NATO is learning from the occupation of Iraq in its bid to control post-Gaddafi Libya and secure lucrative oil resources and gold deposits, by claiming that no boots will be on the ground, unless of course the puppet government controlled by the United Nations and NATO itself “requests” they be sent in.

“The leading role in the post-Gaddafi period in supporting the Libyan people rests with the United Nations and the Contact Group. NATO will be in a supporting role… NATO will have no troops on the ground,” the military alliance’s spokeswoman Oana Lungescu told a press briefing at NATO headquarters.”

Lungescu added that NATO troops would only be used to occupy the country “upon request” of the post-Gaddafi regime.

Of course, that regime will almost certainly be nothing more than a stooge administrative branch of UN and NATO itself.