[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What a complex stew!

[MJY1288]

I really don't care how the Lebanese people vote, Just as long as they actually given the right to vote without the threat of retaliation for their vote.

If the Lebanese people decide to vote in a Tyrant, than that's democracy in its basic form. But if the lead up to the vote was scam or propaganda effort coming from a known repressive Regime, than it should be challenged

[Slings and Arrows]

BBC: Ex-leader makes Lebanon comeback ~~ former Christian prime minister Michel Aoun.

I'm Sgt. Slings and Arrows of the Language Police. I have a warrant for the arrest of the person who wrote that headline.

[jveritas]

Aoun is not a Syrian ally, he never was and he will never be. He fought Syria militarily for two years in 1988-1990 and he was sent to exile because the Syrian over thrown him. This article is extremely deceiving and a big lie. Aoun formed three list of dozens of candidate and there was only one, just one candidate who was a Pro-Syrian. Three out of his four lists won and this one and only pro-syrian won re-election. Any way so far with 100 parliamentary seats elected in the Lebanese elections, 66 are against Syria and 34 are for Syria, There 28 seats remaining seats to be elected next Sunday and the Syrian allies can win a maximum of three seats. The anti-Syrian parties will end up somewhere from 91 to 94 seats in this new Parliament and thus forming over two third majority.
Thanks to President Bush who freed Lebanon from Syrian brutal occupation and now the Lebanese people are having free and just elections.

Long live the Bush Doctrine for the Greater Middle East.

[Southack]

"Mr Aoun, a long term critic of Syria, demanded the issue of Syrian influence in Lebanon be put aside and allied himself with pro-Syria candidates."

What ridiculous propaganda from the BBC!

Aoun isn't just a critic of Syria, he led a WAR AGAINST SYRIA! And he isn't now allied with pro-Syrian "candidates" (plural), but with a single low-level "pro-Syrian." One. Out of 158 on his lists, one was pro-Syrian.

A *sane* publication (obviously not the BBC) would label that one pro-Syrian (out of 158!) as Aoun's attempt to "reach out" to the pro-Syrian viewpoint that permeates some segment of Lebanon's society.

A sane headline would read something like "Anti-Syrian Militia Leader Reaches Out To pro and anti Syrian voters."

[Tailgunner Joe]

Bush's fault!