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Posted on 02/28/2005 8:57:15 AM PST by Eurotwit
Edited on 02/28/2005 9:02:04 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just watching CNN. They Pro-Syrian government has just resigned. Huge celebrations in Beirut.
Mod note: On CNN's banner:
Lebanon’s pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, announces his resignation and that of his government. Details soon.
Whenever I think of this movie I think of Pauline Kael's review--a negative one, but she matched to movie by being jsut as funny. Paraphrasing one: "This movie is like an aggravated case of New York" and she said the whole movie was like a shouting contest "(Robert Duvall yells loudest)."
Freedom is on the march!
The bomb that killed the leader precipitated this.
Wrong.
excerpt:
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
~snip~
Those like you who either did not understand his message (delivered not in just this speech) or willfully distorted it can bray all the live-long day, but the people of the world know: President Bush is a man who says what he means and means what he says.
The people of Lebanon felt free to take these steps.
David Satterfield was in Lebanon this morning to press Syria into withdrawing troops. France, America and the UN have all spoken out very recently. The protesters must have realized they had the advantage. Syria knows it can't go in and install a new government or mow down the protesters with the ENTIRE world watching. We'd annihilate them.
That's a major area of uncertainty, indeed. Hezbollah has reportedly developed political aspirations (or pretensions) over the years. They might decide they have to go with the flow to maintain their political viability, and so won't openly or violently oppose an independent Lebanese government. Or they might fight a dirty war. And even if they chose the former, more politic, option, they're apt to still try to keep their arms and maintain their mafia-style control of the south.
"Osama thought he was dealing with another Bill Clinton. Instead, the cowboy from Texas is more like Ronald Reagan, James Steward and John Wayne all rolled into one."
Thank you this is truth!!! YES free America is strong now!!
Thank you for forgiving my overly suspicious nature. :>}
You call me ignorant and then demand that I not take it personally?
I have a feeling if I put up a thread titled "Let's Celebrate Being Alive Today," you'd show up and say "But we might all die tomorrow."
I loved how you don't think Lebanon is entitled to democracy if they want it.
It certainly is!
WHY MUST YOU ALWAYS BE A POLLYANNA AND SQUELCH OPINION AND ANALYSIS? PLEASE LET THOSE SPEAK WHO MIGHT KNOW MORE THAN YOU OF THE SUBJECT.
Exactly. And they felt free because of the USA.
Even Walid Jumblatt, who was as anti-American as they come, had suddenly come forward and credited the United States with Iraq's first popular election. They nay-sayers are backing themselves into a corner with no escape route. Let them.
The Lebanese people are head of you. Here's an excerpt from the FOX News report on their website. I'm emphasizing the quotes related to Syria, but if you want to read the entire article, click here.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — With shouts of "Syria out!," more than 25,000 flag-waving protesters massed outside Parliament on Monday in a dramatic display of defiance that swept out Lebanon's pro-Syrian government two weeks after the assassination of a former prime minister.
Cheering broke out among the demonstrators in Martyrs' Square when they heard Prime Minister Omar Karami's announcement on loudspeakers that the government was stepping down. Throughout the day, protesters handed out red roses to soldiers and police.
"Today the government fell. Tomorrow, it's the one huddled in Anjar," opposition leader Elias Atallah told the crowd to cheers, referring to the Syrian intelligence chief based in the eastern Lebanese town of Anjar. He said the opposition will continue its actions until all demands are met.
The protesters went further, immediately shouting for the resignation of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud.
"Lahoud, your turn is coming!" they said.
Others in the sea of red, white and green flags chanted, "Syria Out!" and "Freedom, sovereignty, independence!"
The protest continued after nightfall, complete with images broadcast on a large video screen, a scene that recalled anti-government protests in Ukraine late last year. Banners proclaimed in English: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall."
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks published Monday that a Syrian troop withdrawal depended on achieving peace in the Middle East.
"Under a technical point of view, the withdrawal can happen by the end of the year," Assad told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "But under a strategic point of view, it will only happen if we obtain serious guarantees. In one word: peace."
:}}}}}}}}}Be strong America good friend Thank you
There can be no democracy in Lebanon - only a representative republic.
A big ol' bump to that.
Howlin, the definition that I like of democracy is: Two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
Speaking of squelching, if somebody posts an opinion on this forum, I'm entitled to state mine.
Sorry about your shoulder.
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