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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Gadhafi’s Hollywood ending

I found this article it is from Sept of 2011.  I am blogging it because I found it interesting. It is a story about how our government is the studio producing and directing, and the news media are the scriptwriters, who want freedom to write, but in the end go along with the studio.  And the article goes right down the line showing how this was done with each of the Arab Spring up risings. And it started with the Reagan Presidency, in the 80's.   I love the picture below taken in 1990. 
TUESDAY, SEP 6, 2011 8:01 AM EASTERN STANDARD TIME

How the government and media transformed the Libyan leader's image from repentant bad boy to evil tyrant

Moammar Gadhafi, Hosni Mubarak
FILE - In this August 1990 file photo, during an emergency Arab League summit, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, left, is driven by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Tahrir Square in Cairo. As rebels swarmed into Tripoli, Libya, late Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, and Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam was arrested, Gadhafi's rule was all but over, even though some loyalists continued to resist. (AP Photo/Farouk Ibrahim, File) (Credit: AP)
Poor Moammar Gadhafi. Libya’s longtime leader, dubbed “the Mad Dog of the Middle East” by President Ronald Reagan over his support for terrorism, came in from the cold after Sept. 11 by collaborating with the CIA in the fight against al-Qaida and offering American firms access to his oil fields. Look what he got for his good behavior: the enmity of his people and uninvited strangers visiting his seaside villa.
Gadhafi had warmed American hearts in 2004 by normalizing relations with George W. Bush’s administration and falling hard for Condoleezza Rice. The colonel was still an SOB, but now he was our SOB.

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