Cheney has a long record in pulling strings. TPM reports:
"As CEO of Halliburton, and even as Vice President (prior to 9/11) Cheney supported relaxing sanctions on Libya and Iran so that companies such as Halliburton would be free to profit from their energy riches (regardless of the nature of the regime). Cheney admits to this and is even quite proud of it.
Now BP is being lambasted for seeking the release of convicted Lockerbie terrorist al-Megrahi. BP denies these accusations. Although distasteful to the victims of Pan Am 103, at least the U.S. and U.K. have diplomatic and somewhat friendly relations with Libya. Libya has renounced its WMD programs and is supportive of American law enforcement and counterterrorism policies.
Dick Cheney thought it was alright for his business (but not everyone else) to do business with pre-detente Libya and Iran, now and then, the world's greatest state-sponsor of terrorism".
Poodle Blair takes a back seat to Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney. None other than the current Secretary of State, HilLAIRy Clinton stated when she was a Senator.
"Vice President Cheney came up to see the Republicans yesterday," Clinton said at the fundraiser. "You can always tell when the Republicans are getting restless, because the Vice President’s motorcade pulls into the Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges."
The complicity of cooperation with Gaddafi goes way back. Debbie Schlussel reminds of the Carter connection."Ole’ Billy would be proud. A new group, the Washington based US-Libya Business Association (a fancy name for a group of lobbyists who whored themselves out to oil companies paying big bucks because they want to do business with the terrorist state), is pushing for the Bush White House and State Department to remove Libya from the State Department’s list of countries sponsoring terrorist groups. (Billy Carter took a "loan" of a few hundred thousand dollars from Libya’s loony dictator, Muammar "Daffy" Qaddafi, to do similar lobbying of his Peanut Farmer President brother.)"
Is it any wonder that Colonel Gaddafi claims: 'West only wants our oil'? "There is a conspiracy to control the Libyan oil and to control the Libyan land, to colonize Libya once again." If Gaddafi were an oil baron, would he be facing rebels deployed around strategic Libyan oil port, a "no-fly zone" or possible invasion by NATO forces?
The videos 'US imperialism will push them into Libya's war' and Gaddafi under world court investigation explain why he has overstayed his welcome and requires a kangaroo court to put him in a cell that was once occupied by Abdelbeset al-Megrahi. In an effort to ward off an imminent reprisal or prolonged sanctions on Libya, another fringe autocrat Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, offers to mediate a resolution. Without giving further details of the proposed mediation mission, Chavez said it was better to seek "a political solution instead of sending marines to Libya, and better to send a good will mission than for the killing to continue".
Robber Barons do not go begging for a reprieve. Since the early days of the oil cartel in union with the central bank finance cabal, the name of the game is to control the vital fluids of energy production and the funding or exclusion of the capital flow that turns fossil fuels into the engine of wealth manipulation.
From his extensive experience on this subject,
Robert Fisk offers his assessment.
"It is only a matter of time, needless to say, before Gaddafi reminds Libyans that al-Qa'ida was a satellite of the very Arab mujahedin used by the United States to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Yet Libya's own ferocious resistance to Italian colonization proves that its people know how to fight and die. In "Tripolitania", Libyans were expected to walk in the gutter if Italians were walking towards them on the same pavement and Fascist Italy used aircraft as well as occupation troops to bring Libya to heel.
Unlike Tunisia and Egypt, however, the "People's Masses" of Libya are a tribal rather than a societal nation. Hence two members of Gaddafi's own family – the head of security in Tripoli and the most influential intelligence officer in Benghazi – were respectively his nephew, Abdel Salem Alhadi, and his cousin, Mabrouk Warfali. Gaddafi's own tribe, the Guedaffi, come from the desert between Sirte and Sebha; hence the western region of Libya remains under his control.
Talk of civil war in Libya – the kind of waffle currently emerging from Hillary Clinton's State Department – is nonsense. All revolutions, bloody or otherwise, are usually civil wars unless outside powers intervene, which Western nations clearly do not intend to do and the people of eastern Libya have already said they do not wish for foreign intervention (David Cameron, please note)".
