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I also haven't seen any direct evidence that iraq was the cause of libya's coming around. I'm no expert, but it doesn't seem like america is in a position, militarily or politically, to undertake another invasion. Why should they feel threatened? I think i'll probably be less skeptical when qadaffi directly attributes his change of heart to the invasion of iraq. Until then, it just seems like prowar spin to me.
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As another poster above pointed out, Libya has been under scrutiny and sanctions for years. While the weapons have just now been disclosed, Quadafi announced last year that Libya was voluntarily giving up it's chemical weapons program.
There probably isn't, nor will there ever be, direct evidence of causation. I bet Quadafi has more pride than to come out and say "I'm giving up our chemical weapons program because I don't want America to Saddamize me" or something like that. However, the sanctions and heightened scrutiny have been in place since the 1980's, but he finally does this less than a year after the invasion of Iraq, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
This is just conjecture, but I would not be suprised if the message "you're next." was somehow communicated to him.