Written by: Beck

It occurred to me, upon reading this article, that my several posts about the great strides Libya is making towards rejoining the commonwealth of nations could be misconstrued as somehow pro-Gadhafi. That would be flat out wrong. My positive comments about Libya are intended to highlight the positive yield from the War on Terror. The correct inference from this is that I think Gadhafi is little better than a terrorist. So while the man definitely is making progress, he's still a complete fuckwad. Some highlights from his recent trip to Europe from the Washington Times:

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, once considered one of the world's most dangerous men, came to Europe for the first time in 15 years Tuesday, offering business deals and an olive branch - along with a veiled threat to return to the "days of explosive belts" if provoked by "evil" from the West.

That's the long and the short of it. Now for the weird:

The one-time pariah swept through the headquarters of the European Union like a movie star in brown Bedouin robes, flanked by female bodyguards in blue camouflage.

Naturally, only Europeans could treat Gadhafi like a movie star (Americans reserve such treatment for Castro). And all-female body guards? That's just bizarre in too many ways to count.

After three hours of talks, [European Commission President "Ray" Romano] Prodi declared himself "very happy" about the visit, which he said he worked five years to arrange.

Five years? Well haven't we been a busy little bee?

"It goes without saying this is a very historic meeting," Gadhafi began, speaking through a translator as three of his female bodyguards stood at attention behind him.

There are those female body guards again. There simply MUST be some sort of interesting story behind this that I just haven't heard yet.

"I hope we shall not be prompted or obliged by any evil to go back or look backward," he said.

"Hopefully nothing would force us to go back to the days when we use our cars and explosive belts, to put explosive belts around ourselves or on our women so we will not be searched and harassed in our bedrooms and in our homes as is happening in Iraq and Palestine.

"The victims are women and children, the battlefield in the kitchen and the bedroom. We don't want to be forced to go back to the days when we had do that," he said.

Ah yes, there's that North African fuckwad we know from ever so long ago. We were wondering what you'd done with the real Gadhafi. Nice to see they still let him out of his cage now and again.

Link credit to Ace-o-Spades.