That's absurd. Gaddafi was better than, say, King Hussein of Jordan?
In 1951 libya was the poorest country in the world, but just before the civil war libiyans enjoyed the highest standard of living in Africa also ahead of Russia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia.
In Libya Homes were considered as a human right.
Newly married couples received $50,000 to buy their homes.
Electricity was free to all people.
Before Gaddafi less than 1/5th of population of libya was literate, education after Gaddafi was free and 83% literacy rate.
Healthcare was free and of high quality.
All loans were interest free 0% by law.
When a Libyan bought a car, government paid 50% of price.
Price of Gasoline was 0.14$ (8.4 rupees a litre)
On 1st july 2011, 1.7 million people assembled in Green Square in support of Gaddafi, to show defiance against the NATO bombing Libya. That is 95% population of Triopoli or 1/3 the population of libya.
Libyan central bank was state owned, unlike the banks in west.
Libya was debt free.
In 1988 Libya was accused of being responsible for the Lockberie bombing of PanAm 103. It has transpired that the US gov paid witnesses at the trial up to $4 milion each, to testify against the accused Libyan men.
Qadaff was working to change the payment of Libya’s oil away from US dollar to the new gold African dinar.
This move promted Sarkozy to call Libya a threat to the financial security of Mankind.
Libyans had a lot of what we do not have in UK, US, EU.
He believed in direct democracy, and not in the current form of lie filled democracy where politicians will lie and manipulate to come in power. He believed in self rule.
Gadaff believed that parliamentary democracies were inherently corrupt.
If there was a reason (due to the leader killing his own people) to bomb a country on that time, it was Syria and not Libya.