Lawsuit filed against Rumsfeld and Rice is really about Jew & US hatred, not 'faulty' Lebanon evacuations

This story is about a week old, but I just heard about it after watching CNN for a few minutes and listening to someone who is either a lawyer or spokesperson on behalf of the Arab group filing this suit. First, the story:

DETROIT (Reuters) – An Arab-American civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit on Monday charging the Bush administration with failing to protect the lives of thousands of U.S. citizens trapped in Lebanon by the Israeli military offensive.

That group is the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Here’s the kicker, though (emphasis added):

The lawsuit, which was filed by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, seeks an emergency court order that would compel the U.S. government to stop sending weapons to Israel as long as U.S. citizens are trying to leave Lebanon.

Get that? If it weren’t for the US gov’t sending weapons to Israel, the American citizens living in or visiting Lebanon wouldn’t be in any danger. Because we know Hezbollah terrorists don’t target and hide behind civilians, do they?

The group also is asking for an injunction that would force Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to request a ceasefire and an order that U.S. officials “increase their evacuation efforts and use all resources at their disposal,” including more military transports and commercial charters.

And where’s that public outcry on the part of the ADC for Hezbollah to stop firing its weapons, too? I must have missed it.

“This is not an issue of the Israel and Lebanese conflict. We’re only addressing the issue of United States citizens’ concerns for being free from harm,” Nabih Ayad, lead lawyer for the ADC, told reporters.

Right. It’s “not an issue of the Israel and Lebanese conflict” – that’s why the ADC only chooses to slam the US for sending weaponry to Israel, and not their Arab brothers in Hezbollah for starting this war to begin with.

But the perceived slow-pace of the response and an early, now-abandoned policy that required U.S. citizens to agree to pay for the costs of their evacuation have provoked widespread anger in Detroit’s Lebanese community, the largest outside Lebanon.

Nina Chahine, 19, who with her family was among the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said her wedding in the southern city of Tyre was set for July 13. The wedding had to be postponed as family members fled the outbreak of the war, she said.

“We were on the road and the first bridge was bombed and we drove home and all the other bridges were bombed and there was absolutely no way for us to get home,” Chahine told reporters outside federal court in Detroit.

“We were all American citizens and there was no way that anybody helped us. No communications nothing. I was on my way to my wedding fearing death, basically.”

Um, Lebanon isn’t exactly known as a tourists paradise, lady. Why didn’t you leave or at the very least take extra precautions when the US warned potential US visitors to Lebanon (as well as US citizens already living there) a year and a half ago as to how dangerous it was to be there, and how Americans could be targeted?

This lawsuit is nothing but a sham – and it provides yet another glimpse into the gimme mentality of American citizens who should have heeded advanced warnings about the dangers posed from living in or visiting Lebanon as well as gives yet one more Arab-affiliated group the opportunity to slam the US and Israel under the thin veil of supposed neutrality, while iconveniently failing to call on their Arab brothers to stop their (large) part in this war. Don’t fall for it.

As a sidenote, I also have to give credit to the CNN anchor who interviewed the two people they had on who were pushing this lawsuit (one was a plaintiff who had signed on, the other was – as I noted before – either a lawyer or spokesman for the ADC – sorry, I didn’t catch their names). The anchor actually took a defensive posture towards what the two interviewees were saying and got quite exasperated towards the end. He looked relieved when the segment was over. So here is a rare show of props on my part towards CNN.

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Prior:

Mwalimu Daudi says:

July 29, 2006 at 12:28 pm

Interesting. Does this mean that I can file a lawsuit against various MSM outlets for failing to report on the discovery of WMDs in Iraq? How about against the New York Times for illegally revealing the NSA terrorist surveillance program? An excellent argument could be made that these have endangered American lives.

And can I file a lawsuit against Cindy Sheehan and other “peace” protestors for aiding and abetting Islamofascist terrorist groups? Perhaps against the entire Democratic leadership in Congress for proposing an illegal impeachment of President Bush (and thus aiding the terrorists and putting American lives at risk)?

If “failing to protect the lives of thousands of U.S. citizens” is the now the new legal standard, pretty much every Democratic politician and MSM journalist should be facing a loooooong stint in the slammer. Or are laws only made for little and unimportant people?

Drewsmom says:

July 29, 2006 at 7:25 pm

I saw this idiot woman on Fox and I think it was Oreilly interviewing her. She spun the issue like a drunk top and her arguements have already been proved wrong. Most all of the Lebonese in America are loaded so they don’t need the money, I dated a Lebonese guy way back in high school, gosh he was good lookin, he played football for the University of Ala., his name was Joe LaBue and I have his neice in one of my classes at PHS where I sub. Will have to get her take on this and ask how uncle Joe feels, but they have good sense and love the USA

Severian says:

July 29, 2006 at 8:51 pm

Was that the University of Ala. or the University of Alah?

July 30, 2006 at 6:36 am

No Sev, it was the U of Alabama, Roll Tide. They have been her for decades and I am sure they feel for their homeland but also LOVE America, and by the way, pretty sure all their relatives are here by now its been 30 years since we dated — I’m an old fart don’t ya know sweetheart.

July 30, 2006 at 10:58 am

Drewsmom, I once really upset a woman I was on a blind date with because of U of Ala and football. She was going on and on about the fact my alma mater had just started a football team, which bored me to tears. So, when she said she went to U of Ala, I asked her, deadpan, “Oh, do they have a football team?” Really bent her out of shape, which told me what I needed to know…any woman without a strong sense of humor would not be a good person for me to date. Fortunately, I eventually found my wife, who can put up with me, God bless her!

Not Dick but Richard says:

August 4, 2006 at 10:44 am

The MSM failed to report on WMDs being found?

Most all Labanese Amercians are rich?

LOL, this blog and the comments are priceless.

I really needed a laugh today, thanks

Kelli Harris says:

January 6, 2007 at 10:36 pm

Uncle Joe LaBue is of Italian descent, not Lebanese. Thanks for all the kind words, though. He is a high school football coach at Smiths Station in South Alabama now.