| Line 733: |
Line 733: |
| | Gaddafi was the model that Western powers used to encourage other dictators, such as Bashar Assad of Syria or [[Kim Jong-il]] of [[North Korea]], that there was a path of redemption. They could remain in power, enjoy trade and prosperity, and live in peace with the international community. | | Gaddafi was the model that Western powers used to encourage other dictators, such as Bashar Assad of Syria or [[Kim Jong-il]] of [[North Korea]], that there was a path of redemption. They could remain in power, enjoy trade and prosperity, and live in peace with the international community. |
| | | | |
| − | Then Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton divided the [[NATO]] treaty organization against itself. At the behest of French and British [[corporate]] interests she organized a coalition of 12 NATO member states, while a 16-member majority of the alliance refused to participate.<ref>National Security [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html Hillary’s war: How conviction replaced skepticism in Libya intervention], By Joby Warrick, ''[[Washington Post]]'', October 30, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/130-european-affairs/ea-august-2011/1417-lessons-of-libya-for-future-western-military-forays LESSONS OF LIBYA FOR FUTURE WESTERN MILITARY FORAYS], By John Barry, Newsweek National Security Correspondent. europeaninstitute.org</ref> President Obama, who had always been reluctant to use force, was persuaded which media surrogates surreptitiously referred to Obama as 'leading from behind'. 'Humanitarian concerns' were cited.<ref>[https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41725.pdf Operation Odyssey Dawn (Libya): Background and Issues for Congress], ''Congressional Research Service'', March 30, 2011, p.3 (p.7 pdf).</ref> As Hillary and cohorts plotted regime change, Gaddafi warned [[Tony Blair]] by phone if his regime fell the jihadis would be able to use Libya as a springboard for attacks in [[Europe]].<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12086505/Tony-Blairs-phone-conversations-with-Colonel-Gaddafi-revealed.html Colonel Gaddafi warned Tony Blair of Islamist attacks on Europe], By Robert Mendick, ''Telegraph'' 07 Jan 2016. telegraph.co.uk</ref> | + | Then Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. |
| | + | |
| | + | Julian Assange said: |
| | + | *Hillary Clinton was the chief proponent and the architect of the war against Libya. It is clear that she pursued this war as a staging effort for her Presidential bid. It wasn't even a war for an ideological purpose. This war ended up producing the refugee crisis in Europe, changing the political colour of Europe, killing more than 40,000 people within a year in Libya, while the arms from Libya went to Mali and other places, boosting or causing civil wars, including the Syrian catastrophe. [http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2016/12/23/news/assange_wikileaks-154754000/ Assange interview] |
| | + | |
| | + | Hillary Clinton divided the [[NATO]] treaty organization against itself. At the behest of French and British [[corporate]] interests she organized a coalition of 12 NATO member states, while a 16-member majority of the alliance refused to participate.<ref>National Security [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html Hillary’s war: How conviction replaced skepticism in Libya intervention], By Joby Warrick, ''[[Washington Post]]'', October 30, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/130-european-affairs/ea-august-2011/1417-lessons-of-libya-for-future-western-military-forays LESSONS OF LIBYA FOR FUTURE WESTERN MILITARY FORAYS], By John Barry, Newsweek National Security Correspondent. europeaninstitute.org</ref> President Obama, who had always been reluctant to use force, was persuaded which media surrogates surreptitiously referred to Obama as 'leading from behind'. 'Humanitarian concerns' were cited.<ref>[https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41725.pdf Operation Odyssey Dawn (Libya): Background and Issues for Congress], ''Congressional Research Service'', March 30, 2011, p.3 (p.7 pdf).</ref> As Hillary and cohorts plotted regime change, Gaddafi warned [[Tony Blair]] by phone if his regime fell the jihadis would be able to use Libya as a springboard for attacks in [[Europe]].<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12086505/Tony-Blairs-phone-conversations-with-Colonel-Gaddafi-revealed.html Colonel Gaddafi warned Tony Blair of Islamist attacks on Europe], By Robert Mendick, ''Telegraph'' 07 Jan 2016. telegraph.co.uk</ref> |
| | | | |
| | Nonetheless, Gaddafi was brutally and inhumanely murdered, an eye tore out beforehand, sodomized with a bayonet, and dragged behind vehicles in the name of the 'values we stand for'.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caoRGeCa9uQ&spfreload=10 Frame by frame HD video of murdering Colonel Gaddafi (RA) Part 2], posted by Salahuddin. youtube.com</ref> All this was orchestrated in the naive belief it would make Hillary Clinton look 'presidential'. | | Nonetheless, Gaddafi was brutally and inhumanely murdered, an eye tore out beforehand, sodomized with a bayonet, and dragged behind vehicles in the name of the 'values we stand for'.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caoRGeCa9uQ&spfreload=10 Frame by frame HD video of murdering Colonel Gaddafi (RA) Part 2], posted by Salahuddin. youtube.com</ref> All this was orchestrated in the naive belief it would make Hillary Clinton look 'presidential'. |