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Hezbollah Supporters Pretty Psyched That Their Guy Won

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This isn't really news - no more than Iran's endorsement or Hamas's endorsement were news - but I'm going to need this article when Obama gets around to disastrously engaging Hezbollah like he's repeatedly promised to do. I'll want to write something like "well it's only fair since they were kind enough to throw their weight behind him" and I'll need to make sure the story hasn't disappeared:

Thumbs up for Obama in Lebanon's Hezbollah bastions. Like other Lebanese-Americans in the Hezbollah bastion of Bint Jbeil, Hussein al-Sayyed speaks fondly of the American way of life and says he plans to cast his vote for Barack Obama.... "I'll vote for Obama, that's for sure," Sayyed, a Shiite 48-year-old restaurant owner and fan of the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, told a news agency ahead of Tuesday's US presidential election. Outgoing US President George W Bush is much resented in Bint Jbeil, where many residents believe that his Republican administration provided Israel with the laser-guided bombs that destroyed much of their town in the 2006 war. Although many agree with Khomeini's description of the United States as the "Great Satan," they also admire America and are grateful for the good life it has given them.

The Iranian-supplied weapons that Hezbollah used to actually start the 2006 war, however, don't seem to cause these residents much consternation. Almost as if there was something other than level-headed deliberation guiding their political allegiances.

References:
* Speaker Of Iranian Parliament: Of Course We Want Obama To Win [MR]
* Summer Camp Funtime For Palestinian Kids - Getting Brainwashed, Learning How To Launch Qassams (Plus: New Anti-Rocket Lasers) [MR]
* Thumbs up for Obama in Lebanon's Hezbollah bastions [AFP]
* Hezbollah: Actually, Israel Is Our Land Too [MR]
* 70 Percent Of American Jews Ready To Say "We Didn't Know" When Obama Detonates US-Israel Alliance (Plus: They Most Definitely Know) [MR]

Previously:
* Biden's Delusions Of Genius And Relevance Getting Obnoxious (Plus: Liberal Foreign Policy Experts Also Just Don't Know Stuff)
* Financial Times: Hey, Hezbollah Kind Of Rocks Don't They?
* Mere Rhetoric: Search Results

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