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MAYBE HE THOUGHT IT WOULD LEAD TO FREE CARS FROM OPRAH
Regrets, he has a few:
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.
“Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it,” he said in an interview on Lebanese TV.
Which explains why Nasrallah so quickly ordered that the soldiers be returned. Oh, wait …
Shooting old Archduke Ferdinand seemed a pretty harmless lark on that otherwise quiet day in 1914.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 28 at 04:11 AM • permalinkIf he regrets it, Hezbollah must have been hit hard. Hurray!
Posted by David McBryde on 2006 08 28 at 04:13 AM • permalinkJust more of the usual taqiyya.
He’s sayin’ to his Lebanon locals that he didn’t really mean to get all their stuff blowed up.
Lay down Lebanon, it’s all good. Go back to sleep. Daddy Nasrallah didn’t really mean to ream your bunghole in front of all your friends at your party. It was all just a misunderstanding.
If Hezbollah was a democratic institution, he would have to resign in disgrace. As it is, it’s just par for the course.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 08 28 at 04:28 AM • permalinkO/T, but RoP related, does the @ssholishness of this cult have no end????
From a story about some young muslim girl being condemned for entering a beauty contest and making it to the top 26 contestants of Miss Teen Australia, there’s this comment from Sheik Sh!tforbrains:
A spokesman for Melbourne cleric Sheik Mohammed Omran last week branded the competition, which involves swimsuit parades, as a “slur on Islam”. And Victorian Islamic leader Yasser Soliman said the contest did not conform with the teachings of the Koran.
Well surprise, surprise eh??? Nothing short of a burqa clad parade resembling a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan probably would conform??? Do some of these swine think they can tell us how to run this country now??? Well yes they probably do actually….
And as for Narallah, as with so many of these fanatics, its easy to tell when he’s lying coz his lips move…
He’s just saying this to try to win favour from the rest of the Lebanese. Is he opne of thiose who touches the paint by wet paint signs?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 08 28 at 04:42 AM • permalinkThe Israeli offensive (isnt that spelled “d.e.f.e.n.s.i.v.e.)?, began after two Israeli soldiers were seized during a cross border raid by Hezbollah militants on 12 July.
The eight soldiers that were killed, instead of captured, by the “militants”/Barbarians, don’t seem to warrant any sort of mention in this story.
More of the same.
Constant self-abuse, by guilt-ridden Western journo-types.
Do they know they have reached cartoon-figure-status?
#8 Nothing short of a burqa clad parade resembling a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan probably would conform??? —posted by casanova
Does anyone remember during the 1980’s, Wendy’s (a fast food hamburger joint) ran a commercial about a Soviet beauty contest? All the women were large porcine types wearing drab olive green uniforms. It was hilarious. So hilarious the Soviet Union actually filed a protest over it.
Makes me wonder if anyone will run a commercial about a Islamic beauty contest?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 08 28 at 05:50 AM • permalink#11 Wrongwright, google is your friend:
Okay, it’s a cartoon, but still.Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 28 at 06:17 AM • permalink#11 and #12
You have reminded me of one of my all-time favourite Mark Steyn pieces about a new culturally sensitive Miss World pageant.
I glanced at my watch. “For crying out loud, when are they going to raise the curtain?”
“They have raised the curtain,” said David. “Those are the girls.” I peered closer at the shapeless line of cloth, and he was right: there they all were, from Miss Afghanistan to Miss Zionist Entity.“Nasrallah gave this interview while remaining hidden; he says he will not come out in public because the Israelis would assassinate him if he did. The interview also sounds rather strange—a terrorist leader having to explain his actions to the people of his nation. Winners do not have to give explanations.”
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/Here’s a better one. And a photo this time.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 28 at 06:24 AM • permalinkThe Hisbollah were hit harder than most of the media give the Israelis credit for . . . . Nasrallah certainly hasn’t been talking tough.
But don’t worry. The UN force won’t be patrolling the border with Syria, so the Hisbollah will be able to rearm quickly enough.
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 08 28 at 06:57 AM • permalinkRe #2 - indeed Dan. That is just video evidence with a few billion witnesses to his admitted guilt. Given he has no authority to wage any war much less one on Lebanon’s behalf - the internationa community along with Lebanon should put a world wide bounty for his head, so can be brought in and charged with treason against the Lebanese people and war crimes against Lebanese and Israeli citizens.
Heh I dream. Here’s hoping the Israelis top him first.
Nasrallah may have never spoken a truer word.
“Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it,”
As a person who likes to take people at their word I think the fuzzy bearded one has provided the West with it’s best defence.
Blow the shit out of their miserable fascist arses and they will think twice next time before acting like barbarians.
By the way can somebody remind me why that fat fool is still alive?
I know it wouldn’t be easy, in fact almost certainly a suicide mission, but surely the Mossad could send a ‘reporter’ to ‘interview’ mr Nasrallah.
Thats one of the big drawbacks with respecting the lives of your soldiers I guess…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 28 at 07:58 AM • permalink#19, “Blow the shit out of their miserable fascist arses and they will think twice next time before acting like barbarians.”
Why the hell not? It worked on hilters boys…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 28 at 08:01 AM • permalink“Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it,”
The problem is, for deterrence to work, the aggressor has to know that sort of thing before rather than after. That’s why, despite what some Pollyannas want to believe, the best way to prevent a war is to prepare for one. And to let your enemy know you’re prepared for one. Showing weakness or indeciveness is a recipe for war, not peace.
::ahem::
Unverifiable speculation to follow:
I still believe that the Mad Mullahs’ scheduled August 22 atomic bomb test failed (or was not close to readiness) and conciliatory language from Tehran would indicate that they are retreating from the precipice somewhat (to buy time, at least) and have ordered their puppet Nasrallah to do the same.
The Israelis were not defeated on the ground, although they did much less damage to the Hezbos than they could have or should have. Hezbollah won a clear political victory and, by trying to sound like rational players, are trying to exploit it while their Iranian masters regroup.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 08 28 at 11:10 AM • permalinkIn other words, I doubt Nasrallah believes a word of what he just said, especially since a prisoner exchange in reportedly being negotiated.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 08 28 at 11:13 AM • permalinkIf they were exploiting a victory they would be crowing about it, not apologising. These creatures don’t believe in being gracious in victory and generous in defeat. I suspect Nasrallah is more worried about the Lebs “standing solidly behind Hezbollah” than he is about Israeli assassins. The Lebs might be discovering that 72 virgins in the bush isn’t always worth a pile of rubble in the hand.
“Allah send us infidels who don’t fight back!”
Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 08 28 at 11:25 AM • permalink“Infidels don’t fight back. Infidels don’t fight BACK. That’s how this works!”
Slightly ripped off from a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, but I think it fits. :)
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 08 28 at 01:07 PM • permalinkFrom another BBC report:
Later, Hezbollah supporters booed Mr Annan as he toured southern Beirut, a stronghold for the Shia movement which was heavily bombarded during the Israeli offensive.
Which just goes to show if you search hard and long enough, you can find common cause with almost anybody.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 28 at 03:57 PM • permalinkOh Kyda, you just shoved my pithy comment right out of my mind!
I find it interesting that this thug felt it was necessary to say it was all a mistake—because of the way the Israelis reacted of course, but a mistake. They must be having problems with the Lebanese proles.
On the other hand, I think the fact that they were surprised by the Israeli reaction is an indictment, not just against Israel, but the West in general. Had the reaction been SOP, the kidnapping of two soldiers, and murder of eight, would never have happened.
Abu kais of From Beirut to the Beltway has posted a summary of Nasrallah’s speech and advises that the media has been very selective in what it has reported. He was actually claiming that Hezbollah saved Lebanon from a dastardly plan by Israel to destroy it.
“The 12 July kidnapping of soldiers, Nasrallah claimed, cost Israel the element of surprise, leading to Israeli failure to destroy Hizbullah. “In October, they were planning to kill people while they slept, with their women and children,” said Nasrallah, who attempted to argue that the kidnapping of soldiers did the country a favor by sparing it a more severe devastation”
And Seymour Hersch should be pleased at his mention.
“To absolve himself of any responsibility, Nasrallah cited Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article to argue that Israel’s war had been pre-planned and it wasn’t about the prisoners. He said Israel would have created a pretext had they not kidnapped the soldiers, through one of their spy networks in the country. “A network like the (busted) Rafe’ network could have easily fired 7 katyusha rockets onto Israel and laid the blame on Hizbullah.””
“Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it”
So where are the apologies from the Left for their failure to understand geo-political strategy?
After all isn’t this admission game-set-and-match on the issue of whether it is appropriate to use massive force in response to attacks?
Proportionate response = failure.
Disproportionate response = victory.
Attack Coventry? Fine. Goodbye Dresden.
And if we aren’t prepared to do the same to Iran, then we deserve our dhimmitude.
Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 08 28 at 08:39 PM • permalink#34, dont forget;
Bomb Pearl Harbour = no more Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 29 at 12:54 AM • permalinkUmm so why did they kidnap the soldiers if not to provoke a war? Were they two short for a doubles match of table tennis?
Posted by russell2pi on 2006 08 29 at 09:43 PM • permalink
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Well yeah, buddy, who woulda guessed?
Dumb bastard.