Artful Dodger:

> Let's see...I find excuses for a business that is legitimate and legal, you find excuses for terrorists that blow up innocent women and children and use rape as a weapon.

Yes, war is a legitimate and legal business, specially when it is used to take forcibly commodities that belong to another country. Yes, oil is legitimate and legal. But then, war planes drop chocolate bars and not 2000-pound bombs. Then Lybia has no commodities anybody cares about, except oil

I don't see you defending the actions of western countries with respect to Bahrain. I wonder if the despotic king there plays into your defense of Nato axis imperialism. But then, Bahrain lends its territory for military bases for the UK and the US. I don't see you saying anything about that government putting in prison doctors and nurses who treated injured protesters, or the over 250 people who were made to "disappear".

It is all legitimate business in Bahrain. After all, besides allowing military bases in their country, they provide all the financial services for the oil industry in the Persian Gulf. I wonder if western banks and the Nato axis would be happy with regime change there. So what if it is a brutal dictatorship? It is all "legitimate and legal".

In the meantime, why is it that the Nato axis refuses to disclose how many civilians their planes have killed in Tripoli?

It is just like Iraq. Like Generalissimo Tommy Franks said "We don't do body counts".

Yes, Gaddafi is a brutal dictator. He should go. But then so should all the pro-western puppet dictators propped up by western intelligence agencies. Dictatorship is legitimate and legal, if it does what the empire wants.