The "revolutionaries" would not have ever taken Tripoli without NATO. This war is first and foremost about western control of Libya's oil. Syria's Assad has killed far more civilians than the Qaddafi regime. The "freedom fighters" have already killed a major figure in their alliance. Al Quieda and other fundamentalists faction make up this on the ground rebel alliance. Sooner or later there will be fighting breaking out between the factions as was the case of the US backing draconian, drug running, etc fundamentalist factions in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet ouster. Now US and its lackies NATO, can use their nefarious created history to intervene in Libya before Afghan-like internecine chaos breaks out. I personally am too tired, but just search William Blum, John Perkins("confessions of an economic hit man"), National Security Archives, the great Dr. M Parenti, et al, for why the US gov has cause so much pain, misery and death to the common people in resource rich third and developing nations in the world, especially post ww2. It's all about exploitation of the resources, natural and human, in these nations, our idiotic electorate lets the corporations/military complex go to war for us "because they hate us for our freedoms", or some other inane, duplicitous rationale. Do you really think we would have bombed and killed innocents in Tripoli for the rebels in Libya, if Libya's major resource was broccoli?

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