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Friday, July 28, 2006 12:00 AM

Watching Beirut die

We went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city's newly vibrant culinary and cultural scene. Then the bombs started falling, and we could only stand on the barricades of our hotel balcony and watch it all disappear -- again.

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  • Thursday, July 27, 2006 09:26 PM

    WAR

    The sad truth is that this current team of superstars from West does not really have the stomach for this stuff. We like to invade weak enemies and give orders and aid so called loyaly friends like Israel even though it flies in the face of all that is true and good and right. We watch it all on TV and we tut tut or worse we applaud. And in the end the Israeli's will not have the stomach for it either they being propped up by the west. It sadens me that my tax dollars went to pay for some of the smart savvy bombs that murdered UN peackeepers and the other children and women and men of Lebanon this week. We are reaping a harvest now of what we have sowed. And, don't forget, the West are the team in this World Cup who will forever be playing their games away from home, at least until the game finally does come back to our home towns and we won't have much of a stomach for it then either Im afraid!

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