March 14 Resumes Attack on Cabinet as Berri Warns about Extension of Session
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March 14 opposition MPs resumed Wednesday their attack on the government on the second day of a three-day parliamentary session, which will witness statements by 53 more lawmakers.
Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Abou Khater accused the cabinet of corruption, reiterating that it was formed through a coup against ex-Premier Saad Hariri’s former government last year.
He lamented that one team works for the state and its institutions while the other works for its own state and security and military institutions, a reference to Hizbullah.
“We thank you for your revolt as you have demonstrated that the March 8 camp can never provide a plan to build the state,” said al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Khodr Habib during the session aimed at assessing the performance of Premier Najib Miqati’s government.
He called on the cabinet to resign for “isolating” Lebanon and “becoming a partner in the suppression of freedoms” in Syria through the adoption of a policy of distancing itself from the crisis in the neighboring country.
Another al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Ammar Houri slammed the cabinet over the red diesel scandal, the discovery of spoiled food throughout Lebanon and the intentional blocking of what is known as telecom data from security forces seeking to investigate assassination attempts against Lebanese officials.
Twenty MPs addressed the parliament on Tuesday at the start of the session. The legislature has rarely witnessed a request by 73 MPs to make statements, An Nahar daily said Wednesday.
Most of the opposition MPs harshly criticized the government over its policy on the Syrian crisis and its performance in economic and social affairs. They also slammed the cabinet in its slackness on security issues.
Sources told the newspaper that March 8 majority officials have issued an order to their deputies to score the largest possible number of statements which led to a counter-attack by the opposition.
This prompted Speaker Nabih Berri to ask all sides to reconsider their requests to address the assembly to guarantee its conclusion on Thursday night.
During the opening of Wednesday’s assembly, Berri warned deputies that he will have to hold another session on Saturday morning and afternoon if they refuse to withdraw the growing requests to address the legislature.
“Let no one tell me it’s a weekend,” he quipped.
18 April 2012, 13:46
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FPM deliberately forget that their friend from M8 shared and ruled lebanon along with rafic hariri... and only blame M14 for all the problems = typical coward behavior.
FPM forgets that aoun said the corruption system was put in place by the syrians and ALL the MPs and ministers had to participate or else DIE... = typical alzheimer behavior...
FPM forgets that M14 had the courage to go against syria when they left but M8 thanked them for all the problems syria did to lebanon... = typical stockholm syndrom...
FPM forgets that rafic hariri got killed right after he said no to the syrians and even the puppet said that the syrians were the killers = again typical alzheimer behavior...
18 April 2012, 14:11
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Nice one peace but hear this:
Harriri and co were PM and had the major posts such as the ministry of finance so they are hen one top be blamed: if a ship sinks you blame its captain not the sailors, nor the passengers.
FPM is M14 since 1989 back then Harriri was PM and was Syria n1 one man, but when the Syrian occupation ended we were bound to make peace with our neighbors
Rafic Harriri got killed after he said no to the Syrians but before that he was their n1 one man and he did all their dirty work, so should we forget or just forgive?
18 April 2012, 15:53
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Hariri might have been their #1 man ... but your Aoun is currently their #1 man (using the term man very loosly here). For that it is very soon for us to either forgive nor forget he direct switch. ba3den before you run and make peace with your neighbors (nazzalteli dame3ti) let your neighbors return all the Lebanese prisoners they have in their jails and let them apologize for the madabe7 they did in Lebanon during their time of occupation.
18 April 2012, 16:23
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oh then i guess your sense of justice make all the hariris ministers that are now M8 innocent of corruption because only one man is to blame... they were just passive and victims? ROFL
funny sense of justice you have... M8 double standards as usual...
18 April 2012, 16:24
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funny how reminding you the facts make you aggressive and impolite... typical of a man who cannot assume and finds no arguments to defend himself....
18 April 2012, 18:39
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Peace actually complemented you Candle thrower....he called you a 'man" but little does h knows that you are anything but a man.
18 April 2012, 13:47
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FPM forgets that they blocked the political life by shutting down the parliament preventing any urgent reforms to be implemented and now accuse M14 of having done nothing = typical hypocrit behavior...
FPM forgets their chief was an ally of the USA, praising the USA and spitting on syria and now they do the contrary = typical opportunist and coward behavior...
i suggest to the FPM to go and get checked by shrinks....
18 April 2012, 14:14
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the parliament was blocked for less then a year what about the other 5 years? why didn't they present their budget and their accounts?
GMA was not a friend of USA remember they were the one who kicked him out of Baabda and replaced him by their puppet Rafic Harriri, he was friend with some of the american politicians, and he only became friend with Syria AFTER they ended their occupation (typical war hero behavior, remember DeGaulle, Cesar...)
18 April 2012, 16:00
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Sorry ... I really tried holding back ... WTF are you talking about War Hero?! This is a typical coward behavior ... this regime has killed Lebanese citizens ... Lebanese officers who were executed by them ... I was tortured by them for 3 days ... many others were nto as lucky as I was.
War HERO!!!!! lik roo7o ma ahbal minkon illa yalli byemshe ma3kon ... cowards following a coward.
W seriously ... you are comparing Aoun to Cesar??? what next?? Jesus?? or God??? msateel walla!
18 April 2012, 16:25
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"what about the other 5 years?" ohhh you d better then refresh your memory and look what happened during those years....
18 April 2012, 16:27
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"you ally yourselves with the worst kind of foreign fundamentalists"
oh? funny argument forgetting that you main ally is allied with an islamic republic and call themselves "islamic resistance" and not lebanese resistance....they pledge allegiance to an fundamentalist country not to lebanon...
i wonder who is the idiot if not you....
18 April 2012, 13:50
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and finally FPM forgets that they used to bark at their current allies for allying with syria and called the hezb a terrorist party only good at blocking lebanon
and now they praise the very same they used to accuse of preventing lebanon to move forward...
i guess because their leaders have big bank accounts now.....
18 April 2012, 14:17
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our current allies and ennemies were all at some point Assad minions: Harriri for 15 years, geagea for 5 years, Gemayel for 6 years...now that the Syrian occupation has ended their are new rules: no to Salafis weather Saoudi or 2ekhwan, no to Israel and US domination... and most certainly no to those who stole your money for years aka HArriri family
18 April 2012, 16:20
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oh, no money stole by berry frangieh wahhab lahoud and co? funny guy kesrweneh , soooo funny how you suddenly forget parts of the facts!!!!
19 April 2012, 08:08
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agreed no to any of those occupiers .. but your forgetting another one .. or do all M8 always forget to mention no to Iranian and shi3a domination.
ONE STATE. ONE MILITARY INSTITUTE. ONE LEBANON. Thats the only thing we need. forget ALL these politicians. but we still need a ONE UNIFIED STAND.
18 April 2012, 16:18
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funny how M8 supporters twist the facts to satisfy their lack of courage to assume that they are part of the pb lebanon is facing...
typical reaction of coward populists....
18 April 2012, 16:32
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oh by the way FT: if sinioura is guilty of theft why don t you produce evidence to accuse him instead of barking and throuwing the blame on him?
courts of justice exixt in lebanon so why don t your friends sue him and bring evidence???
i am not against bringing him to justice if he s guilty, but if M8 truly seek for justice then they shall also bring thefts in their own ranks and stop blaming the others !!
this is what normal people do when they are sure of themselves and don t bark like you and your friends to try to look like bulldogs when only chiwawas....
18 April 2012, 17:26
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Aansou what a joke...Allah yiqnsak enti wi weh...you are becoming stupider by the second..FT "qansou in parliament, uncovered" you can't possibly believe that...he reminds me of "zanga zanga" LOL
18 April 2012, 17:32
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FT: I want our country to be strong and independent with a government that is able to think about Lebanon first and last. I want the Syrian stranglehold on the country to End. In my mind the Syrian occupation of Lebanon never ended. In my mind, Syria's supreme goal is to swallow Lebanon and digest it. They killed Bachir and Gebran and so many bright and promising people. They have their clients in our Parliament and in our government: Hezbollah, Aoumieh, Baath, you name it. To me, this is the core issue. We cannot independently make foreign policy decisions: They have to be OK:ed by Damascus. Heck we can't even form a government without endless shuttles to Damascus. I admit that the Syrian's influence is somewhat degraded (they have so many issues to deal with at home), but I accuse Hezbollah of being a direct extension of Syria's chockehold on the country. Large areas of the country are under the direct control of Hezbollah's gunmen. Is this natural? How can you accept this?
18 April 2012, 17:32
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Please don't hit me with the argument that many of the M14:s where also sitting in Syria's lap at one point in the past, because I agree with with you on this one: everybody at some point did business with the Syrians. Some due sheer lack of spine and some because they needed to survive under the occupation. So how do we make Lebanon a normal country, a country for all its citizens? I don't want Lebanon to be part of the "Axis of Resistance", nor do I want Lebanon to become a Beduin country, nor an American or french protectorate. Just Lebanon. I keep looking at the many years that so many of us invested in this vision and we're not even close to it. How are we going to get there?
18 April 2012, 23:34
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This is what Lebamese politics is all about. An exercise in futily. Arabs are primitive . Incapable of clear thinking, Factional bickerers. SALAFISTS ARE CORRECT DEMOCRACY DOES NOT SUIT ISLAM. So you should whine, point fingers and complain. It is no wonder that the British, Americans, Israelis and Billionaire thieves find it so easy to manipulate you.Truth.
19 April 2012, 15:00
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can t stop laughing me head off.
the best i have ever read on naharnet.
Aoun is a War hero.
Are we talking about Speedy gonzales who made the runner to the french embassy????
A war hero !!!!
Keserweneh ,good job, keep us entertained.
