E-mail from Zach Barbera:
Even Hezbollah is taking a harder line than Chirac. This is pitiful—”It is now urgently up to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, said Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, to avert a war that would be ‘among the greatest catastrophes in all of Arab history.’ Nasrallah called on Saddam to meet with Iraqi opposition leaders, to step down in favor of a government of reconciliation and to declare immediately to the United Nations whatever weapons of mass destruction he still has. Sheikh Mohamed Kawtharami, one of the founders of Hezbollah and a senior member of its politburo, “We have no intention of becoming a pawn on Saddam Hussein’s chessboard.’”