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Old 03-15-2005, 01:51 PM   #8
jaguar
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Um, most of what hizbollah does/has done has had broad-base popular suport, particularly forcing Israel to retreat. You may have a negative view of the organisation but you cannot deny it has popular support in lebanon particularly with the Shia. End of story. Hizbollah has long been patronised by Syria and I'm sure pressure was applied on hizbollah to get people out but to assume they were [ b]all[/b] threatened and bribed is frankly, sillyness on a iamthewalrus kind of level. It's generalizations like that that cause so much troulbe in the first place. BigV, i'm sure some were, an yes, if anyone has the moral high ground it's the people that want syria out but all I said is hizbollah had popular support, that's all. I never said I liked hizbollah or that hizbollah were right or anything else.
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