I'll reserve the celebrating until after the "new" government is in place and we've figured out where they stand. Just like Egypt and the rest of the Arab Spring, it isn't any rosier and we don't know who's ultimately pulling the strings.
+10 He had been a US ally in the war on terror since about 2000.
Libya was one of the places we sent prisoners to to be tortured, since we don't do that sort of thing.
Mubarak and Qaddafi were both US allies, Qaddafi doing our torture, and Mubarak keeping the peace with Israel.
The way BO worked against both while ignoring the resistance in Iran proves that he misunderstood that Kennedy quote.
It was not ,"Help any foe and f*ck any friend".