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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (746223)7/26/2006 5:47:35 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"coddled"?????????

Hell, they threw out the Syrians and held Democratic elections against overwhelming odds... you give 'em no 'cred' for that? (They don't have the military strength to go to war, they are just now emerging from a decades long civil war like Iraq is now entering....)

But:

...the English-language Beirut Daily Star warned that Lebanon could turn into "another Iraq" if there is no quick end to the fighting.

"If Israelis feel insecure now, they will shudder in the days ahead if their neighbor Lebanon becomes another Iraq--an open recruiting ground for the region's terrorists and a theater of widespread lawlessness, anarchy and terrorism," the paper said.

The specter of Iraq, where the United States' seeming swift military victory evaporated in the face of widespread insecurity and the lack of a strong central government, haunts many in Lebanon's government, which so far has held together in the face of the crisis.

and, there is other news today:

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