# Libya too?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 16, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595 "2011-02-16T16:37:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/381 "2011-02-24T22:31:29Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What do mercenaries do when somebody shoots the paymaster? Mercenaries are paid in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/382 "2011-02-24T22:50:48Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > That guy needs to be involuntarily committed. As in, “We now commit Muammar al-Qaddafi to the earth.” ---
**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/383 "2011-02-25T02:08:46Z")
Could we sneak in some Special Forces or SAS teams (Mossad?) and take this bastard out? Plant some explosives (mini-nuke) and hand the detonator to the protesters? Just trying to think outside of the box. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/384 "2011-02-25T02:18:04Z")
It’s telling that Gaddafi is blaming the whole rebellion on al-Qaeda. 20 years ago he would have blamed the Jews/Zionists. Why won’t that dog hunt no more, I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/385 "2011-02-25T02:24:41Z")
Like I said, I think he’s doing that to try and win some sort of support from the west. I mean, if it’s all about fighting AQ, we should definitely step in to keep him in power, right?? 😛 The guy is completely and totally delusional at this point. -XT ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/386 "2011-02-25T02:26:45Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Like I said, I think he’s doing that to try and win some sort of support from the west. I mean, if it’s all about fighting AQ, we should definitely step in to keep him in power, right?? 😛 > > The guy is completely and totally delusional at this point. > > -XT [Bargaining is the third stage of grief.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/387 "2011-02-25T02:28:39Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Rumors swirl that Qaddafi has been shot. Hey, that means my “Kadaffy Duck” pin from 1986 just went up in value! Woo hoo! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/388 "2011-02-25T02:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Bargaining is the third stage of grief. [/QUOTE] Well, which step is ‘Damn! I picked a bad week to lay off of the heroin!’? 😛 (Somehow, the way events are panning out, I don’t think he’s going to make it to Acceptance) -XT ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/389 "2011-02-25T03:23:08Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > In the latest nuttery, [CNN is reporting that Gadhafi is blaming al-Qaeda and drugs for the violence.](http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/24/libya.protests/index.html?hpt=T1) > > Seriously, WTF? Yesterday it was the USA, today it’s Arabian terrorists? Yesterday it was foreign intelligence operatives, today it’s drugs? > > That guy needs to be involuntarily committed. It was the Zionist agitators a few days ago. Even OUR conservatives aren’t paranoid enough to take that sort of shit seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/390 "2011-02-25T03:44:57Z")
> [@Bibliovore](#): > > He also pointed out in his latest speech that the UK’s Queen Elizabeth II has ruled longer than he has, and yet has not been overthrown… My God, its like he went to the Sarah Palin school of political debate. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/391 "2011-02-25T03:46:17Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > He said "Al-Qaida militants are exploiting teenagers, giving them hallucinogenic pills in their coffee with milk, like Nescafe, " > > Drugs in their milk. Hmmm. I guess that’s one theory. Reefer madness? Why not, its was the rationale put forward for much of the cultural revolution by some conservatives. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/392 "2011-02-25T04:19:27Z")
> [@Bibliovore](#): > > He also pointed out in his latest speech that the UK’s Queen Elizabeth II has ruled longer than he has, and yet has not been overthrown… Thanks, Ka-Daffy. Now I have this mental image of Queen Elizabeth going on air, pounding the podium, ordering the Royal Air Force to bomb Manchester. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/393 "2011-02-25T11:34:08Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > According to this CNN-guy’s [Twitter](http://twitter.com/bencnn) pro-rebel bedouin convinced the Egyptian military to let in some doctors a few days ago. I mentionned the presence of foreign doctors in Benghazi. What I wrote is that the _western_ border was closed, not the border with Egypt. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/394 "2011-02-25T15:23:55Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Well, which step is ‘Damn! I picked a bad week to lay off of the heroin!’? 😛 > > (Somehow, the way events are panning out, I don’t think he’s going to make it to Acceptance) > > -XT [More bargaining.](http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0225/Libya-s-Qaddafi-offers-400-per-family-as-rebels-close-in-on-Tripoli) He’s offering every family in Libya $400. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/395 "2011-02-25T15:27:34Z")
He should also offer them a chicken in every pot and all the coffee they can drink… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/396 "2011-02-25T15:36:20Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > He should also offer them a chicken in every pot and all the coffee they can drink… > > -XT And bonus miles on Air Libya! ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/397 "2011-02-25T15:39:59Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > My God, its like he went to the Sarah Palin school of political debate. That would be dark comedy: A political debate series between Sarah Palin and Gadhafi. I think I’d rather watch the MST3K version of _Manos_ a second time. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/398 "2011-02-25T15:41:19Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > It turns out that Gadhafi might have gotten one small point correct. CNN sez [aQIM (an aQ ally) is siding with the uprising](http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/24/libya.qaeda.statement/index.html?hpt=T2). > [@Alessan](#): > > Jumping on the bandwagon, rather. I tried to resist putting a GR snark in a GD thread. I failed. Jumping on a bandwagon without risk to self? That’s a scum tell. **Vote aQIM** ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/399 "2011-02-25T16:12:57Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > It turns out that Gadhafi might have gotten one small point correct. CNN sez [aQIM (an aQ ally) is siding with the uprising](http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/24/libya.qaeda.statement/index.html?hpt=T2). It’s good to know there are some things on which we and al-Q can agree. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595/400 "2011-02-25T16:31:24Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > That would be dark comedy: A political debate series between Sarah Palin and Gadhafi. I know who my money would be on to quit first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libya-too/571595.md?page=21)