Posted on 05/13/2008 7:23:22 PM PDT by Flavius
BEIRUT, May 12 -- Politicians in Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition criticized the United States on Monday for not doing enough to counter the opposition Hezbollah movement's recent takeover of West Beirut.
At the same time, President Bush, who will visit the Middle East this week, vowed continued support for the Lebanese government and its military, which announced that it would take a greater role in containing violence.
Christian, Sunni and Druze politicians -- members of a coalition known as March 14 -- said U.S. statements on the crisis have been too weak and called for more pressure on Hezbollah and its Syrian backers. The politicians said they felt abandoned by the United States.
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They catch on fast, don't they...
Only from the air and no boots on the ground. Better yet, leave the middle east to the middle east.
Let the Muzzies sort it out amongst themselves.
Enough already of funding to countries who hate us.
Why is it always our damned fault?
I really wanted to write stuff but id be banned
Right you are …
When we act as the world’s policeman, complaints abound.
When we don’t act as the world’s policeman, complaints abound.
After we toppled Sadam Husian, and completed our search of his country for WMDs, we should have gotten our butts out of there.
Lucy sets up the football and looks around for Charlie brown
No way in H### that the Dems will let GW do anything to their Islamist allies, even if he was inclined to do so...
“After we toppled Sadam Husian, and completed our search of his country for WMDs, we should have..” followed them into Syria. After cleaning up those weapons stop by and see Hizbullcrap in Lebanon then a planned withdraw after moving the troops into Israel. We would have scared the sh#t out of Iran, cleaned up allot of trash in the Middle East and been home years ago. Remember General Sherman?
The Washing Compost fishwrapper doesn’t need to worry. Their close pals at the UN will take care of all this unrest.
“The politicians said they felt abandoned by the United States.
They catch on fast, don’t they... “
Their own bloody army abandoned them, why blame us.
Don’t waste your time.
Because our SpecOP guys had been advising their army. This is not purely a Muzzie on Muzzie situation. Lebanon has a very large population of Christians, and the ultimate target by the jihadis, of course, is Israel.
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