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Originally Posted by calculoso
The biggest difference is that Kaddafi was using his millitary and planes in a very obvious manner. If he would have kept to the "low-key" torture and killings, I doubt that the UN would have even paid attention.
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Agreed....but that goes back to my original point that the UN backing this doesn't make it any more legitimate...unless doing it openly is somehow worse than doing it quietly. In the end, 10's of thousands were flat out murdered....either way.
Remember...Hussein bombed his own people ( well not his people but ones that were Iraqi) with chemical weapons, but somehow that wasn't addressed by the UN either as far as agreeing to take military action.