weapons is a rather softer target,

Yeah, sure. Show us examples of these nuclear weapons that are "softer
targets". There aren't any. And even if there are some, that doesn't
mean that said country doesn't have 500 more that aren't soft targets
and are ready for launch. You libs really are something.




and the downside of letting some third part get them is considerable.
Please keep representing for the libs, they must be proud.

Please keep demonstrating what an idiot you are. I respond to your moronic points in order to persuade you to damn yourself even further with even more moronic reactions.

You have the monopoly on moronic points.
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 9:02:13 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in news:07fec0cf-30a6-4601-854a-
b79d9f4d1b59@googlegroups.com:

It was implemented so states rights were protected and smaller states
could not as easily be ignored.

What part of 'no longer relavent" do you not understand?

States rights are just as relevant today, more so actually, as they
were at our founding. You're just another sore loser that doesn't like
the results of the last election.
 
On Sunday, June 30, 2019 at 1:11:05 PM UTC-4, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 08:40:24 -0700, trader4 wrote:

On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:29:44 PM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:

Who? Where? Post a link to this implausible claim.

Why do you just spout ignorance instead of following what is actually
going on?

Sloman will always use this tactic when he knows he's lost the argument:
demand his interlocutor post proof of an assertion - then invariably
disparage the source of that evidence. So do yourself a favour and KF the
fool already, because you'll *never* prove anything to his satisfaction.



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You mean like when he asked about "what Hillary gloating" over killing
Gaddafi? And where we have the video of her doing exactly that,
saying "we came, we saw, he died" and laughing? Where he then says
that's not gloating, it's just Hillary being caught off guard?

ROFL

Yeah, been there done that. Just did it again where Bill denies that
Libya was doing anything to develop nuclear weapons and I gave his a
reference that documents all that they were doing through the decades,
including buying nuclear designs from A Q Kahn? I suppose he'll tell
us that was just for Gaddafi's scrap book, his curiousity?
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 8:49:37 PM UTC-4, whit3rd wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 5:49:42 AM UTC-7, tra...@optonline.net wrote:

[on the old Libya siuation]

... how they started doesn't matter, the US participated in
BOMBING the country to HELP the opposition.

Only in the sense that preventing a military force with artillery
from using those area weapons against civilian targets (towns) is 'help'.

One man's civilian target is another's armed rebels. The US has drones
flying over many countries today, we get a rebel in our sites, missile
away, Bam they and those civilians around them are dead. That's what
Gaddafi would say, if he was alive. But he's not, we helped kill him.





Preventing terroristic, genocidal violence is worthwhile regardless of
any merits of 'the opposition'.

Yet we are very selective about who we decide to bomb over genocide.




Bombing (area weapons) wasn't the nature of the effort, but
interdiction of heavy weapons systems; civilian casualties were
light, under 80, because people weren't targeted.

So, bombing is the wrong descriptive word, and 'help the opposition' ignores
the fact that the opposition wasn't identified, wasn't a single group, and
wasn't coordinating any of the efforts. These aren't fine distinctions, the
above statement is... a deception.

It's irrelevant as to who the opposition was. Sure, it was a mix of all
kinds of groups, including terrorists. Just like in Syria and other places.
Obama/Hillary didn't care, it was just that they wanted regime change,
wanted Gaddafi to go and ignored the likely consequences, just like Bush
did in Iraq. Just like Trump is now doing while waging war on Iran.
 
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 9:07:03 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f50b63c6-6719-471e-8744-0b38e1060b6e@googlegroups.com:

So, according to you, a car traveling from NYC to Boston is not
halted while the driver has lunch along the way? It's just
"slowed down"? That would be a new version of physics, but then
you are always way out there.


"Stopping for lunch" along the way is a slower run than not stopping
for lunch.

Same car, same driver, different runtime. One is slower than the
other. Why? One stopped for lunch.

Stopped = halted. Wrong, always wrong. And are you happy now? Iran
went from halted, taking lunch in the analogy, to proceeding now to 20%
enrichment. The car is moving again. Capiche? Happy? Is this another
neocon success, like regime change in Iraq?
 
On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 08:40:24 -0700, trader4 wrote:

On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 3:29:44 PM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:

Who? Where? Post a link to this implausible claim.

Why do you just spout ignorance instead of following what is actually
going on?

Sloman will always use this tactic when he knows he's lost the argument:
demand his interlocutor post proof of an assertion - then invariably
disparage the source of that evidence. So do yourself a favour and KF the
fool already, because you'll *never* prove anything to his satisfaction.



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On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:33:00 -0700, trader4 wrote:

You mean like when he asked about "what Hillary gloating" over killing
Gaddafi? And where we have the video of her doing exactly that,
saying "we came, we saw, he died" and laughing? Where he then says
that's not gloating, it's just Hillary being caught off guard?

I tackled him some time ago on this precise issue. He denied and denied,
so I had to search and find the particular video and post a link to it.
Even then he *still* denied she was gloating! I gave the matter some
thought and came to these conclusions which you yourself will also reach
if you haven't already:

1) No matter how persuasive the evidence, he will find some excuse to
dismiss it.

2) He's totally impervious to all reason.

3) He's ignorant and extremely ill-informed.

4) He is, at his core, downright Evil.

As I've said before, unless you specifically enjoy arguing for the sake
of it, KF the damn fool already.



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trader4@optonline.net wrote in
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On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 9:02:13 AM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in news:07fec0cf-30a6-4601-854a-
b79d9f4d1b59@googlegroups.com:

It was implemented so states rights were protected and smaller
states could not as easily be ignored.

What part of 'no longer relavent" do you not understand?

States rights are just as relevant today, more so actually, as they
were at our founding. You're just another sore loser that doesn't
like the results of the last election.

I complained abut the electoral college back in the seventies, you
thoroughly retarded punk fuck.

You should have your Doctor up your Thorazine dose. Then do about
five times that amount all at once.
 
trader4@optonline.net wrote in news:74b5c0e0-a703-4ab1-89b5-
a0c24b18f21f@googlegroups.com:

> . Capiche?

You need to stop using that. It makes you look more retarded than even
where it comes from.

Yeah... I picked the right tool when I said "NYPD broomstick handle".
The thoroughly splintered in both directions variety.

Capiche that, putz.
 

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