WASHINGTON – The following is the text of a letter sent to President Barack Obama on Wednesday by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The misspellings and grammatical errors are in the original letter.
It’s standard practice for editors of media outlets to retain the misspellings and grammatical errors in an original letter when they want to make the sender look bad. (See for reference any newspaper’s ‘letters to the editor.’)
Our son, Excellency,
President Obama
U.S.A
We have been hurt more morally that physically because of what had happened against us in both deeds and words by you. Despite all this you will always remain our son whatever happened.
We still pray that you continue to be president of the U.S.A. We Endeavour and hope that you will gain victory in the new election campaigne.
Which shows that even he realized that this is all about getting Mr. Obama re-elected.
You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action. I am sure that you are able to shoulder the responsibility for that.
Enough evidence is available, Bearing in mind that you are the president of the strongest power in the world nowadays, and since Nato is waging an unjust war against a small people of a developing country. This country had already been subjected to embargo and sanctions, furthermore it also suffered a direct military armed aggression during Reagan’s time.
Of course it was only after military aggression by President Reagan (attacking his compound) and President Bush (invading Iraq) that Mr. Gaddafi ever tried to behave.
This country is Libya. Hence, to serving world peace … Friendship between our peoples … and for the sake of economic, and security cooperation against terror, you are in a position to keep Nato off the Libyan affair for good.
Again, Mr. Gaddafi seems to be confused about Mr. Obama. He is not interested in fighting the war on terror. (He won’t even call it that.) And he is in no position to tell NATO what to do. He wants NATOR and the UN to tell the US what to do.
As you know too well democracy and building of civil society cannot be achieved by means of missiles and aircraft, or by backing armed member of AlQuaeda in Benghazi.
But it is an excellent way to build a caliphate.
You — yourself — said on many occasions, one of them in the UN General Assembly, I was witness to that personally, that America is not responsible for the security of other peoples. That America helps only. This is the right logic.
We, too, have tried to shame Mr. Obama by throwing his own words back in his face. It doesn’t work. He is shameless.
Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, your intervention is the name of the U.S.A. is a must, so that Nato would withdraw finally from the Libyan affair. Libya should be left to Libyans within the African union frame. The problem now stands as follows:-
1. There is Nato intervention politically as well as military.
He is right, of course. Since NATO is now demanding that he step down from power before there is any ceasefire. Which was not part of the UN resolution authorizing this ‘kinetic military action.’
2. Terror conducted by AlQaueda gangs that have been armed in some cities, and by force refused to allow people to go back to their normal life, and carry on with exercising their social people’s power as usual.
And he is almost certainly right about this. But, once again, this would not faze Mr. Obama.
Mu’aumer Qaddaffi [sic]
Leader of the Revolution
Tripoli 5.4.2011
Yesterday, White House spokesman James Carney said that this was just the latest of several mash notes letters that Mr. Gaddafi has sent to Mr. Obama. Wouldn’t you love to see the others?
