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Hey NATO, Lay Off Russia: Qadaffi

West should stop meddling with nuclear giant: Qaddafi

By Ambreen Ali, Newser User

Posted Dec 23, 2008 4:30 PM CST

(Newser) – Barack Obama would be wise to harken back to the no-meddling Monroe Doctrine and stop the West’s “addiction to interfering in the affairs of other countries,” Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi writes in the Washington Times. He blames NATO expansion to Russia’s border for moving the nuclear power to beef up its arsenal. “Intimidating Russia threatens the world, again, with nuclear war,” he writes.

NATO has no place in a post-Cold War world, except to skew politics and drive independence “down the throats of the former Soviet republics,” Qaddafi continues. That “deliberate, provocative, and continuing process” reminds Russia of past European conquests, but the stakes are even higher now. With its back against the wall, it’s unclear what Putin & Co. might do.

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Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with Qaddafi, who warned against the West meddling with Russia. (AP Photo/Thaer Ganaim, Palestinian Authority)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at at the Kremlin in Moscow. NATO is to blame for the recent threat from Russia, Qaddafi says. (AP Photo)

Qaddafi, left, says America should return to its Monroe Doctrine days. (AP Photo)

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Greed, stupidity, recklessness and miscalculation must not continue to implicate humanity in war. Russia is not the Soviet Union. The world has moved on.
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riffran

Dec 27, 2008 4:59 AM CST

Remember the ***hat doing the talking, it "killmore" queerdaffi....Don't forget that folks, if HE is getting riled we are doing something right....riff

Mr.C

Dec 24, 2008 3:54 AM CST

It should be mentioned that the person saying this is the same that says, "We fear that Obama... because he is black with an inferiority complex will... behave worse than the whites." and, oh yeah, he is a dictator known for sponsoring international terrorism whom Regan called a barbarian

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Hey NATO, Lay Off Russia: Qadaffi