Nicolas Sarkozy given five-year prison sentence after Libya trial

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1. Honestly, that sentence is too short for the magnitude of crimes Sarkozy was convicted of. He took a bribe from an African leader and then spearheaded his murder and the destruction of that country for motivations not publicly known. It wouldn’t be so naive to assume he had France attack Libya to cover his own tracks….leading to countless deaths.

2. Every time I bring up the fact that NATO destroyed Libya because Sarkozy was about to be put on trial for corruption and taking money from Ghaddafi I get called a conspiracy theorist but it is the truth.

   France maintains financial control over west Africa by forcing many African countries to keep using the Franc which means they need to maintain deposits in France. Ghaddafi was opposed to this and Hilary Clinton was happy to go along for the ride because she has never seen an Arab she didn’t want to bomb.

   And that’s how Libya went from a rich country with the best standard of living on the continent to a borderline failed state.

3. I feel like I’m getting dumber just reading some of the mental gymnastics people here go to defending what France, the UK and the US did to Libya.

   Gaddafi being a bad dude doesn’t somehow exonerate all the shit that took place, the ruin of Libya and the sundering of its people, for what appears to be some kind of opportunistic power play by the Western European powers.

   I don’t understand how *anyone* from those country’s can somehow advocate that ripping apart a country and dooming its people to open air slave markets, ethno-religious civil war and outright chaos is justifiable if the ruler of that country was a bad dude…

   Considering the shit western leadership is happy to sign off on, that kind of reasoning seems to be a slippery slope. The War on Terror killed a lot of people. It also indirectly ruined the lives of dozens of millions more than it directly ended.

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