Who would have thought it! This could have been Saddam’s fate if only he had been smarter.
Blair hails ‘new relationship’ with Libya
By PA News Reporters
25 March 2004
Tony Blair today said that Libya had given “full and transparent co-operation” in the dismantling of its weapons of mass destruction programmes since Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s historic declaration last December that he was giving up illicit arms.
Speaking in the Libyan capital Tripoli following talks with Colonel Gaddafi, the Prime Minister said progress on arms meant it was time for “a new relationship” with the former pariah state.
Today’s meeting marks the latest step in Libya’s return to the international mainstream following decades of sanctions as a result of Gaddafi’s support for terror attacks, including the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Mr Blair said: “Libya’s voluntary and open implementation of that decision gives us real hope that we can build a new relationship with it, one for the modern world.”
Mr Blair said Col Gaddafi recognised Libya’s future “is best secured by a new relationship with the outside world”.
There was also a recognition of a “common cause with us in the fight against al Qaida, extremism and terrorism which threatens not just the western world but the Arab world also”, he said.
“None of this, as I explained, can alter the pain of past actions,” the Prime Minister added.
He's still a brutal dictator who denies freedom of political opposition, freedom of assembly, free press, free judiciary, etc...
... Blair should be ashamed to have gone and met such an ogre. I support the lifting of sanctions, because sanctions affect the common man, but going and personally meeting Gaddafi just lends legitimacy to the beast.
But then again, what else could you expect from Bomber Blair?
Time to vote for the Liberal Democrats and get the bliar out!!!!
Saddam was smart. It's just that he wasn't 'assmart' as US wanted him to be!
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lol! true! definitely not 'assmart' as bush..... he's in a totally different league altoghter!
mind you... i'm sure his ole daddy put saddam there in the first place???
the only reason Blair seems to be kissing backside of Ghaddafi after all these years is because Britsh companies are itching like a rash at prospects of business deals with Libya which America wants for themselves.
Britain is simply stealing a march on the americans
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Maybe Israel will get a piece of the pie, Ghaddafi’s son was praising them the other day after all.
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that would not surprise the muslims at all one little bit.
This corrupted rulers are only concerned about themselves and there positions.