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Libya -
End The Embargo, End The Hypocrisy -
 
 
CLEARLY MANDELA IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE USA
"Those who object to my visiting Libya have no morals,
and I will not join them because I have morals...
Ghadafi is my friend. He helped us at a time when we
were alone.  And the ones who are trying to stop us
from coming here were helping our enemies at that time."
Nelson Mandela
President, South Africa
October 1997 when visiting Tripoli, Libya
 
LIBYA - MANDELA IS RIGHT... TIME TO END EMBARGO

MER - Washington - 11/1/97:
 
The Americans are surely one of the most hypocritical countries.  U.N. resolutions are being so sanctimoniously "enforced" for Iraq and Libya; but they have been repeatedly ignored and disregarded for Israel, most recently just last year regarding the terrible massacre at Qana.
 
The Americans insist that the Arab boycott of Israel be ended; but they freely boycott Cuba and Iran and even threaten others who will not do as they command.
 
The Americans insist that nuclear proliferation be prevented; but they make it possible for Israel to have
such weapons instigating today's regional arms race.
 
One could go on and on when it comes to American double- standards and self-serving hypocrisy.  No lack of situations or evidence about these matters.
 
As for the Pan Am bombing controversy, the Libyans have long offered to let the Libyans be tried in a third country. Fair enough.  And for the U.N. Security Council to hold out for the American position on this, as on so many other crucial matters, shows what a patsy the U.N. has allowed itself to become in recent years.
 
And while we're at it, maybe the Americans who ordered the bombing of Tripoli and the attempted assassination of Ghadafi a decade ago should finally be told they have to agree to be tried in the same third country at the same time.
 

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