| That's pretty much was the whole Lebanon mess has been about from the first, isn't it? |
The stand was outlined by Hezbollah MP Hussein Haj Hassan in an address at a party-run school in the southern coastal town of Tyre. "Any president (chosen) along the lines of U.N. Security Council resolution 1559 and who vows in front of the United States to implement this resolution will be rejected," Haj Hassan said. Any President who adheres to the resolution adopted in Sept. 2004 "would be an American President and not a president for Lebanon. Such a president cannot be accepted."| Anybody who doesn't toe the Hezbollah line is an American stooge, y'see... |
| 'Nother words, "Don't push it or we'll get violent." |
Minister Marwan Hamade was accused of being the author of U.N. resolution 1559 and that is why there was an attempt in 2004 to assassinate him , but he has miraculously survived death. Hezbollah's insistence on having a president that is against 1559 could firmly point fingers at Hezbollah for the Hamade assassination.
For the 1.5 million Lebanese that marched on March 14 , 2005 under the banner of the Cedar Revolution this resolution( 1559) means the end of Syrian occupation and the end of the Syrian involvement in the internal affairs of Lebanon.... This is why as far they are concerned any new president for Lebanon should first and foremost strongly believe in 1559.
It is obvious Hezbollah wants another Lahoud but the parliament majority will no doubt reject such an option, since he ( Lahoud) is viewed as a representative of the Syrian president Basher al Assad and no one in his right mind in Lebanon wants another Syrian president.