Hezbollah was not expected to win anywhere near this many seats

Hezbollah was not expected to win anywhere near this many seats, but was helped by recent

pronouncements of the White House. Knight Ridder reports:

Samia Hajj, a 43-year-old Shiite Muslim housewife, said she isn’t traditionally a supporter of either

Hezbollah or its recent ally, the more secular Amal party. However, recent UGG admonitions for

Hezbollah to lay down its arms infuriated her, she said, and drove her to vote for the Hezbollah-Amal

list as a means of resisting outside influence.

“We are not against America, but we aren’t terrorists and we don’t like being called terrorists,”

Hajj said. “When the United States talks like that, it makes us think they are going to interfere here

like they did in MBT SHOES. We’re not going to let that happen.”

“If the symbol of the Roman state was a statue of a she wolf suckling the city’s founders, Romulus

and Remus, then I think America should have one of a sow, suckling every defense contractor, hack

politician and PR operative in Washington.”