Bush Reiterates that Hizbollah to Blame for Lebanon Fighting

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WAT006169.htm

07 Aug 2006 14:13:02 GMT
Source: Reuters

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[aquart]

1. Not actually a useful observation.

[w4rma]

2. Shit. Just tell Kofi to call Assad and make something happen.

"You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over."

[jpkenny]

3. You know, really, it takes two to make a fight.

Israel holds hundreds of Lebanese prisoners and farm land. The capture of two Israeli soldiers should have led both sides to sit down and negotiate their interests. Israel being the big kid on the block with sophisticated weapons and F-16s could easily have negotiated from a position of strength to get its soldiers back and to release the Lebanese prisoners they are holding and could have avoided the moral abyss it now finds itself in. Sorry, if this seems biased but it really isn't. We say we build up our military and weapons so that we can negotiate from a position of strength. Yet we never NEGOTIATE, we and Israel just bully our weaker opponents or bomb innocent civilians and destroy valuable property. This seems to be the only thing we use of "position of strength" for, we and Israel. Americans, Israelis, Arabs, Persians, all people (not necessarily their leaders) want to live in peace, provide for their families, and enjoy a few simple pleaseures of life. AND ALL people want to be RESPECTED and treated as fellow human beings. But that does not seem to register with the two most powerful war machines in the world. I still think we could have negotiated Saddam either out of Iraq or out of our hair. We could have caught Osama by now with a few milliion dollars to the warlords and Taliban in Afghanistan. But this would have had to be done BEFORE we blaseted either country to smithers and before we killed so many people and had our own soldiers killed or maimed in the thousands.

It appears that negotiation from a position of strength is just another one of those talking points thrown out to the masses to divert attention from real sinister objectives of the powerful.

[Lindacooks]

5. Bingo!!

Fabulous post - and welcome to DU!

:hi:

[rodeodance]

4. aimed at creating chaos"---but Bush was tired of 'managing calm"

CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 7 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Monday blamed Hizbollah for provoking the crisis in Lebanon and called on Syria and Iran to rein in the organization.

"Syria and Iran sponsor and promote Hizbollah activities all aimed at creating chaos, all aimed at using terror to stop the advance of democracies," Bush said. "Hizbollah launched this attack."

[rustydog]

6. Is Hizbollah to blame for israel bombing Christian neighborhoods

Of lebanon instead of Hisbollah strongholds?

[eagler]

7. If they are hiding their missles there, yes

nt

[saigon68]

9. Bush is to blame for giving them the planes and the bombs

The smirking chimp did this too

[lebkuchen]

8. Who's to blame for the civil war in Iraq?

and the hundreds of thousands dead and wounded?

[darkstar7646]

10. Deflect the blame from yourself, Bushie...

Of course, right now, the whole world's problems could almost certainly be traced back to the cretins we have in the White House.