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I do know, I live in a neighboring country of lebanon, Jordan, I lived in lebanon for quite a while.

The Syrian occupation over lebanon is purely a political one. The syrian government has deeper political control than ever before. But many have debated that the syrian involvment is in the best interest of lebanon.

Also Syria is withdrawing very soon, hence it doesnt matter what you say here.

More developed countries such the USA, are trying to pressure Syria into withdrawing however whenever Syria suggests something they are insulted and claim it is not enough, this seems like another Iraq situation, where although inspectors said nothigns there, it was not enough for the US.

I do know what I am talking about,

I said Syria does not attack innocent people and kill them in Lebanon

CORRECT.

Syria has a partial positive impact through investment on the Lebanese Economy.

CORRECT.

Syria's occupation over Lebanon is almost completely political.

CORRECT.


You are probably a young teen who does not comprehend the situation completely, and is using the internet as a medium to spread the news, although its not effective since you dont have your facts straight.
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Posted: 2005-03-13 23:11:48
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he stench of hypocrisy in Bush’s calls for Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon is enough to require a gas mask. Bush and his friends in the Israeli and (yes) French governments pointedly demand an end to Syria’s “occupation” of Lebanon. Meanwhile, the U.S. is the biggest occupying power in the Middle East, maintaining 10 times as many troops in Iraq as Syria has in Lebanon. And Israel illegally occupies the West Bank, Gaza and Syria’s Golan Heights--occupations that have been widely condemned since 1967.

What’s more, for most of the last 30 years, the U.S. tolerated--and at times encouraged--the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. This history is so buried that even liberal writer Tom Engelhardt, author of the TomDispatch.com Web site, admitted that he didn’t know it until last month.

Syria intervened in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war, with the backing of the Arab League. With the Palestinian-allied left on the verge of routing the right in the war, Syria invaded Lebanon on the side of the right. The Syrian regime concluded that having a right-wing government allied with Israel in power in Lebanon was preferable to having a Lebanon controlled by leftist militias. Not coincidentally, the U.S. agreed. It acknowledged the “positive role that the Syrian government play[ed] in Lebanon.”


And Hezbollah is a Lebanese Militant Group not a Syrian, they just have an alliance with Syria.

Get your facts straight.

The demand of the Lebanese to get Syria out of their country has been growing for years. But it really gathered momentum when the Syrian-backed government unilaterally extended its mandate last September--at a time when it wasn’t clear whether Bush or John Kerry would be the next U.S. president.

The February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri gave Bush Jr. and his Israeli allies an opportunity to win a longstanding strategic aim that has nothing to do with supporting “democracy” in Lebanon. Both the U.S. and Israel view Syria, with its alliance with Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, as one obstacle to their total control of the Middle East. Weakening Syria by means of supporting its Lebanese opponents is certainly preferable to the U.S. than sending in the Marines.

By the way, the last time that the U.S. mounted a full-scale invasion of Lebanon, in 1958, the Eisenhower administration was trying to quell a popular uprising that erupted after the U.S. tried to extend the mandate of a right-wing government that was widely expected to lose upcoming democratic elections.
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Posted: 2005-03-13 23:18:37
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On 2005-03-13 23:02:00, santo911 wrote:
IM NOT GOING TO RESPOND TO WHAT YAZAN SAID


Well, since you state it as clearly as that I'll let Yazan24 have the last post in this discussion.

Feel free to continue via PM or exchange phone numbers.


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Posted: 2005-03-13 23:44:05
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