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<body><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >Rania,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >I don’t think I am stating the obvious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>After reading all the comments sent out, the “obvious” is that no one seems to have the balls to speak out against Hezbollah for fear of being labeled unpatriotic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>For a condemnation of Hezbollah is perceived as support for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region ><st1:place >Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> which in itself is unpatriotic</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT class="" size=3 >Farrah</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >I don’t condone <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> destroying all of <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>95% of the bombing has been targeted to Hezbollah strongholds.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Hezbollah chooses to operate from within civilian areas. That in itself is outrageous; the people supporting Hezbollah should not allow them to launch attacks form hospital rooftops.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>We should all rise up and speak out against that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Again I don’t condone the destruction of my own country, but I understand the other 5% of the bombing that <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> is doing to send a message to the Lebanese government.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >Elias</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT size=3 ><FONT face="Times New Roman" ><st1:country-region ><st1:place >Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> may not defeat them completely but they will sure weaken them to the point where just maybe the Lebanese army can dare to venture to the south and do what is supposed to do and patrol the border.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT size=3 ><FONT face="Times New Roman" >Israeli exacting revenge on the Lebanese?? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Why? For what? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>You and I both know that <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> only want security on its northern border.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>They have proven that when they COMPLETELY withdrew in 2000.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >Maurice</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >I won’t disappear. Deal with it.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >I don’t agree with taking the country back 20 years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>But I want a solution a permanent one.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>I am sick and tired of holding Hezbollah’s hand begging them to disarm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>At the rate we are moving with Hezbollah and <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region> they would have taken us back 20 years anyways.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >Philippe</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >Before you go questioning my Lebanese identity, my patriotism, and calling me a coward let me tell you something about myself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>My house was burned to the ground by the Druze in 1981; my house was then leveled to the ground by the Israeli invasion in 1982 in the mountains.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>My house again destroyed in <st1:City ><st1:place >Beirut</st1:place></st1:City> and my mother badly injured from Syrian shelling in 1989.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>And some more destruction was piled on my house and family from the Lebanese Forces with their war with GMA.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Despite all that, I love <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region>, I love the people, and I believe in a united <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region> with Christians and Muslims living together as one people. I truly believe in that vision.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" ><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 >I don’t believe us as Lebanese have united enough to disarm Hezbollah.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Hezbollah being the undisputed puppets of <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>, I hold them responsible for the death of some of the finest people that <st1:country-region ><st1:place >Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region> ever produced from Hariri and Tueini to the rest you know the list I won’t repeat here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>After what round of talks were you expecting Hezbollah to disarm?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Hezbollah wanted every Arab and Iranian issue resolved before they did anything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Is that what you want? I am tired as stated of listening to their lame ass excuses of why they need to be armed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes" > </SPAN>Yes the death of 250 civilians is horrible, but if the end result is a country free of militias in peace with <st1:stockticker >ALL</st1:stockticker> its neighbors working to build a bright future for its children, then their death is well worth it.</FONT></P><BR ></body>
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