"what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop..."

[Heresson]

I don't think Syria can convince Hezbollah to stop military activity. Even Iran wouldn't be able to do that. Can Bush convince Israelis not to settle in occupied territories? Or Israeli gouverment?
As Asad stated, "decisions belong to thew resistance in Lebanon and they do what they wish".
And even if it wasn't so, why should Syria insist on disarming its only local ally against a state occupying its territory in obvious interest of the latter?

[DanS]

I don't think Syria can convince Hezbollah to stop military activity.

Evidently, Bush doesn't agree with you.

[Arrian]

I'm sure Syria could pressure Hezbollah, but I rather doubt it has anything like total control.

-Arrian

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Do you use expletives in all of your posts

What do you care, *******?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by MRT144
I think syria is betting israel wont do that

Maybe, but we have yet to see how much of a gambler Assad jr. is, don't we? I think he didn't expect Israel to go as far as it has, and if missiles keep dropping on Israel, or if there's any serious escalation, then all bets are off.

Syria has fewer friends by far than it has during any prior significant conflict with Israel.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Arrian
I'm sure Syria could pressure Hezbollah, but I rather doubt it has anything like total control.

-Arrian

Hezbollah has thousands of missiles. Did they buy them on Ebay?

[lightblue]

Well the Katusha's are very low tech, you probably buy assembly packs online somewhere The longer range Zem etc are iranian build, or at least modified with iranian tech from russian and chinese base plans afaik.

[Edan]

After listening to it myself, it sounds like Blair says "he's had it". Not "done" or "****ed".

[Winston]

Edan is right.

Anyway, if you look beyond the language thing (which of course is something most media are incapable of...), I think it's very important to get the word out, unmistakably, that Syria needs to straighten up in all of this. And this informal conversation has done just that.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, like Syria didn't know that Bush was blaming it for the whole situation going on right now? Come on..

[Kuciwalker]

I think Winston meant informing the public.

[Winston]

Kuci got it.

[MRT144]

people who didnt at least consider it probably don't care anyway.

[Zulu Elephant]

Anyone think that the mic was left of deliberately and they wanted their conversation to leak?

I'm reminded of Bartlett and the open mic insult of Governor Richie

[Imran Siddiqui]

Bush isn't that sneaky... Blair, perhaps.