Hizbollah's chief : "You wanted open war. We are going to open war,"

[leftchick]

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah's chief pledged open war on Israel after it bombed his Beirut home on Friday in a dramatic widening of an assault in Lebanon launched after Shi'ite fighters captured two of its soldiers and killed eight.

"You wanted open war. We are going to open war," he said," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a dramatic telephone message broadcast live on Hizbollah television after the attack.

He said an Israeli navy ship was ablaze off the coast of Beirut. Lebanese security sources said two rockets had hit it. Israel TV said the ship had been only lightly damaged.

Celebratory gunfire erupted in the Lebanese capital and drivers honked their horns after Nasrallah's speech.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/mideast_dc

:(

[ixion]

1. well, isn't that just ducky... thanks BushCo

for laying the foundation for the next world war. :cry:

[Voltaire99]

54. You need to see Nancy Pelosi's statement on the war.

She's 100% behind Israel, as expected, just like BushCo.

I hate Bush, but let's be honest: this mess is a product of American elites from both parties pursuing the same Middle East strategy to the detriment of our national interest.

[bloom]

2. Ai yi yi

This whole thing has gone beyond I/P. It's not just Israel and Palestine anymore. Even if that is at the heart of it.

The conflict which has never been settled.

[Kikosexy2]

11. So this...

is the Road Map to peace....Wow! it's really working...the world is safe now...

[bryant69]

3. Hooray! We're all doomed.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Remember when an American president

could go over to the Middle East or invite the leaders over here and negotiate peace settlements? It seems like it was in another century. :cry:

[WinkyDink]

14. It was some Democratic President, no? Yeah, somewhere in the mists

of Time and Nobel Peace Prizes......

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. Well technically it was

[Blue_In_AK]

42. I know - I should have used the sarcasm smiley.

That was my point.

[bemildred]

5. Man, the big, swinging dicks are in charge everywhere. nt

[TahitiNut]

12. Dicks of gnats; brains to match.

:shrug:

[leftchick]

16. yep and our dickless wonder

is MIA.

[bemildred]

20. "I thought you were going to ask about the pig." nt

[wryter2000]

24. Hey, that pig had WMD's

and he could deliver them in 45 minutes time.

[leftchick]

32. I had no idea what this meant

until I watched this. He is disgusting and a national embarrassment.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/jon_stewart/index.jhtml

[maxsolomon]

6. good luck with that strategy, sayyed

you don't seem to care that your constituents will catch the worst of it. the IDF will fuck you up & the cycle will continue.

sounds like an american president i know...

is this the only planet i can live on?

"thank you lord, for the healing gift of religion" - bill hicks' :sarcasm:

[coalition_unwilling]

38. Backward Christian Soldiers (n/t)

[Theres-a]

7. *sigh*

Well,I guess I'll go take a nap before work.Thanks for all the updates.With you in outrage.

[Terran1212]

8. They need to stop now

It was brave of them to intervene to try to stop the Israeli assault on the Gazans, but it is fruitless. Israel is too strong. They need to call off their attack.

[cali]

13. Ooh, yes

crossing the border and killing Israeli soldiers and abducting them is sooo brave and noble. Shooting rockets into civilian populations killing four, including a five year old is soo noble. Aren't you the romantic.

Irael's disproportionate response is wrong and to be strongly condemned, as are many or their other actions. H'zbollah, however, shouldn't get a free pass.

[High Plains]

34. Tell me, how many Lebanese prisoners does Israel hold?

And for how long? And how did Lebanon win its prisoners back in the past?

[cali]

45. I don't know, but

regardless that doesn't justify H'zbollah's actions against civilians. You can't condemn one party for something, saying it's inexcusable, and then justify another party doing the same thing. To do otherwise is simply hypocricy.

[bdamomma]

9. Well George did it again

On C span this afternoon the UN Security Council were interviewed and it was said that America supported Israel to defend their country, there you have it, George and his big effin mouth. And he keeps on saying America backs Israel, or maybe not quite those words. I do not want to be associated with a murderer.

[kenny blankenship]

10. Looks like he's taking the bait

Hopefully he'll rethink that soon. It would be stupid to do anything more to give Israel an excuse for widening the conflict still further (which seems to be their aim).
Is he really taking the bait or is he baiting Israel?

[MadHound]

15. And awaaaaay we go!

Next Syria will get sucked in, then Iran, then the US, and then and then and then until the whole world burns.

Meanwhile the idiot asshats over at Rapture Ready are creaming their jeans and egging the whole mess on, just because of some idiotic belief that the Left Behind series is real. Sadly we can count Bush and many of his advisors in that camp to, actively working for the End of All Things.

Think I'll go stock up on gas, food and water this weekend.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. So the Lebanese are celebrating the war?

I thought the Lebanese people were against Hezbollah? I thought the Lebanese Government signed a UN agreement to disarm Hezbollah? I thought the Lebanese Government signed a UN agreement to remove Hezbollah and take their country back? I thought the Lebanese people supported PEACE? They are celebrating war. How sad. I wonder how many Israelis are celebrating this war?

[leftchick]

18. that usually happens

when your country is attacked. It tends to unite a population against the aggressor.

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. Oh really? I wonder how many Israelis are united in their celebration

of the war? My guess: NONE.

[leftchick]

39. I hardly think they are celebrating war per se

I believe they are celebrating the ability to fight off aggressors. I am sure there are plenty of Israelis doing the same damn thing. Think what you want.

[in_cog_ni_to]

43. Aggressors? Hezbollah is responsible for this escalation, not Israel.

Thanks. I will think what I want.


Definitions of aggressor on the Web:

attacker: someone who attacks
a confident assertive person who acts as instigator = HEZBOLLAH.

[leftchick]

44. perhaps you missed the report of abduction of the Palestinians by Israel

way before the soldier abductions. But then Israel is holding over 10,000 Palestinians as "detainees". Yep, they sure do nothing to inflame the situation do they? :eyes:

[in_cog_ni_to]

46. LOL....right. Hezbollah is innocent.

:eyes:

[leftchick]

47. wow you are really putting words on my keyboard

Did I ever say Hezbollah was innocent? Damn, talk about reaching for straw men. I really should not have to respond because of that but here goes...

Both sides have committed atrocities. Israel is worse than most because of their US funded Military superiority. War sucks! Can we leave it at that? :eyes:

[in_cog_ni_to]

48. Oh, sorry. I missed your condemnation of Hezbollah.post. Sure

we can leave it here.:eyes:

[leftchick]

49. LOL!

whatever floats your boat missy. Did you ever hear the one about assuming? It makes an.....

:rofl:

[U4ikLefty]

55. It is located right next to your condemnation of Israel. n/t

[malaise]

19. Don't be fooled by MSM propaganda

I was speaking with my young Lebanese neighbour and he's on line with his parents. They are not vaguely connected to Hizbullah but Lebanese people are pissed and literally celebrated that speech. They do not take kindly to having their airport bombed and their seaports blocked by Israel.

[in_cog_ni_to]

29. OK. I see. Probably as much as Israel didn't like 1000 bombs over the blue

line, 8 killed citizens and 2 kidnapped soldiers (BEFORE they responded), Haifa bombed and a ship blown up? They celebrated war. That's all I need to know. Who, in their right mind, celebrates war?

[katinmn]

21. And the US vetoes resolution calling on Israel to suspend attacks.

This is the big bad war the neocons have been dreaming of, scheming for, and which the US has funded.

I bet Bolton and Cheney are orgasmic about now.

[Rex]

22. I was told religion is to bring people together.

Has there ever been this much HATE in the world? So Israel goes from buzzing the leader of Syria's home to bombing the Hizbollah chief's home? God must be all about HATE, because that seems to be the universal theme behind most religious agendas.

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[wryter2000]

27. Welcome to DU

:hi;

[ihaam]

40. thanks

:)

... this place is buzzing...

[originalpckelly]

25. Why do we care about these people anymore?

We have done so much for either side, and yet they still choose the path of violence. I have no sympathy for people who make such choices. There is a time and place when people either make the right decision or they have to pay the consequences for their bad decision. Both sides have crossed into that time and place. Hopefully, the innocent people of both nations will be able to escape before they are killed.

[Guaranteed]

28. I don't either. It's Montagues and Capulets.

And I say a plague on both their houses. Fuck 'em all.

[dipsydoodle]

31. I'll vote that.

If nothing else it would stop threads from being moved about until they disappear forever. :rofl:

[leftchick]

57. bushie wants an Israeli war

it is the perfect opening for him to attack Iran. You wait.

[EVDebs]

30. Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity...

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abba_Eban

""His ignorance is encyclopedic""

Was Eban speaking about Bush ?

[High Plains]

36. Thank you for your racist generalization.

[EVDebs]

50. Just my flair for the obvious. BTW, what will Hamas/Hezbollah do with the

Israeli soldiers ?

[Taverner]

35. Are ya happy now George?

Are you happy? You went and started armageddon.

Unsatisfied with it happening naturally, you went and blew up the planet yourself.

Thanks George


And thanks neocons and evangelicals

[coalition_unwilling]

37. I wonder if Hezbollah chief learned that from Bush's "Bring it on" comment

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[EVDebs]

51. In the long run Israeli subs and the strait of Hormuz loom larger

than bullets in the air celebratory fire. If 'all out war' comes and Iran is sucked in (by its support of hezbollah, it looks like we'll pass $90/bbl soon. US will adapt quickly but the ME will have a tough time with the necessities of life. You can't eat bullets, but maybe hizbullah has plans for that.

[leftchick]

52. and the IDF denied any damage to the shp

just like the US DOD> Damn, same play book.

[Deja Q]

53. Um, both sides are to blame on this.

Still, Israel did far more than defend itself.

I'm with the Pope on this one.

[Behind the Aegis]

56. Fuck Nasrallah!

Get your own country, you psychopath!

He is a fucking coward, like all of his kind! Make grandiose statements behind the skirts of women and carriages of children!

Want to know who the "blood letters" are? Here he is!

He occupies a country that is not his, and nary a person here questions that! SAD!

[dysfunctional press]

60. Fuck Israel!!

it makes me sick that our country kow-tows to those war-mongering fascists.

[sweetheart]

58. "Pub brawl on main street, drunken man reeling..."

Let the shit-talking begin, the consensus is broken and the iraqi mistake now
threatens to embroil greater persia in a civil war, one in which israel is part
of persia, an eyeball in its head, one that if it can't behave, then it clearly
is doing its disproportionality shamelessly.

[malaise]

59. War by Bob Marley

Last night after we watched the biased and distorted coverage in the Western media, we watched LBC America and observed the Lebanese people looking at the bombed bridges, roads, fuel supplies and buildings in Lebanon. We hardly spoke -but we were beyond angry. My better half put on a Marley CD and I looked for Znet to read their views on this mess.

Below is what I found first - and then we read all the recent articles on Palestine/Lebanon.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10572

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10576


Marley put music to an excerpt from the famous 1963 U.N. peace speech to the by Selassie
http://www.bobmarley.com/life/rastafari/war_speech.html
What life has taught me

I would like to share with

Those who want to learn...

Until the philosophy which hold one race

Superior and another inferior

Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned

Everywhere is war, me say war


That until there are no longer first class

And second class citizens of any nation

Until the colour of a man's skin

Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes

Me say war


That until the basic human rights are equally

Guaranteed to all, without regard to race

Dis a war



That until that day

The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship

Rule of international morality

Will remain in but a fleeting illusion

To be persued, but never attained

Now everywhere is war, war



And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes

that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,

South Africa sub-human bondage

Have been toppled, utterly destroyed

Well, everywhere is war, me say war



War in the east, war in the west

War up north, war down south

War, war, rumours of war



And until that day, the African continent

Will not know peace, we Africans will fight

We find it necessary and we know we shall win

As we are confident in the victory



Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil

Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
-------------
Remove African and place any people not considered important to the power brokers of our planet and the message remains the same. There is no fugging international morality on this planet. I live for the day when good conquers evil.

It is morning - a new day has dawned -hubby sleeps. I am watching LBC again -more of the same - anger in voices, shocked faces, smoke gets in their eyes and analysts and reporters from bombed out sites can't remain calm as they see absolute inequity.

I put on John Lennon - Imagine, but I know I am fooling myself for until the immoral and evil regimes have been toppled, utterly destroyed, it will be war.

Axis of evil my ass - the real evil lives in Washington, in London, in Tel Aviv. And no amount of propaganda will change that fact. Continue to bomb, bully, kill, lie. Karma awaits the evil of this planet.