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  kayterry

  Feb. 14, 2007, 6:43 a.m.

  The author works for Fox News. Dear Author: If you want to make any story credible and unbiased in favor of the Bush camp, next time use an alias or an imaginative pen name. Facts can always be bent, even enough to make Pinocchio's nose look small.
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  sue2008

  Feb. 14, 2007, 10:35 a.m.

  am still sad that he had to die like that. he was such a good man with great heart. i hope he is in a better place
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  TechnologyExpert

  Feb. 14, 2007, 2:14 p.m.

  It was surreal listening to an NPR report on the explosions yesterday. One woman described coming out and seeing a woman, but only being able to tell she was a woman from her chest, and seeing, much like in a horror movie, her intestines spilled across the ground.

  Horrifying.
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  Edmar14

  Feb. 14, 2007, 3:12 p.m.

  It's sad that the innocent are dying in the name of politics and religion. However, I'm sure that there are some on these threads that will blame Israel or the United States for not only the bombing, but also the political problems in Lebanon. It doesn't go over very well to blame the Lebanese factions for killing their own people.
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  Edmar14

  Feb. 14, 2007, 7:42 p.m.

  Olmert never said that. What he said was the he was sure that Soniora understood what Israel was doing. Appreciated and understood have entirely different meanings. The bombing of the infrastructure was to stop the roads and bridges from being used to re-arm Hezbollah. Don't for a minute think that Israel woke up one day and said that it's a great day, lets destroy the roads and bridges in Lebanon. What they did was very logical, but not very effective. Wars are never pretty. You didn't see the what the areas that the ball bearing laden rockets that were fired into Israeli cities looked like. Israel lost less people only because the had better civil defense. If they didn't, the Israeli losses would have been considerably greater than the Lebanese loses were.
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  Edmar14

  Feb. 14, 2007, 7:33 p.m.

  Yesitstrue, the next time Hezbollah and Israel go at it, Israel won't care about civilian collateral damage. When cowards like Hezbollah hide among civilians and use them like human shields to fire missles into Israeli cities, all bets are off. When Germany fired the V1 and V2 rockets on London, not caring about the civilian population, England and the US leveled Dresden to the ground. In a war the size of the one this summer in Lebanon, Israel was extemely careful about the civilian population and because of that the dead were kept to a minimum compared to what it could have been. But they failed to stop the rockets from being fired into their cities. That won't happen again. You can guarantee that next time, they will level southern Lebanon to stop the rockets, and they would have the right to do so. Israel learned that surgical bombing won't work with animals that run and hide in populated areas. No country would take the rockets that Israel took in the last war.
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  blinkers

  Feb. 15, 2007, 3:14 a.m.

  Until the Harriri killing the Syrians had the upper hand in Lebanon and, as far I know, to this day have never disavowed their aim of a "Greater Syria" which extends north into southern Turkey.

  Until 1975 the Lebanese had a vibrant, productive and stable state, referred to by some as the Switzerland of the Mideast. The country was a wonderful place to visit until an ugly civil war tore the place apart.

  But under various agreements, and through negotiations with key partners it looked as if the country was at last being cobbled back together, until this assassination 2 years ago. It has been one sort of trouble or another since that time.

  Is the nightmare returning?
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  sue2008

  Feb. 15, 2007, 8:55 a.m.

  I really hope Lebanese people had learned a lesson from their last civil war and they would not engage in another one. Lebanese civilians don't kill Lebanese civilians and they should know that by now. It is a trap and there is an outsider involved in this mess --that is how it started the 1st time-

  Christians and Muslims are living fine together- They even marry from each other - since France left and they appointed a Christian leader even though the majority are Muslims. They didn't complain.

  Lebanon is the ONLY Arab Christian country

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