Huge Demonstration in Lebanon Demands End to Syrian Control

The New York Times International ^ | March 15, 2005 | NEIL MacFARQUHAR

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Todays Rally threads:

[Poohbah]

We now have a new rule on Free Republic: any thread discussing Lebanon MUST show pictures of the Lebanese Protest babes.

(It's an emanation of a penumbra from the Ann Coulter/Belly Girl/Laura Ingraham rule.)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK....but first:

[acapesket]

Yahoo!! The Lebanese immigrants that I know here in the US of A are wonderful, hard working folks, my friends happen to be Catholic. How ironic is that?
GO LEBANON!!

[Diogenesis]

Click for more pictures of Cedar Freedom marching on.

[Friend of thunder]

My question is why is Michel Jackson getting so much more coverage than this? There is barely any coverage of this on radio or television.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thank you, Thank You!!!

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OK....found a BBC Video report also:

BBC Report Video from Beirut

Click button on the right side under

BBC NEWS: VIDEO AND AUDIO
See the huge crowds gathered for the protest

[elhombrelibre]

Bush's fault.

[Soul Seeker]

Take THAT Syria! And FOX and others should be ASHAMED for being scooped by CNN and NBC!

REAL Lebanese in the streets today. Not folks intimidated, bribed, threatened or bussed in from Syria and Iran. Take THAT Assad.

[jpf]

Gosh darn it, Michael Moore was right we just can't go around imposing democracy in the Middle East! Those poor people must be miserable, just look at them, look at them I tell you, they should be living safely under the boot of Syria, a government that cares about them, instead of out there smiling and waving flags and expressing an opinion!

We're such fascists!

...yeah, democracy will never take hold in the middle east, blah, blah, blah. You'd think images like these would make liberals wise up, but don't hold your breath, we wouldn't want you to pass out.

[HangnJudge]

And Here

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050315/D88R41OO0.html

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of anti-Syrian demonstrators flooded the capital Monday in the biggest protest ever in Lebanon, surpassing the turnout for an earlier pro-Damascus rally organized by the Islamic militant Hezbollah. In a show of national unity, Sunnis, Druse and Christians packed Martyrs' Square as brass bands played and balloons soared skyward.

[Toidylop]

It's just sick to see what important to the MSM

All drama, all Jacko, all the time!!!

[HangnJudge]

And here again

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-03-14-lebanon-syria_x.htm

More than 800,000 opposition demonstrators poured into the heart of Beirut demanding an end to nearly three decades of Syrian military domination Monday.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That has a great photo:

Thousands of Lebanese opposition protesters wave their national flags as they gather during a demonstration in Martyrs Square, central Beirut, Lebanon, Monday March 14, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese people answered an opposition call for a massive protest to demand a full Syrian troop withdrawal, resignations of security chiefs and an international investigation into the death of former Premier Rafik Hariri.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And a photo from there:

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	More than 800,000 opposition demonstrators poured into the heart of Beirut demanding an end to nearly three decades of Syrian military domination Monday.
	By Patrick Baz, AFP

[HangnJudge]

One of these days I'm going to learn how to post 'picts

Great Post

[Friend of thunder]

All drama, all Jacko, all the time!!!

I can understand some coverage of it; his accuser admitted denying that Jackson had molested him. Victims of abuse often deny it to others, and to them selves.

However, even if he had said that no abuse had ever occurred and all his accusations were fabricated, it would not have been nearly as important a story of between 800,000 and 2,000,000 people protesting in Lebanon this is nearly unprecedented and the failure of the MSM to adequately cover it is discusting.

[Toidylop]

How the event affecting million of people the world over is not covered by the MSM. In the meantime, Jacko's trial only provides entertaining purpose for the rest of us becomes so important to the MSM.

It's sickening!!!

[spinestein]

In an ideal world, all the democratic nations of the Earth would take this moment to unanimously tell the government of Syria; "The people have spoken. Get out of Lebanon TODAY or be thrown out TOMORROW."

This is not an ideal world, and the number of nations on the side of democracy is disappointingly small, but we need to take names of the nations who are now silent and remember who supports the status quo.