According to Claudia Rosett:

BEIRUT – With the reinstatement yesterday of the same pro-Syrian prime minister who resigned 11 days ago, Omar Karami, Lebanon’s democratic spring is turning into a high-stakes showdown not only for the Lebanese, but for President Bush’s policy of busting up the autocratic rackets of the Middle East.
Right now, the situation looks increasingly dire for this country’s democratic opposition. But plenty turns on whether Mr. Bush, who has promised the democrats support in their bid to end Syrian domination, will stick to his word. Signs are that, much like Saddam Hussein, the Baathist regime of Syrian leader Bashar Assad is out of tune with the times, stuck in the era of pre-September 11 American foreign policy and betting that Mr. Bush doesn’t mean what he says.
Among the graffiti in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square, epicenter of the democratic movement, is a telling mix of two dictators’ names, scrawled in English: “Assaddam.”