Aoun from Baabda: Those Hindering National Obligations Will Pay the Price
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Michel Aoun vowed on Sunday to continue his movement's mission to combat corruption in Lebanon, blaming the political class for the country's problems.
He declared: “Those manipulating the parliamentary elections and hindering other national obligations will pay the price of their actions.”
He made his declaration during an FPM rally near the presidential palace in Baabda commemorating the events of October 13, 1990.
“The problem we face today is that we are being governed by the same officials who were ruling on October 13, 1990,” he continued.
“A new phase of struggle has begun and it will result in change, at your hands through elections, and then we will play our role to achieve reform,” he told the cheering crowd.
“The promised miracle will take place through you. Only your voice will restore Lebanon's glory,” said Aoun.
“They are doing their utmost to stifle our voice, but your voice comes from God and no one can stop it,” he remarked.
“Change will take place through real elections. We therefore demand the adoption of an electoral law based on proportionality,” he stressed.
“To those accusing us of paralyzing state institutions, we say, yes, we are obstructing corruption and attempts to violate the constitution,” he added.
Turning to the prolonged presidential vacuum, Aoun remarked: “We do not want a consensual president, who will divide Lebanon to appease greedy officials. We also do not want the election of a neutral head of state.”
“We do not want the election of a puppet president, but one who will reflect your image,” declared Aoun, who is a presidential candidate.
Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.
Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a compromise candidate have thwarted the polls.
Furthermore, Aoun said that the current cabinet “should have resigned long ago,” while voicing his disappointment with the mounting daily problems the Lebanese people are facing, starting with the constant power outages and ongoing garbage disposal crisis.
During Lebanon's 1975-90, civil war, Aoun served as the premier of the legal faction of the two rival governments contending for power in the country from 1988 to October 1990.
He declared the “Liberation War” against the Syrian occupation on March 14 1989. On the October 13, 1990, the Syrian forces invaded Beirut, killing hundreds of unarmed soldiers and civilians.
Aoun, then-prime minister, left the Presidential Palace and sought refuge in the French Embassy and he was later allowed to travel to France.
He returned to Lebanon on May 7, 2005, eleven days after the withdrawal of Syrian troops.
11 October 2015, 13:15
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عون: إنها الحرب الكونية على العونية لكنهم يجهلون قوة العونيين وصلابتهم وعزيمتهم.
haha! Narcissism at its best. I am sure World leaders are plotting daily to undo "Aoun" and the "Aounies".
11 October 2015, 13:16
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“The problem we face today is that we are being governed by the same officials who were ruling on October 13, 1990,” Aoun added.
Yes, you were in power in 1990 and you are still in power in 2015.
11 October 2015, 13:18
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Aoun: We want a new president to reflect your image.
Aoun: We do not want the election of a puppet president.
We know what you want. You want an Iranian puppet president that pays respect to Nassrallah and Khamaeni and that president is you.
11 October 2015, 13:20
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Aoun on occasion to October 13: Twenty-five years ago, Lebanon was being crucified before the world. Everyone of you here has scars from the past.
The occasion of October 13, 1990 was committed by non other than your present allies: The Assad regime, so what are you commemorating?
11 October 2015, 13:22
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Aoun to his supporters: The promised miracle will take place through you.
There are no more miracles unless you believe in "divine" victories and modern day "saints".
Yes Aoun: "إجا مين يعرفك يا خروب ليعصرك".
12 October 2015, 12:20
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JUST let him be a president he might not be bad after all. Let the guy have his last wish, he will for sure be a good President. I am very sure about that. Most of his time will be spent in the palace restroom, stools will witness the long yearning to finish this dam "fantoura" ... that is ok that is life, all of us will pass this in a way ir another. Cim on guys stop overthinking this.
11 October 2015, 14:42
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Somebody needs to feel the catharsis in putting an end to this lunatic's miserable life.
11 October 2015, 17:00
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First of all the speech was pure demagogy. Not one precise argument but all global ideas.
Then a speech from the king of corrupt attacking corruption.
Then he hesitated several times showing that the drugs are no longer efficient.
Then I agree that the idiots were much much less than 30 000 which is nothing ( probably included lots of Mastica and non-mowaten...)
Finally, what are we commemorating? A coward who run away and caused the killing of 100 soldiers and officers .... a DOOMED DAY
11 October 2015, 17:29
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Caporal is comparing himself to Christ saying that in 1990, many said "crucify him"... There was traitors like Judas... Pharisians... But there was also disciples, ..and the disciples are you (the people)...
Majnuun w mareed...
11 October 2015, 17:35
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Aoun blames everybody else for the corruption in our country while his party is just as guilty as the rest. He also seems genuinely proud of his stance in refusing any sort of compromise that doesn't see him appointed President. Stubborn old man.
11 October 2015, 18:53
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Where to begin with this demented man's garbled rants.
“The problem we face today is that we are being governed by the same officials who were ruling on October 13, 1990,” he continued.
That would be Syria and Hezbollah running the show in October 1990. So what did Aoun do when he returned to Lebanon in 2005, he took Syria's place as the partner with Hezbollah to continue to run Lebanon as it was run in 1990. He freely admits to being the problem in Lebanon as he demands that the culprits in Lebanon be made to face consequences. Just incredible. And his little paid zilm sing and dance for pay with his every word. They did this and called it democracy.
11 October 2015, 19:25
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. (Joseph Goebbels).
11 October 2015, 23:36
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Just come back from a trip abroad, on time to catch our old man Aoun staging another absurdity. Aoun the deserter is what, commemorating the very death he caused in the first place? Aoun the deserter is talking of what? Of the souls of soldiers he misled into one of his many failures? Every human being aims for better things in life, but Aoun is now almost kneeling and begging for that presidency seat, and this just outside that famous palace he squatted and occupied illegally. So close yet so far from the seat, Aoun will die with his eyes set on a seat that was never destined to be his, thanks God, Lebanon will never have a deserter lunatic as president, never!!
12 October 2015, 00:23
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(1). Excuse me folks or better known as Ya sha3b Loubnen el 3azeem, this man Michel Aoun, wasn't he who was appointed interim PM by Amin Gemayel only for him to usurp soon thereafter all powers vested in him by the constitution? Wasn't he immediately then contested and rejected by the then West Beirut and got Salim El Hoss appointed as PM for that part of Lebanon then? Wasn't it Aoun that claimed to fight to liberate Lebanon from Syrian occupation? Wasn't it the same Aoun that turned his guns instead on the LF and the only free part of Lebanon? Wasn't it Aoun who claimed that he will fight to the last corner, to the last kitchen, to the last knife of Baabda palace and that he would be the last one to leave and rather die, only to flee a few hours after? Was it not Aoun who took refuge inside the French embassy then?
12 October 2015, 00:32
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(2). Was it not the same Aoun who claimed that Hezbollah was a terrorist organization? Was it not him who adamantly and repeatedly in several capital of the world claimed that it was the Syrians that killed Rafic Hariri? Was it not Aoun that claimed to be M14, its father, its mother, its everything, only to ally with Hezbollah and Syria as soon as he returned back to Lebanon? Was it not Aoun who accused the LF of burying many corpses under a highway in Lebanon? Was it not Aoun who claimed his opposition to the feudal and corrupt system only to practice exactly what he claims to oppose? And Today, was it not that same Michel Aoun who was commemorating his what? His fleeing the palace only to abandon his men and family at the hands of the Syrians? When a man drops so low, the best representative icon of failures can only be called Michel Aoun. My dedication to the hundreds of blind sheep that still believe him.
12 October 2015, 03:13
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To determine "fair representation" you would first have to take a census, something not done since the last century. Aoun may have a magic publicist who can make a couple hundred people seem like thousands but we aren't fooled by trick photography or pulling numbers our of you behind. The Christians are the minority party and will continue to shrink in size because they even screw up screwing.
12 October 2015, 14:40
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Let's not forget 13 of October 1990:
It is a mourning day for the hundreds of soldiers and officers executed by the Syrian army
It is a mourning day for the thousands of people kidnapped to Syrian jails then executed slowly.
It is an example of how coward can an army chief be by running away deserting soldiers while defending him
It is an example day when an opportunist changed his yesterday's enemies into his today's allies
Yes 13 of October 1990 can be remembered as a black day by all Lebanese but
SRAPPED FROM AOUN's LIFE AGENDA.
12 October 2015, 17:55
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half the story as usual by the hypocrites of the coward Aoun..
Lieutenant General Ghazi Kanaan, the powerful head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon for two decades, has been appointed as head of his country's political security agency, an official Lebanese statement said Wednesday.
"General Kanaan will head the political security agency in Syria," said a statement from the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who received Kanaan earlier Wednesday in a farewell ceremony.
During a similar ceremony, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud decorated Kanaan with the National Order of the Cedar, a top Lebanese distinction..
12 October 2015, 17:11
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aoun gambled on saddam and lost
then aoun gambled on nasrallah and lost
then aoun gambled on Bashar and lost
then aoun gambled on khamenei and lost
now aoun is gambling on putin.. aoun has a pathological gambling problem
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12 October 2015, 18:02
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more about keys
August 01, 2010 - Hezballah officials presented Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar with the keys of Bint Jebail city and the towns of Ainata and Aita Al Shaab.. Shoukran Qatar!
13 October 2015, 04:54
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I suggest a more accurate title:
"Aoun from outside Baabda where he always belongs"
( I am deeply touched by his sincere lies) please RIP Aoun to give us peace
