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Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies launched a long-threatened campaign to force Lebanon's U.S.-backed government from office, calling for mass demonstrations Friday followed by a wave of open-ended protests. A defiant Prime Minister Fuad Saniora vowed his government would not fall, warning in a nationally televised speech Thursday night that "Lebanon's independence is threatened and its democratic system is in danger."Now don't you wish you'd tossed Old Liverlips back in March, when you had the votes?
The call for protests threatens to turn a political power struggle between pro- and anti-Syrian factions into a violent showdown in sharply divided Lebanon. Government supporters accuse Syria of being behind the Hezbollah campaign, trying to regain its lost influence in its smaller neighbor.
Pretty much a statement of the obvious, isn't it?
Hezbollah and its allies, in turn, say the country has fallen under U.S. domination and that they have lost their rightful portion of power.