http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_454088.html

And the hundreds of victims of IRA terror will be relieved to learn their civil cases against Libya have been predjudiced by this “rehabilation” farce.
http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=690926

On the bright side, this action might qualify as a new Bush alternative energy project. Now we can hook electrical generators to the spinning coffins of the 189 Americans mass murdered at Lockerbie– and marginally reduce our energy dependence on Libyan oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

Take a moment to look at the sculptures of American mothers of Pan Am 103 victims capture (by Suse Lowenstein, mother of victim, Alexander) postured in that moment each mother learned of their child’s murder. Then, ask yourself if this was a proper thing to do the weekend after Mother’s Day.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shortcake26/43627663/in/photostream/

Or just take a minute to read about one (1!) of the American victims: Karen Lee Hunt (20, Syracuse student)
http://dynrec.com/karenleehunt/

As long as Kaddafi rules, there will NEVER come a time when it is just to remove Libya from our terrorism list. Invocation of the Noreiga doctrine is past overdue.

I am absolutely sickened by this news.

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As for Libya supporting Hamas, who in the Arab world doesn’t? (Jordan, maybe, and is Fatah really a better alternative?) Since everyone in the world except the US hates Israel with a passion anyway (Turkey is tepid), I fault in the general Libya supporting Hamas but do not hold it against them on this particular issue.

When K’Daffy saw his buddy Saddam get pulled outta his rat hole he said “Ya want MY chemical weapons? Fine! Here they are! Please, take ‘em!” We sent them to an Army base in TN where they were destroyed.

It’s still kinda hard to trust him though, so let’s keep an eye on him.

Condi ’08!

In another move that can further discredit the Dubya adminstration, it seems that they’re normalizing ties with Libya, one of quite a few sponsors of terrorism in the Muslim world and the country that spawned the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight ….

Not much.

Maybe you CAN teach an old dog new tricks…Or at least get him to stop soiling the carpet. With Qaddafi that’s not a bad start. Even if we can’t really depend on him to pick up the vacuum and aid in cleaning up other messes, at least he won’t be adding to them. With the potential to cause chaos we’d once assigned to him, that’s better than break-even.

Bush: He was against the terrorists, before he was for them.

US establishing full diplomatic relations with Libya…to be removed from list of state sponsors of terror. That’s what Fox News is reporting. Some sort of official announcement expected at 11am. Debbie adds context. Allah asks: Has something changed …

Don’t expect this to make as many headlines as the old “Bush Has Alienated U.S. From Rest Of World” stories. AP via Fox News WASHINGTON — The United States has decided to remove Libya from its list of state sponors……

I will concede however what “EFG” wrote above about acceptable delays in the list being updated; which is most likely the case.

When it comes to foreign policy, I don’t agree with everything he does, but he has guts. And he leads. And if necessary, he fights.

BTW, as far as the list at the State Dept. not being updated? Honestly, I wouldn’t read too much into that. The Federal Government is a big mess of red tape and inefficiency. I can’t provide exact dates (sorry) but I know that well after we liberated Iraq, that same list had Iraq up as a terrorism sponser. That drove me nuts for quite a while. But after months of delay, it looks like they finally removed Iraq from the list.

So I figure after a couple of months, news of this will finally filter down to the appropriate people and the necessary studies and memos and briefings and counter-briefings and what not will be accomplished, and the list will be updated.