"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:34:11 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:


NOYB wrote:

Hizbollah Draws Vast Pro-Syrian Crowds in Beirut

43 minutes ago

By Nadim Ladki

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Lebanese
flooded
central Beirut Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbollah.



Hundreds of thousands?
Hehehe.

The Guardian has it as 500,000. Rather impressive considering Lebanon
has
a population of under 4 million.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...849731,00.html



The event was organized by Hizbollah. What's really sad is that almost
15% of that country openly supports an organization that uses suicide
bombers to target non-Muslims.



The percentage may be higher than that. There may well be hundreds of
thousands or more of Lebanese who simply didn't get to Beirut for the
demonstration.

There are millions of Iraqis who want us out of their country. If they
weren't afraid of being shot by US troops, they'd probably demonstrate,
too.

Well then I could argue that the same applies to the millions of Lebanese
who didn't protest the Syrian military's occupation for fear that they'd be
killed. The silent majority.