William Blum: Unending American Hostility in Libya

If I could publicly ask our "beloved" (sarcasm) president one question, it would be this:"Mr. President, in your SHORT time in office, you have waged war against six countries - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, this after stiffing the Nobel Prize committee of their Peace Prize. With all due respect: "What is WRONG with you"!! The idiot American media, whom you tolerated to pimp for you, has done its best to dismiss or ignore Libyan charges that NATO/US missiles have been killing civilians (re-the people you had wanted to "protect" by blowing them and their infant children up with our high-priced, and taxpayer purchased bombs), but recent bombing "mistakes" are so easily covered up, especially if they happen to be five months old! But who in the mainstream media has questioned the NATO/US charges that Libya was targeting and "massacring" Libyan civilians a few months ago, which, we've been told by those who manufacture these lethal weapons, is the "reason" for our attacks? Don't look to Al Jazeera for answers: The government of Qatar, which owns the station, has a deep-seated animosity toward Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and was itself a leading purveyor of the Libyan "massacre" stories, as well as playing a military role in the war against Tripoli. Al Jazeera's reporting on the subject has been so disgraceful that I've stopped looking at the station. Alain Juppe, Foreign Minister of France, which has been the leading force behind the attacks on Libya, spoke at the "Brookings" Institution in Washington on June 7. After his "useless" talk, he was asked a question from the audience by local activist Ken Meyercord: "An American observer of events in Libya has commented: "The evidence was NOT persuasive that a large-scale massacre or genocide was either likely or imminent." That comment was made by Richard Haass, President of our Council of Foreign Relations. If Mr. Haass is right, and if he is a fairly knowledgeable fellow, then what NATO has done in Libya is attack a country that wasn't threatening anyone; in other words: AGGRESSION! Are you at all concerned that NATO deals more and more death and destruction on the people of Libya that the International Criminal Court may decide that you and your friends in the Naked Aggression Treaty Organization should be prosecuted rather than Mr. Gaddafi?" Monsieur Juppe then stated that, without attribution, someone's estimate that 15,000 Libyan civilians had been killed by pro- Gaddafi forces, to which Monsieur Juppe then stated, without attribution, some-bodies estimate estimate that 15,000 Libyan civilians had been killed by pro-Gaddafi forces, to which Mr. Meyercord replied: "So where are the 15,000 bodies?"