So according to Pew, 91% of Lebanese Shi`ite possess a favorable image of Bashshar. That can't be but due to sectarian considerations. It can't be due to resistance calculations: Shi`ites of South Lebanon overwhelmingly opposed resistance back in 1982. No Lebanese sect is pure. Sects can't be pure. Their calculations are base. The story of Hizbullah's attitude is different: because the party opposed the Syrian regime which favored Amal from 1982 until the late 1990s. I can accept that Hizbullah's attitude to the Syrian regime is driven by political-military consideration but I can't accept that the Hizbullah's silence regarding the lousy sectarian Shi`ite regime in Iraq is political. It is purely sectarian.