NO outsider has any right whatsoever to interfere with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation.
This is simply all about the West's selfish demand for OIL and has absolutely NOTHING to do with the circumstances of the people of Libya...irrespective of which side of the civil uprising they variously stand.
No "slaughter of thousands" was ever mentioned, let alone 'intended' by the legitimate Libyan leader and administration...
Wilful mistranslations of Colonel Gaddafi's statements, and wildly distorted and exaggerated interpretations of them are all parts of the West's propaganda, all-too-willingly broadcast by the western media....
Really sickening stuff, the only surprise about which is that so many members of the general public have been taken-in by this vile, hugely elaborate deceit...much propped-up, of course, by the numerous anti-Gaddafi 'Libyan experts' who pollute every TV studio into which Sky, the BBC and CNN invite them...many of them of former Libyan royalist families and tribes, together with the former 'elite' families of those previous King Idris times; all of whom are determined to regain the wealth and advantage their former 'ruling-class' status once afforded them...before Colonel Gaddafi and the Libyan freedom-fighters rose up from the poverty of the masses, at last, and threw out the parasites...together with the western governments' influences, and the West's oil companies who, together, were contriving to prop them up, supporting them in both their wealth and their suppression of the ordinary people!
Thus, this present entire scenario has been engineered by The States, France and the UK, and others...planned over several years, and carefully erected and manipulated in recent weeks and days...with the blanket collusion of the Western media:
Regime change, purely in the interests of the West [a glimpse of some of the reasons for which I have just provided]...and, disgustingly indeed, the trumped-up UN authorisation makes a mockery of that very institution.
Western, sheer hypocrisy is in full egotistical flight once more...and, as with Iraq, it is very very wrong.