How do you justify those other airstrikes that are not aimed at his aircraft? The UN resolution explicitly states that you're to enforce a no-fly zone. So why are you bombing defense facilities and armored vehicles? Can they fly?
If the UN will only let us attack government aircraft, we should do that at present. we should however, press for what our allies are asking - and if that means taking out gadaffian tanks and arty or whatever, then we do it. we do whatever it takes to get rid of gaddaffi because pro democratic forces in libya want him out.
And why should we get rid of gaddaffi, or aid his enemies - i mean , what harm has he done to us - is that what you are asking. Ok, there is Lockerbie, there is WPC Yvonne Fletcher. And there are gaddaffi's bloodsatined hand prints on both those incidents.
It's funny how you used to call him your buddy until yesterday, but suddenly he's a mad dog, eh? How fast things turn around.
No, not really. can you prove that I, Gerry Haines, was ever sympathetic, never mind supportive, of Gaddaffi's regime or it's actions? You may say that successive British governments were, but I was never a part of any government run by any political party.
As a Green , I have consistently stood for the rights of democratic self representation and human rights against the interessts of business corporations - including British ones. And i defy anyone to challenge me on that.
It may bbe that currently , the PM we have at present is being forced to reconsider his relationship with gaddaffi, but i am not in the same position as he is - i have always considered gaddaffi to be a despotic dictator who should have been kept at arms length.
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Date: 19/3/11 23:11 (UTC)If the UN will only let us attack government aircraft, we should do that at present. we should however, press for what our allies are asking - and if that means taking out gadaffian tanks and arty or whatever, then we do it. we do whatever it takes to get rid of gaddaffi because pro democratic forces in libya want him out.
And why should we get rid of gaddaffi, or aid his enemies - i mean , what harm has he done to us - is that what you are asking.
Ok, there is Lockerbie, there is WPC Yvonne Fletcher. And there are gaddaffi's bloodsatined hand prints on both those incidents.
It's funny how you used to call him your buddy until yesterday, but suddenly he's a mad dog, eh? How fast things turn around.
No, not really. can you prove that I, Gerry Haines, was ever sympathetic, never mind supportive, of Gaddaffi's regime or it's actions? You may say that successive British governments were, but I was never a part of any government run by any political party.
As a Green , I have consistently stood for the rights of democratic self representation and human rights against the interessts of business corporations - including British ones. And i defy anyone to challenge me on that.
It may bbe that currently , the PM we have at present is being forced to reconsider his relationship with gaddaffi, but i am not in the same position as he is - i have always considered gaddaffi to be a despotic dictator who should have been kept at arms length.