Why does everyone want Colonel Gaddafi to resign as leader of Libya?

He is killing his own people, using imported mercenaries to retain stronghold in key cities. He has threatened to do a Saddam and set fire to Libya's significant oil production fields. It's all about Gaddafi and nothing to do with the people he has tortured for daring to disagree with him. Human rights for the people of Libya would be a good start.

what i find interesting is the speed at which Cameron sent William Hague to Tunisia the second the government was toppled, even more alarming was Cameron visiting Egypt just as the leader was ousted. I think the prime minister is just trying to create a mini empire once more.

One important aspect of this crisis is the fact that the European Union acted on its own and very fast, it was first to impose sanctions and done all the back room dealings. Normally in the past the procedure was to see what the USa do and copy. Now the USA needs to get updated from the EU rather than the other way around.

The world turned against him when he turned the guns on his own protesting people.

Dictators who murder their people lose all legitimacy and should be deposed.

His regime has always been brutal, and he has funded some pretty nasty groups around the world. There is no reason why you would want him to stay around.

He is a terrorist and is now killing his own, unarmed people. Yes, he has threatened and killed people outside his own country, including the Pan Am flight he ordered blown up and the night club he had bombed. He probably ordered attacks that we don't know about yet.

nicely, the French would not enable our planes fly through their air area on their way down from England to bomb the sh!t out of the guy's residing house back interior the '80s, and that i glance to keep in mind the yankee left applauding France for that.

Because there's Oil to be had, silly! Were you asleep in the 90's?

Firing on unarmed peaceful protesters has that effect. This isn't St. Petersburg in 1905.

the libyan people aren't fighting each other they are fighting against african mercenaries(from Ghana,Sierra Leone,Chad,....) so obviously It is not a civil world!

Oh well, civil war here we come!

Maybe Obama can ship in 30,000 troops or so, and get another PEACE PRIZE!

Because he is a brutal dictator who oppresses his own people.