I thought you couldn't declare war on a non-governmental group? That's what they told us when after 9/11...

So from this we know they declared war on the government first.

Sometimes the only way to know what they're doing is to read what they claim others are doing to them.

About time. Let's see if Syria will turn up the heat i.e. assassinations by car bombs...

re: #2 Silhouette

Sometimes the only way to know what they're doing is to read what they claim others are doing to them.

Just like Democrats!

WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! The government won't let us play mass murder and slavery!

We need to get these jokes into some sort of multi-level marketing scheme as they just have too much time on their hands. Herbalife just may calm all their silly butts down and do them some good.

re: #6 TallTexan

We need to get these jokes into some sort of multi-level marketing scheme as they just have too much time on their hands. Herbalife just may calm all their silly butts down and do them some good.

Brilliant!

Iranian backed group declaring war on a US-supported army. Interesting...

The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
and your destruction of animals will terrify you.
For you have shed man's blood;
you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
~ Habakkuk 2:17

re: #6 TallTexan

We need to get these jokes into some sort of multi-level marketing scheme as they just have too much time on their hands. Herbalife just may calm all their silly butts down and do them some good.

You think turning them into Amway salesmen would be an improvement?

The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government had declared war by targeting its communications network.

Reuters had to make sure that everyone knows who the REAL bad guy is here... that bad old US trying to start a war with a popular "people's group" again. Really, what was the purpose of labeling the Lebanese government as "US-supported"?

I wish we could send them a few Marines.

The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government had declared war by targeting its communications network.

OK, declare war back, start wearing uniforms, and stop hiding behind your women and children. Let's see how long you last.

re: #7 vxbush

Brilliant!

Are you really sure about that?

[Link: freefall.purrsia.com...]

Or, maybe just Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal.

re: #9 BabbaZee

Mmmm, obscure verse.

/where you been?

They say US-backed like it's a disease.

re: #16 laZardo

Mmmm, obscure verse.

/where you been?

Out on Highway 61.

re: #16 laZardo

Mmmm, obscure verse.

/where you been?

Where did everybody go?

re: #10 JamesTKirk

James - Amway? That ain't kosher

re: #13 mikeinmd

Hizbullah wants you to think that they're doing this because the government attacked them first. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hizbullah clearly initiated the violence, and is engaging in clear acts of war by trying to blockade the international airport, rampaging through Beirut, and trying do whatever it can to take down the government so that it can set up its own thugocracy in South Lebanon and Southern Beirut.

It's going to be a long hot summer in the M.E.

Well, I'm sure the UN Peacekeepers are ready to jump in at a moments notice to support the legitimate Lebanese government.

/

This reminds me very much of black September when the Palestinians tried to take over Jordan (Which is logical because Jordan is the Palestinian state). In that case King Hussein massacred several thousand Palestinians and drove out quite a few more. In Lebanon's case the problem is more complicated as the army is ineffectual. The international community really dropped the ball here. Israel destroyed much of Hizbullah's weapons in 2006 and according to the UN resolution it was illegal to resupply them. Since then Iran has been resupplying them via Syria and no one has lifted a finger to stop them.

re: #11 gop_patriot

Reuters had to make sure that everyone knows who the REAL bad guy is here... that bad old US trying to start a war with a popular "people's group" again. Really, what was the purpose of labeling the Lebanese government as "US-supported"?

Well, the truth of the matter is that the Hizbullah are Syrian and Iranian backed terrorists - which would be an uncomfortable meeting of the Axis of Evil in the media, so they'll instead note that we're supporting the duly elected sovereign government of Lebanon.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the State of Israel is a "stinking corpse" that is destined to disappear.

"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.

"Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."

Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel "has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese" - referring to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

I'd call Hezbollah a terrorist shadow government, but that would imply that Lebanon has a regular government.

Of course Hezbbollah wants to go to war with Beirut.

It's a fun place.

re: #11 gop_patriot

Reuters had to make sure that everyone knows who the REAL bad guy is here... that bad old US trying to start a war with a popular "people's group" again. Really, what was the purpose of labeling the Lebanese government as "US-supported"?

I didn't know we were the only country supporting the Lebanese government and I didn't know Hezbollah was just a Lebanese group.

Reauters teaching me something new every day.

And why didn't Reuters mention this?:

Six countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, the Philippines, and Australia, officially list Hezbollah, or its external security arm, as a terrorist organization

re: #23 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Send in the US Marines!? Who you going to trust? :)

WWTD?

/What would Tzipi do?

Happy Birthday Israel

re: #24 moshavnik

King Hussein of Jordan had a far stronger military and was better equipped to go up against the PLO and Arafat in 1970 than the Lebanese government of today. Hizbullah is far more sophisticated and dangerous than the PLO was in 1970. Hizbullah has thousands of armed thugs, many of whom were trained in Syria and/or Iran, possess heavy weapons, and have managed to turn South Lebanon into Hizbullahland where Lebanese forces are wary of even entering.

re: #11 gop_patriot

Reuters had to make sure that everyone knows who the REAL bad guy is here... that bad old US trying to start a war with a popular "people's group" again. Really, what was the purpose of labeling the Lebanese government as "US-supported"?

Exactly right. The implication is clear.
If our fellow Americans voe wrong in the Fall, we will have a government with the same mind set.

re: #6 TallTexan

We need to get these jokes into some sort of multi-level marketing scheme as they just have too much time on their hands. Herbalife just may calm all their silly butts down and do them some good.

Get 'em hooked on World of Warcraft. They could waste hours of time and blow up characters to their hearts' content.

the HEZB AL HA-SATAN is a state within a state at some point there will be a civil war can't go anyother way.

re: #29 gman

Six countries isn't the whole world!

/Holland says they're terrorists too...

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that presence of US troops in the Persian Gulf region and Iraq is the root-cause of rampant 'insecurity and instability' in the region.

A lot of talk today......

The Zionist regime is a puppet for bullying powers, he said adding that the global arrogance established the Zionist regime 60 years ago in Palestine to continue its historical straggles with the Muslim world but after the Lebanese nation slapped it in the face, they are like dead rats.

"If any regional countries assist the Zionist regime, they will burn in fire arising from nations' hatred," said the president.

"If some think that they can make any change in the global calculations, they are in mistaken because nations around the world will bury them ," concluded President Ahmadinejad.

[Link: www.irna.com...]

re: #30 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Send in the US Marines!? Who you going to trust? :)

I'm sure the US Marines wouldn't have a problem going back to Lebanon on a hunting trip. Payback is a bitch.

It's time.

re: #38 storagemanager

[Link: www.irna.com...]

Somebody needs to whack this guy.

re: #29 gman

the french also support the reg. lebanese gov't and now that the current french gov't has grown a set. they might add some military power as well.

Lebanese Government Declared War on Us

If in fact the Lebanese government were truly serious there would be no Hezbollah to talk about!

If the Lebanese government were truly serious no one would have to use the excuse they are weak.

When Israel fought the War of Independence they had everything going against them. They were primarily a rag tag army made up of many tired men who never held a gun in their lives; who just left the scene of mass slaughter of everything they knew and everyone they loved. Their past was gone and only today represented their futures. Imagine! Yet, how many armies did they chase away?

Truthfully, I am sick of hearing about those who neither have the appetite to fight terror and the inner stuff to make it work. Hezbollah can be defeated. And there lies the rub...........

It would be ironic if the next middle eastern war is started by an Arabic country against a Muslim group. It certainly will draw Israel in. The Hezbo's will immediately attack Israel if the hostilities begin against them from the Lebanese government.

/I'm just spitballin' here....

For newbies:

Hez B 'ALLAH

means: The Party Of God

/you may not be interested in holy war but holy war is very interested in your infidel ass

re: #41 VegasRick

Somebody needs to whack this guy.

It was both of them today...Hitler and Mini Hitler

re: #22 ROPMA

It's going to be a long hot summer in the M.E.

We thought that last summer as well though...

re: #23 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir), They're there as observers. That means they'll sit back and watch no matter what Hezbollah does.

Peacekeeping isn't in their mission statement.

re: #44 coquimbojoe

coquimbo! the volcano in chile. your thoughts. anywhere near where you were?

re: #37 laZardo

Six countries isn't the whole world!

/Holland says they're terrorists too...

and what about Monaco, Nauru, and Tuvalu?

If they don't consider Hezbollah a terrorist nation, then it doesn't mean jack.

/

re: #45 BabbaZee

حزب الله‎

re: #45 BabbaZee

For newbies:

Hez B 'ALLAH

means: The Party Of God

/you may not be interested in holy war but holy war is very interested in your infidel ass

Real Party of God animals, those Hez b'Allah folks.

re: #46 storagemanager

It was both of them today...Hitler and Mini Hitler

Hire some pros, maybe get a two for one discount.

re: #45 BabbaZee

For newbies:

Hez B 'ALLAH

means: The Party Of God

/you may not be interested in holy war but holy war is very interested in your infidel ass

whoops

Wrong link in there

Sorry

Here's the Hez B Allah Link

re: #45 BabbaZee

{Babba!}

Long Live the Stubborn Jew!

Lebanon is a picture of what most of Europe will look like in another 10-20 years, Maybe sooner for France. Back in the 70's it was a Christian majority nation, with a large muslim minority. The Muslims are never content with that, and started that civil war to assert islam over the Christians. Now that I think about it, this started during the Carter administration. Anyway, this is the same direction that England, France, and many other European nations are taking right now, pandering to the muslims, until they decide to take over.

re: #44 coquimbojoe

I threw my lot in with an Israel-Palestine discussion on my art site and one poster said that in the event that Israel was overthrown and replaced with Palestine, then the "victorious powers" would squabble over territory and rights like the Allied Powers did with Germany. To which I countered that unlike America and the Soviet Union, Iran and Syria would share few such "differences."

Good morning everyone!

/crawling under the desk to sip my morning java...fear of HizBULLah...not

re: #43 selpaw

If in fact the Lebanese government were truly serious there would be no Hezbollah to talk about!

If the Lebanese government were truly serious no one would have to use the excuse they are weak.

When Israel fought the War of Independence they had everything going against them. They were primarily a rag tag army made up of many tired men who never held a gun in their lives; who just left the scene of mass slaughter of everything they knew and everyone they loved. Their past was gone and only today represented their futures. Imagine! Yet, how many armies did they chase away?

Truthfully, I am sick of hearing about those who neither have the appetite to fight terror and the inner stuff to make it work. Hezbollah can be defeated. And there lies the rub...........

Do we have the appetite to fight terror and inner stuff to make it work in Iraq?

re: #33 lawhawk

US military aid to Lebanon

The US has been sending $ millions in military aid to Lebanon, including training. Whether that's been enough to take on Hezbollah just yet is not clear. If attacked by the Lebanese army, Hezbollah will almost certainly respond by attacking Israel with rockets.

re: #58 jorline

Morning, Jorline. Whatcha drinking this morning?

re: #54 BabbaZee

whoops

Wrong link in there

Sorry

Here's the Hez B Allah Link

Too bad for them that they chose the wrong God (allah = false god).

re: #55 selpaw

Like a horse with blinders, we don't let the 'noise' and 'distractions' stop us from our purpose. We keep moving forward. We ignore perceived limitations and forge new paths. Let us thank those before us who were strong in their ideals and forged ahead. They didn't sit and whine. They acted, and achieved in a no-nonsense sort of way.

AMEN

I have made my face like flint.....
~ Isaiah

Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.

He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.

Attention John Kerry;

Navy releases McCain's military record

re: #62 VegasRick

Too bad for them that they chose the wrong God (allah = false god).

correct

Send in Obama........he knows how to handle all people in any situation. He's the man that can reach across the isle, after all........

re: #45 BabbaZee

I like that song, Babba. Cool rap in Hebrew!

re: #67 loppyd

I have to ask Writer Mom who it is I am sure she knows

re: #41 VegasRick

Somebody needs to whack this guy.

Both of them.

re: #49 bosforus

coquimbo! the volcano in chile. your thoughts. anywhere near where you were?

No, I only experienced 7.0 + on the Richter scale earthquakes while I lived there. I was about 350 miles north of Chaiten, maybe more... The only thing I know is, like Mt. St Helens, its gonna mess up some beautiful countryside. Unlike natural disasters in other parts of the world, Chile will handle this well and professionally. Don't expect to to see anything like the tragedy we are seeing in Burma. The Chileans have the training and infrastructure to take care of their people.

I haven't really thought of what's going on down there other than to think of the nice countryside being chewed up. I haven't worried for a minute about it becoming a big human tragedy.

re: #45 BabbaZee,

Actually, it is the Party of Allah, not God. There is a difference.

HIZB: Party. Allah Ta’ala divides all the parties into two groups; "Hizb Allah"(the Party of Allah) and "Hizbal-Shaitan" (the Party of Satan). It is irrelevant to Allah how one labels one’s party, whether it be "Democratic Party", "Labour Party", "Communist Party" or whatever. What matters is whether or not it follows the path of Allah Ta’ala.

Supporters of Hezbollah and its allies have blocked roads leading to the airport — Lebanon’s only air link to the outside world — and other main streets, paralysing much of the capital.

Perhaps a few of these might help clear the roads...

re: #66 Sponge

Send in Obama........he knows how to handle all people in any situation. He's the man that can reach across the isle, after all........

I'm sure he has an outreach program so he can start negotiating with them planned already.

re: #64 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Attention John Kerry;

Navy releases McCain's military record

Since the botched joke destroyed any chance Kerry had of becoming the dem nominee this year he will never - EVER - release those records.

hizbALLAH would wipe the floor with the Leb army.

The Leb government is probably praying for the IDF to have an excuse to take hizbALLAH on.

But wait a moment!

Michigan Arabs and the Left have been telling us that hizbALLAH is the great shining light of resistance!

Don't tell me that the majority of Lebs don't like them!

re: #64 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Attention John Kerry;

Navy releases McCain's military record

Apparently, just like that other war hero John Kerry, McCain was in Vietnam! Who knew?

re: #68 BabbaZee

I have to ask Writer Mom who it is I am sure she knows

Definitely let me know! I love it.

re: #68 BabbaZee

Babba check out what I saw on a Prius this morning.

re: #66 Sponge

Send in Obama........he knows how to handle all people in any situation. He's the man that can reach across the isle, after all........

I forgot - when did he do that?

Anybody else watching this on CNN? Heavy gunfire in Beirut... Reporters pinned-down.

re: #42 yochanan

the french also support the reg. lebanese gov't and now that the current french gov't has grown a set. they might add some military power as well.

Either they grew a set or bought some of these.

re: #71 Iron Fist

,

Actually, it is the Party of Allah, not God. There is a difference.

You are right of course

re: #78 jcm

Oy Vey!

re: #75 Ben Hur

Don't tell me that the majority of Lebs don't like them!

The little old lady in West Roxbury who makes the best effing falafel and hummus I have ever had has to hate Hizballah. She just has to, damn it!

re: #76 Kenneth

Apparently, just like that other war hero John Kerry, McCain was in Vietnam! Who knew?

But you he mostly sat on his ass in a little room, being given vigorous physical therapy.
/moonbat.

re: #78 jcm

Babba check out what I saw on a Prius this morning.

Good Lawdy

"Can you hear me now?"

BOOM!

Obama would sit down and reason with this man...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Thursday labeled the Zionist regime as a "stinking corpse" and said those who think they can revive the corpse of this fabricated and usurper regime are in mistaken

[Link: www2.irna.com...]

re: #26 storagemanager

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

More flowery arab verse.

re: #78 jcm

Babba check out what I saw on a Prius this morning.

fool

re: #57 laZardo

Hey, LaZardo, I like your site I have visited it two or three times. I lead to think that the 'victorious powers' would fight each other to the deat for the Israeli land. They would loot the 'improvements' made by the Jews over the last 60 years and in a year or two, when the place had degenerated into an 'Escape from New York' type situation, they would blame the jooooooos.

/Have some good adobo for me!

re: #78 jcm

Babba check out what I saw on a Prius this morning.

That's nothing. There's at least one idiot at my shul who wears an Obama yarmulke.

re: #70 coquimbojoe

Well that's a silver lining then. Good to hear.

There is no media bias, none at all....

TUCKER CARLSON: It's gonna be such a great election; it has been so far.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Especially when you have the media loving one candidate as much as they love Barack Obama.

CARLSON: But it's more than love. I mean, it's the kind of love that anybody who's been a 9th-grade boy understands this species of love. Do you know what I mean?

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Wow.

SCARBOROUGH: No, it's the truth. It's all-consuming.

CARLSON: It's red-in-the-face, I-think-about-you-when-I-go-to-bed, too embarrassed to stand up, it's sealed-with-a-kiss love. I mean, it's real, it's palpable.

SCARBOROUGH: No, it really is.

BRZEZINSKI: Wow! What are you guys talking about?

*HURL*

re: #64 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Attention John Kerry;

Navy releases McCain's military record

I PROUDLY SUPPORT THIS AMERICAN HERO

re: #72 lurking faith

Perhaps a few of these might help clear the roads...

Niiiiiice.

re: #90 loppyd

fool

I cant write here what I normally say to people like that.

too O- freakin- ffensive.

re: #80 ethanxxx

Some interesting Lebanese blogs,

[Link: www.beirutspring.com...]
[Link: beirut2bayside.blogspot.com...]
[Link: www.nowlebanon.com...]

re: #26 storagemanager

(Who'd he say it to, in what setting.....? Curious.....)

re: #92 buzzsawmonkey

That's nothing. There's at least one idiot at my shul who wears an Obama yarmulke.

[gasps]

re: #91 coquimbojoe

I'm lead to think....

PIMF x 127

re: #59 mjazzguitar

Do we have the appetite to fight terror and inner stuff to make it work in Iraq?

We did. However we did it expecting our brave boys to wear tutu's and kid gloves.

But the question remains, do the Iraqis? (have the appetite to fight terror and inner stuff to make it work)

I understand why strategically it is in the best interest of the US to have terror obliterated throughout the ME. However it takes inner balls from those who live there more than it does for us! Sadly, in our lifetime I don't think we will see it.

Here is another thing. There are those who appease terror with smoke and mirrors and those who do it openly. Couple that with lack of desire from those in the ME to fight for what is right making sacrifices onto themselves not onto others that stands in the way of any real hope.

re: #35 Cygnus

Get 'em hooked on World of Warcraft. They could waste hours of time and blow up characters to their hearts' content.

Are any of those characters women or children? Especially infidel ones?
Otherwise the game is no fun.

re: #86 BabbaZee

Good Lawdy

I saw that, and I saw a faint glimmer of how the the holocaust came about.

If you know anything about B. Hussein you KNOW he will sell the Jews and Israel up another smokestack.

re: #94 jcm

CARLSON: It's red-in-the-face, I-think-about-you-when-I-go-to-bed, too embarrassed to stand up, it's sealed-with-a-kiss love. I mean, it's real, it's palpable.

Uhhhh, was that a group "coming out of the closet" that just happened there?

re: #64 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Attention John Kerry;

Navy releases McCain's military record

McCain actually earned his medals, unlike a certain Senator we know.

re: #99 Ma Sands

(Who'd he say it to, in what setting.....? Curious.....)

Addressing Majlis representatives, he said the philosophy of existence of the Zionist regime is now under question and the usurper and fabricated regime is moving towards annihilation. [Link: www2.irna.com...]

re: #97 BabbaZee

I cant write here what I normally say to people like that.

too O- freakin- ffensive.

Remind me to tell you about the senior paper my office mate's daughter is writing. She's the one majoring in Islamic Studies. Your jaw will hit the flo'!

re: #63 BabbaZee

Yes. YES!

YES INDEED..............

re: #96 Cygnus

Niiiiiice.

My dream SUV....

re: #78 jcm

Babba check out what I saw on a Prius this morning.

Ridiculous.

He also has a site in Hebrew.

Memo to Baruch Obama:

ISRAEL IS NOT THE 51st STATE!

ISRAELIS DO NOT VOTE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

MORE AMERICAN JOOS SPEAK SWAHILI THAN HEBREW.

hezb al ha-satan is it real name.

re: #91 coquimbojoe

With a few Potemkin villages in Gaza et al. to show reporters the harmony in the IRP.

/had some a couple days back, thanks

re: #61 Conservative in Liberal Hands

strait black joe...but it needs a little kick this morning.

Sixty Years

Yom Huledet Same'ach!
A Freilekhn Gebortstog!

re: #92 buzzsawmonkey

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