Is Condoleeza Rice really sitting down with Mohamar Khadafi?

Question

In the heat of this election, it seems like GWB is sticking a fork in McSame by taking away a lot of his arguments. You know, "We don't negotiate with terrorists." Apparently, they've said that Khadafi has paid his dues and is now an upstanding citizen of the world. So, he can be instrumental in blowing up an airliner and sit down to negotiations with the U.S.? Oh, I forgot, Libya is sitting on a bunch of oil. America, this is how we'll deal with the energy crisis: drill, drill, drill right here, right now, but appease (remember that one) terrorist leaders to get some more.

Answer 1

I remember an interview that Khadaffi gave after Reagan bombed him (and let the French know we consider them to be a bunch of pu$$ies) asking him if he had the chance what would he say to Reagan.  His answer, "Help me rebuild my house."

Answer 2

ummm...Khadaffi also announced on his own he would cooperate.  Iraq showed him that President Bush meant business.

No, I do not trust him....he is complicit in the brutal murder of three people I knew.  However, if he decides to help the USA on terrorism, and he is willing to back it up, I will swallow my distaste for him and accept his assistance.

Answer 3

For a group who believes so much in diplomacy, it is kind of hard to believe you do not understand how it works.  When Libya was a terrorist nation and intelligence linked them to a bombing attack on a passenger plane over Scotland, then President Ronald Reagan struck back against Libya with a few of our bombs mostly directed at Qaddafi.  That was the "Stick".  He got the message and denounced his  terrorist ways and now cooperates with America.  Now he gets the "Carrot".  That is how diplomacy works.

Displease us you get swatted with the stick; behave yourself and you get goodies.  It has always been this way, since the earliest days of civilization.  You cannot just keep beating everyone with the stick (like the n***s or Communists did)  nor can you simply just hand out carrots (like Neville Chamberlain).

As Teddy Roosevelt said, "Talk softly but carry a big stick".

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Answer 4

Can't believe you losers are still calling him McSame. Get with the times.

Answer 5

It is better to keep the mouth shut and let people think you are uninformed than to open it and remove all doubt.

Answer 6

OK, at the risk of totally alientating you and not getting a snowball's chance in h**l at Best Answer, your question is really bogus.

Khadafi renounced terrorism a few years ago.  Bush had convinced Khadafi that he would never prevail, and that his country would continue to suffer.  Since this time Khadafi has acted responsibly, and shown good faith at renouncing violence and WMDs.

Hence, he is no longer on any Axis of Evil list.  He has, for a long time now, been on the side of peaceful negotiations, not terrorist tactics.  The "inside" word is that he has been covertly helping us in the terror war.

The question you should be asking is, why it took us so long to finally talk with him.  He has really made a lot of effort to prove his good intentions and desire for amiable relations with the U.S.  Khadafi at this point wants nothing more than to be on the winning side, the U.S. side.  He's learned his lesson.

Answer 7

I hope she is. That's her job.

Answer 8

Libya's been off the terrorist list for a while now. That bombing a few years back. And while I dont trust Mohammar much, the oil, a reformed islamic country...how can she NOT talk with him?

Answer 9

Khadafi hasn't done s#it since we dropped a bomb in his living room years ago. He's more our bitc#  than a terrorist.

Answer 10

Oops, he did dismantle his nuclear program but lets not let facts get in the way of an argument.

Answer 11

There is something about that woman i do not trust.  Of course I do not trust many GOP people.  

Answer 12

well money does make the world go round