7/20 Middle East Live Thread

FR Live Thread ^ | 7/20/06 | me

[Knitting A Conundrum]

14:56 Peretz says he is not ruling out a ground invasion of Lebanon (Haaretz)
14:55 Haifa municipality adorns city streets with national flag (Itim)

[mtbopfuyn]

CNN interviewing another father and son (looked about 7) evacuees. They lived in Beirut and had to go to the grandparents somewhere in Lebanon after their apartment was destroyed. Yet another father and kid who aren't native American.

[FreedomPoster]

Congrats! You should do a separate picture post/report thread.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Don't forget the Sunnis ancestral hate of shiitism. And the fact that if there is going to be an all Islam caliphate, they don't want it to be Persian...

[Rte66]

There is one started for him:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1669004/posts

[tsmith130]

Glad you're safe, out and on your way back home!!!

[prairiebreeze]

[AmericaUnite]

Good to hear your out of there. God Bless you on your safe return.

[prairiebreeze]

whispers.....Katrina....

Precisely. Nobody has to take care of themselves anymore (you and I excepted of course). Our nanny state will take care of them....for purely political reasons.

[Rte66]

Yeah, there was just an 8-year-old boy from Michigan with an Arabic name, seemed like a typical Arab-American boy, but was by himself!

Anyhow, I have not seen one happy face yet and have not heard one word about anyone being glad to be back on US soil. Not one. The news people keep saying "these happy people" and when the camera pans the crowd, there aren't any.

The very first thing each one has said is that they didn't want to leave and they either wanted to stay or want to go right back ASAP.

I'm not going to be able to take this today or post too much, I don't think. I'm all stressed by this and getting asthmatic worse than usual.

[prairiebreeze]

David Merhige, an "american" from NYC, complaining about the US "Complicity" in the Israeli attempts to DEFEND herself, Bush killing Lebanese, 300 of them he said...

Well, I'm so glad we let that guy into the country.

/dripping sarcasm

[justa-hairyape]

Wow. Three groups of people with ancestral hatred of each other. Hey. Why don't we put a bunch of U.S. troops right in the middle of them. That would probably be a wise decision, um,,,, apparently.

Later.

[prairiebreeze]

criminey

ping post 274

[Peach]

I'm just reading about some of these "Americans" complaints and ugly, indefensible statements. Makes me furious my own tax dollars have been spent extracting them; we should have just darned well left the ingrates there.

[AliVeritas]

Praise God! I was worried about you.

[mtbopfuyn]

The very first thing each one has said is that they didn't want to leave and they either wanted to stay or want to go right back ASAP.

I've notice the none too happy crowd and it's not sitting right for me either. I'd have an uneasy feeling but for all the kids. It's getting curiouser and curiouser.

[browardchad]

Well, I'm so glad we let that guy into the country.

Nice hair-do, though. I hope they screened it for hidden weapons....or living things.

[Peach]

Yesterday I said that I'll bet non-Americans would be using the no-pay State Department program to get out of Lebanon in order to get to America safely and then will use funds (theirs or ours) to fly to their own country.

And that's just what's happening it sounds like.

[del4hope]

Morning, haven't caught up with you since the other day.

[Carolinamom]

According to an Islamic female of my acquaintance, the Koran allows Muslim men to marry Christian, Jewish, etc. women but FORBIDS Muslim women from marrying anyone other than Muslim men.