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    It was sold as a humanitarian effort in order to placate Obama's bleeding-heart liberal supporters, which came with every sort of lie they could concoct, including a comical story about Gaddafi giving his troops Viagra in order to rape women to show his ruthlessness. But the real reason was apparently because Gaddafi was planning a gold-backed "pan-African currency" which would have competed with western currencies in the oil market. At least according to leaked emails...

    Though the French-proposed U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 claimed the no-fly zone implemented over Libya was to protect civilians, an April 2011 email [archived here] sent to Hillary with the subject line “France’s client and Qaddafi’s gold” tells of less noble ambitions.

    The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”

    Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at “143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver,” posed to the French franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency. In place of the noble sounding “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine fed to the public, there is this “confidential” explanation of what was really driving the war [emphasis mine]:

    This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).

    (Source Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.)

    Though this internal email aims to summarize the motivating factors driving France’s (and by implication NATO’s) intervention in Libya, it is interesting to note that saving civilian lives is conspicuously absent from the briefing.

    Instead, the great fear reported is that Libya might lead North Africa into a high degree of economic independence with a new pan-African currency.

    French intelligence “discovered” a Libyan initiative to freely compete with European currency through a local alternative, and this had to be subverted through military aggression.

    http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/...-intervention/
    It's interesting that this was one of the alternative "conspiracy theories" to explain the real reason behind the attack prior to these leaked emails; oil being another motivating factor. What a surprise there's nothing about helping the poor Libyan people from the big bad evil Libyan dictator in the email. Yet what a coincidence that the information in the email shows us how focused western intelligence was on Gaddafi's gold holdings and France's influence in the region and control over its oil.

    So now this leaves us with things to mull over about the invasion of Iraq. While pundits ponder and debate about the real reason we invaded Iraq with no clear reason in sight, much like Libya prior to the email leak, conspiracy has it that the real reason for the invasion was because Hussein was threatening to sell his oil using the euro as an alternative to the dollar. Guess we need an email leak for that though, huh?

    And, of course, if a gas pipeline is the REAL reason behind the Syrian conflict and US meddling in that conflict, which is apparently so serious to US interests, they'e willing to fund and arm al-qaeda linked terrorist groups to achieve this end
    Last edited by seanD; 08-28-2016, 04:30 AM.

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    Follow the money...
    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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    • #3
      I'll wait for the video.
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by seer View Post
        Follow the money...
        Yes indeed. To be honest with you though, I personally wouldn't find it so offensive if it weren't for the blatant lying and deception. If we've got to protect "all mighty" dollar to preserve our opulent way of life, then so be it. It is what it is. But the fact they pull on the heart strings of the mass of useful low information idiots out there in order to achieve this end is repulsive to me. At least man-up and admit the true cause.

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