As I listened to interviews with anti-Syrian Lebonese protestors over the last few weeks, I couldn't help but notice their rhetoric reflected that of Bush. You know this administration speaks their own version of English replete with terms of art. Well, the anti-Syrian forces use the same terms the same way...and the odds of THAT, given our variant cultural orientations, are roughly the same as the odds of finding snowballs in hell.

Maybe if Assad had a statue of himself they could topple there'd have been no protests.

Anyway...

Syria Supporters Rally in Lebanon
Hezbollah Chief Puts U.S. on Notice As Thousands Fill Streets of Beirut
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, March 9, 2005; Page A01

BEIRUT, March 8 -- Hundreds of thousands of people on Tuesday celebrated Syria's long military presence in Lebanon, cheering the leader of the armed Hezbollah movement as he warned the United States and the Lebanese opposition movement not to upset the country's volatile political system.

The rally, organized by Hezbollah, was the largest in three weeks of political upheaval here, filling a huge plaza in central Beirut and spilling down streets and highways for miles in every direction. The massive turnout suggested that Lebanon's anti-Syrian movement would no longer dominate the political debate as it has in recent weeks, and Hezbollah's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, pointedly warned those who favor Syria's withdrawal and the disarmament of his Shiite Muslim party that they do not represent most Lebanese.