U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya

[Psycho4Bud]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi's country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said.

Gdhafi was once known here as perhaps the most dangerous man in the Middle East. President Reagan ordered air attacks against Libya in 1981 and 1986, the latter because of suspected Libyan sponsorship of a terrorist attack at a West Berlin disco frequented by American soldiers. Two Americans died there.

Since 2003, however, Libya has been held up as a model by the administration for the way aspiring nuclear weapons powers should behave.

The American attack on Iraq made Gadhafi wonder whether he would be next. In December 2003, he agreed to surrender his weapons of mass destruction facilities and agreed to allow them to be shipped for storage in the United States.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060515/...st_pe/us_libya

Welcome back to the fold!!

Have a good one Gadhafi!:thumbsup:

Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on 05-15-2006. U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi's country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said. Gdhafi was once known here as perhaps the most dangerous man in the Middle East. President Reagan ordered air attacks against Libya in 1981 and 1986, the latter because of suspected Libyan sponsorship of a terrorist attack at a Rating: 5

[Shelbay]

Wasn't his son killed in the bombing of his house..by America? He was young..his son.

[Psycho4Bud]

Wasn't his son killed in the bombing of his house..by America? He was young..his son.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said he was sorry that Reagan died without standing trial for 1986 air strikes he ordered that killed Gadhafiâ??s adopted daughter and 36 other people.

Reagan ordered the April 15, 1986, air raid in response to a disco bombing in Berlin allegedly ordered by Gadhafi that killed two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman and injured 229 people.
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/...s_Arabs_Seethe

Post Carter era......Reagan showed these folks that we grew a set since Jimmy left office. The strike was actually to take out Gadhafi.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:

[xblackdogx]

All the US is doing is:
making sure the US has oil b/c of a future war w/ Iran
Iran will halt oil exports to the US b/c of the sanctions that will
be put upon it...
now Libya's oil industry is being revived b/c they "are no longer a terrorist state"
i don't know all the history of Libya, but ITS CLEAR
THERE ARE DEF. CORPORATE INTERESTS INVOLVED IN THIS DEAL

[Psycho4Bud]

All the US is doing is:
making sure the US has oil b/c of a future war w/ Iran
Iran will halt oil exports to the US b/c of the sanctions that will
be put upon it...
now Libya's oil industry is being revived b/c they "are no longer a terrorist state"
i don't know all the history of Libya, but ITS CLEAR
THERE ARE DEF. CORPORATE INTERESTS INVOLVED IN THIS DEAL

You better check out your facts. I don't think that we've bought any oil from Iran for a hell of a long time now. Iran supplies China, India, Europe.....not the U.S.

[xblackdogx]

You better check out your facts. I don't think that we've bought any oil from Iran for a hell of a long time now. Iran supplies China, India, Europe.....not the U.S.

better look at current events
Iran said they would halt oil production if/when US attacks
what would happen to China, India, and Europe:
they would get from other places, like Iraq, Venezuela, Niger, Saudi Arabia...
More Demand + Less Supply= GUARANTEED Higher Price
GET REAL PSYCHO, oil is oil!

[Psycho4Bud]

better look at current events
Iran said they would halt oil production if/when US attacks
what would happen to China, India, and Europe:
they would get from other places, like Iraq, Venezuela, Niger, Saudi Arabia...
More Demand + Less Supply= GUARANTEED Higher Price
GET REAL PSYCHO, oil is oil!

LOL.....I do! Chirac had the law changed for terrorist attacks on France to INCLUDE "economic terrorism", like shutting off oil supplies. When he did this and stated the reason.....well....read for yourself!



Iranâ??s chief justice rips Chiracâ??s nuke warning
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 25 â?? Iranâ??s top Islamic judge said on Wednesday that the European Union was losing ground in its push to refer the Islamic Republicâ??s nuclear program to the United Nations Security Council after French President Jacques Chirac threatened that France might use its nuclear might to respond to a major terror attack on its soil.

Iranâ??s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi told reporters that the stance taken by â??certain European officialsâ?� about a nuclear war showed the EUâ??s â??weaknessâ?� regarding other statesâ?? rights to develop nuclear energy.

Shahroudi said that the Islamic Iranian nation believed nuclear capabilities to be Iranâ??s â??rightâ?�.

The EU along with the United States believe that Tehran is pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program under the guise of peaceful nuclear energy production.

[xblackdogx]

you have brought forth something that is not relevant to what you brought against me (something i actually never typed), and nothing to do w/ the response i gave you

[Psycho4Bud]

you have brought forth something that is not relevant to what you brought against me (something i actually never typed), and nothing to do w/ the response i gave you

You stated that Iran supplies us with oil.....they don't
You stated that the U.S. "will" impose sanctions....we already have

Your response:

"Iran said they would halt oil production if/when US attacks
what would happen to China, India, and Europe:
they would get from other places, like Iraq, Venezuela, Niger, Saudi Arabia..."

That wouldn't happen, there would be a temporary shut down before you would find French armies gaurding Iranian oil riggers....they would use nukes to secure their position.

If thats not a response, don't know what to tell ya bro!

Have a good one!:thumbsup:

[xblackdogx]

okay bud
you're king of the world!

at least you got a lil response to this shitty article