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"What it is, is a militia that, given an opportunity, decided to turn its guns on its own people. It is never going to live that down," she said.
Good grief. Syria and Hezbolla have been killing Lebanese ever since the days of President Reagan. Either people do what they say, or they are tortured and killed. So far, it's worked pretty well for them. Worked pretty well for Stalin and Mao, too.
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Makes as much sense.
Yeah. Right. But Hizbollah "taking on" Lebanon without a peep from us? Since when did they get to be a state...well, come to think of it, they are now. They just got their first state. Thanks, Condi.
I fully expect to see her join the Obama campaign any minute now. Just half-kidding...
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Hezbollah is just a proxy for Iran. It is financed and equipped by them and it does their bidding. The destabilization of the Lebanese government was just another move in their efforts to remove western and by that also Israeli influence from the Middle East. Hezbollah finds itself cornered in Gaza by the IDF who is strangling it by its blockade. They have to bring about an end to that blockade or face their demise and the return of Fat-ah as the only Palestine government. The way to Israel is to make it very uncomfortable for its major allies (US and UK) in the region and elsewhere. Control by Hezbollah of Lebanon is even better than having the Syrian Army there because Hezbollah doesn't have any large assets like Syria has and if we attack the Lebanese infrastructure, like the Israeli did in 1982, we only damage ourselves by hurting whatever influence we have left with the beleaguered Lebanese.
The realization that Iran is at war with the US is what is behind the high prices we are paying at the gas pump. Iran would like nothing more than to see an Obama Presidency. They'd be handed everything that they been working for all these years on a silver platter. And in the end the Iranians would predominate over Middle Eastern Oil.
The Saudis and Kuwaitis as well as the other producing countries see us unwilling to remove Iran's nuclear program or to engage their military forces. We refuse to venture into Iran and end the attacks against our troops stated in Iraq. Instead the President today was welcoming home five brigades from Iraq while General Patraeus was telling the Senate during his confirmation hearings that the Iraqis cannot take over their own security this year and may not be able to do so next year. As long as Iran is strong and Iraq is week we cannot leave without Iraq being encompassed into Iran along then with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the Gulf states. Soon after Obama quits Iraq this will happen. The Russians will immediately cease their former Muslim Republics and encompass them into the CSI because the y wish to maintain their oil reserves for Putin, Inc. Obama will then be forced from Afghanistan if he hasn't already left. And that state will either end up in Iranian or Russian hands. They may split up the carcass or allow the new Caliphate to take all of it because it would make it easier for Pakistan and Western China, as well as most of western India and Indonesia to fall to the Caliphate. Israel will then be squeezed like a zit from a teenagers nose by the Iranian created Caliphate which shall also spread west into Egypt, the Golden Crescent, and North Africa. By that time gasoline should be about $10.00 a gallon the Iranian's will have the bomb, either the one they built or the Pakistani one, and Uncle Satan will start receiving the punishment they believe we so richly deserve. Of course, by then we'll all have socialized medicine along with nationalized petroleum, airlines, communications, and pharmaceuticals. Which I think would be punishment enough for us, but I don't think it will satisfy the Mullahs.
Everyone looking at the big oil companies and the lack of offshore drilling, or ANWR, or refinery capacity. Why don't you folks get it...the Muslims in Nigeria have stopped sending us oil, the Communist Dictator of Venezuela has through both his incompetence and design made it impossible for Venezuela to pick up the shortfall and they're now sending us less, and finally the Iranians who have large reserves that stop pumping to the west and they've intimated the rest of Middle East into the same position. In addition, Mexico, is also following their lead and not pumping at the rate they would in the past. The only was to end the price crisis in petroleum is to attack Iran and remove their nukes, the army, and their terrorist. Remember after the beginning of the 1991 Gulf War how petroleum prices plummeted after the bombing began? This despite the damage to the Kuwaiti and Iraqis oil facilities. Why was that? Because the Saudis realized that we were serious about achieving are policy objective of restore Kuwait as a sovereign independent state and they started pumping to support our effort which was their effort also. The same will hold true when we bomb Iran...the rest of the oil states will immediately start pumping to meet our demand. They will realize that the U.S. is serious about preventing a new Persian empire.
“He won the fight, but I hurt his fist pretty good with my face!”
Hezbollah will back up to 100% as soon as Syria and Iran replenish their weaponry.
I recall that other thread a few days ago. The outraged rant by a (presumably young) Lebanese TV reporter chick disillusioned by this Arab-on-Arab (tee-hee!) violence.
OUTSTANDING comments! Thanks to all posters. I agree.
Pat Proctor appears to disagree...here...
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/Parameters/08spring/proctor.htm
Osama ripped on Nasrallah in his recent communique. It seems like the perfect time (any time is the perfect time) for special forces to take this guy out. Why is the scumbag still alive?
Coincidence?...
“Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible — a potentially significant shift by a key supporter of the Washington-backed government in Baghdad.”
from...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021138.php#comments
Thanks to marisol and the OUTSTANDING posters at jihadwatch.
Possibly more Iran connections on OUR southwest border with Mexico...here...
http://www.lagunajournal.com/mexican_drug_cartels_and_terrori.htm
Thanks to FReeper granny for her tireless, OUTSTANDING research.
MUST READ article by Barry Rubin posted by Robert Spencer at jihadwatch...here...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021157.php#more
Thanks to Robert and the tremendous posters at jihadwatch.
Thanks roccus for the link from another topic.