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2005-02-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanese Government Resigns Amid Protests
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Posted by Frank G 2005-02-28 12:05:52 PM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11145 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Whoa. Did we just see a revolution?
Posted by ed 2005-02-28 12:14:20 PM||   2005-02-28 12:14:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Did not expect this... very interesting.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2005-02-28 12:22:08 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2005-02-28 12:22:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 It is beginning to look like dominos over there. If the Lebanese TRULY get their independance from Syria, then maybe the Syrians themselves can free themselves from the Assad mafia.

Let freedom ring!!
Posted by Justrand 2005-02-28 12:40:07 PM||   2005-02-28 12:40:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Khaleej Times: Tens of thousands of jubilant demonstrators gathered in a sea of red and white Lebanese flags at the nearby Martyrs’ Square in central Beirut, broke into singing the national anthem on hearing the news. The crowd, estimated to number some 60,000, had defied a government ban and massed in the heart of Beirut as the parliament held the debate on Hariri’s murder in a huge February 14 bomb blast.
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Shouting “Syria out!” protesters descended on Martyrs’ Square where Hariri is buried as hundreds of heavily armed troops and police guarded nearby streets but did not prevent the rally. Many spent Sunday night at the square despite the ban on demonstrations coming into force. Shops, banks, schools and businesses, meanwhile, were closed in Beirut and other main cities following a call for a general strike.

“Through your resistance you are writing a new page in history, one of regained independence,” Druze opposition leader Walid Jumblatt said. “Together we want a sovereign and independent Lebanon, the departure of Syrian secret services and above all the truth: who killed Rafiq Hariri,” he said. “We want to be friends with the Syrian people but we want the Syrian army to go,” he said.
Some of the MPs in parliament wore scarves in the red-and-white of the “peaceful resistance”.


Posted by Steve  2005-02-28 12:44:00 PM||   2005-02-28 12:44:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 whoa! Stunning! That has to be the shortest and most bloodless revolution ever.

This falls into the too good to be true category.
Posted by 2b 2005-02-28 1:17:14 PM||   2005-02-28 1:17:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Lahoud, the Prez, still hasnt resigned, just the PM and cabinet. In theory that means Laboud, who is backed by Syria, appoints the new govt.

Still and all, things are moving quickly.
Posted by liberalhawk 2005-02-28 1:18:37 PM||   2005-02-28 1:18:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I just turned on the TV and both Fox and CNN were covering the Michael Jackson trial. Unreal!

Posted by 2b 2005-02-28 1:30:56 PM||   2005-02-28 1:30:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lahoud better stay inside.

Some of those Lebanese might be as good a shot as the Chileans.
Posted by anonymous2u 2005-02-28 1:31:13 PM||   2005-02-28 1:31:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 .....or does this mean the lease comes off Hezbollah? Syria can stand back saying, "See I told ya so!"
Posted by TomAnon 2005-02-28 1:44:01 PM||   2005-02-28 1:44:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 (sound of telephone ringing)

Lahoud's secretary: Hello...yes...just a moment, I'll see if he's still here.

Brief Pause.

Lahoud's secretary: President Lahoud? There's a Mr. Ceausescu wishing to speak with you on line one. Shall I put the call through?
Posted by Mark Z.  2005-02-28 1:51:32 PM||   2005-02-28 1:51:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 You all realize the Iranian people are watching this and getting their own ideas right? ;)
Posted by Damn_Proud_American  2005-02-28 2:03:47 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com]  2005-02-28 2:03:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I love it when a plan comes together.
Posted by Karl 2005-02-28 2:15:30 PM||   2005-02-28 2:15:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 CNN, MSNBC, Fox - still all covering Michael Jackson, BTK Killer, Lacy Peterson and Life Coaches (people who help achieve goals) and the missing little girl.

I guess they've decided they can't compete in the News business anymore and have decided to chuck it in the hopes of acquiring coveted journalist positions at the Globe and Enquirer.
Posted by 2b 2005-02-28 2:20:58 PM||   2005-02-28 2:20:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 It's a quagmire I tell ya! Our troops are the problem! (glug glug glug) There are no WMDs in Lebenon and the people love to be occupied by another Arab country. (burp) The UN has not authorized the Lebonese to overthrow their Syrian puppet government. (ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)
Posted by Teddy (hic) Kennedy 2005-02-28 2:23:51 PM||   2005-02-28 2:23:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Teddy (hic) Kennedy,

LMAO!!!! Nice impression!
Posted by Damn_Proud_American  2005-02-28 2:27:40 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com]  2005-02-28 2:27:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I dunno about that impression. He didn't grope any women, so I can't give him more than an 8.5 out of 10.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2005-02-28 2:45:20 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-02-28 2:45:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Is it to much to hope that the Middle East may start to resemble Eastern Europe after the Berlin wall fell.
Posted by CanaveralDan 2005-02-28 2:50:29 PM||   2005-02-28 2:50:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Imagine that! Domino theory.
It is still a bit premature to say that the trend is entrenched... but if this pans out...I see el cubo moonbats squirming in paroxysms in my crystal ball. What a sight to behold!

(We may see liberalized ME withion a decade, but the Western Europe or parts of it may fall to jihadis, kinda ironic).
Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-28 3:09:11 PM||   2005-02-28 3:09:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 He didn't grope any women, so I can't give him more than an 8.5 out of 10.

Hell, he didn't even drown anyone. I'll give him a 5.5. Can't even tell him apart from Sean Penn.
Posted by BH 2005-02-28 4:02:53 PM||   2005-02-28 4:02:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Ted Kennedy didn't grope any women. Uh..you mean while the cameras were rolling? From what I've heard, Teddy does more than grope his "staffers".
Posted by 2b 2005-02-28 4:13:06 PM||   2005-02-28 4:13:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 2b...the comments were on the "Teddy (hic) Kennedy" impersonation.

The REAL Teddy gropes everything, without regards to sex or species!! So typing an impersonation of Teddy can only get you so high a mark...ya gotta grope 'em and drown 'em to approach a 10. and ya gotta grope 'em WHILE drowning 'em to do the FULL TEDDY!!

Still, it was a nice effort!
Posted by Justrand 2005-02-28 4:21:41 PM||   2005-02-28 4:21:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 DPA, that assumes that they're actually getting the news. :(
Posted by Edward Yee  2005-02-28 4:49:39 PM||   2005-02-28 4:49:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 The real shame, and sham, is that any principled promoters of world peace (if there are any such in the liberal-leftist gaggle) are missing the real revolution called expanded democracy.
Posted by Hyper 2005-02-28 4:55:44 PM||   2005-02-28 4:55:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 I remember a conversation with a leftist in the beginning of 2003. Let's go into Iraq and clean out the cancer, I says. No, she says, Iran and Kimmie are the bigger threat. Ever heard of hanging fruit, I says. Plus watch what will happen when Saddam goes down. I'm more satisfied for the average person in Leb., Iraq and soon to be Syria than I am for myself, but isn't it a great thing that the dominoes have started falling. I can only hope that the Lebanese keep up the pressure. In the end, it is they who will decide the matter. I am hopeful as it seems the freedom genie has been let out of the bottle.
Posted by chicago mike  2005-02-28 5:03:55 PM||   2005-02-28 5:03:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 chicgao mike, your leftist friend would have been against doing anything about iran or north korea too. She argued that point to attempt to stop the liberation of Iraq, not because she really believed it. If Iran was on the table she would have argued that Iraq was the bigger threat and how crazy it is to be focusing on Iran.
Posted by Damn_Proud_American  2005-02-28 5:50:29 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com]  2005-02-28 5:50:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Damn Proud American> It's always easy to make claims of hypocrisy when you are judging not what people do, but what you *believe* they would have done had the situation been different.

It doesn't reveal their hypocricy ofcourse, it only reveals your prejudices. According to you nobody who ever opposed the war on Iraq can have been honest in their opposition, can they?
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2005-02-28 6:31:02 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/]  2005-02-28 6:31:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 meaner while Barra bonds is free to keeper his face fat. i say outrage!
Posted by half 2005-02-28 7:00:39 PM||   2005-02-28 7:00:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 You're exactly right DPA, the leftists in this country have an anti administration agenda. They would have opposed any move in any direction, unless of course there was a Democrat in office.
Posted by JerseyMike 2005-02-28 7:14:53 PM||   2005-02-28 7:14:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Aris, there is a simple hypocrisy trial method. If she now claims that US should not attack Iran, but rather Norks instead, the pattern would be established.
In fact, I've already heard that from LLL moonbats that were gainst Iraq liberation and pointed at the time their fingers at Iran and Norks.
Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-28 7:18:10 PM||   2005-02-28 7:18:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 *snickers* look who's talking.... Someone who's probably made only three contributions tops without the purpose of criticizing someone.
Posted by Ptah  2005-02-28 7:38:43 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2005-02-28 7:38:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Ptah, I criticize people over what they do and say, not over what I wildly hypothesize they would have done and said had the situation been different.
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2005-02-28 7:47:16 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/]  2005-02-28 7:47:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 I would hope that the VOA or some radio station would be broadcasting the news of what is happening to Lebanon into Iran. Whichever way this goes, it is important that everyone in the ME has access to the facts of Lebanon. This is sorta like the Ukraine. The govt does dirty shennagans, the people smell a rat, and the rat is shown daylight.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2005-02-28 7:55:42 PM||   2005-02-28 7:55:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 Aris, I have talked with people who were against the Iraq intervention on the grounds that war is NEVER an option, then said in their next breath that North Korea was a much bigger threat than Iraq or Iran could ever be and why isn't the Bush Administration doing something about North Korea
, including MILITARY intervention. These so-called liberals are the epitome of hypocrasy. They decry how President Bush is such a monster but defend Saddam Hussein as the legitimate ruler of Iraq. I think it safe to say I can accurately hypothesize what their actions will be on any given situation.
Posted by Chinese Unomoger1553 2005-02-28 8:47:08 PM||   2005-02-28 8:47:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Note: Crowds up near 200,000(per Captain's Quarters)..no one's leaving until the Prez packs it in...

I think I hear the fat lady warming up....
Posted by Snump Huperesing6112  2005-02-28 11:11:34 PM||   2005-02-28 11:11:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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