In the news article that follows, the BBC assumes the right of the British government to interfere with the domestic affairs of the sovereign state of Libya - nay, far more - to overthrow a legitimate government elected by the Libyan people. But within their report they are admitting at the very least to their collusion with anti-government groups:

"We continue to press for Gaddafi to step down and we will work with the international community to support the legitimate ambitions of the Libyan people."

and ...

"Sir Emyr Jones Parry, former UK ambassador to the United Nations, said the government had been right to try to establish contact with the rebels, but had not gone about it in the right way."

Holland, France, Canada, other western countries and the U.N. have joined the U.S. call to support these so-called "legitimate ambitions of the Libyan people." Likewise, the corporate media has pulled out all the stops with their hitler-esqe depictions of Qadaffi just as they depicted Saddam Hussein in their drive for the horrific war against Iraq. Meanwhile, they show nothing of the Libyans who are demonstrating in support of their own government.

As early as Feb. 27 in the U.S., warmonger Sen. John McCain and Zionist Sen. Joe Lieberman publicly called for arming the opposition to overthrow the Libyan government. According to The Hill in Washington, they urged Obama to give “tangible” support to the opposition by "recognizing the opposition as the legitimate government, arming the opposition and establishing a no-fly zone over the North African country." Both McCain and Lieberman were in Egypt on "a regional tour." Meanwhile, the Obama regime has asked the Saudi Royal Family to arm the Libyan opposition with the weapons they purchased from the U.S. and Israel.

Lieberman repeated the lies that have dominated corporate media propaganda for weeks now saying,

“This is a real moment of choice for the international community ... What we’re hearing here in Egypt is the Arab world is watching. Will the world stand by and let a leader like Moammar Gadhafi slaughter his own people?”

It gets so tiresome ... killed his own people, weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons. Is Lieberman too stupid to invent some new rhetoric, if only to keep a few people interested in his bullshit? Or perhaps he's just establishing a record for repetition in the media to justify invasion and arrogantly dismisses what the people think of him.

The Hill backed Lieberman up by framing his statement in references to Qadaffi as a dictator (when he doesn't even hold office), claiming that his military fired on protestors (no mention of armed attacks against the Libyan military, buildings and police) and estimating over a thousand deaths - all without providing supporting evidence for any of these wild claims:

"Lieberman said of the bloody crisis in Libya, where dictator Moammar Gadhafi has had forces fire on protesters and deaths are estimated to have exceeded 1,000. Both senators welcomed the unilateral sanctions implemented by President Obama at the end of the week, but stressed that more needs to be done. That would include recoznizing (sic) the provisional government that has taken control of the eastern part of the country and giving them the weapons to fight the armed mercenaries unleashed on demonstrators by Gadhafi."

But on one thing Libyans are united:

They do not want foreign governments meddling in their affairs.

And as much as some Libyans support Gaddafi, other Libyans hate the United States. For example, Ahmed, a Libyan citizen says he opposed to foreign intervention:

“The Libyan people don’t want another army come in Libya ... America has come to help Libya not for Libya, they help Libya for control, for gas – this is the problem.”

Another Libyan citizen, Mahmoud told RT News: “Libya and Gaddafi are one. Long live Gaddafi. Let him stay in power for life.”

But look at how wonderfully meddling and coup-making for theft of natural resources has worked for the United States and their buddy regimes in recent years in Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan or Iraq. The U.S.-backed protests in Iran failed miserably in 2009-2010. The attempted U.S.-funded coup in Venezuela in 2002 boomeranged and only served to strengthen the Bolivarian Revolution. The Taliban has defeated their sinister plans for Afghanistan and things have not turned out the way they wanted in Iraq after killing and maiming millions of Iraqis and destroying their country and culture. In his in-depth March 3, 2011 report, The Collapse of the Old Oil Order. How the Petroleum Age Will End, Michael T. Klare, wrote:

"Under Saddam Hussein, the state-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) produced up to 2.8 million barrels per day until 1991, when the First Gulf War with the United States and ensuing sanctions dropped output to half a million barrels daily. Though by 2001 production had again risen to almost 2.5 million barrels per day, it never reached earlier heights...

"L. Paul Bremer III, the proconsul later chosen by President Bush to oversee the establishment of a new Iraq, brought in a team of American oil executives to supervise the privatization of the country’s oil industry, while the U.S. Department of Energy confidently predicted in May 2003 that Iraqi production would rise to 3.4 million barrels per day in 2005, 4.1 million barrels by 2010, and 5.6 million by 2020.

"None of this, of course, came to pass ... Bremer’s drive to privatize the state oil company similarly produced a fierce nationalist backlash among Iraqi oil engineers, who essentially scuttled the plan. Soon enough, a full-scale Sunni insurgency broke out. Oil output quickly fell, averaging only 2.0 million barrels daily between 2003 and 2009. By 2010, it had finally inched back up to the 2.5 million barrel mark -- a far cry from those dreamed of 4.1 million barrels."

While the lust for petroleum and other natural resources drives these US-led assaults on oil producing nations, grand schemes for Israeli expansionism are also not lost on this writer.

Moreover, in the midst of the pending invasion of Libya, the U.S. house is in disorder. Federal and state politicians are wringing their hands and lying their asses off to tame the home grown, bottom-up people's rebellion in Wisconsin and other states.

The behavior of the US & Company is a little like the child who got his hand stuck in a jar. His father gently poured soapy water over his wrist and hand said, "Ok, now open your fist and we'll get your hand out" The child replied, "I can't daddy. If I do that, I'll drop the penny." It's a funny analogy but what makes the overgrown US child dangerous is that he's not about to listen to anyone's advice and he's armed to the teeth. It's an old tale really, blinded by greed and power, 'the belligerant' - blunder into oil producing countries like Libya and slowly dig ever more deeply ... their own graves. In the words of Reggae Master Jimmy Cliff, - The harder they come - the harder they fall ... one and all. 

Bio and More Essays and Poetry by Les Blough

March 7, 2011
Hague personally authorised botched SAS Libya mission
BBC

Whitehall sources have told the BBC that the botched SAS mission to Libya was personally authorised by Foreign Secretary William Hague.

The six soldiers were freed along with a man described as a British Foreign Office official two days after being detained in eastern Libya.

They left for Malta on board HMS Cumberland on Sunday night.

The Foreign Secretary is to make a statement about the mission on Monday afternoon in the Commons.

The group was dropped by helicopter into eastern Libya but were seized by opposition fighters and found to be carrying weapons, ammunition, maps and passports from four different countries.

In an earlier statement Mr Hague said: "The team went to Libya to initiate contacts with the opposition.

"They experienced difficulties, which have now been satisfactorily resolved. They have now left Libya."

Mr Hague said: "We continue to press for Gaddafi to step down and we will work with the international community to support the legitimate ambitions of the Libyan people."

The British ambassador to Libya, Richard Northern, was called in to explain to opposition forces what the group was doing in eastern Libya.

Former UK ambassador to Libya

He spoke to a spokesman for former justice minister, Mostafa Abdel Jalil, who is now a rebel leader, to explain the men's mission.

A telephone call between Mr Northern and Mr Jalil's spokesman was intercepted by the Gaddafi regime and excerpts were played on Libyan state television on Sunday.

In it, Mr Northern could be heard apologising for the "misunderstanding" and pleading for the men's release.

Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, said he found the entire incident "bizarre".

He added: "The phone lines to the country still work so there's still quite a lot of information there if you're prepared to dredge for it.

"I'm glad that this particular episode seems to have ended in farce rather than tragedy."

He pointed out that Britain is not the only country to have experienced military embarrassment in Libya. The Dutch government is currently negotiating to free three of its marines who were captured along with their helicopter by pro-Gaddafi forces.

The troops had apparently been tasked with evacuating Dutch nationals from the port of Sirte.

What appeared to be video of the personnel has since been broadcast on Libyan state television.

'Not the right way'

Sir Emyr Jones Parry, former UK ambassador to the United Nations, said the government had been right to try to establish contact with the rebels, but had not gone about it in the right way.

"I think the mistake perhaps was to blur the distinction between what is a routine diplomatic activity, where your protection is declared to the host government or to the authorities in place, and something which is altogether more clandestine," he said.

Forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi have fought bitter clashes with rebels in the central towns of Bin Jawad and Zawiya.

Some of Sunday's heaviest fighting was reported in Misrata, 200km (125 miles) east of Tripoli, where a local doctor told the BBC the situation became "very bad" after pro-Gaddafi forces with tanks and armoured cars went into the city centre and opened fire.

'Dodgy deals in the desert'

Libyan air force pilots have also been involved in the fighting, strafing and bombing rebel targets.

Defence Secretary Liam Fox says the idea of a "no-fly zone" would be discussed at a meeting of Nato defence ministers later this week.

Prime Minister David Cameron has also reiterated his call for Col Gaddafi to go and criticised Tony Blair's government for conducting "dodgy deals in the desert" in Libya back in 2004.

Mr Cameron told the Conservative Party spring conference: "When Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, this party stood by those who wanted to reject communism and embrace freedom.

"And today, this party stands by those reaching for that same freedom in the Arab world."

Source: BBC