Joe Biden: “in the coming days there will be more funerals in Lebanon for fresh victims of despicable terror attacks. On Wednesday…”

“in the coming days there will be more funerals in Lebanon for fresh victims of despicable terror attacks. On Wednesday, September 19, 2007, Lebanese member of Parliament Antoine Ghanem and at least six others were killed in a massive car bomb attack in the suburbs of Beirut. Tragically, this is an all-too-frequent occurrence for the people of Lebanon. The wave began with the February 14, 2005, assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. On the 1-month anniversary of Prime Minister Hariri's assassination, something remarkable happened--hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Martyr's Square in downtown Beirut--spontaneously giving birth to the March 14 movement and the Cedar Revolution. Just 6 weeks after the March 14 movement began, the thousands of Syrian military forces that had occupied Lebanon for nearly three decades were out of the country. But although the military occupation of Lebanon ended in 2005, Lebanon has remained under siege, as Wednesday's events remind us. Six Lebanese parliamentarians have now been killed in 22 years. These six, and other prominent Lebanese figures who were also killed during the same period, shared one important attribute--they were outspoken critics of the Syrian domination of Lebanon.”