By Jim ONeill ——Bio and Archives--February 1, 2015
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"We came, we saw, he died." -- Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laughingly gloating over the death of Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011)
Clinton was in Tripoli earlier this week for talks with leaders of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC). [A] reporter asked if [Clinton thought] Qaddafi's death had anything to do with her surprise visit to show support for the Libyan people. "No," she replied, before rolling her eyes and saying "I'm sure it did" with a chuckle. -- Corbett Daly, "CBS News" 10/20/11 "... there was a distortion of events that were occurring in Libya to justify an intervention which was essentially wrong and illegal." -- Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)As flagrantly tasteless as Hillary Clinton's play on the "veni, vidi, vici" riff was, it crosses over from being tasteless into being chilling when seen in the light of recent reports by the US Army intelligence community and others. One of Gaddafi's sons, Seif, warned the US military's Joint Chiefs through back channels that the "freedom fighters" that the US was supplying weaponry and ammunition to were not freedom fighters at all, but were instead rabid jihadists, "gangsters and terrorists," intent on overthrowing the Gaddafi regime so that they could install a more radical Islamist regime in its place--similar to the way that long-time American ally Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was thrown to the wolves in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Born June 4, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two. Worked as a commercial diver in the waters off of Scotland, India, and the United States. Worked overseas in the Merchant Marines. While attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student in 1998 was presented with the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award,” 1st place undergraduate division. (The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with money she won from successfully suing a national newspaper for libel). Awarded US Army, US Navy, South African, and Russian jump wings. Graduate of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School, 1970). Member of Mensa, China Post #1, and lifetime member of the NRA and UDT/SEAL Association.