"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."

I keep reading about the 'poor' Lebanese people under siege, the awfulness. And it is. It truly is. Reading about an eight year old boy bleeding from the eyes makes one soulsick.

But what's really terrible is when civilians have to forfeit lives for their government's mania- but let's not forget where the blame lies. Israel offered pretty reasonable terms, backing off the original demand for Hezbollah to be kicked out, and yet the pleas for the U.N./U.S. and others to 'make the bad men go away' continue as if those terms were never given for peace.

It's a crummy deal. We've been (the United States) in some gruesome, loathsome even, situations since the Iraq conflict began. There have not been model citizens across the board. What would be the citizen situation be in America if we bordered Iraq, or was within missile distance?

No Good or Bad, White hats vs. Black hats, can be found here. The whole Middle East is like one big free-for-all in upping each other in essential wrongness. You support the one that's slightly less grey-tinged, you take into account decades of history to lend heft and weight to your decision-

And you hope you are right. More right, anyway.

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[Bob]

Bob's Extreme Statemnets for the Week:

1) Liberation comes from within. Whites cannot liberate Blacks. Americans cannot liberate Iraqis. The Lebanese people need to liberate themselves from Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. Israel cannot do it for them.

2) Just because we're liberated doesn't mean we should sit by and be idle: if someone needs help, we should offer and help them - but they need to do the work.

3) If there's direct threat to yourself (Israel vs. Hezbollah, or Taliban in Afghanistan vs. America) you have the right to FUCK them UP. In my opinion, any member of Hezbollah has forfeited their membership to the human race unless they recant.

4) The creation of radical religious camps that outright campaign to deny physics, recorded and proven history, or science needs to be stopped - home schooling as well. I'm just as tired of fucking christians as I am of fucking moslems.

5) Your fucking belief in your fucking god is causing more pain than any good it could ever create.

I'm having a REALLY bad day today, but I still stand by what I say here without the curse words.

[Jeff]

Israel pretty much wears the white hat in this and in previous conflicts. You see, they have a right to exist and defend themselves; no matter what the Islamic terrorist states, mullahs and the UN say think or feel.