Lebanese Govt in Turmoil - Breaking News

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A bit more detail:

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's national unity government has collapsed after Hezbollah ministers and their allies resigned over a U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The state-run National News Agency announced Wednesday that 11 ministers were stepping down from the 30-member Cabinet headed by Western-backed Saad Hariri, the slain prime minister's son.
Hezbollah needed the backing of more than a third of the ministers to bring down the government.
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The Associated Press: Lebanon's government falls as Hezbollah pulls out
 
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That must be terribly insulting to muhammed that the undignified nations would dare investigate any one of the numerous moslem assassinations of the Christian leaders in Lebanon!!

I didn't vote for Reagan because I thought he was a hollywood punk with no balls, when hezbollah murdered 231 Marines sleeping their barracks and Ronny did nothing except retreat, my suspicians were confirmed.

Just so there's no mistake I never voted for that sorry piece of excrement, Jimmy Carter either and think anyone who has the least amount of support for anything about him has bat guano for brains.

Shattered Christian Minorities in the Middle East

Someday perhaps we will evolve into aq state of being in which we will be able to actually identify the enemy that wants to eradicate us, until then we will just suffer.
 
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The AP said:
The walkout ushers in the country's worst political crisis since 2008 in one of the most volatile corners of the Middle East.
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The worst crisis since 2008. Clearly a beacon of stability...
 
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droski said:
who have you voted for from either of the major parties?
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I voted for Bush II twice but look who he was running against.

Since Kennedy I usually have written in Pat Paulsen and Foster Brooks except when Reagan ran against Carter and I wrote in Mickey and Mighty Mouse.

I had so many people writing in Mickey Mouse that in Tennessee at least the election laws were changed so that write in candidates that weren't preapproved aren't reported by the precincts. It's embarrassing to them to find that the American people are very uspset with how
government has been administered for quite some time now.
 
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IPorange said:
gsvol's such a tough conservative, even Reagan is a p***y.
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Get real for once, Reagan was a warmed over democrat who switched to the republican party and was resonsible for Souter sitting on the supreme court.

Souter was about as far left as Ginsberg who was confirmed by a vote of 97-3, so that should tell you the republican party is no bastion of conservatism.

BTW, Reagan was the one who gave Eric Holder his first big leg up, enabling him to now be in charge of the most corrupt Justice Department in American history.
 
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Reaganite Republican: Israeli Defense Forces on Alert in the Wake of Lebanese Government Collapse

With Iranian proxy Hezbollah -armed to the teeth with over 30,000 rockets- instigating a Lebanese government collapse, Israel is well-advised to prepare for the worst. It is altogether likely that Tehran and Damascus are once again probing for weakness... which they're sure to find coming in torrents from today's clueless White House.
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It's a similar situation to North Korea in that Hezbollah could do a lot of damage in northern Israel, but despite ceaseless bluster is guaranteed to lose any full scale conflict with the IDF... and they know it. Unlike the tepid approach of Israel's liberal Labor Party leaders in 2006, if attacked the Israelis would likely go all-out and fight to win this time with infantry and armor from day one... while fully prepared for Hamas and Syria's reactions.
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More breaking news:

There are rumblings from Iran that it plans to send warships to the coast of Lebanon, but then they have said the same before but didn't carry through.
 
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Wanna take bets on how long the Hezbollah backed government stays in power or how long till the Israelis invade?
 
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gsvol said:
So you see the mideast turning into more Iranian style moslem theocracies??
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I think it's too early to tell what will happen. First Tunisia, now Egypt. Tunisia hasn't become a Muslim theocracy, have they? Whatever they become, it's not our place to tell them what to do or get involved in any way.

Anonymous is joining in on the fight against Egypt since Egypt has blocked incoming/outgoing internet communications via Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. Egyptian police have also beaten at least 2 foreign reporters, one from The Guardian and one from a Dutch newspaper "Trouw."
 
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