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Muammar Gaddafi speaks to Japanese university students

Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi speaks to a class at Meiji University via live satellite feed:

Gaddafi apparently spent most of the Q&A session bashing the U.S.-Japan alliance and denouncing the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

[hat tip to Aceface]

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19 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - December 18, 2009 at 9:04 am

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Vonskippy

Why would any Uni waste their students time and money talking to that moron?

Some day, perhaps Japan will spend some time actually READING history instead of trying to ignore it.

HamachiMan

Some day, perhaps Japan will spend some time actually READING history instead of trying to ignore it.

You mean, like the over 30% of Americans that can’t even identify the United States on a map, or the 70% of Americans who failed the most basics of history and politics on a survey (twice as many people know that Paula Abdul was on American Idol than know that phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” comes from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address).

vonskippy

What does dumbass Americans have to do with this article or my comment?

American’s might be dumber then rocks, but at least they know that Gaddafi is a monster not a Uni speaker.

//FYI I’m German, so feel free to continue on with your baseless American bashing//

leitmotiv

What does dumbass Americans have to do with this article or my comment?

Its unfortunately what passes for logical counter argument by some of the duller Japan Defenders around here.
Joe

“30% of Americans can’t find the United States on a map”…Where the hell do you get these statistics? It is quite obvious that 73% of Americans like cheeseburgers. The other 56% like hot dogs. With a total of 129% my statistics are way better than that crap you pulled out. Psssh.
Ajapa

…the over 30% of Americans that can’t even identify the United States on a map…

This might be less credible than Vonskippy’s claim that Japan spends no time actually READING history but is always trying to entirely ignore it. However, the most obvious fact is that Vonskippy is not facing the reality. Refutation is impossible.

By the way, what does your claim on Japan and history have to do with this article?
Robert

Why do some people keep talking about how dumb some people in my country are. It’s never about the fact we produce the most scientific papers and are number 1 in impact because of them. Or how almost half of the worlds top 30 universities are in the United States.
Why do people tell us how fat some of our people are? They don’t talk about how we won 2,301 medals in the summer olympic games combined (More than any other country).

Seriously shutup!!!
dc

It’s obvious: you insulted japanese students and said they were idiots, thus this offended japanese citizen answers by pointing out how Americans can be stupid too. In that respect, Gaddafi’s plan seems to be working wonders.

As to whether Japanese students are stupid by listening to this moron, as you put it: by your logic, Japan shouldn’t give US a second chance just by looking at their last 8 years of History. Americans have been listening to GWB for 8 years, they even gave him a second chance. Who’s right?

Am I comparing apples to oranges? Maybe. Gaddafi remains a dictator (GWB first election was highly contested, but he still represented 50% of USA), and was involved in many terrorist actions (CIA black ops?).

Carlos

Germans are the last people on this planet to talk about being smarter, please! Yes, there are some Americans that know more of what goes on in American idol than perhaps world history(I’m referring to the loser couch potato kind)but to say Germans are inherently wiser or smarter is ridiculous, if not outright hilarious!
I’m half-German and I know that for a fact. I’ll even go out a limb and say that quite a few Germans think that they are the know all, can all are everything perfect(fallacy)than everyone else.
Besides being stupidly, radically, out of touch, far off the field left, they really have nothing to offer except having some of THE best beer!!
Now, on to Gaddafi. No one pays any attention to what the man spouts anyway, but the older he gets, the more funnier and crazier he gets. If anything, he should get his own show on “Comedy Central.”

Ajapa

This must be a troll.

American’s might be dumber then rocks, but at least they know that Gaddafi is a monster not a Uni speaker.

Where are Georgetown and Columbia located? NHK clip mentions that Meiji is the first University to give an opportunity for Gaddafi and its students to talk with, and Gaddafi’s activity of talk via satellite has already been taken place in various other countries. Gaddafi is a monster not a person who can give a speech at UN conferences and visit Europe!

Ajapa

Correction: …the first University in Japan…

didyouknow

that over 73% of statistics are made up on the spot?

MC Okii Dokii

only 30% of all people know that!

Halal Islam

Muammar Qaddaffi is now a pro-Western leader in the Islamic world. Stop complaining.
Deepspacebeans

Good to see my alma mater taking time out of their busy day to chat up a kooky de facto dictator.

I am unsure as to the whole relevance of the history bit in this context, though. From what I saw there, the purpose of the meeting was not some sort of history denial get-together. I think the proposition of a joint history textbook between Japan, Korea and China to be a good step in permitting these topics to be properly introduced to students in Japan (though with China especially, this should prove difficult).
Eloy

I would just like to know how much he got paid for speaking to the university students.
kai

Don’t judge the whole country because of the stupidity of a few.
anti

Gaddafi when US used to label Nelson Mandela a terrorist during the apartheid era was a firm in his opposition against the South African regime unlike the US regime. When USA criticized Mandela for meeting Gaddafi, Mandela told the US government some history. When the US government were cowards in the 80s supporting racims, Gaddafi was on Mandela´s side.

As for Germans and Americans from a Scandinavian perspective you guys are all right winged fanatics. War mongers. While Germans were busy killing Jews, Scandinavians were busy trying to save them from Germans. Now because of WW2, Germans are the biggest supporters of Israel yet an another racist apartheid country. The same goes with USA.
http://dimesfornickels.wordpress.com/ William George

I wonder if he taught them the the best brand of track suit to wear?

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