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2005-02-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Lebanese opposition declares independence uprising

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-18 4:12:05 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Where did these people get this outlandish idea of holding free and honest elections?

Oh yeh, I forgot about Iraq...My bad.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-02-18 4:24:39 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:24:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 under the auspices of the United Nations.

Yeah, they will do a great job - after they steal all of Hariri's money and divide it up among the investigators.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-18 4:28:39 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:28:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 An image of falling domino pieces may be good here, too.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-18 4:29:03 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:29:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Debka says Syria is arming its citizens in Lebanon.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-18 4:38:13 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:38:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Can we get a little Ukraine-style protest out of Beirut?

Posted by sludj 2005-02-18 4:39:16 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:39:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Right on Sobiesky. The Djinn is out of the bottle.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-02-18 4:44:37 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:44:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lemme see... 3,777,218 (July 2004 est.) and there is, according to Debka, 1.4 million Syrian workers.
Does look like there would be some ketchup with that popcorn.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-18 4:49:58 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:49:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 You could save a lot of bloodshed by just killing Assad first.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-18 5:03:25 PM|| 2005-02-18 5:03:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Day ain't over yet...

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-18 5:06:47 PM|| 2005-02-18 5:06:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 While I sympathize with Lebanon's people in this, they are not actually as united as they ought to be.
Beside Hizbollah, which is pro Syria by virtue of their weapons supplies, there are innumerable Syrian agents who have been bought or blackmailed into helping Syria.

What will be interesting over the next few days is seeing which public figures come out with pro Syria op-eds.

Carter?
Kissinger?
Brezinski?

Posted by mhw 2005-02-18 5:15:50 PM|| 2005-02-18 5:15:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 could be good timing, what with W meeting all those "high level" thinking folks on "their" ground. And he let's them know, "We stand with the Lebanese people."

Posted by Sherry 2005-02-18 5:21:06 PM|| 2005-02-18 5:21:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 If the majority of the Lebanese really want the Syrians out, all we have to do is provide air support and a few dozen Special Forces troopers to point out the targets, as we did in Afghanistan. The question here is whether we want to control the aftermath, which will require some amount of manpower. The Lebanese militias are armed and can serve the role of the Northern Alliance during the Afghan campaign.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-02-18 6:09:38 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-02-18 6:09:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hell yes Zhang Fei: let's do this bad boy.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-02-18 6:23:15 PM|| 2005-02-18 6:23:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Not just Hezb'allah, let's not forget the heavily armed Paleos sitting in Ein-el and other shitholes. You know - the ones Lebanon sorta forgot to absorb since they were so useful as permanent refugees...

Not so useful anymore, guys?...

Posted by Tholuck Angomotch9553 2005-02-18 6:57:04 PM|| 2005-02-18 6:57:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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