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pyoom Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 01:42 PM
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Remember this? Bush and Khadafi (Gaddafi, Ghadafi, etc.)
Edited on Thu Aug-20-09 01:45 PM by pyoom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111702975.html

Bush Speaks With Gaddafi In Historic Phone Call

Associated Press
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

President Bush called Libya's Moammar Gaddafi yesterday -- apparently the first time any president has spoken to the African leader -- to voice his satisfaction that Libya had settled a long-standing dispute over terrorist attacks, including the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland, the White House said.

In their conversation, Bush and Gaddafi "discussed that this agreement should help to bring a painful chapter in the history between our two countries closer to closure," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in a statement.

On Oct. 31, Libya paid $1.5 billion into a fund that will pay claims for the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the 1986 bombing of a German disco. Another $300 million will go to Libyan victims of U.S. airstrikes ordered in retaliation for the disco bombings. The payment cleared the last hurdle in restoration of full normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to meet Tuesday with Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who will be in Washington on a private visit, officials said. In early September, after the settlement deal, Rice became the most senior U.S. official to visit Libya in more than a half century.

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See, the proper way to become "not a terrorist" after being the commander of an attack that killed 270 innocent people is to have an oil rich country and send a billion and a half dollars of the money you're going to get selling it to the families of your victims, so as to replace them. The media will let you and the Bush Administration off, in such a case. Hell, they'll hardly even talk about it.

The one thing you shouldn't do, though, is to be a henchman and the lone person held legally responsible for the crime, contract cancer and seek some peace in your final days. No, that's improper.
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pyoom Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:13 PM
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1. Eerie how fast this dropped. nt
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 02:39 PM
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2. I remember a cartoon several years ago
depicting Gaddfi Duck. I cracked up.
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