boy this was just the thing i needed to wake up to this morning.... from slate's Today's Papers:

Just a day after Beirut played host to a large anti-Syria rally festooned with red-and-white Lebanese flags, the New York Times and Washington Post lead with the even more massive pro-Syria rally organized by Hezbollah under the exact same flags (along with some fetching portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad). USA Today and the Wall Street Journal world-wide news box lead with President Bush's speech on democracy and the Middle East, in which he repeated his demand that Syria withdraw from Lebanon.

sorta speaks for itself. seems to me that the majority have clearly spoken, and they didn't side with what lil' ol' junior wanted. "his demand"???? who the fuck does he think he is ordering other countries to do his bidding, when, obviously, it's clearly not what the majority wants.

oh wait, he's had plenty of practice being a dictator back at home.