what is the American for a "frame-up" ?

[Richard Haut]

we are now being told that the murder of Rafik Hariri in Lebanon was a "suicide attack", totally contradicting the initial reports that it was a remote-controlled and carefully placed and timed bombing.

America immediately withdraws its ambassador from Damascus and threatens Syria.

in case anyone has been on another planet for a while, America no longer bothers with trivia like proof to establish guilt.

[Architorture]

they are saying now the bomb was most likely in the middle of the street either in a car or possibly burried beneath the street...

there was construction going on earlier so that would have given the opportunity to place the device below the road... something that you would think only someone or some group with connections would be able to do.... which i would think would point directly at someone in the government or who has influence over the government... which would indicate syria in some way...

for the time being the only reason it seems anyone would want to kill the guy is b/c of his stance on syria

[Richard Haut]

Syria ?

I doubt that they are that stupid - but it is possible.

however Israel and America (both countries whose third-rate lawyers say that murder is "legal") can take a real advantage from this.

this can easily be worked into the coming "justification" for attacking Syria.

[Architorture]

well if a state did in fact do it...it would make sense that it was the current lebonese gov't which is very close to syria...so it would have syria's interests in mind...

syria does more or less militarily control lebonon doesn't it?

and assassinations aren't exactly new in lebonese politics... their civil war wasn't all that long ago was it?

[Richard Haut]

we are all only too well aware that the Lebanese civil war was not that long ago - nor were Sabra and Shatilla.

if it was a national involvement (which the placing and complexity of the attack indicates) then there would appear to be only two suspects: Syria or Israel/US.

the Lebanese are very concernd to find out which.

everybody should be concerned.

[Donald]

Iran and Syria said yesterday they would unite against the challenges or threats to their nations' livelihoods. What they really were saying is that they are "concerned" and are going to join forces against the United States. Essentially what this does is merge two terrorist states into one nice, big, fat, juicy target.

These two Islamic terrorist countries realize that with democracy coming into play in Iraq, they're feeling the pinch. Plus, they know there is a president sitting in the Oval Office for at least the next 4 years that would have no problem at all dropping a few bombs to stomp out any nuclear ambitions for either country.

Syria is causing us problems because the insurgents in Iraq are likely being directed by the Baathists in Damascus, and of course Iran is building nuclear weapons. The United States and Israel will stand up to Syria and Iran, but will the rest of the world that "should be concerned"?

Probably not. So we may have more wars on our hands...Islamic fascism and nukes just don't go together too well

[Donald]

In case you missed this, Le Grande Weasel Jacques Chirac joined George Bush yesterday in warning Syria that the time has come for Syria to remove its troops from Lebanon. Did Bush slip something in Chirac's wine? Or is it just possible that Chirac is growing a spine. How convenient for him. Now he won't have to drag himself across the floor like a slug. Maybe, just maybe, we're seeing a grudging admission here that U.S. actions in deposing Saddam Hussein and bringing free elections to Afghanistan and Iraq have actually contributed to the cause of peace.

[Kevin]

Donald, your posting is incredibly rude. How sad it is that you get such a charge from giving insults, gross and mindless ones at that. It is puerile at best.

While your grandiosely ignorant posting is a violation of forum standards that reflects badly on you and more importantly on your countryfolk, and perhaps on any club that would maintain you as a member, I will suffer it to stay here for now as an example to help the world understand the extreme of proud prejudice and jingoism and parroting of propaganda that we're faced with today in the U.S.

[Donald]

If I may respectfully request a line I borrowed from my mentor and soon to retire media commentator Dan Rather:
My the complaints and criticisms are coming from "partisan political operatives." I believe that the entirety of the DC.com, with the exception of MW, are acting out of liberal partisanship?

Am I on the wrong frequency again? And what about the person who fed me those forged documents? Is he or isn't he a "partisan political operative "