Nonsense. The level of popular support is day and night compared to the northern alliance(who were genrally as despised as the taliban). A better comparison for the libyan opposition would be the mujaheddin during the 80's.
And considering that ol' Gaffy bribed everyone and their mother with oil money, I do wonder where you came up with the idea that they were in it for the oil. Why on earth would they cut off a stable source of oil...?
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