I used to read daily on DU that none of the Libyan people liked Gaddafi's government and yearned to be free. There's no way that the US and NATO would support one side in a civil war for their own capitalist interests, is there? No... I just can't believe it.

...or a desire to spin and propagandize. It would require a MASSIVE lack of understanding to fail to grasp something as simple as the fact that if even 1% of the public supported/loved Ghaddafi--not coincidentally, probably the part of the public that enjoyed wealth and power as a result of his regime--there's obviously going to be some people left who still do. There are still people in the US who love and support Dick Cheney. Does that negate the fact that those people are outnumbered ten to one by the people who hate or fear him?

Would it have been ok for foreign governments to bomb the US because most of the population hates Cheney?

As you point out, some people did better under Gaddafi than they will now. As you've pointed that out, can you not also see that the "revolutionaries" were backed by those who had lost money, power, and influence under a socialist government? A coalition of business, royalists, and islamists, backed by the US and NATO overthrew a government which obviously had wide support (if it hadn't, there would have been no need for foreign intervention; example: Egypt) in order to advance their own agenda, not because of some bullshit reason like "freedom"; that's a fucking Bush-ism.

They're not "begging for a return to Gaddafi's government."

Who wouldn't want to be represented by a government put into place by racists and murderers with help from foreign militaries and islamists?

Forces loyal to Libya's late leader Moammar Gadhafi launched a series of attacks on Monday across several cities, killing seven fighters who helped topple the former regime, officials and residents said.

The violence comes as Libya's new leaders struggle to stamp out lingering resistance from pro-Gadhafi forces and try to unify a deeply fractured country after eight months of civil war and more than 40 years of authoritarian rule.

The attacks were spread out and took place in the western city of Bani Walid, the capital Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi, the city where the uprising against Gadhafi started nearly a year ago. It is not clear if the attacks were coordinated.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libya-gadhafi-loyalists-revolutionaries-clash-15420678

I think this is hyped and that it is unlikely that it is "Gaddafi loyalists." The faction being attacked will claim that to try to rally support from elsewhere.

...it is not often mentioned in the media is that many people supported the Gaddafi government. Like basically everywhere except Benghazi and Tobruk. Tripoli was largely for him. Blacks were largely for him.

Just because he is dead doesn't mean his supporters are. He came to power by overthrowing a king who was also corrupt. Despite his failings, people remember that. And once again the current government is unelected.

See, in that, The Libyans killed Doc Brown. Not only that, but they killed him to get plutonium to make a bomb. Both of those things are bad.

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What forces do you expect to do so?

Getting screwed over by the corrupt puppet government and being terrorized in their own towns
by self-appointed militias full of violent criminal outsiders constantly high on hash just won't go down so well
with people used to peaceful comfortable lives. Call me crazy, but there is only so much of that
"revolution" any reasonable people would take before doing some "rebelling" of their own.

I don't buy your characterizations of the Libyan people, however. I think there are a few hot heads and they won't be able to persevere.