In ABC Interview, Muammar Gaddafi Denies Protests Anywhere In Libya: “My People Love Me”

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by Mark Joyella | 2:38 pm, February 28th, 2011

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They love him, he insists. They really love him. Libya’s dictator, Muammar Gaddafi has given an interview to ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, and he says of the demonstrations across Libya, essentially, that there are no demonstrations. Anywhere. “My people love me. They would die for me,” he said.

In the interview, which included journalists from the BBC and the Times of London, Gaddafi denied protests had taken place calling for him to leave, and insisted he had never used violence against his people, despite widespread reports of military and other firing into crowds of protesters–even using military aircraft to attack demonstrators.

Amanpour, in a “reporter’s notebook” post on ABC’s website, describes the interview:

We conducted the interview at a restaurant in the Corniche, a coastal road on Tripoli’s Mediterranean coast. Gadhafi, dressed in a brown-orange robe, drove up in a small convoy of sedans, got out and greeted us. He said he wanted to get the truth out, and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story for us.

As for President Obama’s public statements calling for Gaddafi to step down, Amanpour says Gaddafi laughed at the suggestion.

“The statements I have heard from him must have come from someone else,” Gadhafi said. “America is not the international police of the world.”

Watch it here, from ABC News:

ABC News, Christiane Amanpour, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi

http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

wait…is this the gaddafi interview, or the charlie sheen one?
ChrisNH

Gaddafi is currying favor by ‘buying’ people…just like Obama did with his stimulus bill. Two peas in a pod.
The Real RoyaI King

“America is not the international police of the world.”

Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, The Former USSR, Iraq, and Afghanistan beg to differ.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

sarainitaly said:
wait…is this the gaddafi interview, or the charlie sheen one?

I was going to ask the same thing.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

ChrisNH said:
Gaddafi is currying favor by ‘buying’ people…just like Obama did with his stimulus bill. Two peas in a pod.

Seriously? That’s what you have? Comparing our president (no matter how much anyone disagrees with him) to a nut bar that is shooting his people in the streets? Really?

Oh, do those “bought” people include Mitch McConnell and Thad McCottter? They took home an awful lot of that stimulus money before they were against it.
Harry Flashman

Bernie? Bernie Madoff?

I thought he was in jail.
Grammie

Has Baghdad Bob risen from the dead?
jo hoochie

They just love him to Death!
The Real Royal King

ChrisNH said:
Gaddafi is currying favor by ‘buying’ people…just like Obama did with his stimulus bill. Two peas in a pod.

That’s reprehensible. One is a brutal dictator, the other was elected by a rather significant majority and a substantial Electoral College majority. If you don’t understand the difference between, you need to leave America.
Harry Flashman

King said….

“If you don’t understand the difference between, you need to leave America.”

I understand the difference. One is an unqualified con man who slicked his way to power with the help of a complicit media. The other is the dictator of Libya.

Can I stay?
skyfet

Phonies! it’s not just an ABC interview, it’s a combination of networks across the world.
Dem4Ever

Colonel, you are correct, when you say, “America is not the police.” BTW – anything you say can be used against you…lol
Pablo

As much as a nasty murdering bastard as this sonofabitch is, and as much as I’d love to see him hanging from a streetlamp, I’m gonna miss him a little if only for his comedy stylings. Wackiest. Dictator. EVAH.

I’ll get over it, though, so carry on.
TheEagle

sarainitaly said:
wait…is this the gaddafi interview, or the charlie sheen one?

LOL Gaddafi still comes in second to Sheen for the craziest interview of the day award.
Garth

Did you know Gaddafi is related to the Rodeo Clown?
LeviCoultify

Why is CBS giving airtime to this clown? Give him over to the rioters.. seriously, just leak his location info.. is that so hard?
Latin2

And THIS guy is a friend of Barack Obama’s minster Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan?
Latin2

…hmmmm…yeah I can see it now.
Garth

Latin2 said:
And THIS guy is a friend of Barack Obama’s minster Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan?

AND related to the Rodeo Clown. I’ll bet between you and some other asshole, you can connect the dots. Hmmmm?
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Harry Flashman said:
I understand the difference. One is an unqualified con man who slicked his way to power with the help of a complicit media. The other is the dictator of Libya.

Can I stay?

Of course you can stay. This is America.

That doesn’t mean you aren’t beyond ridiculous in comparing Obama to Gaddafi. You are. But good news for you – here in actual America, we tolerate differing opinions, even ridiculous, oafish ones.
WillP

ABC is on a roll!! Charlie Sheen. Momar Qaddafy. Next up Bernie Madoff.
chicgoods4

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http://www.armwood.com armwood

As the late jazz bandleader used to always say “Space Is The Place”
JJ Vachon

Of course they love him. Because if they don’t love him he will kill them!!!