Friday, September 25, 2009

Qaddafi's Rambling Speech at the U.N.

Some of the more delicious portions of Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi's speech to the U.N. General Assembly contain the following:
He also suggested that those who caused “mass murder” in Iraq be tried; defended the right of the Taliban to establish an Islamic emirate; wondered whether swine flu was cooked up in a laboratory as a weapon; and demanded a thorough investigation of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King... .

And he repeated his longstanding proposal that Israel and the Palestinian territories be combined into one state called Isratine.
Update: A reader over at Paul Krugman's blog , commenting on another rambling speech, says the following:
Why, back in the day, the norm for speeches in the Russian Politburo was 5-6 hours. No wonder Communism fell.


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