Gadhafi gave a speach at the UN today and no matter what you think about him I think he called it like it is about the UN.
Heres the article:


UNITED NATIONS — In his first U.N. appearance, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi issued a slashing attack on the Security Council and chastised the world body on Wednesday for failing to intervene or prevent some 65 wars since the U.N. was founded in 1945.

Gadhafi called for reform of the council — abolishing the veto power of the five permanent members — or expanding the body with additional member states to make it more representative.

"It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the "terror council," he said.

The veto-wielding Security Council powers -- the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia -- treat smaller countries as "second class, despised" nations, Gadhafi said.

"Now, brothers, there is no respect for the United Nations, no regard for the General Assembly," Gadhafi said.

His speech followed President Barack Obama's first General Assembly address, but not before a recess of some 15 minutes was called by the Libyan president of the General Assembly so diplomats could be take new seats.

The U.S. Mission was represented by two low- to mid-ranking diplomats. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice departed before Gadhafi ascended the podium.

After waiting for the room to settled, Gadhafi rose and swept his robe over him and strode to the stage, using the handrail on his way up. He wore a shiny black pin in the shape of Africa pinned over his heart, on his brown and tan Bedouin robes.

Gadhafi laid the yellow folder in front of him and opened some of the handwritten pages as he received scattered applause.

The chamber was half-empty as Gadhafi gave his first speech and held a copy of the U.N. Charter in his hands, each with a large, shiny ring. For a moment, it seemed he lost his place in his speech while he sorted through the pages of his yellow folder.

He appeared to be speaking without a text, looking at a set of notes before him on handwritten pages. He was not reading from the TelePrompTer.

Gadhafi welcomed Obama as the leader of the host nation for U.N. Headquarters, and hailed Obama's maiden U.N. General Assembly speech.

He railed against the "inequality" of U.N. member states, quoting from a copy of the U.N. Charter that calls for equality of nations, and then noting that five nations hold veto power on the Security Council and can block actions contrary to their interests: the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.

Speaking rapid-fire Arabic, Gadhafi said the use of military power was contrary to the spirit of the U.N., unless such actions are sanctioned by the United Nations.

Since the world body was founded in 1945, Gadhafi said it had failed to prevent or intervene in dozens of wars around the world.

"But 65 aggressive wars took place without any collective action by the United Nations to prevent them, Gadhafi said.

Gadhafi was dressed in flowing brown robe, and a black beret that he patted at times. As he listened to speeches before he took the stage, aides huddled around him; he kept his glasses, a red handkerchief and a rumpled yellow folder in front of him on the desk.

There was a commotion in the room as President Barack Obama appeared. Gadhafi lightly applauded with others then listened raptly with the earpiece held to his left ear.

Gadhafi, introduced as the "king of kings" by his countryman and assembly president Ali Treki, remained in his seat for long after the introduction.

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Now is the guy right or wrong?

I'm told that even a broken clock is right twice a day...and that even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then...

Or it could be that he has some strange sort of reverse dementia that will curse him to live his final years in a state of reality after all these years...

Yeah--I'd say that most of his points were accurate.

Someone should yell "F-111s overhead!" and see what he does!!

This idiot seems to have been a pretty good boy since we spanked him back when. But he's still pretty much dead wrong, like most meglomaniacs.

Looking to Ghadafi for leadership regarding peace and equality is so farcical that there are no words to adequately describe how incredibly naïve such beliefs are.

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"But 65 aggressive wars took place without any collective action by the United Nations to prevent them, Gadhafi said.

What a hypocrite - Libya was a major arms supplier to the IRA.

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Originally posted by cheapthrills:
This idiot seems to have been a pretty good boy since we spanked him back when.

Killed his 15 month old daughter in the process.

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What do you expect from a hop up on drugs TYRANT DICTATOR! I saw his stupid speech and it show me how corrupt and soulless he is. If you don't believe me why did 2/3rd of the dignitaries walked out?!! Those who phrase and admire petty dictators and tyrants will receive my scorn and contempt upon them.

Good sweet suffering Christ!!!

Sorry.... but now somebody is telling me that Ghadaffy and I meant, Daffy!! Has anything to say of substance??? Good lord, the man's a flipping maniac!!! Get real!!!!

There are over a hundred dictatorships in the U.N. For pete's sake, the Sudan has their president on the human rights council!! YA know DARFUR!! What part of.... These people are CRAZY........ do you not understand!!!

We need to get the U.N. the hell out of the U.S and us out of the U.N. it is a FAILED organization!!!!!!

Really? And who is a valid elected leader these days? The count numbs my fingers in trying to count more than a handfull and no one listens to them...the idiots today are huffing and puffing their lungs out with a variey of bs... unlike any time in history...these must be the end days... or at least that is what I have picked up here and there...anyone you know disappeared recently on their way to work riding in your carpool... they were probibly saved from all this...feel jealous...your still here.

"You know the world is in an uproar
The danger zone is everywhere, everywhere."

Ray Charles - the blind man who could see farther than most...

Gadhafi is (and has always been) a complete tool. I don't think he has much left rolling around upstairs anymore.

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Originally posted by Killswitch_Engage:

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Originally posted by cheapthrills:
This idiot seems to have been a pretty good boy since we spanked him back when.

Killed his 15 month old daughter in the process.

Too bad he survived.

He was probably using her as a human shield.

I mean, we can laugh about it now, a dead baby girl killed by an American bomb; it was a long time ago, and I'm sure her life was worth far less than an American life, so chalk it up to collateral damage, right?

Don't mess with the US or we'll kill your kids.

Khadafi was a bad guy, then he turned into a semi-good guy for awhile but now he is a bad guy again, primarily because he hugged the wrong **** in front of TV cameras and publicly tightened the bond between himself and terror. But I do think the so called sick old man was a patsy who took the fall and I think Khadafi knows this better.

That hug was a righteous insult and one can only appraise whether he was being extremely stupid or very clever but everybody here had a right to be P.O.'d. He certainly wasn't playing to the U.S. audience and despite his wishes for the extended longevity of the Obama administration, He wasn't doing the Prez any favors where he needed them.

The irony is that a lot of the words coming out of his mouth were identical to those of his harshest critics. Khadafi might be an ass_hole but his criticism of the U.N., coming out of another's pie chute would have been applauded.

They showed some close-up pictures of this guy on TV today - and I have never seen such s coked up, hashed out looking dude on TV before - pathetic!!

Since his attacks were directed towards the U.N.
I'd say he was right on the money.

This was the clown who spouted such gibberish that his interpreter mentally collapsed 90 minutes into that incoherent rant. The poor man literally shouted into the microphone in Arabic that he couldn't take it anymore and was replaced by the UN's head Arabic interpreter--who probably had to spend the rest of the night at a bar just to get Daffy's voice out of his head. Rumor has it he was joined at the bar by the Presidential Teleprompter, which after telling the bartender to forget the glass and leave the bottle muttered, "One of these days I'm gonna throw up, and Barry won't even notice he's spouting word salad...."

We got the cash!!
Pass the Hash!!

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Originally posted by Killswitch_Engage:
He was probably using her as a human shield.

I mean, we can laugh about it now, a dead baby girl killed by an American bomb; it was a long time ago, and I'm sure her life was worth far less than an American life, so chalk it up to collateral damage, right?

Don't mess with the US or we'll kill your kids.

gadhafi brought this on himself, should we have sat back and let it continue? As far as I'm concerned, he killed his own child.

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Originally posted by mnoble1066:

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Originally posted by Killswitch_Engage:
He was probably using her as a human shield.

I mean, we can laugh about it now, a dead baby girl killed by an American bomb; it was a long time ago, and I'm sure her life was worth far less than an American life, so chalk it up to collateral damage, right?

Don't mess with the US or we'll kill your kids.

gadhafi brought this on himself, should we have sat back and let it continue? As far as I'm concerned, he killed his own child.

This is the same logic by which terrorists kill innocent people, including children...

They think...

"America/Israel/England etc...(you pick) brought this on themselves, should we have sat back and let it continue? As far as I'm concerned, they killed their own children."

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Originally posted by Killswitch_Engage:

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Originally posted by mnoble1066:

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Originally posted by Killswitch_Engage:
He was probably using her as a human shield.

I mean, we can laugh about it now, a dead baby girl killed by an American bomb; it was a long time ago, and I'm sure her life was worth far less than an American life, so chalk it up to collateral damage, right?

Don't mess with the US or we'll kill your kids.

gadhafi brought this on himself, should we have sat back and let it continue? As far as I'm concerned, he killed his own child.

This is the same logic by which terrorists kill innocent people, including children...

They think...

"America/Israel/England etc...(you pick) brought this on themselves, should we have sat back and let it continue? As far as I'm concerned, they killed their own children."

I'm sorry, what was I thinking for siding with my own Country.