Gaddafi invites Bush, Rice to visit Libya-Senator

[Up2Late]

(I wonder if Laura is Invited too?)

Gaddafi invites Bush, Rice to visit Libya-senator

Sat Aug 20, 2005 04:15 PM ET

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, keen to improve ties with the West, has invited President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to visit his country, a visiting U.S. senator said on Saturday.

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, ending a two-day trip to Libya, told a news conference he had held talks with Gaddafi on normalizing relations after decades of estrangement, following Tripoli's decision to abandon weapons of mass destruction.

Lugar, an Indiana Republican, flew to Libya on Friday after representing Bush in Morocco and Algeria for the release of 404 prisoners of war who were held by Western Sahara's exiled Polisario Front independence movement. Lugar's trip was the highest-profile U.S. visit to Libya since relations began to thaw.

The United States and other Western countries have been rebuilding ties with Tripoli after Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and said it would give up weapons of mass destruction.

<http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9428770&src=rss/topNews>
(more at link above)

[bluestateguy]

1. Let's not cozy up to Libya

No, I am not for "regime change". Qaddafi is their problem, not ours, but he does not deserve the friendship of the United States.

[Daphne08]

6. No, he does not! Washington must think we all just

fell off the turnip truck.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Gaddafi rehabilitated. I guess we can start selling him

chemical weapons and F-16s now. Then take him down again in 10 years.

[HeeBGBz]

4. We trained him in electronics before we bombed him

It's all just a big game.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. ...as Reagan's addled brain turns over in it's grave.

:rofl:

[Thor_MN]

5. Does anyone think that chickenshit would actually go?

* would wet his pants the second Air Force One left the ground. No way is he going, not because giving ligitamcy to Mumar would be wrong, but because shrubby is afraid of everything. He is a small, fearful wretch.

[bribri16]

7. We are still shopping for oil. We will make deals with the devil. n/t

[sintax]

8. Libya 6th Largest in oil reserves- 15th largest producer

Map & Graph: Energy: Oil reserves

Reserves
6.
Libya
29.75 billion bbl (1 January 2002)


Production:
15. Libya
1.3 million barrels/day
16. 1.4 mb/d