Just playing devils advocate for a minute, but did these dictators really do anything 'that' bad? if you look at the surrounding countries they are in a perpetual state of war, where very very bad things happen on a daily basis, these guys get into power and bring relative peace, sure if you oppose them then bad things will happen to you, but for the normal man on the street you have a safe and stable life, are the amount of lives taken by these dictators more then having 40 years of fighting plus the lives lost in the west bombing them back into the dark ages and the inevitable civil war, only for another dictator to eventually rise out of the ashes. I really don't think so.

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Is that from the Daily Mail?

5h!T How did you know?

*ducks for cover like Gaddafi and shouts "don't shoot!"*

If you run the piece through Google translate, the first paragraph says "Will house prices in Sirte go down following the death of Ghaddafi?"

So I knew.

Yes - my thoughts exactly. And I think there were (and still are!) worse ones than Gaddafi around.
And I find the 'jubilation' over this barbaric execution without trial, completely sickening.

Actually Libya was doing OK.
It had the highest Human Development Index on the continent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...elopment_Index

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Seems reasonable to be paid for services provided? What major services do you provide for free?

Positive is if they do get paid then they can start the next action; I would guess Syria or Yemen??

What is the problem? They did have the decency to wait until he was dead

At least Ghaddafi had a sense of humour (and refused to follow the crowds in terms of dress sense), which you can't exactly say about the Assads or King Abdullahs of this world.

Get rich quick

I think you can't claim the moral high ground if you are just a mere mercenary for the NTC...

Anyway the UK and France are not so stupid to take such a short sighted move anyway... They would rather pretend it was all for the good cause of bringing democracy and liberating the Libyan people, and instead rely on long term trade contracts that will bring in those 2 billions or whatever many times over

Cute but Inshalla is an expression. In spanish they say Ojala which came from arabic. It means: Hopefully, let's hope, I hope...

I don't think Spaniards really believe that Allah will do something about it.

It is an expression.

There is a precedent; Kuwait paid out after the West evicted Sadam.

Charging for services does not automatically mean you have low morals?

I see you are avoiding the elephant in the room which is this action was a UN security council decision; not a UK/France initiative.

I suppose if you were sitting in one of Gadaffi's jails having your finger nails pulled out or whatever was top of the menu that week it was very comforting to know Libya had the highest Human Development Index on the continent

Come on, you should know that if people are tortured it is not because the big guy is bad but because they didn't listen!

They can have a great life if only they learn to shut up, right?

and you recon that will change now? it will just be some other poor sap having his fingernails removed now. same shit, different day

Why just not give them a chance to change things? Why being so cynical?

experience?

oil?

or just a good look at Sarko?

Whenever the UK and France get together to play military games in the former colonies, has it ever been for any good other than their own?

its the way the world has made me, how can the west berate other countries for torture when we still practice it, the only difference being we are better at covering it up or making sure the victims are not found.

going on recent western lead regime changes the worst is yet to come

or outsourcing interrogation to countries where torture is legal?