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Originally Posted by LaRondo
Hey, it's McCain. He's bloody dam well for real. He says it with a smile! Besides, it's US policy to remove Gaddafi from his post.
Love the footage of him and his buddy Joe sightseeing ...
Some insight on Gaddafi's accomplishments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Manmade_River
The Great Man-Made River (GMR, النهر الصناعي العظيم) is a network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya, from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer Systemfossil aquifer. It is the world's largest irrigation project.[1]
According to its website, it is the largest underground network of pipes and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m³ of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt and elsewhere. Muammar al-Gaddafi has described it as the "Eighth Wonder of the World."[2]
The guy is irrigating the Sahara Desert, for Chrissake ...  !!! ...without any IMF credits  !!!
I think we should go and turn the place back into a pulverized dust bowl.
Then contract everything out to Halliburton & Co. to build a nice pompous Embassy there. Financed with US taxpayer dough.
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I think you need a history lesson from some of your country men as to what happened ~ 40 years ago.
Maybe you are too young to know. 
There are plenty of 60+ year old ex Exxon Libya expats that could teach you a thing or 2 !! Halliburton & Dowell staff as well.
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