It looks like Bush will be using invasion of Iraq to take credit for

[hector459]

unfolding events everywhere in the ME. I hope he also takes credit for the deaths and destablization too. Syria leaving Lebanon may not be a good thing in the end for the Lebanese. Watch closely, time will tell. It will be much easier for "terrorists" to infiltrate Lebanon now. Elections do not a democracy make, nor do they make for a more properous and stable situation.

[LynnTheDem]

1. MAKE him take 100% total credit for the ME...and when all hell breaks

loose...and it will...watch how fast he tries to backpedal.

[Gloria]

2. See this article on the "Nasrullah factor"--

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB26Ak03.html

Lebanon guided by the Nasrullah factor
By Sami Moubayed

DAMASCUS - Any person who was in Beirut on May 24, 2000, the day Hezbollah liberated South Lebanon, understands how immensely popular the enigmatic Hasan Nasrullah is in the country's Muslim, and particularly Shi'ite, community. Any person watching his speech five years later, this month, after the US started to press for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon, and the disarming of Hezbollah, of which Nasrullah is the head, knows how easy it might be for the United States to get Syria to leave Lebanon, but how difficult, if not impossible, it would be to disarm or weaken the Shi'ites.

snip

Hezbollah described the Ashura march this year as "a massive rally in defense of the resistance". "We gather today to express the people's will to protect the resistance movement against all attempts that aim at eliminating its presence and ending its role," Nasrullah said.

And that is exactly what Nasrullah will do: work for the protection of his interests, those of Syria, and the Shi'ites of Lebanon, against all external meddling by the US.

Dr Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst.

[Cary]

3. Just like Ronnie RacialSlur was responsible, single-handedly,

for the fall of the Soviet Union.

:puke:

[all good names taken]

4. More Bad news

Bad News

[newyawker99]

5. Hi all good names taken!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[alfredo]

7. It appears the writer of the "bad news" has on rose colored glasses

He is taking a very simplistic view of what is going on.

First, Mubarak has banned the only party (The Muslim Brotherhood) that could give him opposition in any election.

Second, Iraq's election has turned Iraq over to Iranian Mullahs. The Kurds and the Shia could go to war over the status of Kirkuk. The Kurds claim it, but the Shia says it belongs to them. Turkey will not allow a Kurdish state, with or without Kirkuk.

Third,Syria leaving Lebanon doesn't mean Hezbollah has left, and they are the problem, not Syria.

The Saud family will not give women the vote. They will let the issue die as soon as bush's attention goes elsewhere. Their problem is the Shiites on their border now that Iraq has become allies with Iran.


The Telegraph is a right wing publication, and that pro bush editorial is pretty typical. I would trust the BBC over the Telegraph as a source of unbiased news.

[LynnTheDem]

8. I'll say my welcome to DU now...

As I suspect you won't be around long. ;)

[kiraboo]

6. It's not bad news when good things happen, IMO.

The question is whether or not Bush can or should take credit for them, and whether or not the positive changes are long term. History would say no to the latter. As to the former I am going to wait on making a judgement.