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Originally Posted by Mavericks Rockets Fan
That is the difference between the US and Libya. In the Libyan regime, Gaddafi stayed in power as long as he wanted. While Nixon had to potentially face the American people in a re-election.
That is why America is a democracy and Libya is a dictatorship. Very simple.
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No sh!t, Sherlock - nobody debated America's system vs. Libya's. Maybe if you hadn't cherry-picked my post, we wouldn't be discussing the word "dictator" and instead be talking about a government's right to deal with uprising.
Libya is not America. They don't have to play by our rules... but our government has certainly been guilty of using violence towards it's own people in a time of peaceful protest, no different than Libya, so that's hardly justification for us to go to war with them...
This is about oil, no different than all of our Middle East interests in the past 150 years.