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I see that Kooky Qadhafi emerged from his hole long enough to weigh in on the upcoming U.S. Presidential election. Fittingly, the occasion was a speech marking the 22nd anniversary of Ronald Reagan's air raid on Libya. Ever since Reagan's raid, Qadhafi has only been allowed to be a state sponsor of terrorism during Democrat administrations. Under Republican administrations he is forced to denounce terrorism and is only allowed to speak in public once a year, for no more than 15 minutes. And he has to wear an ankle bracelet. Surprisingly, Qadhafi is not very fond of Reagan. Much like so many American liberals, Qadhafi compared the greatest president in American history to Hitler and Genghis Khan, among others:
In the days of crazy Reagan, the American president issued a presidential order to launch a war against Libya, for example, a presidential order to besiege Libya, a presidential order to boycott Libya, and so on. Is this a democracy or a dictatorship?
This reminds me how much I love Reagan's account of the meeting where he authorized our military to respond with force to any Libyan harassment of our flying forces.
My response was simple: Whenever our ships or planes were fired upon or otherwise deprived of rights granted sovereign countries in international waters, the navy was to respond in kind. "Any time we send an American anywhere in the world where he or she can be shot at, they have the right to shoot back," I said. One cabinet member asked: "What about pursuit?" He wanted to know the extent to which our planes should be permitted to pursue Libyan planes if they harassed our aircraft or ships in violation of international law.
The admiral stopped, cleared his throat, and looked over at me, waiting for an answer from me, and suddenly it was very quiet in the room. "All the way into the hangar," I said. A smile broke out on the admiral's face, and he said, "Yes, sir."
But I digress. After Qadhafi's obligatory dig at Reagan, he got to the real reason for his speech: his hope that Obama "will change America from evil to good, and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with other peoples, especially the Arabs."
So Qadhafi, nearly word for word, repeats the refrain of today's liberals. Only he goes slightly further than they do.
Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.
Yes, according to Obama-supporter Qadhafi, Obama is a Muslim. People within a particular group are always more adept at spotting one of their own than others outside that group. And isn't it comforting to know that if we elect Obama we will finally have a president that the Arab world prays for?
Qadhafi goes on to hope for exactly what I have feared, that Obama's pro-Israel rhetoric is "merely an elections lie," that when it is all over he will say:
"No, this was just elections propaganda... This was propaganda, and you thought I was being serious. I was fooling you to get your votes."
Following the speech, American troops led a handcuffed Qadhafi back to his hole, and ordered him not to come out until the same time next year.
Unless, of course, Obama wins the election.
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