Syria fought pretty determinedly to get this stopped; it must have been something of a shock to the chinless one and his Iranian string-pullers that the UN decided to do something more than send another strongly-worded diplomatic communiqué. And today the Baathists of Syria and the Islamofascists of Hizballah got together and issued the standard whines and warnings: Syria, Hezbollah condemn U.N. tribunal.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria and its allied Hezbollah group on Thursday condemned a U.N. decision to set up a tribunal in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, warning that it violated Lebanon’s sovereignty and would deepen its political crisis.

Unlike, say, murdering a former prime minister.