From In Focus, DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels:
[AP Photo/Ben Curtis]
A Libyan rebel fighter smokes a cigarette next to an improvised multiple rocket launcher in the back of a pickup truck, as the rebels prepare to make an advance, in the desert on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Thursday, April 14, 2011.
I guess he hasn’t heard Tariq Ali’s announcement that ‘… whatever the final outcome, the Libyan people have lost. The country will either be partitioned into a Gaddafi state and a squalid pro-west protectorate led by selected businessmen, or the west will take out Gaddafi and control the whole of Libya and its huge oil reserves.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/29/arab-politics-democracy-intervention
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Tariq Ali talks about “occupied Iraq” in that article. Since Iraq has a consitution and an election with a high turnout, it’s obvious that he thinks of democracy as just a way for one group to gain permanent ascendency over all other groups. He calls it an occupation when his group does not win.
I noticed that the comments usually see through his little ruse. This might be the start of the CiF Spring!
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Mick Hartley 
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