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300: THE LEBANESE POLITICAL MONKEYS ARE QUARRELING, BICKERING, AND FIGHTING OVER THE IMAGINARY CHEESE AGAIN – will they ask the cat to act as judge and settle it for them again……too?

21 June, 2008

THE LEBANESE POLITICAL MONKEYS ARE QUARRELING, BICKERING, AND FIGHTING OVER THE IMAGINARY CHEESE AGAIN – will they ask the cat to act as judge and settle it for them again……too?

Original headline: Cabinet assembly shows no sign of early completion – Talks increasingly complicated

The Daily Star Staff Friday 20^th June 2008

BEIRUT: Efforts to set up a National Unity Government and push through the next phase of the Doha process remained stalled on Thursday, with disputes between and within Lebanon's main political coalitions throwing wrenches into the consultations works regarding the distribution of cabinet portfolios.

It seems demands for portfolios have become a lot more than available ministerial portfolios; each side selects some portfolios, but after they’ve seen the other side’s portfolios, they decide the other side’s portfolios are better, so they want them, instead; and after they have exchanged portfolios, the other side’s portfolios still look better, so…If things continue this way, each side will have 30 ministries, and Lebanon and the Lebanese people will end up and have to put up with too many ministries for a country that is smaller than many cities in many other countries.

Saniora: Talks increasingly complicated due to the lack of significant progress in consultations.

My dear Fouad, talks and consultations with whom: Berri, Nesrallah, and Aoun? What does one have to do to convince the average Lebanese Apes – citizens – that they do not want these or those ministries; they want all of them. Actually, the average, decent, and sensible Lebanese Ape-citizen would think that the Defence, Interior, Finance, Foreign Affairs, and Justice Ministries ought to be the President’s prerogatives. No wonder that, first, the opposition refused to grant the president 5 cabinet portfolios or ministries, only 3; and second, they choose the 3 for him! Was this what Aoun meant by increasing the president’s power? However, we cannot and must not put all the blame on Aoun because without his illiterate and ignorant followers, he wouldn’t be where he is, and he couldn’t have done what he did, and Syria and Iran couldn’t have used him as their FOOL AND TOOL through Tiz-Allah and Anal – OOPS! Sorry. Hezballah and Amal.

Did the Doha Accord effectively end the dispute over the numerical distribution of cabinet seats? NO! The Doha Accord is even worse than the Taif Accord. Trust the Arabs to come up with two such HORSE-SHITS! Also, just look at the portfolio-swapping proposal that Nabih Berri made to President Michael Suleiman – Berri is supposed to be the Speaker, but he is not only the Chief of Amal, he is also the Chief of the opposition.

Nabih Beriberi Berri may fool – actually, he has fooled – the other two elements or sides of the ruling triangle or troika – the president and the prime minister – and the rest of you out there, but he doesn’t and cannot fool Daniel in The Lion’s Den. Never in the history of politics has the Speaker ever been a member, let alone a leader, of the opposition! And never in the history of governments has the opposition ever been a part of, and apart from, the government at the same time! BY GOD!

A process of government formation that produces a cabinet of co-existence and the formation of a National Unity Government that includes the Opposition, would not usher in a period of national reconciliation; it would usher in an even worse period of confusion, confrontations, and conflicts; and it would mean nothing good could or would be done for Lebanon or the Lebanese people – only for Syria and Iran and their Proxies, Moles, Rats, Jackals, Hyenas, and Fiends; and as for the claims that Hezballah drove Israel from South Lebanon, not all of us are Etc, and so forth and so on. Syria is trying to save its ASS-Ad from the International Tribunal, and gain a lot of foreign trade/investments, and other pay-backs and incentives, too, to boot; so Syria and Israel – and Iran, somehow, although I haven’t quite figured that out yet, but I will, and sooner than you think – are taking us all for a run-around rigmarole-ride, and making fools of all of us, through Hezballah and Amal. BUT! If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it too many times already, that not all of us are Etc and so forth and...

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