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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:29 PM
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Exclusive: Gadhafi, Allies May Be Seeking Way Out, Clinton tells ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-diane-sawyer-moammar-gadhafi-allies-seeking/story?id=13196414

People close to Libya's embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi are reaching out to allies around the world exploring their "options," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told ABC News' Diane Sawyer today, and the U.S. government has gotten unconfirmed reports that at least one of Gadhafi's sons has been killed.

"We've heard about other people close to him reaching out to people that they know around the world -- Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, beyond -- saying what do we do? How do we get out of this? What happens next?" Clinton said in an exclusive interview. "I'm not aware that he personally has reached out, but I do know that people allegedly on his behalf have been reaching out."
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meow mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:33 PM
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1. anyone who thinks this guy can "bunker down for a long war"
cant be serious.
media has been pounding the meme home though.
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:36 PM
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2. He has seen the writing on the wall.
And he knows that he could be in for some serious crimes against humanity.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:43 PM
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8. The UN Prison in the Hague is Nicer than What His Own People Would Do to Him
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:41 PM
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6. No longer than Saddam Hussein? Or longer?
Maybe Obama can smoke him out in no time.
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:38 PM
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3. True, or wishful thinking, or narrative-setting - who knows?
The US government propaganda specialists are working overtime - that's for sure. As well they should. Any government waging war has to wage propaganda war as well.

The US has resisted calls for multilateral ceasefire in Libya, with UN observers on the ground. It is clear that the policy is US-enforced "regime change." What's there to negotiate?
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:41 PM
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4. Shall we start pool? I say it's over by this weekend....n/t
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:45 PM
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9. I think it will end by March 31st - sometime within 9 days. n/t
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:49 PM
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10. Two weeks ago I had an intuitive flash of Gadhafi in handcuffs
I'm inclined to agree with you - it will be over soon. And I suspect he will end up 'arrested' by some group - either his own people, or the international community. Or maybe a US prison like Hussein and Noriega?
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:23 PM
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15. I had that dream of Cheney in handcuffs. nm
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:28 PM
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16. Yeah, I had that wish too. Sigh.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:30 PM
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17. Please. Bet me. I need the money badly. Name your sum
Edited on Tue Mar-22-11 06:30 PM by Catherina
This isn't over by a long shot.
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:43 PM
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18. I'll take your word for it.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:00 PM
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19. I give you my word that if I'm wrong, I'll give $100 to the charity you name
and if I'm right, please donate whatever you comfortably can to the humane society. Thanks Lochloosa.
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:36 PM
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20. Your on. I'll match you.
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Traveling_Home Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:41 PM
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5. If he knows he'll be tried and hung, what does he gain by giving up? nt
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:56 PM
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11. It would be best not to hang him - just send him to The Hague
Edited on Tue Mar-22-11 05:56 PM by Amonester
and when found guilty of perhaps thousands of crimes against Humanity, let him rot in jail forever.
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:16 PM
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14. Not him - the people around him.
Think back to Mubarak (when he didn't voluntarily step aside, the Egyptian Army pushed him aside).
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:42 PM
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7. that would be good news.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:58 PM
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12. He doesn't have many friends left. At one time or another he's taken a poke at most of them.
For example, not that they would be friends or anything, but Saudi Arabia believes he was behind an attempted assassination of Crown Prince Abdullah in a plot intercepted in 2004. Can't go there, like many monsters before him have done. Can't go to a close Saudi ally either probably. Poor, poor Muammar. If only you hadn't tried to kill so many people.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:04 PM
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13. Send him to Paris to bunk in with Noriega. nt
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