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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Aoun calls majority cowards for not waging war on Syria
2008-04-26
Hezbollah ally and opposition leader Michel Aoun called the Lebanese government weak for not waging war with Syria, prior to the occupiers withdrawal in 2005, highlighting his previous "brave" attempt which resulted in surrender and exile.
Yeah. If they had, the whole country coulda been exiled to Gay Paree.
In a statement to his political news channel on Friday, Aoun said the March 14 majority alliance "declared war on Syria when it left Lebanon. Had they been brave they would have confronted Syria on Lebanese terrain."
Had there been no March 14 alliance Syria wouldn't have left.
Aoun, in a statement to his Orange Television, said: "When I called for a war of liberation it was aimed at liberating Lebanon's land and I said that by achieving this goal the war would end. The goal has been achieved. So what is the reason for proceeding with the battle?"

"We have no interest but in building future relations, and we shouldn't be in collision with them. The relationship between the two nations should be neighborly and brotherly," he stressed.

Aoun said Premier Fouad Saniora's Government "rejects calls to look for those missing in their land (buried in mass graves), that is why we cannot hold Syria responsible first" for the Lebanese missing in its jails. "The government should find those buried in its land and the government is capable of doing this because there is no village that does not know the location of its mass grave and who is responsible for it, be they Palestinians or Lebanese militias. The government knows, The intelligence agencies know and many journalists know where the mass graves are," Aoun added.

He said a "minority" of those held in Syria had been held directly by the Syrian forces. The majority were either arrested by Lebanese police or held by pro-Syrian factions and turned on to the Syrians.
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