[mellyK]

No suprise.

Civil war will break out (again) very soon in Lebanon.

[SandRat]

so a pro Syrian cherry picked assembly reelected a pro-Syrian puppet. Something tells me the streets are about to erupt across Lebanon in protest.

[Soul Seeker]

Uh-huh. Syrian Parliament re-elects a Syrian puppet. A Syrian dicattors pays and threatens Syrians to invade lebanon to stage an orchestarted protest.

Is anyone in the world, other than Kofi? buying this? I doubt it. It's become a comedy hour, though it's heart is extremely serious.

[kimoajax]

Appears Syria has pulled a play out of Saddam's old dog-eared playbook on political theater.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Easy enough to figure, Hezbolla and Sryian intellegence shakes their fists and pull their puppets strings and Bam!, the New boss is the same as the old Boss.

It will take blood over there.

[yldstrk]

Looks like we're on a collision course with Syria.

[Spruce]

Is George Bush gonna have to choke a b*tch?

[ohioWfan]

A gentleman from Lebanon was on Special Report tonight, and did not feel this would lead to Civil War. He downplayed the potency of Hezbollah by saying that all they could do was demonstrate.

He feels that the Lebanese people have "heard the call" of President Bush and have been empowered by it, and will not back down.

What will count are the elections in May.

[Peach]

What? Oh, sheesh.

[Texaggie79]

Lebaneseseses are cool

[weegie]

I spend a lot of time in Beirut on business - Its a strange construct of a country. The view of the average person in Beirut (whether Muslim or Christian) seems to be a desire for everyone to go away and leave them alone - Palestinians, Syrians, Israelis, Americans. They feel that their own differences and animosities were ratched up by everyone in the region deciding to duke it out in Beirut rather than Damascus, the Golan, Moscow or NY.

Also please don't believe that the Christians there are necessarily pro American.

As for Jumblatt - He is not pro American, or Syrian or Israeli, or even Lebanon. He is pro Druze and will take any stance which he feels it best for his people.

[Carry_Okie]

A thread that might interest you.

[Pipo]

Mr.Lahoud and Karami, you should also ask Bush to re-appointed Saddam. You and your Syrian regime have lot of lessons in democracy to give to all over the word. Shame on both of you, Pro-Syrians..........

[quantfive]

These kind of games were played with great success in the middle east during the 20th century. Syria does not realize things have indeed changed and the Lebanese people are done with the games.