A Rhetorical Analysis Of Gaddafi's Last Formal Speech

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In this last formal speech, Gaddafi is very moving and one can sense that his words are trying to persuade people into believing he’s not the enemy. He says that he did all he could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and food. He said he transformed Benghazi from desert to farmland. Gaddafi made the point that he stood up to attacks from “that cowboy” Ronald Reagan “when he killed {Gaddafi’s} adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill {Gaddafi}, instead {Reagan} killed that poor innocent child”, (Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi’s Last Formal Speech). One ironic thing he mentioned was that he “did all he could to help people understand the concept of real democracy”, (Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi’s Last Formal Speech) when his brutal dictatorship