Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>Our policies are based upon it being the only Democratically elected government in the Middle east<<<


You mean...."based upon it being the only Democratically elected government in the Middle east that america likes"...?


November 2006:

The White House said it is "increasingly concerned by mounting evidence that the Syrian and Iranian governments, [Hezbollah] and their Lebanese allies are preparing plans to topple Lebanon's democratically elected government."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/us.lebanon/index.html


Four months or so earlier:

"In this week's issue of the New Yorker, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports Israeli officials visited the White House earlier this summer to get a "green light" for an attack on Lebanon. The Bush administration approved, Hersh says, in part to remove Hezbollah as a deterrent to a potential US bombing of Iran. A government consultant said the Bush administration also saw the attack on Lebanon as a "demo" for what it could expect to face in Iran."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14540.htm





A man surveyed the damage in southern Beirut after a wave of Israeli airstrikes.


I guess some middle east democracies are protected differently than others....? Just different methods and tactics.