You think Wikileaks is incriminating, a quick Google Image search 'unearths' some marvelous pictures. The same leaders who, as shown above, were all in smiles and handshakes a year before, are now bombing Col. Gaddafi's soldiers and accusing him of war crimes. Now the major problem is, Gaddafi IS a tyrant, an unstable dictator who had no qualms about blowing up passenger jets or throwing out tens of thounsands of Palestinian refugees from his land.
He had no qualms about setting up a brutal police state in the country where a culture of fear brings about Stalinist memories to the surface. The self styled Colonel also launched an unproved aggressive war against his African neighbour Chad, a war that killed over 10,000 people.
There are many other crimes that this unrepentant dictator has committed and it seems almost surreal that after Gaddafi renounced the right to nuclear weapons, every Western country ran to kiss his feet forgetting quite a long list of criminal activities against his own people and crimes committed abroad. Tony Blair evidently forgot the horrendous mass murder of the Lockerbie bombings when he attempted to hug the Libyan Colonel?
Sometimes, images like the ones above show the double standards practiced by many countries in 'promoting democracy and human rights' and coddling up to tyrants. America and the European Union should really say ' we look up to OUR national interests more than promoting human rights and democracy, no one in our respective governments gives a rat's ass about suffering citizens!' I guess the problem with hiding behind a 'democracy promotion' slogan while really advancing your national interests is that democracy really does take hold and then the countries behind those slogans have to really say "hey, we support y'all in your protests!" The same situation took place with Hosni Mubarak, another dictator.
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