Nasrallah: Bush made Lebanon chaos

[Dover]

Nasrallah: Bush made Lebanon chaos





Nasrallah spoke as thousands attended Ashura ceremonies in south Beirut

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has accused George Bush of creating chaos in Lebanon, and rejected the US president's latest criticisms of the Shia group.

Speaking at Beirut ceremonies marking the climax of the Muslim festival of Ashura, Nasrallah accused the US of ordering Israel to launch last year's attack on Lebanon.

"The one who fomented chaos in Lebanon, who destroyed Lebanon, who killed women and children, old and young in Lebanon, is George Bush and (Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice who ordered the Zionists to launch the war on Lebanon," Nasrallah said.

The US president on Monday accused Hezbollah and its allies Iran and Syria of stirring up the latest violence in Lebanon in a bid to topple its government and said "those responsible for creating chaos must be called to account". ..cont'd

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/35746B85-BA30-4195-83AC-922DB5476E4C.htm

[Eugene]

1. Nasrallah is too modest. It was a joint effort.

Nasrallah started a war and Israel's response, however excessive, was a
forseeable outcome. Bush and Olmert deserve a big share of the blame,
but Nasrallah pushed Lebanon off a cliff for his own partisan gain.

[Abathar]

2. I agree -

When he fired all those rockets into Northern Israel, kind of like the ladle calling the kettle black.

[bemildred]

4. Nasrallah is a lying propagandist.

Just like all the other fellows you mention. The one difference one can see in Nasrallah is that he seems better at it, so far ...

[Lilith Velkor]

3. What's a US/Lebanon article doing in I Pee?

That's wierd.

[bemildred]

5. Nasrallah: ‘The Future of Israel is Death’

(IsraelNn.com) Hizbullah arch-terrorist Hassan Nasrallah accused the United States and Israel of attempting to spark a civil war in Lebanon. Nasrallah said Monday that the U.S. and Israel are aiming at “resistance movements” in Lebanon, “Palestine” and Iraq in particular. The Hizbullah chief’s diatribe was delivered from a balcony in the Lebanese capital in honor of a Shi’ite tradition marking the assassination of a Shi’ite leader by Iraqi Sunnis in 680.

In his speech, Nasrallah emphasized the inconclusive outcome of Israel’s war with the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon last summer, taunting, “Israel is now weaker than a spider’s web.”

Despite his claims that negotiations for a prisoner swap with the Jewish State are under way, the Hizbullah chief echoed the words of one of the group’s most generous patrons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has threatened repeatedly to wipe Israel off the map.

“The future of Israel is death,” announced Nasrallah “and the future of this umma (Islamic nation) is life,” he said.

Arutz Sheva