Muammar Gaddafi speech TRANSLATED (2011 Feb 22)

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TRIPOLI (Agencies)

A defiant Muammar Gaddafi vowed on Tuesday to remain in Libya as head of its revolution, saying he would die as a martyr in the land of his ancestors and fight to the "last drop" of his blood.

Saying the people were behind him, Gaddafi ordered the army and police to crush the popular uprising against his iron-fisted four-decade rule that has already left hundreds dead in the past eight days.

In a live, apparently unscripted speech on national television, the 68-year-old Gaddafi said, "Muammar Gaddafi is the leader of a revolution; Muammar Gaddafi has no official position in order for him to resign. He is the leader of the revolution forever."

"This is my country, my country," he shouted, in a speech consisting of short, angry bursts of words, which he punctuated by shaking his fist or pointing his finger.

"Those killed were from the police and the army; they were not youths"
--Muammar Gaddafi

"The Libyan people are with me," he said, calling on them to demonstrate from Wednesday. "Capture the rats," he said of anti-regime demonstrators. "Go out of your homes and storm them" wherever they are.

Dressed in a matching light-brown robe, scarf and turban, and wearing glasses, Gaddafi denied that the victims of fighting that has swept the country were young people.

"Those killed were from the police and the army; they were not youths," he said, adding that there was a "small sick group" that "gives drugs to these youths."

Reading from the country's penal code, he said "any Libyan who carries arms against Libyans will be punished by death."

Gaddafi's forces have been accused by various sources of killing demonstrators indiscriminately, even using heavy caliber weapons.

He said he would call the people to "cleanse Libya house by house" unless protesters on the streets surrendered.

"The only thing we can do now is not give up, no surrender, no going back. We will die anyways, whether we like it or not. It is clear that they don't care whether we live or not. This is genocide."
--Marai Al Mahry

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[TheGvandenbroucke]

gaddafi, unlike all the other arab traitors, didnt suck the westerners cock, and thats why he was great. reducing everything to the "mean white imperialists" is not very objective. scum is everywhere. But especially in USA, EU, Japan, the whole saudi peninsula, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Turkey and all the other assholes. And lets not even mention Israel, the worst of all

[TheGvandenbroucke]

I love that little "you hate us because you fear us" you throwed in there. Typical American mentality. No one fears you when you leave ur stupid island u get ur ass beat everywhere because the entire world hates you, even your so called allies in europe. ur right i dont have any idea what the libyans were living through but i did grow up in the ex-soviet union. according to western media the ussr was "horrible, disastrous, no freedom". well my childhood couldnt of been better...

[Chuckles123thefish]

What did he destroy? You are good at making statements but don't give any examples or proof. You should realise that you are in a forum that can be viewed by billions of people and somewheree out there, you will find someone who won't just take your word for it. So, let's hear what your evidence is, yes?

[Chuckles123thefish]

And since you seem to like making allegations against him regarding the oil profits - tell me, tell me one oil company in the West and other nations, who gives their oil profits to the people? You accuse Muammar Gaddafi of not sharing the profits of the oil, but you haven't shown one piece of evidence to support such claims. I would like you to give me an example of one oil company that shares its profits with the people of the land? Just name one.

[Chuckles123thefish]

if he had millions tucked into swiss banks, where is your evidence. You shouldnt say things you cannot support. If he kept all the money for oil for himself, where is all the palaces and expensive houses he should be owning? He was told that by western reporters in one of his last interviews, but when he asked them to tell him where these were, they couldnt. So what did they do? They changed the subject.?

[Sonikkubumu]

Any leader that kills its own people let alone people from a foreign country; unprovoked is tyrannous to me, that includes Gaddafi, Mubarak, Obama, David Cameron... The list goes on.

[pask polkim]

Gaddafi was no tyrann at all !

Media has fooled you. ANYTHING you THINK to know about him is wrong.

[Sonikkubumu]

Tyranny overthrown and replaced with even more Tyranny.

[Mohammed Madokh]

What about Jamal Abdelnasser and Sadam Hussien ??

[Mohammed Madokh]

I agree with you, he helped his people he was different but all of his achievements dont matter now, he lost everything ... he destroyed everything he built. Look at Hitler, he helped his people to some extent but no one actually likes him... Stalin? At first people loved him, he served Russia but later people looked at him in disgust because he killed many innocent people. Sadam Hussien?? He nearly fucked America but people hate him now..

[Mohammed Madokh]

What ever he did wasn't enough, how much did he share with his people? He had millions stacked in some swiss banks and some of his people worked long hours to earn money to buy bread for their families. Yes he did serve his country but he lost everything, he killed many people just to stay on his chair.

[Mohammed Madokh]

Well actually, he destroyed the things he built for his country. A great leader can be defined as someone like Gamal Abdelnasser (Jamal Abdelnasser) who lead his people into victory and built many things for Egypt and the Arab world as a whole. When he wanted to quit after losing the war, the Egyptians begged and protested because they wanted him to stay.