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**occafeVes** · 03-03-2011, 02:44 PM

President Bush restored Libya's immunity to being sued for terrorism and declared that Libya was no longer obligated to compensate the families of Americans who had been killed by Libya through various terrorist acts.

Executive Order 13477 - Wikisource

Of course, this wasn't out of the blue. Libya was found responsible for multiple state sponsored terrorist acts that resulted in the deaths of Americans and told they must compensate the victim's families and the French airliner of the plane they blew up to a total of $6 Billion. Libya said "No way, but we'll give you $1.5 Billion" and then Bush rewarded them the above, basically saying "That's fine with us, don't worry about the other $4.5 Billion!" Oh, and you're totally not terrorists anymore". Seems kinda lenient to me.

That's called a settlement. Happens all the time. You have to give something to get something. I wouldn't call it leniency.

EDIT: Granted, Obama hasn't really had an opportunity to show leniency with Gaddafi like Bush did. Obama may well have done the exact same thing as Bush. Yeah, I don't think it's fair to say that Bush was more lenient than Obama. Bush's tenure was a time of relative peace with Libya when Gadhafi was trying to bring Libya back into the international fold and willing to make reparations of some sort to do so. One cay say that normalization of relations was a positive achievement, and I don't recall Mr. Obama or any other leading Democrats stoking the fires with Libya at the time. Mr. Obama didn't roll back any normalization of relations with Libya until Mr. Gadhafi started getting hassled by his own people. It's just simply an unfair charge IMO.

03-03-2011, 02:44 PM	#7
occafeVes Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 454 Senior Member	President Bush restored Libya's immunity to being sued for terrorism and declared that Libya was no longer obligated to compensate the families of Americans who had been killed by Libya through various terrorist acts. Executive Order 13477 - Wikisource Of course, this wasn't out of the blue. Libya was found responsible for multiple state sponsored terrorist acts that resulted in the deaths of Americans and told they must compensate the victim's families and the French airliner of the plane they blew up to a total of $6 Billion. Libya said "No way, but we'll give you $1.5 Billion" and then Bush rewarded them the above, basically saying "That's fine with us, don't worry about the other $4.5 Billion!" Oh, and you're totally not terrorists anymore". Seems kinda lenient to me. That's called a settlement. Happens all the time. You have to give something to get something. I wouldn't call it leniency. EDIT: Granted, Obama hasn't really had an opportunity to show leniency with Gaddafi like Bush did. Obama may well have done the exact same thing as Bush. Yeah, I don't think it's fair to say that Bush was more lenient than Obama. Bush's tenure was a time of relative peace with Libya when Gadhafi was trying to bring Libya back into the international fold and willing to make reparations of some sort to do so. One cay say that normalization of relations was a positive achievement, and I don't recall Mr. Obama or any other leading Democrats stoking the fires with Libya at the time. Mr. Obama didn't roll back any normalization of relations with Libya until Mr. Gadhafi started getting hassled by his own people. It's just simply an unfair charge IMO.
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