Russia, Germany Demand Syria Quit Lebanon

[DoYouEverWonder]

Mar 03, 2005

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Russia and Germany joined an international chorus of demands for Syria to leave Lebanon, and President Bashar al-Assad was expected to travel to Saudi Arabia on Thursday for talks diplomats said would focus on a pullout.

"Syria should withdraw from Lebanon, but we all have to make sure that this withdrawal does not violate the very fragile balance which we still have in Lebanon, which is a very difficult country ethnically," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the BBC late on Wednesday.

Russia, Syria's main Cold War ally and still one of its best friends, abstained when the U.N. Security Council adopted U.S.- and French-sponsored Resolution 1559 in September calling for foreign forces to leave Lebanon and militias to disarm.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20050303/wl_nm/syria_dc

[Wright Patman]

1. Does anyone else see the analogy

to U.S. troops in Iraq? Shouldn't all "foreign" troops leave Iraq as well so the Iraqis can determine their own fate and govern their own affairs?

I have to laugh every time the U.S. generals say that most of the problems in Iraq are being caused by "foreign fighters." Well, duh. That's right. Look in the mirror, Yankee. You're a long way from home.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. I heard Condi say the say thing yesterday

and then I remembered, we really do live in Bizarro World.

[hector459]

3. Why don't they demand that the US quit Iraq and Israel quit occupation?

Hypocrites all over the world.