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2004-11-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2004-11-20 11:57:26 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Hey America, over here! This way to the Med and your homes! Just march west-southwest from Mosul when you're finished there. Be sure you stop and see the sights in Damascus on your way in. Please?"

I have an odd feeling that the Bush doctrine just might be contagious.

Posted by AzCat 2004-11-20 12:15:54 AM|| 2004-11-20 12:15:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Bush help us save Lebanon."

Amazing. Heard that quite a few times in different declinations. And this is the infamous 'Arab street', to boot.

Is it possible that people in different places are starting to see who is their guy? Despite of their elites and media painting Bush as an evil incarnate?

Posted by CornÃ®liÃ«s 2004-11-20 12:22:43 AM|| 2004-11-20 12:22:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Lebanon used to be the only Arab country ruled by Christians until the Syrians stepped in sometime in the 1970's. Lebanese Christians are looking to Uncle Sam to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. The problem is that they have spent so much time sticking it to us that we don't quite believe them any more. And yet restoring (Eastern Orthodox) Christian rule to Lebanon should win us a lot of brownie points with the Eastern Orthodox world (Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Serbia, Ukraine, Belorussia).

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-11-20 12:45:43 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-11-20 12:45:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush the right man to clean up the "Arab Street"
mess.

Posted by Baluchi 2004-11-20 12:55:03 AM|| 2004-11-20 12:55:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The French created the country and put the Christians in charge. Then dumped them when it decided business with the Moslems was better.

Posted by phil_b 2004-11-20 12:55:34 AM|| 2004-11-20 12:55:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It's still about Mad Mullah Money - say that 3 times fast, heh. Decap those wacky Black Hats and Syria folds up leaving Leb an orphan. The only straight-up 3-fer I can see out there. ChiNorK is a 2-fer, but SyrLebIran is even juicier with those nukes. Wotta cornucopia of Connections. James Burke would have a field day. Did I mention SaudiPak is about a 25000-fer (all that Wahhabbi moskkk funding)? But hey, the oven timer's going off in Teheran so, first things first. Bizzy, bizzy.

Posted by .com 2004-11-20 2:28:30 AM|| 2004-11-20 2:28:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The closer the showdown with Iran, more breaking news with Iran's Shi'ite proxies Syria-Lebanon will intensify.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-20 3:29:59 AM|| 2004-11-20 3:29:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 >right-wing Christian activists<

Getting their MSM metaphors mixed up - can't be an activist and be right-wing. Here's a tip - use fundamentalist with right-wing. With activist any of the following will do - gentle, bunny loving, peaceloving, etc. etc.

Posted by davemac 2004-11-20 7:43:47 AM|| 2004-11-20 7:43:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 davemac - yeah those guys are really confused. "No to hegemony!?"

That's going to really stump our self-proclaimed intellectual elites during their US/Israeli hedgemony rants. let's see...must put into my hip pocket Lebanon, Syria 14,000 troops since the 70's. *snicker*

Posted by 2b 2004-11-20 8:02:42 AM|| 2004-11-20 8:02:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Syria out of the occupied territory!

Posted by eLarson 2004-11-20 9:41:54 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-11-20 9:41:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 walid jumblatt is an anti american druze warlord thug--he should be blown off his mountain top when we invade and hung by his mustache and balls

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-11-20 4:12:03 PM|| 2004-11-20 4:12:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Hulugu, no stake? Am disappointed.

Oh, that was Vlad's speciality...

Where's Tepes when you need him...

Posted by CornÃ®liÃ«s 2004-11-20 4:41:54 PM|| 2004-11-20 4:41:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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