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To: Road Walker who wrote (299031)	8/9/2006 1:27:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579842

The successful experiment that featured the "freest, fairest elections ever held" in Palestine is dead. Over 125 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. The Gaza Strip is a shambles. The terror wing of Hamas will have no trouble recruiting in the rubble. The same is true of Lebanon. The "Cedar Revolution" was a Bush success, a beacon of hope. That Hezbollah won a dozen seats only seemed to prove that the elections had indeed been free, fair and open to all. Now Lebanon is in ruin. The 900 dead, thousands wounded, the million refugees, the smashed infrastructure and the scores of thousands of Westerners who have fled means years before Lebanon recovers, if ever she does. Arab hatred of Israel and America is pandemic See what Buchanan doesn't understand is that Lebanon and Palestine did not do their democracies the way Bush wanted them to be done. Had they done then 'right', there would be no Hamas or Hezbollah in the Parliament. The reality is what Bush and the neos consider to be democracy is this: "Of course I am disappointed by the results, but I am not discouraged," Lieberman said. "For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand." Its my way, and if you don't agree, I will run again as an independent. And the will of the people be damned! Yet, almost to a man and woman, our politicians are falling all over one another to express their 100 percent support of what Israel has done to Lebanon. Even Israelis must feel a measure of contempt for this kind of groveling. Indeed, in Israel, dissent against the blitzkrieg is rising, and the Olmert regime is being challenged and even condemned by courageous Israelis for letting the air force have a free hand to smash Lebanon> I hope there are some Israelis left who are still conscious. They have allowed their country to drift to the far right for way too long. I think they are beyond rehabilitation.