no doubting he was a wacky narcissist. do we murder people for that now? i'd like to see some evidence proving (not suggesting) his brutality and support of terrorism. i'm assuming you're aware that the "witnesses" who testified against gadhafi in the lockerbie disaster were each paid 4 million frns by the u.s. gubmint, and that they have since recanted their testimony. 1.7 million libyans gathered to protest he nato invasion before it started. that's 1/3 of the entire nation that actually hit the street on kadhafi's behalf. libyans enjoyed a high standard of living...higher than that of saudi arabia. so why did america, behind the smokescreen of nato, invade and overthrow libya's government? what was the threat? answer: oil? nope. african gold dinar? yes.

i have absolutely no evidence to show that the 1971 woody allen comedy, bananas, featuring a scene of the new president in the fictitious south american country of san marcos, had a central and lasting influence on the ruling style of col. moammar gaddafi. in bananas, el presidente, who has just won a coup against the previous dictator, gives a victory speech to the population in which he announces that the new state language will be swedish and that all citizens will now be required to change their underwear every half hour as well as wear it on the outside, "so we can check." my unverifiable theory is that gaddafi screened the film in his palace (he had assumed control of libya in 1969.) and mistook the comedy for a documentary, what with the actual sportscaster howard cossell playing himself at the beginning and end of the film. the impressionable dictator accepted as fact the irrational actions of el presidente and decided to model his own behavior on that character. bad decision, but none of his intimidated aides would tell him otherwise! what followed has not been a laughing matter for the libyan population who have been forced to experience 40 years of a real bananas existence. -from thinking out loud, march 8, 2011, http://marperl.blogspot.com/2011/03/gadhafis-behavior-explained.html