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2006-07-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As long as tools such as Lahoud and Siniora are in power, Leb's lost at sea.

Feltman's quote, "All of us want to see an implementation of an immediate cease-fire." is out of line and he should be bitch-slapped for it. Listen, dude, you do not make US Foreign Policy - and your statement does not reflect the policy of the man who does.

Posted by Omusing Angong1547 2006-07-20 01:02|| 2006-07-20 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn, really brings the alligator tears to your eyes, doesn't it ?

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-07-20 01:53|| 2006-07-20 01:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how they were able to fare with, what?, 18 years of full-blown civil war rife with massacres of civilians, kidnappings, ethnic cleasing before it got fashionable, foreign interventions, infighting, etc, etc,..., since they're apparently brought to the brink of despair by less than a week of targeted aerial bombings.

Not to say that this isn't painful for the average lebaneses, of course, and I really regret they have to pay for hezbollah/syria/iran's acts of war, but as the "apocalyptical destruction", this really needs a sense of SCALE, IMHO.

Anyway, go back to the roots of all this, and you'll find yasser arafat, that egyptian terrorist mandated by his brothers to destroy Israel. All theses decades lost and the destruction of that country can be traced back to him, with the syrian baathist and the ayatollahs coming in to loot what they can.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-20 05:05|| 2006-07-20 05:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Hear! Hear! 5089!

Posted by 6 2006-07-20 05:56|| 2006-07-20 05:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The Lebanese play to play, not to win. That's all very well when the only ones who suffer are within their boundaries, but when it affects the neighbors they are entitled to take a hand in the proceedings. In the meantime, those Lebanese who prefer to live more responsibly will continue to add to the Lebanese diaspora, continuing the post-Ottoman trend. Arafat merely took advantage of a pre-existing condition.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 08:22|| 2006-07-20 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 I notice Siniora is not concerned about the actions of Hizb'Allah and their masters.

I guess he just announced which side he's on.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-07-20 10:14|| 2006-07-20 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Siniora is a Syrian puppet. Syria assassinates anyone with Lebanon's interests at heart. Pay him no mind.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-20 14:26|| 2006-07-20 14:26|| Front Page Top

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