Blair gets his just deserts with a hostile reception in lebanon

[Don Rizzle]

Angry Beirut protests greet Blair
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has held talks with the Lebanese government, amid angry protests against his visit.
Thousands of demonstrators accused him of complicity in the deaths of 1,100 Lebanese civilians from Israeli bombing in the recent conflict with Hezbollah.

Mr Blair defended his position of rejecting calls for an early ceasefire, saying a UN resolution dealing with the "real problems" had been his priority.

Several protesters disrupted a news conference, shouting: "Shame on you."

Mr Blair reiterated Britain's official position during the five-week conflict that a durable resolution framed by a UN resolution was better than a "quick fix".


 Tony Blair supported the war, so how can we welcome him here?
Ali Shahine
 

"Frankly the best chance for Lebanon now is the implementation of Resolution 1701," Mr Blair said.
During the five-week conflict, Israel bombed targets across Lebanon, including residential areas and civilian infrastructure, saying it was necessary to restrict Hezbollah's military activity.

The conflict followed the capture by Hezbollah of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.

Israeli military losses in clashes on the border were 116 men, while 43 civilians died in Hezbollah rocket attacks.

A ceasefire sanctioned by UN Resolution 1701 has largely held since 14 August.

'War supporter'

Security forces sealed off Beirut's central area, where Mr Blair held talks with Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, with rolls of razor wire.

Up to 5,000 protesters gathered nearby in a stand-off with security forces, shouting slogans and waving banners describing Mr Blair as a "killer" and "war criminal".


"Tony Blair supports America and Israel and has supported the war, so how can we welcome him here?" said 21-year-old hotel worker Ali Shahine, who was among the protesters.
At a joint new conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Mr Blair admitted his policies were controversial, both at home and in the Arab world, but he expressed "deep sympathy" for those who had lost family members in the Israeli bombing.

Mr Siniora praised the demonstrators for expressing their criticism in a democratic fashion within the law, a view echoed by his UK counterpart.

Controversial visit

Lebanon's most senior Shia cleric had tried to have the visit cancelled and several Shia officials refused to attend meetings with Mr Blair, including the speaker of parliament and two Hezbollah ministers.

Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah called on the government to declare Mr Blair persona non grata.

He said Mr Blair should have been told to stay away so he would "know we are not so naive as to welcome him when he has contributed to killing us and slaughtering our children".

Mr Blair travelled to the country after a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Hamas, the militant group heading the Palestinian Authority, rejected his proposals that it should join a unity government which recognised Israel in order for an international boycott to be lifted.

A spokesman said the group was willing to form a coalition, but it would not accept conditions imposed from outside.

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Published: 2006/09/11 12:35:22 GMT

[Don Seer]

several Shia officials refused to attend meetings with Mr Blair, including the speaker of parliament and two Hezbollah ministers.

lol yeah.. refusing to speak to the people who matter and ignoring their arguments is a sure fire way to get things progressing!

now we know what example bitch as cowards like infinte follow..

talk shit behind a dudes back.. given a chance to sit down like a man and talk about it with one of the most powerful men in the world? no chance!!!!

fucking retards man... HOW can you change things if you don't even fucking try to engage the person AND are so stupid as to not take the chance?

[King Tech Quadafi]

several Shia officials refused to attend meetings with Mr Blair, including the speaker of parliament and two Hezbollah ministers.

lol yeah.. refusing to speak to the people who matter and ignoring their arguments is a sure fire way to get things progressing!

now we know what example bitch as cowards like infinte follow..

talk shit behind a dudes back.. given a chance to sit down like a man and talk about it with one of the most powerful men in the world? no chance!!!!

fucking retards man... HOW can you change things if you don't even fucking try to engage the person AND are so stupid as to not take the chance?

lol@ this shit, tell me youre kidding?? ignoring their arguuments? meeting wit the people who matter most? id bet youd shake the hand of the man who raped your sister. smh@ this lame what a coward u is.

blair is a fuckin bum. a fuckin dick rider. a figure head leader, in lame duck status, known internationally as a cock sucker. tell me what possibly influence does he have,. hes there simply to put a euro spin on whatever bush does. and hezbollah are cowards to not have met wit them. hezbollah is out on the ground cleaning up homes destroyed by israelis in an operation that blair supported. there is nothing to argue here. what the fuck is there to argue. its obvious whose in the wrong and its obvious those in the wrong want nothing to do with justice, fixing the problem.

every 2 years this faggot blair skips along to the middle east, to re assure the house negroes, that one day massa will leave em alone but they gotta work a lil better harder.

this is the stupidest post of september

[virtuoso]

Blair is nothing but a criminal, he was even doing the bidding of the arms industry when brits recently sold the saudis those older fighter jets. The saudis were beginning to have second thoughts on the purchase, mostly because they were being sold a pile of shit when compared to the jets they could have bought lol. So tony blair comes to the rescue what a great statesman, a selfless act of course. Tony Blair as much as anyone else comes out with this nonsensical "israel has the right to defend itself nonsense" he is the man who has unashamedly sold israel the helicopters which it is using to totally obliterate Gaza what is known as collective punishment is effectively ethnic cleansing. He never criticises america or israel, he is the man that along with the bush administration plotted a way of deceiving the british public into buying the oh saddam has weapons of mass destruction crap. He is a serial liar. his recent attempts to abolish the parliament bill show his true colours as a would be dictator. He allowed the CIA planes through british airspace carrying the "extroadinary rendition" detainees, also known as poor battered mentally broken human beings tortured within inches of their life being taken.

He is the man that looked on and refused to call for immediate ceasefire. instead buying time for the israelis to continue their devastation of the south. This man is a coward, a twisted human being who thinks that god is on his side. Evidently this god he sees respects a murder a war criminal a callous cold cruel and twisted liar. What is worse is that I voted for this party in the last 2 elections, thank god I have finally woken up.

[Don Seer]

i don't get why these people couldn't sit down and ask him to his face?

"yeah lets not talk to him.. that'll REALLY prove out point"..

[virtuoso]

The man is delusional self obsessed and is utimately a puppet a mere figurehead, who is as complicit as anyone when it comes to israels destruction of gaza and lebanon, is it any wonder they dont want to talk to him. He is a nutcase, nothing they say to him will change that fact. If I could rewind time i would never have voted in 2001.

[Don Rizzle]

i don't get why these people couldn't sit down and ask him to his face?

"yeah lets not talk to him.. that'll REALLY prove out point"..

the same arguement could be levied against why the west don't talk to the likes of hamas

[Don Rizzle]

Blair is nothing but a criminal, he was even doing the bidding of the arms industry when brits recently sold the saudis those older fighter jets. The saudis were beginning to have second thoughts on the purchase, mostly because they were being sold a pile of shit when compared to the jets they could have bought lol. So tony blair comes to the rescue what a great statesman, a selfless act of course. Tony Blair as much as anyone else comes out with this nonsensical "israel has the right to defend itself nonsense" he is the man who has unashamedly sold israel the helicopters which it is using to totally obliterate Gaza what is known as collective punishment is effectively ethnic cleansing. He never criticises america or israel, he is the man that along with the bush administration plotted a way of deceiving the british public into buying the oh saddam has weapons of mass destruction crap. He is a serial liar. his recent attempts to abolish the parliament bill show his true colours as a would be dictator. He allowed the CIA planes through british airspace carrying the "extroadinary rendition" detainees, also known as poor battered mentally broken human beings tortured within inches of their life being taken.

He is the man that looked on and refused to call for immediate ceasefire. instead buying time for the israelis to continue their devastation of the south. This man is a coward, a twisted human being who thinks that god is on his side. Evidently this god he sees respects a murder a war criminal a callous cold cruel and twisted liar. What is worse is that I voted for this party in the last 2 elections, thank god I have finally woken up.

I wouldn't say he's a coward, hes continued on despite lots of critisim and even headed over to the middle east after his recent stance on the war, plus iraq  hanging over him, to become the first british PM to ever visit lebanon despite knowing he would recieve a hostile reception, this is anything but cowardly - a coward would talk shit insulated inside no. 10. Also he's never said god is on his side, but he has said ultimately he will belivies he will be judged by god for his actions.

[virtuoso]

all war criminals are cowards, he always talks of a deep belief in god and is deluded to talk about good and evil he actually thinks his actions rank as good. Worse still i can see that cameron will be exactly the same he is tony blair mrk 11