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Title: 0bama Shakes Hands With Libya's Qaddafi - Gesture Signals Repairing Bush's Damage to US "Cowboy Diplomacy"? (2009)
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FOX News
URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/200 ... a-shakes-hands-libyas-qaddafi/
Published: Jul 09, 2009
Author: 0bama Himself
Post Date: 2011-10-20 14:43:07 by Liberator
Keywords: 0bama, PurposelyRuining, USCred
Views: 7717
Comments: 10
President Obama shook hands with Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi Thursday, a sign that relations have improved considerably between the U.S. and the North African nation. The two met as they posed for pictures ahead of a G-8 summit dinner hosted by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. Obama's diplomatic gesture was his latest effort to reach out to controversial world leaders in an attempt to improve the United States' standing around the world, which he says was damaged by former President Bush's unilateral diplomacy. [snip] Obama also shook hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April at the Summit of Americas, where Chavez gave Obama a book critical of U.S. foreign policy. In Italy, Obama posed for a photo, standing between Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and then socialized with others, including U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. Despite improved international relations, Qaddafi remains a controversial figure. He criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq during a speech last month to the Italian Senate. "Iraq was a fortress against terrorism. With Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda could not get in, but now thanks to the United States it is an open arena and this benefits Al Qaeda," [Qaddafi] said. He also compared the U.S. air strike on Tripoli in 1986, in which one of his daughters was killed, to an Al Qaeda attack. [Qaddafi]: "What difference is there between the American attack on our homes in 1986 and bin Laden's terrorist actions?" he asked. "If bin Laden has no state and is an outlaw, America is a state with international rules."
Poster Comment: Bwaahaa!! Notice 0bama's two-handed handshake for Qaddafi.... The day Qaddafi is the voice of reason and truth, and calls out both Bush and 0bama, is the day 0bama and his fellow warmongers assassinate him. Can't make this stuff up. Oh....NICE "diplomacy" from the Assassinator-in-Chief!
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#1. To: All (#0)
In this photo, 0bama appears to be leaning inward toward Kaddafi, indicating his usual deference and subservience - even to this future assassinated fellow Muslim leader.
Libya`s Gaddafi Speaks To Bush; Son To Visit U.S. In a further sign of warming ties, U.S. President George W. Bush called Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi on Monday to voice satisfaction at a U.S.-Libya deal to compensate victims of terrorism, the White House said. A senior official said there were no records of any previous U.S. president speaking to Gaddafi, who seized power in a 1969 military coup. Rights groups say Gaddafi's reign has been marked by human rights abuses and restrictions on freedom of expression.
#3. To: go65 (#2)
Yeah, how about that? LOL Except to their credit, Rice and Bush must have recognized the stability a trained, well-behaved Kaddafi brought to the Middle East. With his assassination, your ilk and 0bama have now created yet one more unstable, volatile situation in the Middle East. JUST what's needed for your Commie Revolution, eh? Congratulations.
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#2. To: Liberator (#1)
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Gaddafi accomplished one of history's great diplomatic turnarounds when Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice announced that the U.S. was restoring full diplomatic relations with Libya and held up the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as "a model" for others to follow. Rice attributed the ending of the U.S.'s long break in diplomatic relations to Gaddafi's historic decision in 2003 to dismantle weapons of mass destruction and renounce terrorism as well as Libya's "excellent cooperation in response to common global threats faced by the civilized world since September 11, 2001."
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