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>>Even a fraction of this oil revenue is enough to make the country "prosper"
>No, oil itself is one thing. Managing and distributing profits from oil is another.
Even a fraction of this oil revenue is enough to make the country "prosper". (Gaddafi keeps the rest.)
>>90% of libyan people would support Gaddafi if you put a gun to their heads
>Exactly, when rebels and NATO are putting guns to their heads...
Although NATO isn't above guilt, you can't compare Gaddafi executing people in peacetime with the way that remaining people are being treated in warzones.
Here are some basic rules for a warzone: Take care of the friendlies, protect the neutral, and shoot the enemies. Sealing neutral people inside their homes is actually standard procedure when you can't evacuate them. Special ops debriefing reports often read "They were making too much noise, so we knocked them unconscious and put them in a cupboard.". This goes for high up politicians they're there to rescue or protect as well, because unconscious people in cupboards don't distract you into getting shot. If you're saying that you're NOT willing to stay out of the fighting and will NOT side with NATO, then you're a hostile, and then you're just one hidden gun away from shooting at them, so unless they have the time for it, they're going to shoot you in self-defence.
Speaking of massacres, I hear Gaddafi has given orders to execute tens of thousands of prisoners:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/29/more-gaddafi-horrors-exposed/
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>>25 about these "black mercenaries"
That post is about a random colored Gaddafi-supporter who happens to be colored, which is something entirely different, and you'd have to be a moron to confuse the two definitions of "black".