CAIRO — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi vows to fight on and die a "martyr," calling on his supporters to take back the streets from protesters demanding his ouster, shouting and pounding his fist in a furious speech Tuesday on state TV.
Gadhafi, swathed in brown robes and turban, spoke from a podium set up in the entrance of a bombed out building that appeared to be his Tripoli residence hit by U.S. airstrikes in the 1980s and left unrepaired as a monument of defiance. The speech, which appeared to have been taped earlier, was aired on a screen to hundreds of supporters massed in Tripoli's central Green Square.
Shouting in the rambling speech, he declared himself "a warrior" and proclaimed, "Libya wants glory, Libya wants to be at the pinnacle, at the pinnacle of the world."
At times the camera panned out to show a towering gold-colored monument in front of the building, showing a fist crushing a fighter jet with an American flag on it – a view that also gave the strange image of Gadhafi speaking alone from behind a podium in the building's delapidated lobby, with no audience in front of him.
"I am a fighter, a revolutionary from tents ... I will die as a martyr at the end," he said. "I have not yet ordered the use of force, not yet ordered one bullet to be fired ... when i do, everything will burn."
He called on supporters to take to the streets to attack protesters. "You men and women who love Gadhafi ...get out of your homes and fill the streets," he said. "Leave your homes and attack them in their lairs ... Starting tomorrow the cordons will be lifted, go out and fight them. From tonight to tomorrow, all the young men should form local committees for popular security," he said, telling them to wear a green armband to identify themselves. "The Libyan people and the popular revolution will control Libya."
Am I the only one who thinks this Gadhafi guy is kind of a pimp? Not condoning the shithouse rat speech that basically calls for bodega warfare or anything, but I just sweat that he surrounds himself with an army of 50 armed, virgin, female bodyguards and would rather go down in a huge drunken, Hugh Hefner viagra infused orgy with Uzis and AK-47s a'blazin than be taken alive. Fuckin Scarface style except he's not trying to bang his sister.
Oh, and how fuckin bonkers is it that old ass schizophrenia men who were alive when the Holocaust happened are holding the world hostage? Like get a hobby bro. Start banging those bodyguards or take you grandkids fishing but for fuck's sake leave the US out of it cause we're already in like 2 wars and just closed half the schools in Detroit.
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