Qaddafi UN speech: Six highlights - or lowlights?
Muammar Qaddafi's speech to the UN was a 1-1/2 hour rant. Here are six can't-miss moments.
Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi鈥檚 rambling, 1-1/2 hour speech to the United Nations is proof that the man desperately needs a Twitter account.
Speaking directly after President Obama, President Qaddafi far exceeded his allotted 15 minutes and in the process seemed to be on a personal mission to wrest the crown of World鈥檚 Foremost Fount of Political Inanity from front-runners Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Ch谩vez.
In a speech cobbled together from pages of hand-written notes, he fulminated on topics as diverse as JFK鈥檚 assassination and swine flu. One blogger has already christened the speech .
Here are the high points:
1. 鈥極ur son鈥� Obama
Qaddafi extended his congratulations to 鈥渙ur son Obama鈥� on the occasion of his first speech at UN.
鈥淥bama is a glimpse in the darkness after four or eight years,鈥� Qaddafi said. 鈥淲e are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as president of the United States."
2. UN Security Council Terror Council
鈥淲e are not committed to obeying or adhering to resolutions by the Security Council in its composition right now,鈥� Qaddafi said. "It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the 'terror council.' 鈥�
3. Swine Flu: The capitalists made it
鈥淭he swine virus may have gotten out in the open after escaping from a laboratory. It may have been put together in a lab by the military鈥�. We do sometimes make viruses in a laboratory and then they make viruses for capitalist companies who will make vaccinations and make money.鈥�
4. Iraq war the 鈥榤other of all evils鈥�
鈥淪ixty-five aggressive wars took place without any collective action by the United Nations to prevent them,鈥� Qaddafi said. He noted the Iraq war, in particular, as being 鈥�.鈥�
5. JFK killed because he wanted to investigate Israelis
鈥淲hy did this Israeli kill the killer of Jack Kennedy?鈥� Qaddafi asked, after noting that Jack Ruby, "an Israeli," killed Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. 鈥淭he whole world should know that Kennedy wanted to investigate the nuclear reactor of the Israeli demon," Qaddafi said.
Qaddafi also called for . "His killing was a plot, and we should know why he was killed and who killed him," Qaddafi said.
6. UN should relocate to Libya
鈥淵ou will thank me for not having to travel for 20 hours to this place.鈥�
The White House on Qaddafi
"," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, as though Qaddafi was now a wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills.
In response to Qaddafi鈥檚 suggestion that Obama should rule the US forever, Gibbs deadpanned: 鈥淟eaving aside the amendments to the Constitution that the president agrees with wholeheartedly, it would be an interesting concept to continue being president beyond one鈥檚 natural-born life.鈥�
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