Gadaffi On Libyan TV: I'm Not Going Anywhere

It's about 40 minutes an hour (and counting) in and he seems to just be warming up. (It's over, he clocked in a bit more than an hour of crazy).

He's like an evil Bluto...he's rolling.

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."

What does President Present have to say about the turmoil that is rocking the world oil markets? Nothing.

There are reports that Libyan naval vessel has defected to Malta.

Added: CNNI says they think Gadaffi is speaking from the compound we bombed (no thanks to the French) in the '80s. One thought: Prompt Global Strike...When you have to kill someone within an hour, accept no substitutes.

posted by DrewM. at 11:45 AM

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