Hezbollah To Bush and Rice: "Shut up."

From the MSNBC News Service, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, always the voice of reason, has told Secretary of State Rice and President Bush to "shut up."

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims transformed a religious ceremony in Lebanon on Thursday into an emotional but peaceful protest against cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

“Defending the prophet should continue worldwide,” Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, told the crowd. “Let (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice, (President) Bush and all the tyrants shut up: We are a nation that can’t forgive, be silent or ease up when they insult our prophet and our sacred values.”

“Today, we are defending the dignity of our prophet with a word, a demonstration but let George Bush and the arrogant world know that if we have to ... we will defend our prophet with our blood, not our voices,” Nasrallah added.

I suppose we should be happy that this Iranian staged protest remained peaceful enough that noone was killed. For now anyway.

Nasrallah is saying, in essence, "don't give us any of your opinions, we will get ourselves killed and kill others over this if we want to."

Thanks for the tip, but we already knew that. Yawn.