Aoun says people being robbed, urges president who can 'absorb shock'
Former president Michel Aoun on Tuesday presided over the weekly meeting of the Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc for the first time since leaving office.
“The entire state needs rebuilding and I regret that the Lebanese people are silent while being robbed of their money,” Aoun said after the meeting.
“We need a president who can absorb the shock and continue the path,” he added.
Warning that “there cannot be a country unless the current ruling class changes,” Aoun lamented that “80% of the Lebanese people have become poor.”
“We have three to four years ahead until we start breathing, as we wait for the quantities of gas present in the (offshore) blocks, and we must preserve our political path and seek accountability,” the ex-president added.
20 December 2022, 21:32
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Aoun, Bassil and cronies should be audited and spend Xmas in prison. From $45 billion wasted on EDL mismanagement & kickbacks, only $20 billion would have converted Lebanon to fully renewable energy; $4 billion investment in Giga-battery factory employing thousands, gradually converted cars to EV and providing backbone for energy grid stability; $5 billion to purchase TBM and create tunnels (cost repaid by tolls) from Beirut and Tripoli ports to Bekaa and Akkar to divert trucks, reduce energy and crashes, and improve port attractiveness; $5 billion for monorail from Tripoli to Tyr to connect cities and reduce energy, congestion and pollution... Egypt built a new capital, modern cities and industry, modern railway network and ports, new highways, new farms for less than what Aoun/FPM stole and wasted on bogus projects from Turkish boats to leaky dams and fake subsidy.
21 December 2022, 00:19
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Word of the day
rob (v.)
late 12c., robben, "steal, take away (from someone) unlawfully; plunder or strip (a place) by force or violence," from Old French rober "rob, steal, pillage, ransack, rape," from West Germanic *rauba "booty" (source also of Old High German roubon "to rob," roub "spoil, plunder;" Old English reafian, source of the reave in bereave), from Proto-Germanic *raubon "to rob" (from PIE *runp- "to break;")).
Lord, hou schulde God approve þat þou robbe Petur, and gif þis robbere to Poule in þe name of Crist? [Wyclif, c. 1380]
