Mr McGee trashed Gadhafi a few hundred pixels up.  I have counted many leftists among my friends over the years, and have yet to meet one that expressed anything other than profound distaste for the Colonel.

The centrists and right wingers who also numbered among my friends had no admiration for the man either.

Dictators and demagogues are admired only by their toadies, but never to their back, and only in expectation of crumbs from the table.