Has Gadhafi completed one coherent sentence at the U.N. address?

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I have an image of the other world leaders in private laughing their heads off at Gadhafi's speech.

Well the applause was certainly deafening.

 

[SezMe]

Did Fox really broadcast 90 minutes of this guy after yesterday getting their togas in a twist that he would be sitting only 10 feet from the President?

 

[gtc]

Well, Libyans in general have trouble finishing their sentences.


(cor... look Mother, satire!)

Clap, Clap, Clap!

 

[Darth Rotor]

Well, Libyans in general have trouble finishing their sentences.


(cor... look Mother, satire!)

A teacup full of win, that one! Cheers, PJ, you've not lost your touch!

DR

 

[gtc]

I think he some kind of 'performance art'.

Like Borat he is trying to see how much crazy he can get away with and what demands he can get the West to give in to.

 

[Alareth]

Qaddafi’s rant at the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday afternoon is arguably the lowest point in that organization’s history.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-23/the-uns-new-low/?cid=hp:mainpromo2

 

[Marc39]

I sure feel bad for the translator. Re-transmitting all that crazy with a straight face.

They had to change translators in midstream. The goofball was scheduled to speak for 15 minutes, not 90 minutes.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

The mental state of some of these rulers is absolutely mind boggling. How do the Libyans let this guy stay in power? He can't possibly be very intelligent.

 

[Policenaut]

Dictators will be dictators. Though I am surprised that there hasn't been a coup against him in all these years.

 

[Marc39]

How do the Libyans let this guy stay in power?

It's called a military dictatorship.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

It's called a military dictatorship.

Even more mind boggling. Why would the generals put up with such a nutjob?

 

[Puppycow]

Summary of Qaddafi’s speech

After being introduced in the General Assembly Hall as the “leader of the revolution, the president of the African Union, the king of kings of Africa,” Colonel Qaddafi shattered protocol by giving a rambling speech that stretched for 90 minutes instead of the allotted 15.
. . .
Colonel Qaddafi — dressed in a brown traditional Libyan robe, embroidered vest and shirt, with a black pin of the African continent pinned to his chest — took about 17 minutes to get to the main point of his speech, which was a demand for an African seat on the Security Council.

He also suggested that those who caused “mass murder” in Iraq be tried; defended the right of the Taliban to establish an Islamic emirate; wondered whether swine flu was cooked up in a laboratory as a weapon; and demanded a thorough investigation of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

He offered to move the United Nations headquarters to Libya because leaders coming here had to endure jet lag and because the understandable security against another attack on New York by Al Qaeda was too stringent. And he repeated his longstanding proposal that Israel and the Palestinian territories be combined into one state called Isratine.
. . .
Colonel Qaddafi also attracted attention far from the General Assembly Hall. His official home in New York was the mission on East 48th Street; Libyan diplomats briefly seemed to find a place for his controversial reception tent on a Westchester estate owned by Donald Trump in Bedford, N.Y., but he apparently had no plans to go there. At the mission, he welcomed Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, while some supporters outside sang his praises.

I wonder how The Donald is going to live this down.

 

[Puppycow]

Even more mind boggling. Why would the generals put up with such a nutjob?

Why did German generals "put up with" Hitler? Why did Soviet generals "put up with" Stalin? Why did Iraqi generals "put up with" Saddam Hussein? etc.

Some combination of fear and greed.

 

[Eddie Dane]

A poster asked about the "Jews killed JFK" conspiracy theory.

I seem to remember there was a book out with that theory.
The logic was as follows (from memory):
Motive: JFK didn't approve of Israel going nuclear. Mossad killed him and after that the US was supportive of the Israeli nuclear program.
Evidence: The shift in US policy regarding the Israeli nukes.
LHO was shot by Jack Ruby, Ruby was Jew with underworld connections. At one time worked at a race track owned by Myer Lansky. Lansky was a Jewish mob boss who was strongly pro Israel and had connections to Mossad.

The book didn't make it into the bookstores. The author claimed it was repressed.
It was still available on Amazon when I looked at it in the late nineties, can't remember the name.

There's your CT, you're welcome.

 

[cwalner]

A poster asked about the "Jews killed JFK" conspiracy theory.

<info about CT>

There's your CT, you're welcome.

I was the one who asked and thank you. While I had never heard it before Gadaffi brought it up, I had a sneaking suspicion it was not completely new. Just with the sheer number of JFK CT's and 'Jews are responsible for ...' CT's the probobility of no overlap just did not seem very likely. Also nothing else he said was original so I doubted this was either.

 

[Skeptic]

The mental state of some of these rulers is absolutely mind boggling. How do the Libyans let this guy stay in power?

Are you kidding? The Libyans can't believe their luck of having him in power.

if you must be ruled by some dictator or other, wouldn't you prefer an half-wit loony to a competent realist? The former is far safer.

 

[geni]

Even more mind boggling. Why would the generals put up with such a nutjob?

Because the secret police can keep them inline. At a guess the secret police back him because they are not sure of the outcome of a change of leadership.

 

[geni]

I feel a little bit of Schadenfreude, I must say -- now y'all know how it feels to see similar quotes by Arab leaders in the press every day as a regular part of the news (Israeli press, naturally, reports the sayings of Hamas, Fatah, Assad, etc.)

If the arab leaders were like Gadhafi Isreal would have fewer problems or the IDF would be highly incompetent.

 

[geni]

We might have a really,really close competition between Gadhafi and the President of Iran for the title of "Most Insane Mid East head of State".

Ahmadinejad isn't a head of state. He also appears to be sane if rather annoying. Khamenei doesn't have enough public dealings to draw much in the way of judgements.

 

[Pardalis]

And now Chavez also alluded to the conspiracy theory about Kennedy's death.

This one will never die out, no matter how many times you repeat IT WAS OSWALD GOD DAMMIT!