The Hon. John Ruddick

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And then the Arab Spring takes off.

Now, Gaddafi was like Saddam, a tough bastard, but he'd spent his whole life fighting radical jihadis.

He was a secular nationalist.

Baddie, tyrant, but he was against the jihadis.

So when the Arab Spring blows up,

that jihad is in Libya said, okay, now's our opportunity to wipe out Gaddafi.

Gaddafi said, okay, well, I'm going to wipe you out first.

So there was going to be a battle and Obama and Hillary and Macron and whatever else they said, oh, well, we, this is a massacre.

This is a massacre.

There's bad old Gaddafi.

Now Gaddafi was the one success of the Iraq war because Gaddafi rang up Tony Blair after that rolled Saddam at the beginning.

over weapons of mass destruction.

And Gaddafi rang up Blair and said, you know what?

I actually do have a nuclear bomb program.

I don't want you to do what you just did to Saddam.

Would you like to come down and help me dismantle it?

And in exchange, can you start giving Western investment into Libya?

Tony Blair said, that's a deal.

He went down there for a big state visit.

Happy, happy, happy.

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