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'He is a dog and if we see him we will kill him'
2006-09-12
Hundreds of angry demonstrators waving Lebanese flags and chanting "down with Blair" gathered to protest at Tony Blair's meeting with Fouad Siniora at the prime minister's office in the heart of Beirut today. Held back by a line of Lebanese troops and security personnel enforcing a 1km buffer zone around the office, some protesters carried posters reading "Blair, you killer, go to hell" and "The blood of Qana is splashed across your ugly face" in reference to an Israeli attack on a village in south Lebanon during the war that killed 34 children.

“He is a dog and if we see him we will kill him," said a group of young boys wrapped in the flags of Hizbullah and Amal...”
National music blared from nearby speakers. "We must take revenge on Blair," one of the organisers roared into the microphone, mirroring an earlier call by the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt to take revenge on the Syrian president, Bashar Assad. "He is a dog and if we see him we will kill him," said a group of young boys wrapped in the flags of Hizbullah and Amal, Lebanon's two main Shia parties. "We want to kill him, really we do," one of them insisted.

The gathering was largely of leftwing groups and Shia parties but there was also a showing from two of Lebanon's largest Christian groups. Most demonstrators viewed Mr Blair's visit as an attempt to score points at home. "They hate him in his country and we hate him here - he only came to make himself look good," said Hussein, 29.
Posted by:Fred

#12  I meant, what's your job . . . ? Military?
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-09-12 14:01  

#11  Thanks rj. I'll try to work that into my bummed-out self. What's your jpb/background?

I HIGHLY recommend this

link

and then go the STAND DOWN video (scroll lower to video section).

Isn't it true that so much depends on electing people who know what's going on and are willing to do something about it?
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-09-12 14:00  

#10  ex-lib. Tipping points are often difficult to spot until right before they tip. Often things look worse as desperate people do desperate things hoping to avoid the disaster they see coming.

This war hinges primarily on when the tipping point of the arab world. I think it will happen suddenly within the next administrations term if we don't retreat and give them a second wind.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-09-12 13:14  

#9  And they'll fight to get it.

They feel "oppressed" but cannot fathom that it's their own religion, society, and government that is making them feel that way. They look to America and the West, and see that we have it better, and instead of analyzing and working for change in their own situation, they simply want to KILL & TAKE.

I'm very discouraged today, and would appreciate other points of view. I don't see this ending in my generation, or the next, or the next . . . and it will most likely be a cold day in hell before the needed majority of Americans wake up. And if they ever do, it will most likely be way too late.

~ex-lib (on Rantburg since 2002)

THANKS
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-09-12 12:10  

#8  Also, does anyone notice the nice, neat, Kinko-like printed posters these people have--and it English too. Those have to be made ahead of time. Way ahead of time. This is more propaganda jihad, because the higher-ups/organizers know it makes Americans, and especially, Brits, feel bad. The demoralization and capitulation of Western civilization is what they're after. It's just that simple. It's about money and usurping the mechanisms and economies, along with the infrastructures, of more developed societies. Think monkeys or other animals (no insult to monkeys or animals intended), and it all makes sense. They wants what we gots.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-09-12 12:05  

#7  Right on, Rob C.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-09-12 12:02  

#6  Fouad Siniora

Now there is a name you just don't play with. heh.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-09-12 11:18  

#5  Muslim societies are so far beyond even the fictional enemies of Star Trek, that they boggle the mind

In other words, the worst a Westerner can imagine cannot measure down to the reality of Islamic society.

Klingons; Caliphate of Orion; Kzinti -- none as bloodthirsty, mysoginistic, or reflexively violent as Arabs.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-09-12 07:27  

#4  Except that the Klingon would have more honor, dignity, and beauty in his life; and would treat his women better. Muslim societies are so far beyond even the fictional enemies of Star Trek, that they boggle the mind : the misogyny, the primitive tribalism, the blood and gore mentality that puts the Romans to shame, the twisted sense of honor that makes the Imperial Japanese look positively gentle.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-09-12 03:19  

#3  Any concept of subtlety eludes these people. Listening to an Islamic is like listening to a Klignon bar conversation...
Posted by: borgboy   2006-09-12 01:12  

#2  Or is it just easier to beat your wife, and throw acid in your sister's face?

Only if they don't have to do both things at once. Union rules, ya know.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-12 00:56  

#1  Step up to the plate, Lions of Islam!! Throw a grenade! Whip out the AK! Rush the security zone with a 9MM in hand!

Or is it just easier to beat your wife, and throw acid in your sister's face?
Posted by: anymouse   2006-09-12 00:51  

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