When bush decides to invade Syria; "They waged unprovoked wars!"

[LynnTheDem]

Coz is this ringing any bells or is this ringing any bells:

In 1989 thousands of people, not all of them Christians, rallied around the controversial Christian Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun, at the presidential palace in Baabda after he had declared war on Syria and vowed to "break the head of the Alawite regime in Damascus".

Barely 18 months later, after a sapping inter-Christian war between Mr Aoun and the main Christian militia, Syrian troops descended on Baabda and Mr Aoun fled to the French embassy and later to exile in France.

The Syrian move had a green light from Washington.

Damascus was backing the US-led coalition against Saddam Hussein in Kuwait at the time, so things were different.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4332117.stm

"They killed millions!"

"Invaders and occupiers!" (Even bush wouldn't dare use that one, would he???)

"They gassed the Kurds!"

*Notice the "green light" bit? That "doomed to repeat history" thing is scary shit.

LOVE the BBC's snark; "so things were different." :D

[Wilms]

1. So who'll be in the Coalition of the Twice Fooled? n/t

[LynnTheDem]

4. Double Billing

:D

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Yep. Bush does look foolish protesting Syria when he did far worse

with Iraq. Pre-emptive Strike. It's good for the U.S., but not for you.

I doubt that he nor his thick-minded constituents are capable of seeing the irony.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Syria was invited; Lebanon asked them to send troops for peace-keeping

But bush doesn't see the diff. Then again, bush is one of the dumbest morans on the planet.

[Wilms]

5. Smart/Dumb. Don't matter.

He's just fronting this op.

May even be in the dark on a bunch of it. :shrug:

[Ganja Ninja]

7. He's failed at so much he now has to make up something to

take credit for. He's jumped way out in front of this as if it's a great success that he should get credit for. And what does he have to claim credit for? An assassination, a couple of mass demonstrations and a minor pull back of Syrians means what? It doesn't look like anything but increasing unrest and destabilization to me.

[teryang]

6. Chimps speech about Lebanon was so false

...all that crap about democracy on the march in Lebanon. We are talking about the same brutal family/ethnic rivalries that reduced the country to rubble before the Syrians were invited to move in to restore order. Bush's father and a faction in the CIA was heavily involved with these groups trading illegal arms shipments for heroin.

These thuggish clans are being exploited by our government and Israel once again to bring Lebanon to its knees through civil war.

It's deja vu all over again.