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Well the 2009 Lebanese Parliamentary Elections have occurred with relative quiet. Amazing.

The U.S. will gladly welcome the results since the pro-western majority won. It is worth mentioning that if the minority opposition had won, the U.S. would have called the elections unfair, flawed and that voters were threatened with death and violence if they did not vote for the opposition. In addition, they would say democracy still does not exist in Lebanon, but now that the pro-western alliance won, it does! Regardless I don’t care for any of that, what I do care is this all occurred without any real problems and hopefully the Lebanese are smart and work together peacefully and avoid any foolish internal fighting which only benefits their enemies.

So I congratulate Lebanon on it’s peaceful elections and hope for a future built together and that the mistakes of the past are avoided.