Bush: 'A New Power' In South Lebanon

President Says Israel Defeated Hezbollah Guerillas In Monthlong War

(CBS/AP)  President Bush said Monday that Hezbollah guerillas suffered a defeat at the hands of Israel in their month-long Mideast war.

"There's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon," Mr. Bush said.

Mr. Bush also said the war was part of a broader struggle between freedom and terror and "we can only imagine how much more dangerous this conflict would be if Iran had the nuclear weapon it seeks."

Mr. Bush said Iran and Syria were the primary sponsors of Hezbollah guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers, igniting the battle with Israel. More than 900 people were killed in the fighting, and there was massive destruction in southern Lebanon.

Mr. Bush said the "responsibility for this suffering lies with Hezbollah."

The president spoke at the State Department after conferring with his national security team, first at the Pentagon and then at the State Department. He was flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The Bush administration kept its distance from Israel during the conflict but privately, the administration saw it as a chance to cripple Hezbollah, reports CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante. The White House got nervous when that didn't happen quickly and is now hoping Israel did enough damage to neutralize Hezbollah.

Mr. Bush said the U.N. cease-fire resolution adopted Friday was "an important step forward that will help bring an end to the violence."

"We certainly hope the cease-fire holds," the president said.

"Lebanon can't be a strong democracy when there is a state within a state, and that's Hezbollah," Mr. Bush said.

"Hezbollah attacked Israel without any knowledge of the (Lebanese) government. Hezbollah attacked Israel. Hezbollah started the crisis, and Hezbollah suffered a defeat in this crisis," the president said.

In the Mideast, there were competing claims about who came out on top in the month-long war that claimed more than 900 lives.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the war had shifted the strategic balance in the region and eliminated the "state within a state" run by Hezbollah, restoring Lebanon's sovereignty in the south.

But Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said his guerrillas achieved a "strategic, historic victory" against Israel. "We came out victorious in a war in which big Arab armies were defeated (before)," Nasrallah said.

"Both sides will claim victory, but recognize further conflict has no benefit. As long as Hezbollah is somewhat constrained, as it was before, Israel can deal with the outcome," Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said on CBS News' The Early Show. "We have to watch both sides to see if they can keep the cease-fire intact in the next few hours and days and what happens over the next month."

One Israeli commentator called it merely "the beginning of the countdown to the next war" but CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey reports
that a more optimistic view is that cease-fires here are a process of phased relaxation.

Meanwhile, Lebanese civilians streamed back to their homes Monday after a U.N. cease-fire halted fighting in a month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas that has claimed more than 900 lives and sent people fleeing on both sides of the border. The Lebanese returned to find "block after block, totally destroyed, some of the buildings still smoldering," reports CBS News correspondent Kristen Gillespie (audio).

Israelis also emerged emerging from bomb shelters, as Hezbollah rockets stopped falling on northern cities, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger. But in a sign that Israelis are unsure that the cease-fire will hold, there has been no influx of returning refugees.

In other developments:

Just hours after the start of a U.N. cease-fire, Hezbollah guerillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets into southern Lebanon early Tuesday, the army said. None of them reached Israel and no injuries were reported. Hezbollah has said it will attack Israeli forces in southern Lebanon despite the truce.

An Israeli air strike late Monday destroyed a house in the Gaza Strip, injuring at least eight people, officials said. The military said an Islamic Jihad command center was targeted but Palestinians said the building was empty.

Two members of a Fox News crew were kidnapped Monday in Gaza City. According to witnesses and to Fox, a car carrying the crew was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen, who kidnapped two of the journalists. Fox News said in a statement, "We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza."

At least one child was killed and 15 people were wounded by ordnance that exploded as they returned to their homes in south Lebanon after 34 days of Israeli air strikes, security officials said. Hezbollah accused Israel of rigging explosives to intentionally harm civilians, especially children, returning to their homes in the south.

Three Palestinians were killed early Monday in an Israeli military strike near the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. Israel said it fired at the three after they launched two homemade rockets that hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. A spokesman for Islamic Jihad confirmed the militant group fired rockets at the town.

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by grazinggoat August 15, 2006 6:39 AM EDT

Remeber Saddam in Koweit?
It's the first time Israel HAS BEEN driven into the mud by its best accomplice. It's the first time Israel Has not been fighting a real defensive war. As per Seymour Hersh it was a greedy attempt to grab more of the land North of it and test the resolve of the Lebanese Resistance Whereever it took it's arms from... They (IDF) faced a determined and stiff Lebanese Guerilla, the only type of resistance to prove able to resist the IDF Barbaric attack. Which in such case of frustration turned its anger on defenseless CIVILIANS. UN secretary general Annan, and many other international Humanitarian orgs question the possibility of bringing the rogue state of Israel to court for crimes against humanity, committed on the Soil of Lebanon- Qana... (What for? could they? Obviously Useless) .

Olmert for the first time recognizes this decision was not easy to manage and mainly with the influence fo GWBush administration Israel and it's political felt dragged into this Litani swamp full of Ferociously hungry Croccs, that is the lebanese resistance. Their losses are certainly less important than the IDF losses, in term of nice little war ... It's the first time a resistance organization beats the IDF losses.
Does Israel controle it' destiny while serving the GW won interests... the best court Olmert could face is the next justice rendered by the people of Israel during the elections ro come...

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by abu ammar August 15, 2006 2:37 AM EDT

President Bush now says the Lebanese crisis was part of the war between "freedom and terror." I thought the combatants in the war he has assigned himself to wage were himself and what he refers to as Muslim fascists.

The fact that Israel failed to achieved its avowed objectives of destroying Hizbullah and rescuing the two captured Israeli soldiers is a clear statement that Bush and his proxy Israel lost the war.

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by one_american August 14, 2006 10:41 PM EDT

alphaa10:

You couldn't be more wrong in your views. There is no future with persuing Middle East peace in the manner which it has been done for many decades now. Liberal appeasement will only allow Islamic Fascism to grow unchecked. That is the brain-damaged policy which you speak about. Your way of thinking is outdated, irrelevant, and misguided by your "progressive" (read regressive) party, and your time is over. There is no future for your way of thinking.

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by ralphj53 August 14, 2006 10:19 PM EDT

August 14, 2006

Hello;

I don't think EITHER side won the war. Both LEARNED good lessons on how to wage a GUERRILLA war. At the very beginning, ISRAEL hesitated and wanted to LIMIT the war to "pin-pricks" assualt.

Shakespeare once said that "He who hesitates is lost". Next time, I bet you... it's going to be an "ALL OUT ASSAULT" by the army, with no quarters asked or given. By ISRAEL.

Neither side won because ISRAEL did NOT disarm HEZBOLLZH by force. HEZBOLLAH still has those MISSILES pointed at ISRAEl. Wars are won on the battlefield... just like we DISARMED Saddam Hussein.... BY FORCE... like it or not!!!

A piece of paper... like the United Nations Security Council mandate.. is just that... a piece of paper.

The rest is up to the combatants.

ISRAEL has the best INTELLIGENCE in the world... the MOSSAD. Why did they NOT know about those missiles being pointed at their country?

And usually, ISRAEL "pre-empts" a strike... to disable the enemy.
Who knows?

Thanks,
Ralph J. Monasterio

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by alphaa10-2009 August 14, 2006 9:22 PM EDT

BigAl321321-- Your comparison of Hezbollah to Al Capone was probably as apt as Bush PR about "rebuilding" Iraq-- except in Lebanon, the natives actually believe Hezbollah.

Clearly, any terror organization like Hezbollah needs to cultivate the locals, especially in Lebanon. But your conclusion to exterminate Lebanon in order to exterminate Hezbollah is faulty. The Israeli invasion gained little, just like the last Israeli invasion in 1982, because its purpose was to disarm Hezbollah. And this time, the damage to us is worse-- the Israeli invasion has cut our diplomatic feet from under us as an honest broker of peace in the MidEast.

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by tomflint69 August 14, 2006 9:04 PM EDT

Hisbullah you won the match!
u caused Mr. Bush, UN and others to arrange for international forces to save the nose of Israel. I wonder that Israel that has been falsely known every where for its millitary strength, air power and with US given weapons, how you defeate it. This time I must say the terrorist have won.

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by alphaa10-2009 August 14, 2006 9:01 PM EDT

One_American, Part 1--
You have misunderstood. The inept defense always asks rhetorically, "OK, a little brutality never hurt anybody. Ya want to coddle criminals?... Ya want to appease terror"? Not at all-- I want something better, and so should you. We should want something more practical and intelligent than Neocons tutoring Bush, and a brutal Israeli overreaction-- earnestly playing to the Islamic jihad movement around the world. They have enough videotape of urban rubble and torn Lebanese civilian bodies to last a generation.

Again, unintelligent and bungled plans only make things worse. That is why America must condemn both Bush and the Israeli invasion he endorsed subrosa for *** up this latest episode in Lebanon. We should have been an honest peace broker, working simply to stop the killing of Lebanese civilians immediately. A ceasefire would have maintained the conditions which prevailed before the two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. Now more than 100 Israeli soliders and uncounted civilians on both sides are dead. An honest American peace broker would have gained immensely in prestige-- which this country certainly could have used in the region.

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by alphaa10-2009 August 14, 2006 9:01 PM EDT

One_American, Part 2
Unfortunately, any peace but a postwar peace was not enough for Bush and his Neocon friends in Washington, or for Olmert and backers in Israel. Bush and the Neocons (as in, "new con-men") want to stop Iranian influence from growing in the region by any means, and if they can launch a proxy war via Israel with tanks, jets, artillery against Hezbollah, they consider it a "victory".

Sad to say, Lebanon is a defeat for everything America stands for. Lebanese are now convinced we did nothing to help stop the attacks because we are what the Iranians and Syrians and Hezbollah says-- rich stooges for a Zionist plan to oppress them.

We Americans must seriously reevaluate our misguided policy in the MidEast. With enemies like us, terrorism needs no other friends. By your misguided support of brain-damaged neocon policies from Bush and the Israeli invasion, you support the advance of terror in the MidEast.

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by one_american August 14, 2006 8:11 PM EDT

nomifla:

There has never been a time when the Arab world hasn't been engraged about something, and it is always someone else's fault. Maybe if they loved their children more than they hate the Jews, the world would be at peace.

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by one_american August 14, 2006 8:09 PM EDT

alphaa10:

If you believe in appeasement of terrorist entities, then by all means, fall on your sword. Don't expect anyone to follow your retreat from the war on terror.

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by nomifla August 14, 2006 8:08 PM EDT

Typical GWB, tries to incite another war before the dust settles on this one. The entire world took note of our silence as Lebanon was destroyed and civilians murdered. This administrations policies have done nothing for our security and have further enraged the Muslim and Arab world.

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by alphaa10-2009 August 14, 2006 7:40 PM EDT

noomgod-- The Jewish people was native to the MidEast before Europeans took upon themselves the "white man's burden" of redistricting the area into respective power centers after WW1. Then and now, the region is a chaos of claims and counterclaims, but it is certain the Jews have as much an ancestral claim to a nation as any other people. Half the Jews in Israel are not imports, but people descended from Jews evicted from *their* traditional homes in lands around Israel.

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by alphaa10-2009 August 14, 2006 7:36 PM EDT

One_American-- Hezbollah is the terrorist response of Shia to the last Israeli invasion of Lebanon, a generation ago. Since then, Hezbollah clearly has grown, not diminished-- just as the influence of Iran has grown, not diminished.

The net result of the US-sponsored Lebanon invasion is a long-term reinforcement of Shia/Syrian/Iranian influence in Lebanon-- just the opposite of what we had hoped after the Syrians left earlier this year. And we have helped install a new wave of hatred for things Israeli and American%u2013 it seems one Republican president cannot learn from another (Reagan, 1982, Bush, 2006).

Every Muslim in the world now knows Bush and Rice stood by and whistled "Give Peace a Chance" while cynically giving a green light to the Israeli plunder of Lebanon%u2013 all to help nullify growing Iranian influence through Syria and Hezbollah. We cannot spend enough billions on a PR campaign to undo the damage from this latest bungled attempt to have things our way in the region. And you call this the "war on terror"?

Although there is massive destruction in Lebanon, our gas pump purchases will fuel Iranian crude sales to fuel massive reconstruction of Shia areas-- with all the credit going to Syria and Iran, the very states you say are going under. This is not at all how the Bush neocons and Israelis planned the affair to end, and it will become more and more expensive for all concerned.

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by noomgod August 14, 2006 6:45 PM EDT

This is the year 2006. These people have been killing each other for, oh say two thousand and six odd years. The world is not going to stop them, they will quit rest up and start all over again. But the United Nations did not help the stituation any by putting the displaced Jews from the Holacaust from WWII in Palestine so they can create a Jewish state that didn't exsist before the war. That would like taking all the refugees in Africa and say hey you guys can live New Jersey.

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by one_american August 14, 2006 6:02 PM EDT

Hezbollah may have survived the battle, but terrorism is steadily losing the war.

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by bigal321321 August 14, 2006 5:51 PM EDT

Take a look at American History and you'll find every problem the world has ever faced in one form or another. We've done it all. This Hezbollah vs. Israel thing I view as the same as Al Capone owning Chicago. He did a lot for the poor fold of Chicago and folks there loved him. They couldn't see past the good things he'd done to see the evil he was spreading. Until the government stood up to him and put an end to his rule nothing changed. Until Lebanon stands up and says no more Hezbollah malitia then nothing will change. Why do they have an army anyway if they're going to let Hezbollah do the fighting for them? Lebenon has to stop the goverenment withing a goverenment got get thing to change.

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by emtak August 14, 2006 12:36 PM EDT

yeay! I hope tommorow brings more Peace

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[grazinggoat]

Remeber Saddam in Koweit?
It's the first time Israel HAS BEEN driven into the mud by its best accomplice. It's the first time Israel Has not been fighting a real defensive war. As per Seymour Hersh it was a greedy attempt to grab more of the land North of it and test the resolve of the Lebanese Resistance Whereever it took it's arms from... They (IDF) faced a determined and stiff Lebanese Guerilla, the only type of resistance to prove able to resist the IDF Barbaric attack. Which in such case of frustration turned its anger on defenseless CIVILIANS. UN secretary general Annan, and many other international Humanitarian orgs question the possibility of bringing the rogue state of Israel to court for crimes against humanity, committed on the Soil of Lebanon- Qana... (What for? could they? Obviously Useless) .

Olmert for the first time recognizes this decision was not easy to manage and mainly with the influence fo GWBush administration Israel and it's political felt dragged into this Litani swamp full of Ferociously hungry Croccs, that is the lebanese resistance. Their losses are certainly less important than the IDF losses, in term of nice little war ... It's the first time a resistance organization beats the IDF losses.
Does Israel controle it' destiny while serving the GW won interests... the best court Olmert could face is the next justice rendered by the people of Israel during the elections ro come...

[abu ammar]

President Bush now says the Lebanese crisis was part of the war between "freedom and terror." I thought the combatants in the war he has assigned himself to wage were himself and what he refers to as Muslim fascists.

The fact that Israel failed to achieved its avowed objectives of destroying Hizbullah and rescuing the two captured Israeli soldiers is a clear statement that Bush and his proxy Israel lost the war.

[one_american]

alphaa10:

You couldn't be more wrong in your views. There is no future with persuing Middle East peace in the manner which it has been done for many decades now. Liberal appeasement will only allow Islamic Fascism to grow unchecked. That is the brain-damaged policy which you speak about. Your way of thinking is outdated, irrelevant, and misguided by your "progressive" (read regressive) party, and your time is over. There is no future for your way of thinking.

[ralphj53]

August 14, 2006

Hello;

I don't think EITHER side won the war. Both LEARNED good lessons on how to wage a GUERRILLA war. At the very beginning, ISRAEL hesitated and wanted to LIMIT the war to "pin-pricks" assualt.

Shakespeare once said that "He who hesitates is lost". Next time, I bet you... it's going to be an "ALL OUT ASSAULT" by the army, with no quarters asked or given. By ISRAEL.

Neither side won because ISRAEL did NOT disarm HEZBOLLZH by force. HEZBOLLAH still has those MISSILES pointed at ISRAEl. Wars are won on the battlefield... just like we DISARMED Saddam Hussein.... BY FORCE... like it or not!!!

A piece of paper... like the United Nations Security Council mandate.. is just that... a piece of paper.

The rest is up to the combatants.

ISRAEL has the best INTELLIGENCE in the world... the MOSSAD. Why did they NOT know about those missiles being pointed at their country?

And usually, ISRAEL "pre-empts" a strike... to disable the enemy.
Who knows?

Thanks,
Ralph J. Monasterio

[alphaa10-2009]

BigAl321321-- Your comparison of Hezbollah to Al Capone was probably as apt as Bush PR about "rebuilding" Iraq-- except in Lebanon, the natives actually believe Hezbollah.

Clearly, any terror organization like Hezbollah needs to cultivate the locals, especially in Lebanon. But your conclusion to exterminate Lebanon in order to exterminate Hezbollah is faulty. The Israeli invasion gained little, just like the last Israeli invasion in 1982, because its purpose was to disarm Hezbollah. And this time, the damage to us is worse-- the Israeli invasion has cut our diplomatic feet from under us as an honest broker of peace in the MidEast.

[tomflint69]

Hisbullah you won the match!
u caused Mr. Bush, UN and others to arrange for international forces to save the nose of Israel. I wonder that Israel that has been falsely known every where for its millitary strength, air power and with US given weapons, how you defeate it. This time I must say the terrorist have won.

[alphaa10-2009]

One_American, Part 1--
You have misunderstood. The inept defense always asks rhetorically, "OK, a little brutality never hurt anybody. Ya want to coddle criminals?... Ya want to appease terror"? Not at all-- I want something better, and so should you. We should want something more practical and intelligent than Neocons tutoring Bush, and a brutal Israeli overreaction-- earnestly playing to the Islamic jihad movement around the world. They have enough videotape of urban rubble and torn Lebanese civilian bodies to last a generation.

Again, unintelligent and bungled plans only make things worse. That is why America must condemn both Bush and the Israeli invasion he endorsed subrosa for *** up this latest episode in Lebanon. We should have been an honest peace broker, working simply to stop the killing of Lebanese civilians immediately. A ceasefire would have maintained the conditions which prevailed before the two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. Now more than 100 Israeli soliders and uncounted civilians on both sides are dead. An honest American peace broker would have gained immensely in prestige-- which this country certainly could have used in the region.

[alphaa10-2009]

One_American, Part 2
Unfortunately, any peace but a postwar peace was not enough for Bush and his Neocon friends in Washington, or for Olmert and backers in Israel. Bush and the Neocons (as in, "new con-men") want to stop Iranian influence from growing in the region by any means, and if they can launch a proxy war via Israel with tanks, jets, artillery against Hezbollah, they consider it a "victory".

Sad to say, Lebanon is a defeat for everything America stands for. Lebanese are now convinced we did nothing to help stop the attacks because we are what the Iranians and Syrians and Hezbollah says-- rich stooges for a Zionist plan to oppress them.

We Americans must seriously reevaluate our misguided policy in the MidEast. With enemies like us, terrorism needs no other friends. By your misguided support of brain-damaged neocon policies from Bush and the Israeli invasion, you support the advance of terror in the MidEast.

[one_american]

nomifla:

There has never been a time when the Arab world hasn't been engraged about something, and it is always someone else's fault. Maybe if they loved their children more than they hate the Jews, the world would be at peace.

[one_american]

alphaa10:

If you believe in appeasement of terrorist entities, then by all means, fall on your sword. Don't expect anyone to follow your retreat from the war on terror.

[nomifla]

Typical GWB, tries to incite another war before the dust settles on this one. The entire world took note of our silence as Lebanon was destroyed and civilians murdered. This administrations policies have done nothing for our security and have further enraged the Muslim and Arab world.

[alphaa10-2009]

noomgod-- The Jewish people was native to the MidEast before Europeans took upon themselves the "white man's burden" of redistricting the area into respective power centers after WW1. Then and now, the region is a chaos of claims and counterclaims, but it is certain the Jews have as much an ancestral claim to a nation as any other people. Half the Jews in Israel are not imports, but people descended from Jews evicted from *their* traditional homes in lands around Israel.

[alphaa10-2009]

One_American-- Hezbollah is the terrorist response of Shia to the last Israeli invasion of Lebanon, a generation ago. Since then, Hezbollah clearly has grown, not diminished-- just as the influence of Iran has grown, not diminished.

The net result of the US-sponsored Lebanon invasion is a long-term reinforcement of Shia/Syrian/Iranian influence in Lebanon-- just the opposite of what we had hoped after the Syrians left earlier this year. And we have helped install a new wave of hatred for things Israeli and American%u2013 it seems one Republican president cannot learn from another (Reagan, 1982, Bush, 2006).

Every Muslim in the world now knows Bush and Rice stood by and whistled "Give Peace a Chance" while cynically giving a green light to the Israeli plunder of Lebanon%u2013 all to help nullify growing Iranian influence through Syria and Hezbollah. We cannot spend enough billions on a PR campaign to undo the damage from this latest bungled attempt to have things our way in the region. And you call this the "war on terror"?

Although there is massive destruction in Lebanon, our gas pump purchases will fuel Iranian crude sales to fuel massive reconstruction of Shia areas-- with all the credit going to Syria and Iran, the very states you say are going under. This is not at all how the Bush neocons and Israelis planned the affair to end, and it will become more and more expensive for all concerned.

[noomgod]

This is the year 2006. These people have been killing each other for, oh say two thousand and six odd years. The world is not going to stop them, they will quit rest up and start all over again. But the United Nations did not help the stituation any by putting the displaced Jews from the Holacaust from WWII in Palestine so they can create a Jewish state that didn't exsist before the war. That would like taking all the refugees in Africa and say hey you guys can live New Jersey.

[one_american]

Hezbollah may have survived the battle, but terrorism is steadily losing the war.

[bigal321321]

Take a look at American History and you'll find every problem the world has ever faced in one form or another. We've done it all. This Hezbollah vs. Israel thing I view as the same as Al Capone owning Chicago. He did a lot for the poor fold of Chicago and folks there loved him. They couldn't see past the good things he'd done to see the evil he was spreading. Until the government stood up to him and put an end to his rule nothing changed. Until Lebanon stands up and says no more Hezbollah malitia then nothing will change. Why do they have an army anyway if they're going to let Hezbollah do the fighting for them? Lebenon has to stop the goverenment withing a goverenment got get thing to change.

[emtak]

yeay! I hope tommorow brings more Peace