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[Ugnet] Libya: How the West Cooked Up the “People’s Uprising”

[Mitayo Potosi]

 Posted by Russ Baker,
WhoWhatWhy.comat
5:58 pm
September 6, 2011
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Original Investigation: The Untold Story in Libya: How the West Cooked Up
the “People’s Uprising”
Posted by Russ Baker,
WhoWhatWhy.comon
@ 5:58 pm
Article printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy
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http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/09/06/original-investigation-the-untold-story-in-libya-how-the-west-cooked-up-the-%e2%80%9cpeople%e2%80%99s-uprising/

As I write this, a new day is dawning in Libya. The “people’s revolt”
against yet another tyrant is unquestionably exciting, and the demise
(political and/or otherwise) of Muammar Qaddafi will, of course, be widely
hailed. But barely below the surface something else is going on, and it
concerns not the Libyan “people”, but an elite. In reality, a narrowly-based
Libyan elite is being supplanted by a much older, more enduring one of an
international variety.

The media, as is so often the case, has botched its job. Thus virtually all
of its resources over the past six months have gone into providing us with
an entertainment, a horse race, a battle, with *almost no insight into the
deeper situation..*

***

It’s true that Qaddafi, like many—perhaps a majority of—rulers in his
region, was a thug and a brute, if at times a comical figure.  But one
doesn’t need to be an apologist for him—nor deny the satisfaction of seeing
the citizenry joyously celebrating his ouster—to demand some honesty about
the motives behind his removal. Especially when it comes to our own
government’s role in funding it, and thus every American’s unwitting
participation in that action.

Let’s start with the official justification for NATO’s launch of its bombing
campaign—for without that campaign, it’s highly improbable the rebels could
ever have toppled Qaddafi. We were told from the beginning that the major
purpose of what was to be *very limited* bombing—indeed, its sole
purpose—was to protect those Libyan civilians rebelling against an
oppressive regime from massive retaliation by Qaddafi. Perhaps because of
NATO’s initial intervention, the feared Qaddafi-sponsored, genocidal
bloodletting never did occur. (At least, not beyond the military actions one
would expect a government to take when facing a civil war:  after all,
remember General Sherman’s “scorched earth” policy in the US Civil War?).
However, protecting civilians apparently didn’t generate sufficient public
support for intervention, so we started to hear about other purported
reasons for it.  Qaddafi was encouraging his soldiers to…commit mass rape!
And giving them Viagra! And condoms!

You can’t make this sort of thing up. And yet that’s just what the NATO crew
did—made it up. The media, always glad to have a “sexy” story, especially a
sick sexy story, even a sick sexy story with no evidence to back it up,
covered this *ad nauseum*, but never bothered to find out if it was true.

We’ve been expressing doubts about these claims, for a number of
reasons—including logic—for some time now. (For more on that, see
thisand
thisand
this
.)*  *But it’s tough to counterpoise hot-button issues with rationality. If
you questioned the mass rape story, you were a “rape-enabler.” If you
pointed out that Qaddafi was being bombed for anything other than
humanitarian reasons, you were a “Qaddafi-lover.”

The media was so gullible that the professional disinformation guys went
onto auto-pilot, recycling tired old tropes that nobody ought to be buying
anymore. For example, most news outlets reported recently that Libya had
fired a SCUD missile at the rebels.

You can’t make this sort of thing up. And yet that’s just what the NATO crew
did—made it up. The media, always glad to have a “sexy” story, especially a
sick sexy story, even a sick sexy story with no evidence to back it up,
covered this *ad nauseum*, but never bothered to find out if it was true.

We’ve been expressing doubts about these claims, for a number of
reasons—including logic—for some time now. (For more on that, see
thisand
thisand
this
.)*  *B